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

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

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.

DateBookAuthorPublisherRef.
January 3A Time for MercyJohn GrishamDoubleday[2]
January 10[3]
January 17The Duke and IJulia QuinnAvon[4]
January 24[5]
January 31[6]
February 7[7]
February 14The RussianJames Patterson and James O. BornLittle, Brown and Company[8]
February 21The Four WindsKristin HannahSt. Martin's Press[9]
February 28[10]
March 7A Court of Silver FlamesSarah J. MaasBloomsbury Publishing[11]
March 14The Four WindsKristin HannahSt. Martin's Press[12]
March 21Life After DeathSister SouljahEmily Bestler Books[13]
March 28The Four WindsKristin HannahSt. Martin's Press[14]
April 4WinHarlan CobenGrand Central Publishing[15]
April 11The Four WindsKristin HannahSt. Martin's Press[16]
April 18The Hill We ClimbAmanda GormanViking Books[17]
April 25[18]
May 2Ocean PreyJohn SandfordG. P. Putnam's Sons[19]
May 9A Gambling ManDavid BaldacciGrand Central Publishing[20]
May 16SooleyJohn GrishamDoubleday[21]
May 2321st BirthdayJames Patterson and Maxine PaetroLittle, Brown and Company[22]
May 30While Justice SleepsStacey AbramsDoubleday[23]
June 6The Last Thing He Told MeLaura DaveSimon & Schuster[24]
June 13LegacyNora RobertsSt. Martin's Press[25]
June 20FreedE. L. JamesBloom Books[26]
June 27The President's DaughterBill Clinton and James PattersonLittle, Brown and Company[27]
July 4[28]
July 11The Last Thing He Told MeLaura DaveSimon & Schuster[29]
July 18Once Upon a Time in HollywoodQuentin TarantinoHarper Perennial[30]
July 25The Paper PalaceMiranda Cowley HellerRiverhead Books[31]
August 1The CellistDaniel SilvaHarperCollins[32]
August 8Black IceBrad ThorEmily Bestler Books[33]
August 15The Last Thing He Told MeLaura DaveSimon & Schuster[34]
August 22Billy SummersStephen KingScribner[35]
August 29[36]
September 5BloodlessDouglas Preston and Lincoln ChildGrand Central Publishing[37]
September 12The Madness of CrowdsLouise PennyMinotaur Books[38]
September 19A Slow Fire BurningPaula HawkinsRiverhead Books[39]
September 26Forgotten in DeathJ. D. RobbSt. Martin's Press[40]
October 3Apples Never FallLiane MoriartyHenry Holt and Company[41]
October 10[42]
October 17The WishNicholas SparksGrand Central Publishing[43]
October 24The Lincoln HighwayAmor TowlesViking Books[44]
October 31State of TerrorHillary Rodham Clinton and Louise PennySimon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press[45]
November 7The Judge's ListJohn GrishamDoubleday[46]
November 14Better Off DeadLee Child and Andrew ChildDelacorte Press[47]
November 21Game OnJanet EvanovichAtria Books[48]
November 28The Dark HoursMichael ConnellyLittle, Brown and Company[49]
December 5MercyDavid BaldacciGrand Central Publishing[50]
December 12Go Tell the Bees That I Am GoneDiana GabaldonDelacorte Press[51]
December 19Wish You Were HereJodi PicoultBallantine Books[52]
December 26Call Us What We CarryAmanda GormanViking Books[53]

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.

Issue dateTitleAuthor(s)PublisherRef.
January 3A Promised LandBarack ObamaCrown[54]
January 10[55]
January 17[56]
January 24[57]
January 31[58]
February 7[59]
February 14Just as I AmCicely TysonHarperCollins[60]
February 21Think AgainAdam GrantViking Press[61]
February 28Walk in My Combat BootsJames Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris MooneyLittle, Brown and Company[62]
March 7How to Avoid a Climate DisasterBill GatesKnopf[63]
March 14[64]
March 21[65]
March 28The Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonSimon & Schuster[66]
April 4This Is the FireDon LemonLittle, Brown and Company[67]
April 11The Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonSimon & Schuster[68]
April 18[69]
April 25Broken HorsesBrandi CarlileCrown[70]
May 2On the HouseJohn BoehnerSt. Martin's Press[71]
May 9Out of Many, OneGeorge W. BushCrown[72]
May 16What Happened to You?Bruce D. Perry and Oprah WinfreyFlatiron Books[73]
May 23Killing the MobBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardSt. Martin's Press[74]
May 30[75]
June 6The Anthropocene ReviewedJohn GreenDutton[76]
June 13Killing the MobBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardSt. Martin's Press[77]
June 20How the Word Is PassedClint SmithLittle, Brown and Company[78]
June 27Killing the MobBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardSt. Martin's Press[79]
July 4[80]
July 11The Body Keeps the ScoreBessel van der KolkPenguin Books[81]
July 18Nightmare ScenarioYasmina Abutaleb and Damian PalettaHarper[82]
July 25How I Saved the WorldJesse WattersBroadside Books[83]
August 1American MarxismMark LevinThreshold Editions[84]
August 8I Alone Can Fix ItCarol Leonnig and Philip RuckerPenguin Press[85]
August 15American MarxismMark LevinThreshold Editions[86]
August 22[87]
August 29[88]
September 5[89]
September 12[90]
September 19The Afghanistan PapersCraig WhitlockSimon & Schuster[91]
September 26American MarxismMark LevinThreshold Editions[92]
October 3[93]
October 10PerilBob Woodward and Robert CostaSimon & Schuster[94]
October 17[95]
October 24The StorytellerDave GrohlDey Street Books[96]
October 31Midnight in WashingtonAdam SchiffRandom House[97]
November 7Not All Diamonds and RoséDave QuinnAndy Cohen[98]
November 14Going ThereKatie CouricLittle, Brown and Company[99]
November 21The Lyrics: 1956 to the PresentPaul McCartneyLiveright[100]
November 28WillWill Smith with Mark MansonPenguin Press[101]
December 5The 1619 ProjectNikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times MagazineOne World[102]
December 12[103]
December 19[104]
December 26[105]

See also

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