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 into three genresâÂÂfiction, 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.
The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks.
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 American Marxism by Mark Levin with 8 weeks at the top of the list, followed by A Promised Land by Barack Obama with 6 weeks at the top of the list.