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New York Times Best Seller lists

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is updated online every Wednesday evening. Below are best seller lists for hardcover fiction and non-fiction. For more lists, visit our New York Times Children’s Best Sellers page or The New York Times’s Best Sellers page.

Hardcover Fiction

March 6, 2016

1

Cometh the Hourby Jeffrey Archer
The sixth and penultimate book of the Clifton Chronicles brings the Cliftons and the Barringtons into the 1970s.

2

All the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

3

The Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins
A psychological thriller set in the environs of London is full of complications and betrayals.

4

The Nightingaleby Kristin Hannah
Two sisters in World War II France: one struggling to survive in the countryside, the other joining the Resistance.

5

Brotherhood in Deathby J. D. Robb
Lt. Eve Dallas of the N.Y.P.D. helps a friend and her husband solve a mystery involving politics and real estate; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

6

Nypd Red 4by James Patterson and Marshall Karp
Detective Zach Jordan and his partner, members of an elite task force that protects the rich and famous, pursue a cold-blooded killer.

7

Find Herby Lisa Gardner
The Boston detective D. D. Warren hunts for a missing woman who may have become a vigilante.

8

My Name is Lucy Bartonby Elizabeth Strout
A woman struggles with memories of her impoverished and disturbing childhood.

9

Go Set a Watchmanby Harper Lee
In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and realizes that her adored father is a racist.

10

Rogue Lawyerby John Grisham
The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a “lone gunman” who hates injustice and the system and defends unpopular clients.

11

Morning Starby Pierce Brown
In Book 3 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, Darrow incites a rebellion.

12

The Widowby Fiona Barton
When a suspect in a missing-child case dies, reporters and the police wrongly think they’ll get the real story from his widow.

13

The Swans of Fifth Avenueby Melanie Benjamin
A novel based on the friendship between Truman Capote and Babe Paley and her coterie, which began in the 1950s and ended 20 years later in scandal.

14

Midnight Sunby Jo Nesbo
A fugitive Norwegian hitman attempts to find himself in the Arctic wilderness.

15

Breakdownby Jonathan Kellerman
The psychologist Alex Delaware and the L.A.P.D. Lt. Milo Sturgis search for the missing son of a troubled actress.

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Hardcover Nonfiction

March 6, 2016

1

When Breath Becomes Airby Paul Kalanithi
A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.

2

A Mother's Reckoningby Sue Klebold
The mother of one of the Columbine shooters wrestles with her grief and guilt.

3

Between the World and Meby Ta-Nehisi Coates
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story, framed as a letter to the author's teenage son.

4

The Name of God is Mercyby Pope Francis with Andrea Tornielli
In a conversation with a Vatican reporter, the pontiff explores the cornerstone of his faith.

5

The Road to Little Dribblingby Bill Bryson
An American expatriate travels around his adopted country, Britain.

6

Dark Moneyby Jane Mayer
An account of how the Koch brothers and other super-wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics.

7

And then All Hell Broke Looseby Richard Engel
NBC’s chief foreign correspondent discusses the Arab Spring and war in the Middle East.

8

Convictionby Juan Martinez
An Arizona prosecutor describes building the case against Jodi Arias, who was found guilty of murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in 2013.

9

Originalsby Adam Grant

10

Being Mortalby Atul Gawande
The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better.

11

Leonardby William Shatner with David Fisher
A memoir of the complicated 50-year friendship between the leading actors of “Star Trek.”

13

Turning the Tablesby Teresa Giudice
One of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” looks back on her life, including time in prison following a federal fraud conviction.

14

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Piratesby Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
The war against the Barbary pirates in 1801.

15

In Other Wordsby Jhumpa Lahiri
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist describes learning to write in another language, Italian.