List of The New York Times number-one books of 2021
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The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.
Fiction
[edit]The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.[1]
The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks.
Date | Book | Author | Publisher | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
January 3 | A Time for Mercy | John Grisham | Doubleday | [2] |
January 10 | [3] | |||
January 17 | The Duke and I | Julia Quinn | Avon | [4] |
January 24 | [5] | |||
January 31 | [6] | |||
February 7 | [7] | |||
February 14 | The Russian | James Patterson and James O. Born | Little, Brown and Company | [8] |
February 21 | The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | St. Martin's Press | [9] |
February 28 | [10] | |||
March 7 | A Court of Silver Flames | Sarah J. Maas | Bloomsbury Publishing | [11] |
March 14 | The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | St. Martin's Press | [12] |
March 21 | Life After Death | Sister Souljah | Emily Bestler Books | [13] |
March 28 | The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | St. Martin's Press | [14] |
April 4 | Win | Harlan Coben | Grand Central Publishing | [15] |
April 11 | The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | St. Martin's Press | [16] |
April 18 | The Hill We Climb | Amanda Gorman | Viking Books | [17] |
April 25 | [18] | |||
May 2 | Ocean Prey | John Sandford | G. P. Putnam's Sons | [19] |
May 9 | A Gambling Man | David Baldacci | Grand Central Publishing | [20] |
May 16 | Sooley | John Grisham | Doubleday | [21] |
May 23 | 21st Birthday | James Patterson and Maxine Paetro | Little, Brown and Company | [22] |
May 30 | While Justice Sleeps | Stacey Abrams | Doubleday | [23] |
June 6 | The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | Simon & Schuster | [24] |
June 13 | Legacy | Nora Roberts | St. Martin's Press | [25] |
June 20 | Freed | E. L. James | Bloom Books | [26] |
June 27 | The President's Daughter | Bill Clinton and James Patterson | Little, Brown and Company | [27] |
July 4 | [28] | |||
July 11 | The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | Simon & Schuster | [29] |
July 18 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | Harper Perennial | [30] |
July 25 | The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller | Riverhead Books | [31] |
August 1 | The Cellist | Daniel Silva | HarperCollins | [32] |
August 8 | Black Ice | Brad Thor | Emily Bestler Books | [33] |
August 15 | The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | Simon & Schuster | [34] |
August 22 | Billy Summers | Stephen King | Scribner | [35] |
August 29 | [36] | |||
September 5 | Bloodless | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | Grand Central Publishing | [37] |
September 12 | The Madness of Crowds | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | [38] |
September 19 | A Slow Fire Burning | Paula Hawkins | Riverhead Books | [39] |
September 26 | Forgotten in Death | J. D. Robb | St. Martin's Press | [40] |
October 3 | Apples Never Fall | Liane Moriarty | Henry Holt and Company | [41] |
October 10 | [42] | |||
October 17 | The Wish | Nicholas Sparks | Grand Central Publishing | [43] |
October 24 | The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles | Viking Books | [44] |
October 31 | State of Terror | Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny | Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press | [45] |
November 7 | The Judge's List | John Grisham | Doubleday | [46] |
November 14 | Better Off Dead | Lee Child and Andrew Child | Delacorte Press | [47] |
November 21 | Game On | Janet Evanovich | Atria Books | [48] |
November 28 | The Dark Hours | Michael Connelly | Little, Brown and Company | [49] |
December 5 | Mercy | David Baldacci | Grand Central Publishing | [50] |
December 12 | Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone | Diana Gabaldon | Delacorte Press | [51] |
December 19 | Wish You Were Here | Jodi Picoult | Ballantine Books | [52] |
December 26 | Call Us What We Carry | Amanda Gorman | Viking Books | [53] |
Nonfiction
[edit]The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.
Issue date | Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Ref. |
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January 3 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama | Crown | [54] |
January 10 | [55] | |||
January 17 | [56] | |||
January 24 | [57] | |||
January 31 | [58] | |||
February 7 | [59] | |||
February 14 | Just as I Am | Cicely Tyson | HarperCollins | [60] |
February 21 | Think Again | Adam Grant | Viking Press | [61] |
February 28 | Walk in My Combat Boots | James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney | Little, Brown and Company | [62] |
March 7 | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster | Bill Gates | Knopf | [63] |
March 14 | [64] | |||
March 21 | [65] | |||
March 28 | The Code Breaker | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster | [66] |
April 4 | This Is the Fire | Don Lemon | Little, Brown and Company | [67] |
April 11 | The Code Breaker | Walter Isaacson | Simon & Schuster | [68] |
April 18 | [69] | |||
April 25 | Broken Horses | Brandi Carlile | Crown | [70] |
May 2 | On the House | John Boehner | St. Martin's Press | [71] |
May 9 | Out of Many, One | George W. Bush | Crown | [72] |
May 16 | What Happened to You? | Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey | Flatiron Books | [73] |
May 23 | Killing the Mob | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | St. Martin's Press | [74] |
May 30 | [75] | |||
June 6 | The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green | Dutton | [76] |
June 13 | Killing the Mob | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | St. Martin's Press | [77] |
June 20 | How the Word Is Passed | Clint Smith | Little, Brown and Company | [78] |
June 27 | Killing the Mob | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | St. Martin's Press | [79] |
July 4 | [80] | |||
July 11 | The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | Penguin Books | [81] |
July 18 | Nightmare Scenario | Yasmina Abutaleb and Damian Paletta | Harper | [82] |
July 25 | How I Saved the World | Jesse Watters | Broadside Books | [83] |
August 1 | American Marxism | Mark Levin | Threshold Editions | [84] |
August 8 | I Alone Can Fix It | Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker | Penguin Press | [85] |
August 15 | American Marxism | Mark Levin | Threshold Editions | [86] |
August 22 | [87] | |||
August 29 | [88] | |||
September 5 | [89] | |||
September 12 | [90] | |||
September 19 | The Afghanistan Papers | Craig Whitlock | Simon & Schuster | [91] |
September 26 | American Marxism | Mark Levin | Threshold Editions | [92] |
October 3 | [93] | |||
October 10 | Peril | Bob Woodward and Robert Costa | Simon & Schuster | [94] |
October 17 | [95] | |||
October 24 | The Storyteller | Dave Grohl | Dey Street Books | [96] |
October 31 | Midnight in Washington | Adam Schiff | Random House | [97] |
November 7 | Not All Diamonds and Rosé | Dave Quinn | Andy Cohen | [98] |
November 14 | Going There | Katie Couric | Little, Brown and Company | [99] |
November 21 | The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present | Paul McCartney | Liveright | [100] |
November 28 | Will | Will Smith with Mark Manson | Penguin Press | [101] |
December 5 | The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine | One World | [102] |
December 12 | [103] | |||
December 19 | [104] | |||
December 26 | [105] |
See also
[edit]References
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