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.
The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks.
DateBookAuthorPublisher January 3 A Time for Mercy John Grisham Doubleday January 10 January 17 The Duke and I Julia Quinn Avon January 24 January 31 February 7 February 14 The Russian James Patterson and James O. Born Little, Brown and Company February 21 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press February 28 March 7 A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas Bloomsbury Publishing March 14 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press March 21 Life After Death Sister Souljah Emily Bestler Books March 28 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press April 4 Win Harlan Coben Grand Central Publishing April 11 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah St. Martin's Press April 18 The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman Viking Books April 25 May 2 Ocean Prey John Sandford G. P. Putnam's Sons May 9 A Gambling Man David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing May 16 Sooley John Grisham Doubleday May 23 21st Birthday James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Little, Brown and Company May 30 While Justice Sleeps Stacey Abrams Doubleday June 6 The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave Simon & Schuster June 13 Legacy Nora Roberts St. Martin's Press June 20 Freed E. L. James Bloom Books June 27 The President's Daughter Bill Clinton and James Patterson Little, Brown and Company July 4 July 11 The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave Simon & Schuster July 18 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino Harper Perennial July 25 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller Riverhead Books August 1 The Cellist Daniel Silva HarperCollins August 8 Black Ice Brad Thor Emily Bestler Books August 15 The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave Simon & Schuster August 22 Billy Summers Stephen King Scribner August 29 September 5 Bloodless Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing September 12 The Madness of Crowds Louise Penny Minotaur Books September 19 A Slow Fire Burning Paula Hawkins Riverhead Books September 26Forgotten in Death J. D. Robb St. Martin's Press October 3 Apples Never Fall Liane Moriarty Henry Holt and Company October 10 October 17 The Wish Nicholas Sparks Grand Central Publishing October 24 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles Viking Books October 31 State of Terror Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press November 7 The Judge's List John Grisham Doubleday November 14 Better Off Dead Lee Child and Andrew Child Delacorte Press November 21 Game On Janet Evanovich Atria Books November 28 The Dark Hours Michael Connelly Little, Brown and Company December 5 Mercy David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing December 12 Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Diana Gabaldon Delacorte Press December 19 Wish You Were Here Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books December 26 Call Us What We Carry Amanda Gorman Viking Books
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 American Marxism by Mark Levin with 8 weeks at the top of the list, followed by A Promised Land by Barack Obama with 6 weeks at the top of the list.
Issue dateTitleAuthor(s)PublisherA Promised LandBarack ObamaCrownJust as I AmCicely TysonHarperCollinsThink AgainAdam GrantViking PressWalk in My Combat BootsJames Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris MooneyLittle, Brown and CompanyHow to Avoid a Climate DisasterBill GatesKnopfThe Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonSimon & SchusterThis Is the FireDon LemonLittle, Brown and CompanyThe Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonSimon & SchusterBroken HorsesBrandi CarlileCrownOn the HouseJohn BoehnerSt. Martin's PressOut of Many, OneGeorge W. BushCrownWhat Happened to You?Bruce D. Perry and Oprah WinfreyFlatiron BooksKilling the MobBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardSt. Martin's PressThe Anthropocene ReviewedJohn GreenDuttonKilling the MobBill O'Reilly and Martin DugardSt. Martin's PressHow the Word Is PassedClint SmithLittle, Brown and Company Killing the Mob Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard St. Martin's PressThe Body Keeps the ScoreBessel van der KolkPenguin BooksNightmare ScenarioYasmina Abutaleb and Damian PalettaHarperHow I Saved the WorldJesse Watters Broadside Books American Marxism Mark Levin Threshold EditionsI Alone Can Fix ItCarol Leonnig and Philip RuckerPenguin PressAmerican MarxismMark LevinThreshold EditionsThe Afghanistan PapersCraig WhitlockSimon & SchusterAmerican MarxismMark LevinThreshold EditionsPerilBob Woodward and Robert CostaSimon & SchusterThe StorytellerDave GrohlDey Street BooksMidnight in WashingtonAdam SchiffRandom HouseNot All Diamonds and RoséDave QuinnAndy CohenGoing ThereKatie CouricLittle, Brown and CompanyThe Lyrics: 1956 to the PresentPaul McCartneyLiverightWillWill Smith with Mark MansonPenguin PressThe 1619 ProjectNikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times MagazineOne World
See also Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2020s
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