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 hardcover fiction category.Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 2008 Hawes Publications
The most popular books of the year were The Appeal, by John Grisham and Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult with respectively 5 and 3 weeks at the top. The author James Patterson was at the top for four different books (Double Cross, Sundays at Tiffany's, Sail and Cross Country).
DateBookAuthor January 6 Double Cross James Patterson January 13 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini January 20 January 27 Plum Lucky Janet Evanovich February 3 February 10 Duma Key Stephen King February 17 The Appeal John Grisham February 24 March 2 March 9 March 16 March 23 Change of Heart Jodi Picoult March 30 April 6 April 13 Compulsion Jonathan Kellerman April 20 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri April 27 Where Are You Now? Mary Higgins Clark May 4 Hold Tight Harlan Coben May 11 The Whole Truth David Baldacci May 18 Sundays at Tiffany's James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet May 25 The Host Stephenie Meyer June 1 June 8 Odd Hours Dean Koontz June 15 Blood Noir Laurell K. Hamilton June 22 Nothing to Lose Lee Child June 29 Sail James Patterson and Howard Roughan July 6 Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich July 13 July 20 The Last Patriot Brad Thor July 27 Tribute Nora Roberts August 3 August 10 Moscow Rules Daniel Silva August 17 August 24 Acheron Sherrilyn Kenyon August 31 Smoke Screen Sandra Brown September 7 The Force Unleashed Sean Williams September 14 Devil Bones Kathy Reichs September 21 Dark Curse Christine Feehan September 28 Anathem Neal Stephenson October 5 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski October 12 October 19 The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks October 26 November 2 The Brass Verdict Michael Connelly November 9 Extreme Measures Vince Flynn November 16 The Gate House Nelson DeMille November 23 Divine Justice David Baldacci November 30 The Christmas Sweater Glenn Beck December 7 Cross Country James Patterson December 14 December 21 Scarpetta Patricia Cornwell December 28
Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best selling nonfiction books, in the hardcover nonfiction category.
DateBookAuthorPublisherJanuary 6 I Am America (And So Can You!) Stephen Colbert Grand CentralJanuary 13 January 20 In Defense of Food Michael Pollan Penguin PressJanuary 27 February 3 Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography Andrew Morton St. Martin'sFebruary 10 In Defense of Food Michael Pollan Penguin PressFebruary 17 February 24 March 2 March 9 Liberal Fascism Jonah Goldberg DoubledayMarch 16 Losing It Valerie Bertinelli Free PressMarch 23 March 30 April 6 Beautiful Boy David Sheff Houghton MifflinApril 13 Mistaken Identity Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark TabbHowardApril 20 April 27 Home Julie Andrews HyperionMay 4 Beautiful Boy David Sheff Houghton MifflinMay 11 Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Chelsea Handler Simon SpotlightMay 18 The Revolution: A Manifesto Ron Paul Grand CentralMay 25 Audition: A Memoir Barbara Walters KnopfJune 1 June 8 June 15 What Happened Scott McClellan PublicAffairsJune 22 When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris Little, BrownJune 29 July 6 July 13 July 20 July 27 August 3 August 10 August 17 The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality Jerome R. Corsi Threshold EditionsAugust 24 August 31 September 7 September 14 sTORI Telling Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin Simon SpotlightSeptember 21 September 28 Hot, Flat, and Crowded Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and GirouxOctober 31 Against Medical Advice: A True Story James Patterson, Hal Friedman Little, Brown and CompanyNovember 30 Too Fat to Fish Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza Spiegel & Grau December 7 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Little, BrownDecember 15 December 21
See also Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2000s
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