List of The New York Times number-one books of 2021

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The American daily newspaper

children's books
. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.

Fiction

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

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.
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

References

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