Afterparties

What it earned each author

Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.

1. #1Billy SummersStephen King
2. #2The Last Thing He Told MeLaura Dave
3. #3We Were Never HereAndrea Bartz
4. #4The Paper PalaceMiranda Cowley Heller
5. #5Blind TigerSandra Brown
6. #6Not a Happy FamilyShari Lapena
7. #7The Midnight LibraryMatt Haig
8. #8Malibu RisingTaylor Jenkins Reid
9. #9The CellistDaniel Silva
10. #10Black IceBrad Thor

Every other book that reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list in 2021.

• A Time for Mercy · John Grisham
• The Vanishing Half · Brit Bennett
• Star Wars: Light of the Jedi · Charles Soule
• The Russian · James Patterson & James O. Born
• The Four Winds · Kristin Hannah
• A Court of Silver Flames · Sarah J. Maas
• Life After Death · Sister Souljah
• Win · Harlan Coben
• The Hill We Climb · Amanda Gorman
• Ocean Prey · John Sandford
• A Gambling Man · David Baldacci
• Sooley · John Grisham
• The Last Thing He Told Me · Laura Dave
• While Justice Sleeps · Stacey Abrams
• Legacy · Nora Roberts
• Golden Girl · Elin Hilderbrand
• The President's Daughter · James Patterson & Bill Clinton
• The Paper Palace · Miranda Cowley Heller
• The Cellist · Daniel Silva
• Black Ice · Brad Thor
• Billy Summers · Stephen King
• The Madness of Crowds · Louise Penny
• A Slow Fire Burning · Paula Hawkins
• Beautiful World, Where Are You · Sally Rooney
• Apples Never Fall · Liane Moriarty
• The Wish · Nicholas Sparks
• The Lincoln Highway · Amor Towles
• State of Terror · Hillary Rodham Clinton & Louise Penny
• The Judge's List · John Grisham
• The Stranger in the Lifeboat · Mitch Albom
• Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone · Diana Gabaldon
• Call Us What We Carry · Amanda Gorman