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 in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.[1] 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.
| Date | Book | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| 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 (novelist) | 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 |
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.[2] 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.
| Date | Book | Author | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 3 | Killing Reagan | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt | |
| January 10 | ||||
| January 17 | Not My Father's Son: A Memoir | Dey Street | ||
| January 24 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Spiegel & Grau | |
| January 31 | When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | Random House | |
| February 7 | ||||
| February 14 | ||||
| February 21 | ||||
| February 28 | ||||
| March 6 | ||||
| March 13 | ||||
| March 20 | ||||
| March 27 | ||||
| April 3 | ||||
| April 10 | ||||
| April 17 | ||||
| April 24 | The Rainbow Comes and Goes | Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Harper | |
| May 1 | Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter | Grand Central Publishing | |
| May 8 | The Rainbow Comes and Goes | Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Harper | |
| May 15 | ||||
| May 22 | ||||
| May 29 | Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter | Grand Central Publishing | |
| June 5 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Charles Scribner's Sons | ||
| June 12 | When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | Random House | |
| June 19 | Bill O'Relly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots | David Fisher | Holt | |
| June 26 | ||||
| July 3 | ||||
| July 10 | Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | Penguin | |
| July 17 | Crisis of Character | Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt | Center Street | |
| July 24 | ||||
| July 31 | ||||
| August 7 | Shane Dawson | Keywords Press/Atria | ||
| August 14 | Crisis of Character | Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt | Center Street | |
| August 21 | Hillary's America | Dinesh D'Souza | Regnery | |
| August 28 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | HarperCollins | |
| September 4 | The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo | Amy Schumer | Gallery Books | |
| September 11 | ||||
| September 18 | ||||
| September 25 | Love Warrior | Glennon Doyle Melton | Flatiron Books | |
| October 2 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt | |
| October 9 | ||||
| October 16 | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | Simon & Schuster | |
| October 23 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt | |
| October 30 | ||||
| November 6 | The Magnolia Story | Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino | W Publishing/Thomas Nelson | |
| November 13 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt | |
| November 20 | ||||
| November 27 | ||||
| December 4 | Settle for More | Megyn Kelly | Harper/HarperCollins | |
| December 11 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt | |
| December 18 | The Magnolia Story | Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino | W Publishing/Thomas Nelson | |
| December 25 | Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Holt |