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New York Times Fiction Bestsellers: October 17, 2021

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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers

October 17, 2021
1. The Wish

 by Nicholas Sparks

Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.

2. Cloud Cuckoo Land

 by Anthony Doerr

An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.

3. Apples Never Fall

 by Liane Moriarty

The Delaney siblings suspect their father of causing the disappearance of their mother.

4. Harlem Shuffle

 by Colson Whitehead

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

5. The Last Graduate

 by Naomi Novik

The second book in the Scholomance series. Will students now in their senior year make it out alive?

6. The Jailhouse Lawyer

 by James Patterson and Nancy Allen

A young lawyer winds up in an Alabama jail that remains mysteriously crowded.

7. Bewilderment

 by Richard Powers

An astrobiologist and single father learns of a neurofeedback treatment that may improve his son's emotional control.

8. The Man Who Died Twice

 by Richard Osman

The second book in the Thursday Murder Club series. A ruthless murderer is out to get four septuagenarian friends.

9. Billy Summers

 by Stephen King

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

10. The Santa Suit

 by Mary Kay Andrews

A recently divorced woman searching the pockets of an old Santa suit finds a child's wish that her father return from war.

11. The Last Thing He Told Me

 by Laura Dave

Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.

12. Beautiful World, Where Are You

 by Sally Rooney

A novelist, a warehouse worker, an editorial assistant, and a political adviser deal with changes.

13. Vince Flynn: Enemy at the Gates

 by Kyle Mills

Anthony Cook, an autocratic president, distrusts Mitch Rapp, who is working to uncover a traitor.

14. The Midnight Library

 by 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.

15. A Slow Fire Burning

 by Paula Hawkins

Three women come under scrutiny when a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat..

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A version of this list appears in the October 17, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending October 2, 2021.
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