New York Times Best Sellers: May 23, 2021

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

The 21st book in the Women’s Murder Club series. New evidence changes the investigation of a missing mother.

Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.

Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.

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

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.

Aloysius Archer, a World War II veteran, seeks to apprentice with Willie Dash, a private eye, in a corrupt California town.

Two estranged sisters, one a former best-selling author, the other a nun, reconnect as one searches for the child the other gave up.

After discovering her sister dead, Letty Carnahan drives away with her niece and finds potential trouble with a police detective at a Florida motel.

Amelia Vaux Tanner plans to give a cottage in a Black beach community to one of her three favorite guests.

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

In 1662 Boston, a young Puritan woman seeks to escape from a cruel husband and rumors that might mean her death.

An actress immerses herself in the role of a pioneering woman aviator who disappeared in Antarctica.

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

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.

Stories of skeptics who went against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of Covid-19.

An ecologist describes ways trees communicate, cooperate and compete.

A look at the key players and outcomes of precision bombing during World War II.

The senior senator from Massachusetts shares six influential perspectives that shaped her life and advocacy.

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

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

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.

An anthology of writing on the Black experience and shame resilience.

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

Forty-three portraits by the former president, of men and women who have immigrated to the United States.

The Republican senator from Missouri gives his assessment of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple.

The Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together American history with personal memoir to show the importance of events in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.

Essays by the actress and comedian on the ups and downs of womanhood and motherhood.