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New York Times Best Seller lists

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is updated online every Wednesday evening. Below are best seller lists for hardcover fiction and non-fiction. For more lists, visit our New York Times Children's Best Sellers page, our NYT Best Sellers for Teens page , or The New York Times's Best Sellers page.

Hardcover Fiction

October 3, 2021

1

Apples Never Fallby Liane Moriarty
The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother.

2

Harlem Shuffleby Colson Whitehead
Ray Carney, a family man who sells furniture on 125th Street, gets a new clientele made up of vicious and unsavory characters.

3

Vince Flynn: Enemy at the Gatesby Kyle Mills
Anthony Cook, an autocratic president, distrusts Mitch Rapp, who is working to uncover a traitor.

4

Beautiful World, Where Are Youby Sally Rooney
A novelist, a warehouse worker, an editorial assistant and a political adviser deal with changes.

5

Billy Summersby Stephen King
A killer for hire who only takes out bad guys seeks redemption as he does one final job.

6

The Last Thing He Told Meby Laura Dave
Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

7

A Slow Fire Burningby Paula Hawkins
Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat.

8

Empire of the Vampireby Jay Kristoff
Vampires have waged war against humanity during the last 27 years, which have not had a sunrise.

9

Forgotten in Deathby J.D. Robb
The 53rd book of the In Death series. The property where a decades-old crime occurred belongs to the homicide detective Eve Dallas’s husband.

10

The Midnight Libraryby Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.

11

The Madness of Crowdsby Louise Penny
The 17th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Gamache is tasked with providing security for a statistics professor whose views are repulsive to him.

12

Matrixby Lauren Groff
Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is cast out of the royal court and sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey.

13

The Paper Palaceby Miranda Cowley Heller
After an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband and her childhood love.

14

Malibu Risingby Taylor Jenkins Reid
An epic party has serious outcomes for four famous siblings.

15

The Wisdom of Crowdsby Joe Abercrombie
The third book in the Age of Madness series.

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Hardcover Nonfiction

October 3, 2021

1

American Marxismby Mark R. Levin
The Fox News host gives his take on the Green New Deal, critical race theory and social activism.

2

Countdown Bin Ladenby Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss
The intelligence gathering, security strategizing and military planning during the final eight months of the pursuit of Osama bin Laden.

3

Unboundby Tarana Burke
A memoir by the founder of the Me Too movement, which details her work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls.

4

A Hunter-gatherer's Guide to the 21st Centuryby Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
The evolutionary biologists posit that the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies.

5

Fuzzby Mary Roach
An exploration of disciplinary actions and preventative measures occuring at the intersection of human behavior and wildlife biology.

6

You Got Anything Stronger?by Gabrielle Union with Kevin Carr O’Leary
The actress shares some of the challenges and changes she has faced in recent years.

7

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promisedby Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins
The 10-time N.B.A. All-Star’s life story from the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn and Baltimore to his achievements on the basketball court.

8

Wildlandby Evan Osnos
The National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the shifts in American culture and politics by visiting three cities in which he has lived.

9

The Long Slideby Tucker Carlson
A collection of previously published essays from 1995 to 2016 by the Fox News host.

10

What Happened to You?by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.

11

Greenlightsby Matthew McConaughey
The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over 35 years.

12

Travels with Georgeby Nathaniel Philbrick
In 2018, the author retraced the journey George Washington took through all 13 former colonies in 1789.

13

Crying in H Martby Michelle Zauner
The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.

14

Beautiful Countryby Qian Julie Wang
A 7-year-old girl and her parents encounter difficulties in New York City when they leave China in the 1990s.

15

Untamedby Glennon Doyle
The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.