New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2018

There are 37 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2018. The President Is Missing written by James Patterson and Bill Clinton is listed as the #1 best seller for 6 weeks.

There are 268 books in the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2018 list. Little Fires Everywhere written by Celeste Ng is in this list for 25 weeks.

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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2018

1. The President Is Missing

Weeks listed as #1: 6

by: James Patterson Bill Clinton
Release date: Jun 04, 2018
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President Jonathan Duncan, a Gulf War veteran and widower, takes on adversaries at home and abroad.

2. The Great Alone

Weeks listed as #1: 4

by: Kristin Hannah
Release date: Feb 06, 2018
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A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.

3. Origin

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Dan Brown
Release date: Oct 03, 2017
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After reconnecting with one of his first students, who is now a billionaire futurist, symbology professor Robert Langdon must go on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

4. Crazy Rich Asians

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Kevin Kwan
Release date: May 20, 2014
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A New Yorker gets a surprise when she spends the summer with her boyfriend in Singapore.

5. The Woman In The Window

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: A.J. Finn
Release date: Jan 02, 2018
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A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.

6. The 17Th Suspect

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: Apr 30, 2018
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The latest installment in the Women’s Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer searches for a killer in San Francisco.

7. The Reckoning

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 23, 2018
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A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church.

8. Dark Sacred Night

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Michael Connelly
Release date: Oct 30, 2018
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Detective Renée Ballard teams up with the retired detective Harry Bosch, who is working on a cold case.

9. Past Tense

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Lee Child
Release date: Nov 05, 2018
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Jack Reacher explores the New England town where his father was born and a Canadian couple now find themselves stranded.

10. Look Alive Twenty-Five

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Nov 13, 2018
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The 25th book in the Stephanie Plum series. When several managers of a deli in Trenton disappear, a bounty hunter and her detective boyfriend look for clues.

11. Fire And Blood

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: George RR Martin
Release date: Nov 20, 2018
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Set 300 years before the events of “A Game of Thrones,” this is the first volume of the two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.

12. Kingdom Of The Blind

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Louise Penny
Release date: Nov 27, 2018
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While on suspension, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is made an executor of a stranger’s will and tries to keep a deadly narcotic off Montreal’s streets.

13. Of Blood And Bone

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: Dec 04, 2018
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While the people of New Hope face threats, Fallon Swift goes on three quests to discover her powers.

14. The People Vs. Alex Cross

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson
Release date: Nov 20, 2017
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Detective Cross takes on a case even though he has been suspended from the department and taken to federal court to stand trial on murder charges.

15. City Of Endless Night

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Douglas Preston Lincoln Child
Release date: Jan 16, 2018
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A New York City detective and an F.B.I. special agent track down a killer who decapitates numerous victims.

16. Judgment Road

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Christine Feehan
Release date: Jan 23, 2018
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A killer must choose between his motorcycle club and a woman who works in a nearby bar.

17. Dark In Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: JD Robb
Release date: Jan 30, 2018
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas must find a killer inspired by police thrillers before another victim is murdered.

18. Burn Bright

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Patricia Briggs
Release date: Mar 06, 2018
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The fifth book in the Alpha and Omega series. Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham answer a call of distress.

19. The Rising Sea

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Clive Cussler Graham Brown
Release date: Mar 13, 2018
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A scientific team searches the globe for the threat causing sea levels to rise at an alarming rate.

20. Accidental Heroes

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Danielle Steel
Release date: Mar 20, 2018
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Strangers pull together to avert a disaster involving two flights from New York to San Francisco.

21. The Disappeared

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: CJ Box
Release date: Mar 27, 2018
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A Wyoming game warden teams up with his daughter to find a missing British businesswoman.

22. The Thief

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: JR Ward
Release date: Apr 10, 2018
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The 16th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Sola Morte falls for a man who sells weapons to a group of vampire warriors.

23. The Fallen

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 17, 2018
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Amos Decker, known as the Memory Man, puts his talents toward solving a string of murders in a Rust Belt town.

24. Twisted Prey

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John S ford
Release date: Apr 24, 2018
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The 28th book in the Prey series. A federal marshal looks into the actions of a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

25. The Cast

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Danielle Steel
Release date: May 15, 2018
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A magazine columnist meets an array of Hollywood professionals when a producer turns a story about her grandmother into a TV series.

26. The Outsider

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Stephen King
Release date: May 22, 2018
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A detective investigates a seemingly wholesome member of the community when an 11-year-old boy’s body is found in a town park.

27. Shelter In Place

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: May 29, 2018
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Survivors of a mass shooting outside a mall in Portland, Me., develop different coping mechanisms and face a new menace.

28. The Other Woman

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Daniel Silva
Release date: Jul 17, 2018
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer and assassin, fights the Russians to decide the fate of postwar global order.

29. Tailspin

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: S ra Brown
Release date: Aug 07, 2018
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A pilot navigates treacherous situations when he attempts to deliver a mysterious black box to a doctor in Georgia.

30. Leverage In Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: JD Robb
Release date: Sep 04, 2018
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a mysterious act of terror.

31. Ready Player One

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Ernest Cline
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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It’s 2044, life on a resource-depleted Earth has grown increasingly grim, and the key to a vast fortune is hidden in a virtual-reality world.

32. Juror #3

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Nancy Allen
Release date: Sep 10, 2018
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Ruby Bozarth defends a college football star charged in a felony case complicated by a second murder.

33. Lethal White

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Robert Galbraith
Release date: Sep 18, 2018
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The fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series. Detectives Strike and Ellacott investigate a crime a young man may have witnessed as a child; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

34. Vince Flynn: Red War

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Kyle Mills
Release date: Sep 25, 2018
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When the Russian prime minister plots to invade the Baltics, only Mitch Rapp can stop him.

35. A Spark Of Light

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jodi Picoult
Release date: Oct 02, 2018
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The lives of patients, doctors and activists intersect when a gunman holds them all hostage in a woman’s health center in Mississippi.

36. Holy Ghost

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John S ford
Release date: Oct 09, 2018
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Virgil Flowers investigates shootings in a Minnesota town following an attempt to revive its ailing economy.

37. Every Breath

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Oct 16, 2018
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Difficult choices surface when Hope Anderson and Tru Walls meet in a North Carolina seaside town.

Last updated on December 21, 2021