New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2016

There are 40 books listed as #1 best seller in New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2016. The Whistler written by John Grisham is listed as the #1 best seller for 4 weeks.

There are 245 books in the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2016 list. All The Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr is in this list for 52 weeks.

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#1 New York Times Best Sellers 2016

1. The Whistler

Weeks listed as #1: 4

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 25, 2016
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A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.

2. The Underground Railroad

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Colson Whitehead
Release date: Jan 01, 2018
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A teenage girl heads north on the network that helped slaves escape to freedom, envisioned in this novel as a secret system of actual tracks and tunnels.

3. End Of Watch

Weeks listed as #1: 3

by: Stephen King
Release date: Jun 07, 2016
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The conclusion of the Bill Hodges trilogy.

4. Fool Me Once

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Harlan Coben
Release date: Mar 22, 2016
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A retired Army helicopter pilot faces combat-related nightmares and mysteries concerning the deaths of her husband and sister.

5. 15Th Affair

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: May 02, 2016
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When a brutal murder threatens the domestic happiness of the San Francisco police detective Lindsay Boxer, she turns for help to the Women’s Murder Club.

6. The Black Widow

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Daniel Silva
Release date: Jul 12, 2016
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Gabriel Allon, the Israeli art restorer and spy, recruits and trains a doctor from Jerusalem to help capture a secret ISIS terrorist in France.

7. All The Light We Cannot See

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: Anthony Doerr
Release date: Apr 04, 2017
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The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

8. Rogue Lawyer

Weeks listed as #1: 2

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 20, 2015
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The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a “lone gunman” who hates injustice and the system and defends unpopular clients.

9. My Name Is Lucy Barton

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Elizabeth Strout
Release date: Jan 12, 2016
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A woman struggles with memories of her impoverished and disturbing childhood and its effect on the present as she attempts to reconcile with her mother.

10. Two By Two

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Oct 04, 2016
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A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.

11. Blue

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Danielle Steel
Release date: Jan 19, 2016
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A woman whose life has been shattered befriends a homeless boy.

12. Small Great Things

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jodi Picoult
Release date: Oct 11, 2016
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A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.

13. Nypd Red 4

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Marshall Karp
Release date: Jan 25, 2016
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Detective Zach Gordon and his partner, members of an elite task force that protects the rich and famous, pursue a cold-blooded killer.

14. Escape Clause

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John S ford
Release date: Oct 18, 2016
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Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension must deal with the theft of tigers from the local zoo.

15. Brotherhood In Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: J D Robb
Release date: Feb 02, 2016
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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.

16. Morning Star

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Pierce Brown
Release date: Feb 09, 2016
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In Book 3 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, Darrow incites a rebellion.

17. Cometh The Hour

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Jeffrey Archer
Release date: Feb 16, 2016
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The sixth and penultimate book of the Clifton Chronicles brings the Cliftons and the Barringtons into the 1970s.

18. Night School

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Lee Child
Release date: Nov 07, 2016
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Jack Reacher, still in the Army, becomes involved in an investigation with elite agents from the F.B.I. and C.I.A.

19. The Gangster

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Clive Cussler Justin Scott
Release date: Mar 01, 2016
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In the ninth book in this series, set in 1906, the New York detective Isaac Bell contends with a crime boss passing as a respectable businessman and a tycoon’s plot against President Theodore Roosevelt.

20. Turbo Twenty-Three

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Janet Evanovich
Release date: Nov 15, 2016
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The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum juggles investigating a crime in an ice cream factory and the two men in her life.

21. Off The Grid

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: C J Box
Release date: Mar 08, 2016
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The 16th Joe Pickett novel features Nate Romanowski and a search for a domestic terror cell.

22. Private Paris

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Mark Sullivan
Release date: Mar 14, 2016
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Jack Morgan, the head of the Private global investigative agency, probes the murders of members of the French cultural elite.

23. Cross The Line

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson
Release date: Nov 21, 2016
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Detective Alex Cross and his wife, Bree, team up to catch a killer causing chaos in Washington, D.C.

24. As Time Goes By

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Mary Higgins Clark
Release date: Apr 05, 2016
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Secrets emerge when a television journalist searching for her birth mother covers the trial of the widow of a wealthy doctor.

25. The Obsession

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: Apr 12, 2016
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A woman is haunted by her father’s crimes as she tries to pursue love and her work as a photographer.

26. The Last Mile

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 19, 2016
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In a sequel to “Memory Man,” Amos Decker, a detective with an extraordinary memory, investigates the case of a convicted killer who wins a last-minute reprieve.

27. Extreme Prey

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: John S ford
Release date: Apr 26, 2016
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Lucas Davenport, who has left the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is in Iowa trying to foil a plot to assassinate a Hillary Clinton-like candidate. The 26th Lucas Davenport thriller.

28. The Fireman

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Joe Hill
Release date: May 17, 2016
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During an epidemic that causes people to spontaneously combust, an infected New Hampshire nurse fights to stay alive, aided by a mysterious figure known as the Fireman.

29. The City Of Mirrors

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Justin Cronin
Release date: May 24, 2016
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In the conclusion to the trilogy that included “The Passage” and “The Twelve,” the virals bent on destroying humanity seem to have been vanquished, only to rise again.

30. The Emperor’s Revenge

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Clive Cussler Boyd Morrison
Release date: May 31, 2016
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Juan Cabrillo teams up with a former C.I.A. colleague to thwart a plan involving the death of millions and international economic meltdown.

31. First Comes Love

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Emily Giffin
Release date: Jun 28, 2016
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Two sisters — one a successful lawyer with a small child and an unhappy marriage, the other a single teacher who yearns to be a mother — struggle toward forgiveness after 15 years of estrangement.

32. Magic

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Danielle Steel
Release date: Jul 05, 2016
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A year in the intertwined lives of three international couples who participate in a special dinner in Paris.

33. Truly Madly Guilty

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Liane Moriarty
Release date: Jul 26, 2016
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Tense turning points for three couples at a backyard barbecue gone wrong.

34. Bullseye

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Michael Ledwidge
Release date: Aug 01, 2016
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While the president of the United States is in New York to meet with his Russian counterpart, Detective Michael Bennett must stop a team of assassins prowling the Upper West Side.

35. A Great Reckoning

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Louise Penny
Release date: Aug 30, 2016
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An instructor at the police academy is found murdered, perhaps by one of the cadets favored by Armand Gamache, the retired homicide chief of the Sûreté du Québec.

36. Apprentice In Death

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: J D Robb
Release date: Sep 06, 2016
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Lt. Eve Dallas of the N.Y.P.D. calls on the technological expertise of her husband, Roarke, when three skaters at Wollman Rink are shot by a sniper. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.

37. Commonwealth

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Ann Patchett
Release date: Sep 13, 2016
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Five decades in the lives of two families — parents, children, siblings, stepchildren — remade by divorce.

38. Home

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Harlan Coben
Release date: Sep 20, 2016
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Myron Bolitar and his friend Win locate a boy who was kidnapped 10 years earlier; the 11th Myron Bolitar novel.

39. The Force Awakens

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: Alan Dean Foster
Release date: Jan 01, 2015
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There are new disturbances in the force in this novelization of the film franchise’s seventh installment.

40. Woman Of God

Weeks listed as #1: 1

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: Sep 26, 2016
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The story of a (woman) doctor who, after a life of service and suffering, decides to become a Catholic priest.

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