New York Times Best Sellers: August 22, 2021

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

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

Will the secrets Emily shares with Kristen about violent incidents in the past ruin her life?

After an extramarital dalliance, Elle must choose between her husband and her childhood love.

During Prohibition, Thatcher Hutton and Laurel Plummer wind up on opposite sides of a moonshine war in Texas.

Questions arise when a rich couple are murdered after an Easter dinner with their three adult children.

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

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of summer. But over the course of 24 hours, their lives will change forever.

The 21st book in the Gabriel Allon series. A private intelligence service plans an act of violence that will aid Russia and divide America.

The 20th book in the Scot Harvath series. The American spy faces dangers in the Arctic Circle.

After a drunken-driving incident, Sunday Brennan returns to her family in New York where her past follows her.

Matthew Keating, a past president and former Navy SEAL, goes on his own to find his abducted teenage daughter.

An accident upsets the composure of a family-run ballet studio.

A collection of stories that portray the lives of Cambodian Americans.

Twin sisters lead a team of biologists to reintroduce 14 gray wolves into the Scottish Highlands.

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

The retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel recounts his actions that led to the impeachment of President Trump and his testimony before Congress.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters examine Trump’s final year in office, with a focus on the key players around him.

The conservative commentator describes what he perceives as threats to American business, education and politics.

The Fox News host recounts his career and prescribes ways to defend against what he considers left-wing radicalism.

Stories of skeptics who went against the official of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19. The profiles include the local public-health officer and a group of doctors nicknamed the Wolverines.

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

The 10th book in the conservative commentator’s Killing series looks at organized crime in the United States during the 20th century.

An approach to dealing with trauma that shifts an essential question used to investigate it.

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

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

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.

The playwright and director provides insights on working with Stephen Sondheim to create the musical “Sunday in the Park With George.”

An account of Mildred Harnack, an American who became a central figure in the German resistance to Hitler.

A look at arbitrary beliefs surrounding opium, caffeine and mescaline, which are derived from plants.