List of The New York Times number-one books of 2019 explained

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.

Fiction

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 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 25 weeks at the top of the list.

Date	Book	Author
January 6	The Reckoning	John Grisham	^[2]
January 13	Long Road to Mercy	David Baldacci	^[3]
January 20	Verses for the Dead	Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child	^[4]
January 27	Turning Point	Danielle Steel	^[5]
February 3	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	^[6]
February 10			^[7]
February 17			^[8]
February 24	Connections in Death	J. D. Robb	^[9]
March 3	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	^[10]
March 10			^[11]
March 17			^[12]
March 24			^[13]
March 31			^[14]
April 7			^[15]
April 14			^[16]
April 21			^[17]
April 28			^[18]
May 5	Redemption	David Baldacci	^[19]
May 12	Neon Prey	John Sandford	^[20]
May 19	18th Abduction	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro	^[21]
May 26	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	^[22]
June 2			^[23]
June 9			^[24]
June 16			^[25]
June 23			^[26]
June 30			^[27]
July 7	Summer of '69	Elin Hilderbrand	^[28]
July 14	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	^[29]
July 21			^[30]
July 28	Under Currents	Nora Roberts	^[31]
August 4	The New Girl	Daniel Silva	^[32]
August 11	One Good Deed	David Baldacci	^[33]
August 18	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	^[34]
August 25			^[35]
September 1			^[36]
September 8			^[37]
September 15	A Better Man	Louise Penny	^[38]
September 22	Vendetta in Death	J. D. Robb	^[39]
September 29	The Institute	Stephen King	^[40]
October 6			^[41]
October 13	The Water Dancer	Ta-Nehisi Coates	^[42]
October 20	Bloody Genius	John Sandford	^[43]
October 27	The 19th Christmas	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro	^[44]
November 3	The Guardians	John Grisham	^[45]
November 10	The Night Fire	Michael Connelly	^[46]
November 17	Blue Moon	Lee Child	^[47]
November 24			^[48]
December 1	Twisted Twenty-Six		^[49]
December 8	A Minute to Midnight	David Baldacci	^[50]
December 15	The Rise of Magicks	Nora Roberts	^[51]
December 22	The Guardians	John Grisham	^[52]
December 29	Where The Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	^[53]

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.^[54]

The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Becoming by Michelle Obama with 15 weeks at the top of the list; it was also a best seller for the last five weeks in 2018.

Date	Book	Author	Publisher
January 6	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown	^[55]
January 13				^[56]
January 20				^[57]
January 27				^[58]
February 3				^[59]
February 10				^[60]
February 17				^[61]
February 24				^[62]
March 3				^[63]
March 10	The Threat	Andrew McCabe	St. Martin's	^[64]
March 17	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown	^[65]
March 24				^[66]
March 31				^[67]
April 7	The Right Side of History	Ben Shapiro	Broadside	^[68]
April 14	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown	^[69]
April 21				^[70]
April 28	Life Will Be the Death of Me	Chelsea Handler	Spiegel & Grau	^[71]
May 5	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown	^[72]
May 12	The Mueller Report	The Washington Post	Scribner	^[73]
May 19				^[74]
May 26	The Pioneers	David McCullough	Simon & Schuster	^[75]
June 2	Howard Stern Comes Again	Howard Stern	Simon & Schuster	^[76]
June 9	Unfreedom of the Press	Mark Levin	Threshold Editions	^[77]
June 16				^[78]
June 23				^[79]
June 30				^[80]
July 7	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House	^[81]
July 14				^[82]
July 21				^[83]
July 28	Three Women	Lisa Taddeo	Avid Reader	^[84]
August 4	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House	^[85]
August 11				^[86]
August 18				^[87]
August 25				^[88]
September 1				^[89]
September 8				^[90]
September 15				^[91]
September 22	Call Sign Chaos	Jim Mattis and Bing West	Random House	^[92]
September 29	Talking to Strangers	Malcolm Gladwell	Little, Brown	^[93]
October 6				^[94]
October 13	Inside Out	Demi Moore	Harper	^[95]
October 20	Blowout	Rachel Maddow	Crown	^[96]
October 27				^[97]
November 3	Me	Elton John	Holt	^[98]
November 10				^[99]
November 17	The Beautiful Ones	Prince	Spiegel & Grau	^[100]
November 24	Triggered	Donald Trump Jr.	Center Street	^[101]
December 1				^[102]
December 8	A Warning	Anonymous	Twelve	^[103]
December 15	Crime in Progress	Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch	Random House	^[104]
December 22	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House	^[105]
December 29				^[106]

See also

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s

Notes and References

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