List of The New York Times number-one books of 2020

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. For the second consecutive year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 7 weeks at the top of the list.

DateBookAuthor January 5Where the Crawdads SingDelia Owens January 12 January 19 January 26 February 2 February 9American Dirt Jeanine Cummins February 16 February 23 Golden in Death J. D. Robb March 1 American Dirt Jeanine Cummins March 8 One Minute Out Mark Greaney March 15 Blindside James Patterson and James O. Born March 22 House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas March 29 The Mirror & the Light Hilary Mantel April 5 The Boy from the Woods Harlan Coben April 12 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng April 19April 25May 3 Masked Prey John SandfordMay 10 Walk the Wire David BaldacciMay 17 Camino Winds John GrishamMay 24 The 20th Victim James Patterson and Maxine PaetroMay 31 Camino Winds John GrishamJune 7June 14 Hideaway Nora RobertsJune 21 The Vanishing Half Brit BennettJune 28 The Summer House James Patterson and Brendan DuBoisJuly 5 28 Summers Elin Hilderbrand July 12 July 19 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett July 26August 2 The OrderDaniel SilvaAugust 9 Near DarkBrad ThorAugust 16 DeadlockCatherine CoulterAugust 23 Where the Crawdads Sing Delia OwensAugust 30September 6 Royal Danielle SteelSeptember 13 Thick as Thieves Sandra BrownSeptember 20 All the Devils Are Here Louise Penny September 27 Shadows in Death J. D. Robb October 4 The Evening and the Morning Ken Follett October 11 The Book of Two Ways Jodi Picoult October 18 The Return Nicholas SparksOctober 25 Troubles in Paradise Elin HilderbrandNovember 1 A Time for Mercy John GrishamNovember 8November 15 The Sentinel Lee Child and Andrew ChildNovember 22 Fortune and Glory Janet EvanovichNovember 29 The Law of Innocence Michael ConnellyDecember 6 Rhythm of War Brandon SandersonDecember 13Ready Player Two Ernest ClineDecember 20December 27

Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.

Issue dateTitleAuthor(s)Publisher Educated Tara Westover Random House Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau A Very Stable Genius Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig Penguin Press Profiles in Corruption Peter Schweizer HarperCollins Open Book Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O'Leary Dey Street The Mamba Mentality Kobe Bryant Melcher Media The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson Crown Untamed Glennon Doyle The Dial Press The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson Crown Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker Doubleday Untamed Glennon Doyle The Dial Press White Fragility Robin DiAngelo Beacon Press How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi Random House The Room Where It Happened John Bolton Simon & Schuster Too Much and Never Enough Mary L. Trump Live Free or Die Sean Hannity Threshold Editions Untamed Glennon Doyle The Dial Press His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham Random House Melania and Me Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Gallery Books Disloyal Michael Cohen Skyhorse Publishing Rage Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster The Meaning of Mariah Carey Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis Andy Cohen / Holt Humans Brandon Stanton St. Martin's Press Caste Isabel Wilkerson Random House Greenlights Matthew McConaughey Crown Clanlands Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish Quercus Humans Brandon Stanton St. Martin's Press A Promised Land Barack Obama Crown

See also Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2020s

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