NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) April 15th 2018

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending April 15th 2018

10 - The Escape Artist - Brad Meltzer 
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Punishment She Deserves - Elizabeth George 
(2 weeks on list)
Detectives Havers and Lynley investigate the death of a deacon accused of a serious crime in a historic medieval town in England.

8  -  Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
(28 weeks on list)

7  -  The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn
(13 weeks on list)

6  -  Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
(28 weeks on list)

5  -  To Die But Once - Jacqueline Winspear 
(Debut)
In the months after Britain declared war on Germany in 1940, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of an apprentice working on a government contract.

4  -  The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
(8 weeks on list)

3  -  Accidental Heroes - Danielle Steel 
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
Strangers pull together to avert a disaster involving two flights from New York to San Francisco.

2  -  Red Alert - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(Debut)
The fifth book in the NYPD Red series.  Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald investigate the death of a documentary filmmaker and an explosion at a charity benefit. 

1  -  The Disappeared - C.J. Box 
(Debut)
A Wyoming game warden teams up with his daughter to find a missing British businesswoman.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) October 22nd 2017

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending October 22nd 2017

10 - Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  Haunted - James Patterson and James O. Born
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  Merry and Bright - Debbie Macomber 
(Debut)
A temp, who works for a strict and stressed boss is given a social life when family members create an online dating profile for her.

7  -  The Cuban Affair - Nelson DeMille
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye - David Lagercrantz
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  Don't Let Go - Harlan Coben 
(2 weeks on list)

4  -  A Column Fire - Ken Follett
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan 
(Debut)
Anna Kerrigan, the first female driver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II, meets with a man who helps her understand why her father disappeared.

2  -  Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King and Owen King
(2 weeks on list)  (#1 last week)

1  -  Origin - Dan Brown 
(Debut)
After reconnecting with one of his first students, who is now a billionaire futurist, symbology professor Robert Langdon must go on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (December 11th 2016)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending December 11th 2016

10 - The Chemist - Stephanie Meyer
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  Odessa Sea - Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
(4 weeks on list)

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

6  -  Night School - Lee Child
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  No Man's Land - David Baldacci
(2 weeks on list)

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

3  -  Turbo Twenty-Three - Janet Evanovich
(2 weeks on list)  (last week at #1)

2  -  The Whistler - John Grisham
(5 weeks on list)

1  -  Cross The Line - James Patterson
(Debut)
Detective Alex Cross and his wife, Bree, team up to catch a killer causing chaos in Washington D.C.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) August 14th 2016

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending August 14th 2016

10 - End of Watch - Stephen King 
(8 weeks on list)

9  -  Magic - Danielle Steel
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  Heroes of the Frontier - Dave Eggers 
(Debut)
Josie, a former dentist, is on the run from a bad relationship and on the lam in the Alaskan wilderness with her children.

7  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(117 weeks on list)

6  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(72 weeks on list)

5  -  First Comes Love - Emily Griffin
(5 weeks on list)

4  -  The Woman in the Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware 
(2 weeks on list)
A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her.

3  -  The Girls - Emma Cline
(7 weeks on list)

2  -  The Black Widow - Daniel Silva 
(3 weeks on list) (last 2 weeks at #1)
Gabriel Allon, the Israeli art restorer and spy, recruits a doctor from Jerusalem to help capture a secret ISIS terrorist in France.

1  -  Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty
(Debut)
Tense turning points for three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (July 17th 2016)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending July 17th 2016

10 - All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(113 weeks on list)

9  -  Foreign Agent - Brad Thor 
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  Before The Fall - Noah Hawley 
(5 weeks on list)

7  -  After You - Jojo Moyes 
(19 weeks on list)

6  -  Here's To Us - Elin Hilderbrand
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(77 weeks on list)

4  -  End of Watch - Stephen King
(4 weeks on list) (3 consecutive weeks at #1)

3  -  The Girls - Emma Cline
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  The Games  - James Patterson and Mark Sullvian
(Debut)
Hired by Olympic organizers to protect the Rio games, Jack Morgan of Private, an international security and consulting firm, encounters dangerous threats.

1  -  First Comes Love - Emily Griffin
(Debut)
Two Sisters - one a successful lawyer with a small child and an unhappy marriage, the other a single teacher who yearns to be a mother - struggle toward forgiveness after 15 years of estrangement.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) May 8th 2016

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending May 8th 2016

10 - As Time Goes By - Mary Higgins Clark
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(103 weeks on list)

8  -  Miller's Valley - Anna Quindlen
(3 weeks on list)

7  -  The Nightengale - Kristin Hannah
(60 weeks on list)

6  -  Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
(5 weeks on list)

5  -  Eligible - Curtis Sittenfeld
(Debut)
The author of "Prep" and "American Wife" retells "Pride and Predjudice", set in the Cincinnati suburbs in the present.

4  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(67 weeks on list)

3  -  The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
(5 weeks on list)

2  -  The Obsession - Nora Roberts
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
A woman is haunted by her father's crimes as she tries to pursue love and her work as a photographer.

1  -  THE LAST MILE - DAVID BALDACCI
(Debut)
IN A SEQUEL TO "MEMORY MAN", AMOS DECKER, A DETECTIVE WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY, HELPS THE F.B.I. INVESTIGATE THE CASE OF A CONVICTED KILLER WHO WINS A LAST-MINUTE REPRIEVE.

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 (10/18/2015)

New York Times Bestseller List 

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending October 18th 2015

10 - X - Sue Grafton
(6 weeks on list)

9  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins 
(38 weeks on list)

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

7  -  Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee 
(12 weeks on list)

6  -  Come Rain or Come Shine - Jan Karon
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)

5  - The Cinder Spires :  The Aeronaut's Windlass - Jim Butcher
(Debut)
In the first book of a steampunk fantasy series by the author of the Dresden Files novels, people live in spires that stretch into the sky and make use of airships.

4  -  Make Me - Lee Child 
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  After You - Jojo Moyes
(Debut)
In a sequel to "Me Before You", Louisa Clark tries to put her life back together after the death of Will Traynor, and joins a grief support group that may lead her to new love.

2  -  The Girl In The Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
(5 weeks on list)

1  -  The Murder House - James Patterson and David Ellis
(Debut)
When bodies are found at a Hamptons estate where a series of grisly murders once occurred, a local detective and former NYC cop investigates.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 08/23/2015

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending August 23rd 2015

(click on the debut titles to go to Amazon to purchase)

10 - Dragonbane - Sherrilyn Kenyon
(Debut)
In the 26th Dark-Hunter novel, ancient enemies battle.

9  -  The English Spy - Daniel Silva
(6 weeks on list)

8  -  Wind/Pinball - Haruki Murakami
(Debut)
Two newly translated short novels from the beginning of Muakami's career - "Hear the Wind Sing" and "Pinball" 1973.

7  -  Luckiest Girl Alive - Jessica Knoll
(13 weeks on list)

6  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(27 weeks on list)

5  -  Circling The Sun - Paula Mclain
(2 weeks on list)
A novel by the author of "The Paris Wife" about Beryl Markham, a horse trainer and aviatrix who was raised in Kenya.

4  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(66 weeks on list)

3  -  Alert - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(Debut)
Detective Michael Bennett and the FBI's Emily Parker must save New York City from a deadly threat.

2  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins 
(30 weeks on list)

1  -  Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee 
(4 weeks at #1)(4 weeks on list)
In the mid-1950s, a grown up Jean Louise Finch returns home to find that her adored father is not as perfect as she believed.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) May 31st 2015

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending May 31st 2015

10 - The Bone Tree - Greg Iles
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(15 weeks on list)

8  -  The Forgotten Room - Lincoln Child
(Debut)
Probing a death, the "enigmatologist" Jeremy Logan discovers a hidden room at a Newport estate where a dangerous experiment took place.  A sequel to "The Third Gate".

7  -  A God In Ruins - Kate Atkinson
(2 weeks on list)
Postwar Britain as seen through the members of a well-to-do family.

6  -  Gathering Prey - John Sandford
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  Dry Bones - Craig Johnson
(Debut)
Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County, WY., investigates the death of a Cheyenne rancher on whose property a valuable dinosaur skeleton was found.  The basis of the series "Longmire".

4  -  Memory Man - David Baldacci
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  14th Deadly Sin - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
(2 weeks on list) (#1 last week)
A video of a shocking crime surfaces, casting suspicion on a San Francisco detective's colleagues.

2  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(54 weeks on list) (2015 Pulitzer Prize for Novel)

1  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(18 weeks on list)(returns to #1 for a 14th week)
A psychological thriller set in the environs of London, UK.

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 01/25/15

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction Top Ten

Week Ending January 25th 2015

10 - Revival - Stephen King
(9 weeks on list)

9  -  The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
(5 weeks on list)

8  -  The Escape - David Baldacci
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  Hope To Die - James Patterson
(7 weeks on list)

6  -  Golden Son - Pierce Brown
(Debut)
In Book 2 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, a young laborer in the mines of Mars fights his world's ruling elite.

5  -  The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
(Debut)
Rivals clash over succession when the king of Mercia in 10th century Britain dies without an heir;
the eight volume of the Saxon Tales.

4  -  Insatiable Appetites - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
Distributing the estate of a friend, the New York lawyer Stone Barrington unearths disturbing secrets.

3  -  As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust - Alan Bradley
(Debut)
The chemist and sleuth Flavia de Luce, now 12 now and in boarding school in Canada, discovers a mummified body.

2  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(12 weeks on list)

1  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(36 weeks on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)