List of The New York Times number-one books of 2016

The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split into three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.

Fiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.Oct 16, 2016 Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. The New York Times. Retrieved Oct 7, 2016 The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins with 10 weeks at the top of the list, followed by Me Before You by Jojo Moyes with 7 weeks.

DateBookAuthor Rogue Lawyer John Grisham The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Scandalous Behavior Stuart Woods Blue Danielle Steel NYPD Red 4 James Patterson and Marshall Karp Brotherhood In Death J. D. Robb Morning Star Pierce Brown Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Me Before You Jojo Moyes The Gangster Clive Cussler and Justin Scott Fire Touched Patricia Briggs Private Paris James Patterson and Mark Sullivan Fool Me Once Harlan Coben One with You Sylvia Day The Obsession Nora Roberts The Last Mile David Baldacci Extreme Prey John Sandford 15th Affair James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Me Before You Jojo Moyes End of Watch Stephen King Bay of Sighs Nora Roberts Me Before You Jojo Moyes The Games James Patterson and Mark Sullivan Me Before You Jojo Moyes The Black Widow Daniel Silva The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty Bullseye James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge Insidious Catherine Coulter The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins A Great Reckoning Louise Penny Apprentice in Death J. D. Robb The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Escape Clause John Sandford The Whistler John Grisham The Wrong Side of Goodbye Michael Connelly Night School Lee Child Turbo Twenty-Three Janet Evanovich Cross the Line James Patterson The Whistler John Grisham Island of Glass Nora Roberts

Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi with 13 weeks at the top of the list, followed by Killing the Rising Sun with nine weeks.

DateBookAuthorPublisherJanuary 3 Killing Reagan Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard HoltJanuary 10January 17Not My Father's Son: A MemoirAlan Cumming Dey StreetJanuary 24Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi CoatesSpiegel & GrauJanuary 31 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Random HouseFebruary 7February 14February 21February 28March 6March 13March 20March 27April 3April 10April 17April 24The Rainbow Comes and GoesAnderson Cooper and Gloria VanderbiltHarperMay 1Hamilton: The RevolutionLin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarterGrand Central PublishingMay 8 The Rainbow Comes and Goes Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt HarperMay 15May 22May 29Hamilton: The RevolutionLin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarterGrand Central PublishingJune 5The Gene: An Intimate HistorySiddhartha MukherjeeCharles Scribner's SonsJune 12When Breath Becomes AirPaul KalanithiRandom HouseJune 19 Bill O'Relly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots David Fisher HoltJune 26July 3July 10Alexander HamiltonRon ChernowPenguinJuly 17 Crisis of Character Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt Center StreetJuly 24July 31August 7It Gets Worse: A Collection of EssaysShane DawsonKeywords Press/AtriaAugust 14Crisis of CharacterGary J. Byrne with Grant M. SchmidtCenter StreetAugust 21Hillary's AmericaDinesh D'SouzaRegneryAugust 28Hillbilly ElegyJD VanceHarperCollinsSeptember 4 The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo Amy Schumer Gallery BooksSeptember 11September 18September 25Love WarriorGlennon Doyle MeltonFlatiron BooksOctober 2 Killing the Rising Sun Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard HoltOctober 9October 16Born to RunBruce SpringsteenSimon & SchusterOctober 23 Killing the Rising Sun Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard HoltOctober 30November 6The Magnolia StoryChip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark DagostinoW Publishing/Thomas NelsonNovember 13 Killing the Rising Sun Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard HoltNovember 20November 27December 4Settle for MoreMegyn KellyHarper/HarperCollinsDecember 11Killing the Rising SunBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardHoltDecember 18The Magnolia StoryChip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark DagostinoW Publishing/Thomas NelsonDecember 25Killing the Rising SunBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardHolt

See also Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s

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