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 popular book of the year was Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James with 28 weeks at the top.
DateBookAuthor January 1 11/22/63 Stephen King January 8 January 15 77 Shadow Street Dean Koontz January 22 Private: #1 Suspect James Patterson and Maxine Paetro January 29 Believing the Lie Elizabeth George February 5 Private: #1 Suspect James Patterson and Maxine Paetro February 12 Taken Robert Crais February 19 Home Front Kristin Hannah February 26 Kill Shot Vince Flynn March 4 Private Games James Patterson March 11 Celebrity in Death J. D. Robb March 18 Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James March 25 April 1 April 8 April 15 April 22 April 29 May 6 May 13 May 20 May 27 June 3 June 10 June 17 June 24 July 1 July 8 July 15 July 22 July 29 August 5 August 12 August 19 August 26 September 2 September 9 September 16 September 23 September 30 A Wanted Man Lee Child October 7 Winter of the World Ken Follett October 14 The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling October 21 Reflected in You Sylvia Day October 28 November 4 The Bone Bed Patricia Cornwell November 11 The Racketeer John Grisham November 18 November 25 The Perfect Hope Nora Roberts December 2 The Last Man Vince Flynn December 9 Notorious Nineteen Janet Evanovich December 16 The Black Box Michael Connelly December 23 Threat Vector Tom Clancy December 30 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
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 Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard with 9 weeks at the top of the list.
DateBookAuthorPublisher January 1 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster January 8 January 15 Heaven Is for Real Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent Thomas Nelson January 22 January 29 February 5 Ameritopia Mark R. Levin Threshold Editions February 12 Heaven Is for Real Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent Thomas Nelson February 19 February 26 Once Upon a Secret Mimi Alford Random House Publishing March 4 The Vow Kim and Krickitt Carpenter with Dana Wilkerson B&H Publishing Group March 11 March 18 March 25 April 1 Heaven Is for Real Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent Thomas Nelson April 8 Imagine Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 15 The Big Miss Hank Haney Crown Publishing April 22 Drift Rachel Maddow Crown Publishing April 29 A Night to Remember Walter Lord Open Road Integrated Media May 6 Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson Penguin Group May 13 Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Anna Quindlen Random House Publishing May 20 The Passage of Power Robert A. Caro Knopf Doubleday Publishing May 27 June 3 Amateur Edward Klein Regnery Publishing June 10 June 17 June 24 July 1 July 8 July 10 In Hines’ Sight: The Ups, Downs, and Rebounds of 40 Years in Sports Broadcasting Hope Hines Franklin Green Publishing July 22 Wild Cheryl Strayed Knopf July 29 August 5 August 12 August 19 August 26 September 2 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Random House Publishing September 9 Paterno Joe Posnanski Simon & Schuster September 16 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Simon & Schuster September 23 No Easy Day Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer Penguin Group September 30 October 7 October 14 October 21 Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Henry Holt & Company October 28 November 4 November 11 Proof of Heaven Eben Alexander Simon & Schuster November 18 Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Henry Holt & Company November 25 December 2 December 9 December 16 December 23 Proof of Heaven Eben Alexander Simon & Schuster December 30 Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Henry Holt & Company
See also Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s
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