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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

February 19, 2017

1

Right Behind Youby Lisa Gardner
The former F.B.I. profiler Pierce Quincy and his partner, Rainie Conner, foster a girl whose older brother murdered their drunken father. Now, eight years later, he has killed again.

2

Never Neverby James Patterson and Candice Fox
Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the outback (the never never) to investigate the disappearance of a mine worker. The first in a new series.

3

The Girl Beforeby J P Delaney
A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its (young, female) inhabitants in this psychological thriller.

4

The Underground Railroadby Colson Whitehead
A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.

5

The Whistlerby John Grisham
A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.

6

Two by Twoby Nicholas Sparks
A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.

7

Small Great Thingsby Jodi Picoult
A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.

8

The Prisonerby Alex Berenson
In the 11th John Wells novel, the former C.I.A. agent goes undercover as a jihadi in order to investigate a suspected mole.

9

The Mistressby Danielle Steel
The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch yearns for freedom.

10

A Gentleman in Moscowby Amor Towles
A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.

11

The Chemistby Stephenie Meyer
A specialist in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former employers, takes on one last job.

12

Commonwealthby Ann Patchett
Five decades in the lives of two families remade by divorce.

13

4 3 2 1by Paul Auster
Four versions of the formative years of a Jewish boy born in Newark in 1947.

14

Rather Be the Devilby Ian Rankin
The Edinburgh detective comes out of retirement to investigate a 1978 cold case, a murder in a luxury hotel.

15

Behind Her Eyesby Sarah Pinborough
A psychological thriller, set in London, about a triangle: a woman, her boss and his wife, who becomes her friend.

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Hardcover Nonfiction

February 19, 2017

1

Hillbilly Elegyby JD Vance
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.

2

Killing the Rising Sunby Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.

3

Three Days in Januaryby Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney
Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.

4

The Magnolia Storyby Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino

5

The Book of Joyby the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find joy in the face of suffering.

6

Tears We Cannot Stopby Michael Eric Dyson
A frank and searing discussion of race.

7

Hidden Figuresby Margot Lee Shetterly
The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie.

8

The Lost City of the Monkey Godby Douglas Preston

9

Thank You for Being Lateby Thomas L. Friedman

10

When Breath Becomes Airby Paul Kalanithi

11

Between the World and Meby Ta-Nehisi Coates
A meditation on race in America.

12

The Undoing Projectby Michael Lewis

13

The Blood of Emmett Tillby Timothy B. Tyson
An account of the shocking 1955 lynching presents new evidence.

14

Born a Crimeby Trevor Noah
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”

15

The Princess Diaristby Carrie Fisher
Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the actress and writer, who died in December.