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.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.
[2] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi with 13 weeks at the top of the list, followed by Killing the Rising Sun with nine weeks.