New York Times Best Sellers: May 2, 2021

The 31st in the Prey series. When federal officers are killed, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to investigate matters.

The poem read on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.

The fourth book in the Terminal List series. James Reece is given a top-secret C.I.A mission.

As dust storms roll during the Great Depression, Elsa must choose between saving the family and farm or heading West.

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

The second book in the Black Book thriller series. Chicago detective Billy Harney investigates his own past.

Past secrets come up when Fern decides to pay back her twin sister, Rose, by having a baby for her.

A Faustian bargain comes with a curse that affects the adventure Addie LaRue has across centuries.

Windsor Horne Lockwood III might rectify cold cases connected to his family that have eluded the F.B.I. for decades.

Can Leaphorn give Chee and Manuelito the guidance they need to find the justice they seek?

An “Artificial Friend” named Klara is purchased to serve as a companion to an ailing 14-year-old girl.

Personal tragedy ushers a missing persons detective back to where she grew up and onto a new case.

The foundation of a marriage between actors is shaken when they reunite with an old friend who is now a TV star.

The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.

The sister of a BBC producer may have joined the Irish Republican Army.

The former speaker of the House reflects on his time in Washington, key political figures and the current state o the Republican Party.

How the Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA.

The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter recounts difficulties during her formative years and her hard-won successes.

A portrait of the Sackler family, known for their philanthropy toward institutions around the world, and their involvement with Valium and OxyContin.

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

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

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

The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.

A memoir by the chef and owner of the Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine.

An examination of the cognitive skills of rethinking and unlearning that could be used to adapt to a rapidly changing world.

The lawyer and artist, who is the son of the current president, details tragedies within his family and his path to sobriety.

The theoretical physicist explains the controversy around the synthesis of the theory of relativity and quantum theory.

How Jewish women in Poland turned Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis and helped build systems of underground bunkers.

The chair of the board of the racial justice organization Color of Change analyzes the impact of racism on the economy.

In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama offers personal reflections on his formative years and pivotal moments through his first term.