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.

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

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