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NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) November 19th 2017

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending November 19th 2017

10 - In The Midst of Winter - Isabel Allende
(Debut)
The lives of a university professor, an undocumented worker and a Chilean academic intersect after a car accident during a snowstorm in Brooklyn.

9  -  Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
(5 weeks on list)
The first female diver a the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II tries to understand why her father disappeared.

8  -  A Column of Fire - Ken Follett
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King and Owen King
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Deep Freeze - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)
Virgil Flowers is called to investigate in Trippton,MN., when a local bank's president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.

5  -  Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks
(3 weeks on list)
Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter by the Academy Award winning actor.

4  -  Twin Peaks : The Final Dossier - Mark Frost
(Debut)
Updated profiles on the residents of Twin Peaks are assembled by special agent Tamara Preston.

3  -  Origin - Dan Brown
(5 weeks on list) (3 weeks at#1)

2  -  Two Kinds of Truth - Michael Connelly
(Debut)
While he investigates the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.

1  -  The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2 weeks at #1)
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) August 27th 2017

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending August 27th 2017

10 - Into the Water - Paula Hawkins
(15 weeks on list)

9  -  House of Spies - Daniel Silva 
(5 weeks on list)

8  -  A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
(38 weeks on list)

7  -  The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
(Debut)
The lawyer Charlotte Quinn is challenged when violence returns to her hometown of Pikesville.

6  -  The Last Tudor - Philippa Gregory
(Debut)
The youngest Grey sister, Mary, is left to face her ruthless cousin, Queen Elizabeth.

5  -  Barely Legal - Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall
(Debut)
Herbie Fisher, the protege of Stone Barrington, becomes a partner at a law firm and finds himself in a web of deceit.

4  -  The Lying Game - Ruth Ware
(3 weeks on list)
Four school friends reunite as their long-held secret threatens to emerge.

3  -  The Late Show - Michael Connelly 
(4 weeks on list)

2  -  Camino Island - John Grisham
(10 weeks on list)

1  -  Any Dream Will Do - Debbie Macomber
(Debut)
As Shay Benson begins her life anew, building a relationship with Pastor Drew Douglas, her brother's return threatens to undo it.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) July 23rd 2017

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending July 23rd 2017

10 - The Force - Don Winslow
(Debut)
A detective sergeant and his crew in Manhattan North deal with gangs, drugs and guns, and steal millions of dollars.

9  -  The Silent Corner - Dean Koontz
(3 weeks on list)
An F.B.I. agent investigates an alarming surge in suicides, including her husband's.  The first in a new series.

8  -  A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
(33 weeks on list)

7  -  Wired - Julie Garwood
(Debut)
An F.B.I. agent recruits an idealistic (and beautiful) hacker to help him find a leaker.

6  -  The Identicals - Elin Hilderbrand
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  The Duchess - Danielle Steel
(2 weeks on list)
A 19th-century British duke's daughter, disinherited by her half brothers, flees to Paris to make a new life.

4  -  Into The Water - Paula Hawkins
(10 weeks on list)

3  -  Use of Force - Brad Thor
(2 weeks on list)
The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is called in when a missing terrorism suspect drowns off the Italian coast.

2  -  Murder Games - James Patterson and Howard Roughan
(2 weeks on list)
An expert on serial murder becomes involved in the hunt for a New York City killer.

1  -  Camino Island - John Grisham 
(5 weeks on list) (5 consecutive weeks at #1)
A search for stolen rare manuscripts leads to a Florida Island.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) June 25th 2017

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending June 25th 2017

10 - Indecent Exposure - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
Rekindling a romance with an old girlfriend who is now secretary of state exposes the New York lawyer Stone Barrington to unwanted attention.

9  -  The Fix - David Baldacci
(8 weeks on list)

8  -  Nighthawk - Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy 
(Debut)
A sprawling novel of modern India by the author of "The God of Small Things".

6  -  No Middle Name - Lee Child
(4 weeks list)

5  -  Love Story - Karen Kingsbury 
(Debut)
How John and Elizabeth Baxter fell in love.

4  -  Dragon Teeth - Michael Crichton 
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Come Sundown - Nora Roberts
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
Years after she was kidnapped, a woman returns to her family's Montana ranch.

2  -  Into the Water - Paula Hawkins 
(6 weeks on list)

1  -  Camino Island - John Grisham 
(Debut)
A search for stolen rare manuscripts leads to a Florida island.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (November 13th 2016)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending November 13th 2016

10 - Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
(7 weeks)

9  -  The Obisdian Chamber - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  The Blood Mirror - Brent Weeks
(Debut)
The fourth book in the fantasy Lightbringer series.

7  -  Sex, Lies and Serious Money - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
The New York lawyer Stone Barrington's client needs help spending the fortune he won in the lottery, as well as protection from scheming bad guys.

6  -  A Baxter Family Christmas - Karen Kingsbury
(Debut)
A story of love redemption featuring the Baxter family.

5  -  Vince Flynn : Order To Kill - Kyle Mills
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  Escape Clause - John Sandford
(2 weeks on list)

3  -  Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  Two By Two - Nicholas Sparks
(4 weeks on list)

1  -  The Whistler - John Grisham
(Debut)
A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 11/29/2015

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top Ten

Week Ending November 29th 2015

10 - Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Japanese Lover - Isabel Allende
(Debut)
A young refugee from the Nazis and the son of her family's Japanese gardener must hide their love although it lasts a lifetime.

8  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(80 weeks on list)

7  -  The Promise - Robert Crais 
(Debut)
The Los Angeles P.I. Elvis Cole joins forces with the K-9 officer Scott James of the LAPD and his German shepherd, Maggie, as well as his partner, Joe Pike, to foil a criminal mastermind.

6  -  Crimson Shore - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
(Debut)
In the 15th thriller featuring the F.B.I. agent Aloysius Pendergast, a crime in a quaint Massachusetts town may be connected to rumors of a colony of witches who settled there after the Salem trials.

5  -  See Me - Nicholas Sparks 
(5 weeks on list)

4  -  The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - Mitch Albom
(Debut)
A mystical tale of a guitar genius's journey through 20th-century music.

3  -  The Crossing - Michael Connelly
(2 weeks on list)

2  - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)

1  -  Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
(4 weeks on list) (3 non consecutive weeks at #1)
The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a"lone gunman" who hates injustice and the system and defends unpopular clients.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) November 15th 2015

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending November 15th 2015

10 - The Murder House - James Patterson and David Ellis
(5 weeks on list)

9  -  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R.R. Martin
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(78 weeks on list)

7  -  The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine - Alexander McCall
(Debut)
The 16th novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series

6  -  Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith
(2 weeks on list)
In the third novel about the private investigative team of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, the pair pursue a psychotic stalker;  J.K. Rowling writing pseudonymously.

5  -  The Survivor - Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  A Banquet of Consequences - Elizabeth George
(Debut)
Can a suicide in Dorset be connected to a poisoning in Cambridge?  In the 19th novel in a series the Scotland Yard detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers investigate.

3  -  Depraved Heart - Patricia Cornwell
(Debut)
A psychopath sends Dr. Kay Scarpetta videos from the past about her niece in the series 23rd book.

2  -  See Me - Nicholas Sparks
(3 weeks on list)
A couple in love are threatened by secrets from the past.

1  -  Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)
The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a "lone gunman" who hates injustice and the system and defends unpopular clients.

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NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 11/16/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 16th 2014

10 - Deadline - John Sanford
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Peripheral - William Gibson
(Debut)
A woman in the rural south, later in our century, witnesses a murder as part of a video game and is drawn into a power struggle in the further off future.

8  -  Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett
(7 weeks on list)

7  -  Pegasus - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
A German aristocrat, fleeing the Nazis, settles in America with a gift of eight purebred horses from his closest friend.

6  -  The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe - Alexander McCall Smith
(Debut)
The 15th book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

5  -  Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  Havana Storm - Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
(Debut)
Dirk Pitt becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle in Cuba.

3  -  Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
(Debut)
The Vampire Chronicles continue after a long hiatus with the reappearance of Lestat De Lioncourt.

2  -  The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
(Debut)
An exploration of the world of Auri, a character in the Kingkiller Chronicles.

1  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(2nd week on list and 2nd week at #1)
A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 11/09/2014

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 9th 2014

10 - Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good - Jan Karon
(8 weeks on list)

9 -  Burn - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(25 weeks on list)

7  -  Lila - Marilynne Robinson
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Desert God - Wilbur Smith
(Debut)
In ancient Egypt, a freed slave embarks on a journey across Arabia to defeat the Pharaoh's enemies.

5  -  Beautiful You - Chuck Palahniuk
(Debut)
A Manhattan lawyer inadvertently becomes a test subject for a line of sex toys.

4  -  Deadline - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)

3  -  Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult
(2 weeks on list)

1  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(DEBUT)
A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town, and becomes involved both in real people's lives and in litigation against the coal mining industry.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (01/26/2014)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending January 26th 2014

10 - River Road - Jayne Ann Krentz
(Debut)
When Lucy Sheridan returns to the California town of Summer River after her aunt's death, she discovers that the events of her last visit were more complicated than she knew.

9  -  Fear Nothing - Lisa Gardner
(Debut)
The Boston detective, D.D. Warren, seriously injured at a crime scene, is treated by a pain therapist whose father was a serial killer.

8  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(9 weeks on list)

7  -  The Pagan Lord - Bernard  Cornwell
(Debut)
The fate of the English nation is at stake as the Saxon kingdom battles the Danes in the early 10th century.

6  -  Hazardous Duty - W.E. B. Griffin and William E Butterworth IV
(2 weeks on list)

5  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(12 weeks on list)

4  -  Standup Guy - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
In the 28th Ston Barrington novel, the New York lawyer takes on a complicated new client.

3  -  Dark Wolf - Christine Feeham
(Debut)
The 25th book in the Carpathian series follows the story of Skyler Daratrazanoff and Dimitri Tirunul begun in "Dark Lycan"

2  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(12 weeks on list)

1  -  The Invention of Wings - Sue Kidd Monk
(DEBUT)
The relationship between a wealthy Charleston girl, Sarah Grimke, who will grow up to become a prominent abolitionist, and the slave she is given for her 11th birthday.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction (01/19/2014)

NY Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending January 19th 2014

10 - Takedown Twenty - Janet Evanovich
(7 weeks on list)

9 -  King and Maxwell - David Baldacci
(7 weeks on list)

8  -  The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  Cross My Heart - James Patterson
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(15 weeks on list)

5  -  Command Authority - Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney
(5 weeks on list)

4  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(8 weeks on list)

3  -  Hazardous Duty - W.E.B. Griffin and William Butterworth IV
(Debut)
Despite their antipathy, the president calls on Charly Castillo to take action against Mexican drug cartels and Somali Pirates.

2  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(11 weeks on list)

1  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(11 weeks on list)  (1st week at #1)
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (12/29/2013)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending December 29th 2013

10 - King and Maxwell - David Baldacci 
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  Innocence - Dean Koontz
(Debut)
A grotesque man living in exile beneath the city encounters a teenage girl hiding from dangerous enemies.

8  -  Takedown Twenty - Janet Evanovich
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly
(2 weeks on list)
Mickey Haller, a.k.a. the Lincoln lawyer, defends a "digital pimp" accused of murder. Outside the courtroom, he confronts killers, crooked cops and an angry daughter.

6  -  Cross My Heart - James Patterson
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(12 weeks on list)

4  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tarrt
(8 weeks on list)

3  -  Command Authority - Tom Clancy w/Mark Greaney
(2 weeks on list)  (last weeks #1)
President Jack Ryan and his son, a covert intelligence expert, try to counter a Russian threat in Tom Clancy's last novel before his death.

2  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(5 week on list)

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(8 weeks on list)
A sequel, about race and inheritance, to "A Time To Kill". 

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 11/17/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 17th 2013

10 - Identical - Scott  Turow
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  We Are Water - Wally Lamb
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  S - Doug Dorst
(Debut)
In a project conceived by the writer and director J.J. Abrams, the facsimile of a novel published in 1949 contains marginal annotations, postcards, newspaper clippings and other objects.  Two of the annotators are students who flirt and spar and begin to decode the novels mystery.

7  -  Accused - Lisa Scottoline
(Debut)
Mary DiNunzio is now a partner at the all-women Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates.

6  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  Winners - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
Six people with intertwined lives, among them an aspiring Olympic skier who is gravely injured, struggle to surmount challenges.

3  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  After Dead - Charlaine Harris
(Debut)
A coda to the Sookie Stackhouse novels that inspired "True Blood".

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Fiction 11/10/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 10th 2013

10 - Just One Evil Act - Elizabeth George
(2 weeks on list)
In the 18th Inspector Lynley novel, Lynley's partner Barbara Havers searchs for a friend's kidnapped child in Italy.

9  -  Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy - Helen Fielding
(2 weeks on list)
Bridget, now 51 and a mother and widow, is once again looking for love.

8  -  Gone - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  Storm Front - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Identical - Scott Turow
(2 weeks on list)
Paul Giannis running for mayor of Kindle County, is accused of having played a role in the murder of his identical twin brother's girlfriend - for which his brother, Cass, has already served time.

5  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  We Are Water - Wally Lamb
(Debut)
About to marry the woman who is her gallery owner, a divorced artist and mother must confront secrets from her past.

3  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(5 weeks on list) (Last week's #1)

2  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(Debut)
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prized, guilt and burden.

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(DEBUT)
A sequel, about race and inheritance, to "A Time to Kill".  

NY Times Bestseller List November 18th 2012

New York Times Bestseller List - Non Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending November 18th 2012

10 - NYPD Red - James Patterson and Marshall Karp  (4 weeks on list)

9  -  Iced - Karen Marie Moning
(Debut)
The first book in a new urban paranormal trilogy set in the world of the Fever series features Dani O'Malley.

8  -  The Winter of The World - Ken Follett   (7 weeks)

7  -  The Bone Bed - Patricia Cornwell   (3 weeks)

6  -  A Winter Dream - Richard Paul Evans
(Debut)
When Joseph Jacobson stands to be anointed heir to his father's agency, his 12 brothers cast him out.

5  - Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn   (22 weeks)

4  -  The Panther - Nelson DeMille   (3 weeks)

3  -  The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling    (6 weeks)

2  -  The Sins of the Mother - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
An enormously successful businesswoman tries to make up for past failings with her children, now grown.

1  -  The Racketeer - John Grisham
(2nd week on list and 2nd consecutive week at #1)
Malcolm Bannister, an imprisoned ex-lawyer, knows who murdered a federal judge.  He conconcts a scheme to exchange this information for his freedom.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction 11/11/2012

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending November 11th 2012

10 - Winter of the World - Ken Follett  (6 weeks on list)

9  -  Angels at the Table - Debbie Macomber 
(Debut)
Angels cook up a plan to reunite a young couple

8  -  NYPD Red - James Patterson and Marshall Karp  (3rd week)
Detective Zach Jordan and his beautiful partner must stop a deranged killer who has targeted a glittering New York film festival

7  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn  (21st week)

6  -  The Bone Bed - Patricia Cornwell  (2nd week)
A paleontologist's disappearance in Canada turns out to be connected to crimes much closer to home for the chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta
The 20th Scarpetta book.

5  -  The Bridge - Karen Kingsbury
(Debut)
The destruction of a beloved bookstore offers the shop's supporters second chances on love and leases.

4  -  Back To Blood - Tom Wolfe
(Debut)
A Cuban-American cop is a hero turned pariah in Miami, where ethnic and class tensions threaten to explode.

3  -  The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling  (5th week)

2  -  The Panther - Nelson DeMille   (2nd week)
(last week's #1)
The anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his wife, an FBI agent, pursue a high ranking Al Qaeda operative.

1  -  The Racketeer - John Grisham
(DEBUT)
Malcolm Bannister, an imprisoned ex-lawyer, knows who murdered a federal judge. And he concocts a scheme to exchange this information for his freedom.

New York Times Bestseller List - Fiction July 8th 2012

Here are the Top Ten novels on the NY Times Bestseller list for Fiction for the week ending

July 8th 2012

10 - Porch Lights - Dorothea Benton   (2 weeks on list)
9  -  The Third Gate - Lincoln Child   (2 weeks)
8  -  The Storm - Clive Cussler and Graham Brown  (4 weeks)
7  -  The Innocent - David Baldacci  (10 weeks)
6  -  A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin   (46 weeks)
5  -  Canada - Richard Ford   (5 weeks)
4  -  The Mission to Paris - Alan Furst  (2 weeks)
3  -  Calico Joe - John Grisham  (11 weeks)
2  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn   (3 weeks)
1  -  Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich
(DEBUT)
The Salem, Mass., pastry Chef Lizzy Tucker and her partner Diesel, take up a murdered Harvard professor's quest for a powerful ancient relic