The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It has been published weekly in The New York Times Book Review since October 12, 1931. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and non-fiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic.
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This is a list of adult non-fiction books that topped The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 1984.
Lauren Kate is an American author of adult and young adult fiction. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide, and have spent combined months on The New York Times Best Seller list.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1942.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1943.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers list in 1944.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1945. Seven books topped the list that year, the longest on top being The Green Years, which dominated the winter months. Other particularly popular titles included A Lion in the Streets, Captain from Castile and The Black Rose.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1946. The most popular title was The Hucksters which spent much of the latter half of the year at the top of the list and a total of 35 weeks among the top 15. During its reign at the top, it was challenged, but never toppled, by two recognized classics, George Orwell's Animal Farm and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, neither of which ever reached the top spot.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1947. Only six books topped the list that year. The most popular titles were Gentlemen's Agreement and House Divided, which spent much of the last quarter of the year at the top of the list and a total of 15 weeks at the top overall. Two other novels, Lydia Bailey and The Moneymen each spent 12 weeks at the top. Sinclair Lewis had his only No. 1 bestseller that year.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1964. Only four books topped the list that year, the list being dominated for 34 weeks by John le Carré's spy novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The prolific novelist Louis Auchincloss had his only No. 1 bestseller that year.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1965.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1961.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1962. Four books topped the list that year, the longest on top being Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter, which spent exactly half the year there - from April 29 to November 11, its last week at the top - though it continued in the top 15 best sellers for another 20 weeks. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger started the year at the top of the list carrying over from 1961, where it entered the top spot on October 25. In all Salinger's book spent 25 continuous weeks in the top spot. The list was interrupted at the end of the year by the 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike which lasted 114 days and had a profound impact on the newspaper industry in New York.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1963. The list is notable for being blank for part of the winter as the New York Times, like many other newspapers in the city, worked its way through a major newspaper strike. When the strike ended in March, the political thriller Seven Days in May led the list, having also been at the top at the start of the strike in December 1962. It lasted there only one week before being overtaken by J.D. Salinger's second No. 1 bestseller in 18 months, the anthologized novellas, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour: An Introduction".
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1966.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1948.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1954.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1957.
This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1959.