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
Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...
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.
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
Fire and Fury
''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' is a 2018 book by journalist Michael Wolff which according to Wolff, details the behavior of U.S. President Donald Trump, the staff of his 2016 presidential campaign, and the White House staff. ...
by
Michael Wolff with seven weeks at the top of the list followed by ''
Becoming'' by
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married t ...
with five weeks at the top of the list; this book continued to be a best seller in
2019
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.
See also
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''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s
References
{{NYT number-one books
2018
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