New York Times Best Seller List – Week of April 25, 2021 FICTION NONFICTION TW LW WOL TW LW WOL THE HILL WE CLIMB, by Amanda Gorman. The poem read BROKEN HORSES, by Brandi Carlile. Grammy Award- O/O 1 on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest 1 2 1 winning singer and songwriter recounts difficulties during -- 1 poet to write and perform an inaugural poem. her formative years and her hard-won successes. FINDING FREEDOM, by Erin French. A memoir by the THE FOUR WINDS, by Kristin Hannah. As dust storms roll 2 -- 1 2 during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between 2 10 chef and owner of the Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine. saving the family and farm or heading West. O/O BROKEN, by Jenny Lawson. The humorist maps out -- 1 THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a 3 her mental and physical health journey. 3 library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books 4 19 BEAUTIFUL THINGS, by Hunter Biden. The lawyer and O/O with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. 4 artist, who is the son of the current president, details -- 1 GOOD COMPANY, by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney. The tragedies within his family and his path to sobriety. O/O THE LIGHT OF DAYS, by Judy Batalion. How Jewish 4 foundation of a marriage between actors is shaken when -- 1 O/O women in Poland turned Jewish youth groups into they reunite with an old friend who is now a TV star. -- 1 5 resistance cells to fight the Nazis and helped build THE RED BOOK, by James Patterson. 2nd book in the Black systems of underground bunkers. 5 Book thriller series. Chicago detective Billy Harney 3 2 investigates his own past. THE CODE BREAKER, by Walter Isaacson. How the 6 Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues 1 5 FIRST PERSON SINGULAR, by Haruki Murakami. A O/O invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA. collection of eight short stories on love, childhood and -- 1 6 THE GOD EQUATION, by Michio Kaku. Theoretical memory. O/O 7 physicist explains the controversy around the synthesis -- 1 O/O NORTHERN SPY, by Flynn Berry. Sister of a BBC producer of the theory of relativity and quantum theory. 7 -- 1 may have joined the Irish Republican Army. GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. The THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, by V.E. Schwab. 8 Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the 2 25 8 A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the 6 24 diaries he kept over the last 35 years. adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries. CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across WIN, by Harlan Coben. Windsor Horne Lockwood III might 9 3 36 9 rectify cold cases connected to his family that have eluded 7 4 civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America the F.B.I. for decades. today. KLARA AND THE SUN, by Kazuo Ishiguro. An “Artificial THIS IS THE FIRE, by Don Lemon. CNN host looks 10 Friend” named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion 5 6 10 at the impact of racism on his life and prescribes ways 9 4 to an ailing 14-year-old girl. to address systemic flaws in America. YOU LOVE ME, by Caroline Kepnes. 3rd book in the You UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. Activist and public O/O 11 speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner 5 57 11 series. Joe becomes interested in a librarian who appears to -- 1 be too busy for him. voice. LIFE AFTER DEATH, by Sister Souljah. In a sequel to “The PHILIP ROTH, by Blake Bailey. A look at the life and 12 Coldest Winter Ever,” Winter Santiaga emerges after time 8 6 12 work of the renowned novelist and short-story writer, -- 1 served and seeks revenge. based on his archive and interviews with his colleagues. THINK AGAIN, by Adam Grant. An examination of THE VANISHING HALF, by Brit Bennett. The lives of twin 13 the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that 6 10 sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at 13 12 45 could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world. age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine. A PROMISED LAND, by Barack Obama. In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama ETERNAL, by Lisa Scottoline. Three people involved in a 14 8 21 offers personal reflections on his formative years and 14 love triangle find everything they hold dear is tested as 11 3 pivotal moments through his first term. Mussolini’s power grows and laws change in Rome. THE SUM OF US, by Heather McGhee. C.O.B of the THE LOST APOTHECARY, by Sarah Penner. An aspiring 15 racial justice organization Color of Change analyzes 7 8 15 historian in London finds a clue that might put to rest 9 6 the impact of racism on the economy. unsolved apothecary murders from 200 years ago.
Key: Tw = This Week’s rank; Lw = Last Week’s rank; Wol = # of Weeks on List; o/o – on order; = available; I/P = In Processing; N/A = Not Available
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