New York Times Best Sellers: May 9, 2021

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The 19th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sahvage and Mae fight against what she unleashed.

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

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.

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

A previously unpublished novel by the author of “Native Son,” with an afterward by his grandson Malcolm Wright. A Black man named Fred Daniels is tortured by the police until he confesses to a crime he did not commit.

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

An aspiring historian in London finds a clue that might put to rest unsolved apothecary murders from 200 years ago.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A depiction of the frontiersman Daniel Boone.

The chef-turned-rapper shares his journey to improved fitness.

A collection of personal essays on anxiety, loneliness and productivity.

Based on numerous interviews, the USA Today Washington bureau chief profiles the current speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.

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