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New York Times Fiction Bestsellers: December 19, 2021

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New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers

December 19, 2021

1. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone 

 by Diana Gabaldon

The ninth book in the Outlander series. As the Revolutionary War moves closer to Fraser's Ridge, Claire and Jamie reunite with their daughter and her family.

2. Wish You Were Here

 by Jodi Picoult

Diana O'Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galapagos Islands.

3. The Judge's List

 by John Grisham

The second book in the Whistler series. Investigator Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.

4. The Stranger in the Lifeboat

 by Mitch Albom

After a ship explodes, 10 people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.

5. The Wish

 by Nicholas Sparks

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

6. The Lincoln Highway

 by Amor Towles

Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.

7. Fear No Evil

 by James Patterson

The 29th book in the Alex Cross series. Cross fights the mastermind who has stalked him for years.

8. Autopsy

 by Patricia Cornwell

The 25th book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Scarpetta investigates crime scenes in Virginia and outer space.

9. Leviathan Falls

 by James S. A. Corey

The ninth book in the Expanse series. A group of unlikely allies might find a way to bring peace to a vast galactic civilization.

10. Cloud Cuckoo Land

 by Anthony Doerr

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

11. 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.

12. The Dark Hours

 by Michael Connelly

A death on New Year's Eve, an unsolved murder and a hunt for serial rapists bring Bosch and Ballard back together.

13. Mercy

 by David Baldacci

The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6.

14. The Becoming

 by Nora Roberts

The second book in the Dragon Heart Legacy series. Breen returns to Talamh as her grandfather Odran plots destruction.

15. State of Terror

 by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

In the wake of the previous administration's mishandling of international affairs, the new Secretary of State Ellen Adams confronts interconnected global threats.

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A version of this list appears in the December 19, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending December 4, 2021.
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