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 hardcover fiction category.[ 1]
The most popular books of the year were The Appeal , by John Grisham and Change of Heart , by Jodi Picoult with respectively 5 and 3 weeks at the top. The author James Patterson was at the top for four different books (Double Cross , Sundays at Tiffany's , Sail and Cross Country ).
Nonfiction The following list ranks the number-one best selling nonfiction books, in the hardcover nonfiction category.[ 2]
Date
Book
Author
Publisher
January 6
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert
Grand Central
January 13
January 20
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press
January 27
February 3
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography
Andrew Morton
St. Martin's
February 10
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press
February 17
February 24
March 2
March 9
Liberal Fascism
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday
March 16
Losing It
Valerie Bertinelli
Free Press
March 23
March 30
April 6
Beautiful Boy
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin
April 13
Mistaken Identity
Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb
Howard
April 20
April 27
Home
Julie Andrews
Hyperion
May 4
Beautiful Boy
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin
May 11
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler
Simon Spotlight
May 18
The Revolution: A Manifesto
Ron Paul
Grand Central
May 25
Audition: A Memoir
Barbara Walters
Knopf
June 1
June 8
June 15
What Happened
Scott McClellan
PublicAffairs
June 22
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
Little, Brown
June 29
July 6
July 13
July 20
July 27
August 3
August 10
August 17
The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
Jerome R. Corsi
Threshold Editions
August 24
August 31
September 7
September 14
sTORI Telling
Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin
Simon Spotlight
September 21
September 28
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 31
Against Medical Advice: A True Story
James Patterson , Hal Friedman
Little, Brown and Company
November 30
Too Fat to Fish
Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza
Spiegel & Grau
December 7
Things That Matter
Charles Krauthammer
Crown Forum
December 15
December 21
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown
See also
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