There are 34 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2020. Where The Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens is listed as the #1 best seller for 7 weeks.
There are 221 books in the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers 2020 list. Where The Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens is in this list for 47 weeks.
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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2020
1. Where The Crawdads Sing
Weeks listed as #1: 7
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by: Delia Owens Release date: Aug 14, 2018 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. Little Fires Everywhere
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Celeste Ng Release date: Sep 12, 2017 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An artist with a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
3. Ready Player Two
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Ernest Cline Release date: Nov 24, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In a sequel to “Ready Player One,” Wade Watts discovers a technological advancement and goes on a new quest.
4. The Vanishing Half
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Brit Bennett Release date: Jan 01, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The lives of twin sisters who run away from a Southern Black community at age 16 diverge as one returns and the other takes on a different racial identity but their fates intertwine.
5. American Dirt
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: Jeanine Cummins Release date: Jan 21, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
6. Camino Winds
Weeks listed as #1: 3
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by: John Grisham Release date: Feb 23, 2021 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
7. A Time For Mercy
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: John Grisham Release date: Oct 13, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The third book in the Jake Brigance series. A 16-year-old is accused of killing a deputy in Clanton, Miss., in 1990.
8. 28 Summers
Weeks listed as #1: 2
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by: Elin Hilderbr, Release date: Jun 16, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A relationship that started in 1993 between Mallory Blessing and Jake McCloud comes to light while she is on her deathbed and his wife runs for president.
9. The Return
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Nicholas Sparks Release date: Jan 01, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A doctor serving in the Navy in Afghanistan goes back to North Carolina where two women change his life.
10. The Sentinel
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Lee Child , Andrew Child Release date: Jan 01, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Jack Reacher intervenes on an ambush in Tennessee and uncovers a conspiracy.
11. The Law Of Innocence
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Michael Connelly Release date: Nov 10, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The sixth book in the Mickey Haller series. Haller defends himself when police find the body of a former client in his car’s trunk.
12. Fortune And Glory
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Janet Evanovich Release date: Nov 03, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 27th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Stephanie deals with a soldier of fortune from Little Havana.
13. Golden In Death
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: JD Robb Release date: Feb 04, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 50th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas seeks the sender of packages that give off toxic airborne fumes.
14. One Minute Out
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Mark Greaney Release date: Feb 18, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The ninth book in the Gray Man series. Court Gentry tries to stop the head of a group trafficking women and children.
15. Blindside
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: James Patterson , James O. Born Release date: Feb 24, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 12th book in the Michael Bennett series. A serial-killing spree might impact national security.
16. House Of Earth And Blood
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Sarah J Maas Release date: Mar 03, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Passion arises between Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar as they seek to avenge the deaths of Bryce’s friends.
17. The Mirror & The Light
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Hilary Mantel Release date: Mar 10, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The third book in the Wolf Hall trilogy. After Anne Boleyn’s execution, Thomas Cromwell’s enemies assemble.
18. The Boy From The Woods
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Harlan Coben Release date: Mar 17, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
When a girl goes missing, a private investigator’s feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.
19. Masked Prey
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: John S, ford Release date: Apr 14, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 30th book in the Prey series. Washington politicians ask Lucas Davenport to look into someone who is targeting their children.
20. Walk The Wire
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: David Baldacci Release date: Apr 21, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.
21. The 20Th Victim
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro Release date: May 04, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 20th book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable persons in three separate cities.
22. Hideaway
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Nora Roberts Release date: May 26, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A child star escapes her abductors, gathers herself in western Ireland and returns to Hollywood.
23. The Summer House
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: James Patterson , Brendan DuBois Release date: Jun 08, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former N.Y.P.D. cop, investigates a mass murder near a lake in Georgia.
24. The Order
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Daniel Silva Release date: Jul 14, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 20th book in the Gabriel Allon series. The art restorer and spy cuts his family’s vacation short to investigate whether Pope Paul VII was murdered.
25. Near Dark
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Brad Thor Release date: Jul 21, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 19th book in the Scot Harvath series. With a bounty on his head, Harvath makes an alliance with a Norwegian intelligence operative.
26. Deadlock
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Catherine Coulter Release date: Jul 28, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 24th book in the F.B.I. Thriller series. A young wife, a psychopath and three red boxes puzzle agents Savich and Sherlock.
27. Royal
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Danielle Steel Release date: Aug 18, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In 1943, the 17-year-old Princess Charlotte assumes a new identity in the country and falls in love.
28. Thick As Thieves
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: S, ra Brown Release date: Aug 25, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Arden Maxwell returns home to uncover the truth about her father’s involvement in a heist that went wrong 20 years ago.
29. All The Devils Are Here
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Louise Penny Release date: Sep 01, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 16th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. When his billionaire godfather is attacked, Gamache uncovers secrets hidden throughout Paris.
30. Shadows In Death
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: J.D. Robb Release date: Sep 08, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The 51st book of the In Death series. A hitman with possible connections to Eve Dallas’s husband is seen near the scene of a crime.
31. The Evening And The Morning
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Ken Follett Release date: Sep 15, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
In a prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth,” a boatbuilder, a Norman noblewoman and a monk live in England under attack by the Welsh and the Vikings.
32. The Book Of Two Ways
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Jodi Picoult Release date: Jan 01, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.
33. Troubles In Paradise
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Elin Hilderbr, Release date: Oct 06, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The final installment of the trilogy that includes “Winter in Paradise” and “What Happens in Paradise.”
34. Rhythm Of War
Weeks listed as #1: 1
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by: Br, on S, erson Release date: Nov 17, 2020 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The fourth book in the Stormlight Archive series. Technological discoveries and an ensuing arms race change how a war is fought.
Last updated on December 21, 2021