New York Times Best Seller List – Week of May 23, 2021 FICTION NONFICTION TW LW WOL TW LW WOL THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, by Laura Dave. Hannah KILLING THE MOB, by Bill O’Reilly. 10th book in the O/O Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds -- 1 conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at 1 O/O -- 1 with his daughter from a previous relationship. 1 organized crime in the United States during the 20th 21ST BIRTHDAY, by James Patterson. 21st book in the century. O/O WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?, by Bruce D. Perry. An 2 Women’s Murder Club series. New evidence changes the -- 1 investigation of a missing mother. 2 approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an 1 2 SOOLEY, by John Grisham. Samuel Sooleymon receives a essential question used to investigate it. basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and THE PREMONITION, by Michael Lewis. Stories of 3 1 2 O/O determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged 3 skeptics who went against the official response of the -- 1 South Sudan. Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid19 FINDING THE MOTHER TREE, by Suzanne Simard. PROJECT HAIL MARY, by Andy Weir. Ryland Grace O/O O/O An ecologist describes ways trees communicate, -- 1 4 awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the -- 1 4 fate of humanity rests on his shoulders. cooperate and compete. THE BOMBER MAFIA, by Malcolm Gladwell. A look THE HILL WE CLIMB, by Amanda Gorman. The poem read O/O 5 on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest 2 6 5 at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing 2 2 poet to write and perform an inaugural poem. during World War II. PERSIST, by Elizabeth Warren. The senior senator THE FOUR WINDS, by Kristin Hannah. As dust storms roll O/O 6 during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between 5 14 6 from Massachusetts shares six influential -- 1 saving the family and farm or heading West. perspectives that shaped her life and advocacy. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, by Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a GREENLIGHTS, by Matthew McConaughey. The 7 library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books 6 23 7 Academy Awardwinning actor shares snippets from 9 29 with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived. the diaries he kept over the last 35 years. A GAMBLING MAN, by David Baldacci. Aloysius Archer, a UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle. Activist and public 8 World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a 4 3 8 speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner 7 61 private eye, in a corrupt California town. voice. FINDING ASHLEY, by Danielle Steel. Two estranged sisters, CRYING IN H MART, by Michelle Zauner. The daughter 9 one a former best-selling author, the other a nun, reconnect 3 2 of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and as one searches for the child the other gave up. 9 leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, 6 3 describes creating her own identity after losing her THE NEWCOMER, by Mary Kay Andrews. After discovering mother to cancer. her sister dead, Letty Carnahan drives away with her niece 10 -- 1 YOU ARE YOUR BEST THING, edited by Tarana and finds potential trouble with a police detective at a Florida 10 Burke. An anthology of writing on the Black experience 3 2 motel. and shame resilience. SUMMER ON THE BLUFFS, by Sunny Hostin. Amelia Vaux O/O CASTE, by Isabel Wilkerson. Pulitzer Prize-winning 11 Tanner plans to give a cottage in a Black beach community -- 1 11 journalist examines aspects of caste systems across 8 40 to one of her three favorite guests. civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America toda THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE, by V.E. Schwab. OUT OF MANY, ONE, by George W. Bush. Forty-three 12 A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the 9 28 12 portraits by the former president, of men and women 5 3 adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries. who have immigrated to the United States. THE TYRANNY OF BIG TECH, by Josh Hawley. HOUR OF THE WITCH, by Chris Bohjalian. In 1662 Boston, O/O O/O Republican senator from Missouri gives his assessment -- 1 13 a young Puritan woman seeks to escape from a cruel -- 1 13 husband and rumors that might mean her death. of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. GREAT CIRCLE, by Maggie Shipstead. An actress ON JUNETEENTH, by Annette Gordon-Reed. Pulitzer O/O immerses herself in the role of a pioneering woman aviator -- 1 O/O Prize winner weaves together American history with 14 14 -- 1 who disappeared in Antarctica. personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. OCEAN PREY, by John Sandford. 31st book in the Prey THE WRECKAGE OF MY PRESENCE, by Casey 15 series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and 7 4 O/O 15 Wilson. Essays by the actress and comedian on the ups -- 1 Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters. and downs of womanhood and motherhood. 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 ADDITIONAL BEST SELLING TITLES 2034 / Elliot Ackerman (4/9) LIKE STREAMS TO THE OCEAN / Jedidiah Jenkins (3/12) THE AFFAIR / Danielle Steel (3/12) THE LOST APOTHECARY / Sarah Penner (3/29) ALL THE COLORS OF NIGHT / Jayne Ann Krentz (1/7) LOVE LETTERING / Kate Clayborn (1/27) ANTITRUST / Amy Klobuchar (5/17) LOVER UNVEILED / J.R. 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