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Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
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.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1]The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The President Is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton with 6 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah with 4 weeks.
For many years, the list was maintained by Alice Payne Hackett, who also published a decennial series which summarized and commented on the best sellers of the previous decade. Her Seventy Years of Bestsellers 1895–1965 was published in 1970.
The Group by Mary McCarthy; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J. D. Salinger; Caravans by James A. Michener; Elizabeth Appleton by John O'Hara; Grandmother and the Priests by Taylor Caldwell; City of Night by John Rechy; The Glass-Blowers by Daphne du Maurier; The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [54] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Becoming by Michelle Obama with 15 weeks at the top of the list; it was also a best seller for the last five weeks in 2018.
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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 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand with 12 weeks at the top of the list.