New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2019 Complete List Page 1

There are 208 books in the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers 2019 list. Here are the 30 books ranked from 1 to 30.

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1. Where The Crawdads Sing

Weeks on the list: 52

by: Delia Owens
Release date: Aug 14, 2018
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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. The Silent Patient

Weeks on the list: 28

by: Alex Michaelides
Release date: May 05, 2020
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Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.

3. Fire And Blood

Weeks on the list: 19

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.

4. The Institute

Weeks on the list: 14

by: Stephen King
Release date: Sep 10, 2019
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Children with special talents are abducted and sequestered in an institution where the sinister staff seeks to extract their gifts through harsh methods.

5. The Reckoning

Weeks on the list: 14

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.

6. The Testaments

Weeks on the list: 13

by: Margaret Atwood
Release date: Jan 01, 2019
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In a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” old secrets bring three women together as the Republic of Gilead’s theocratic regime shows signs of decay.

7. The Dutch House

Weeks on the list: 12

by: Ann Patchett
Release date: Jan 05, 2021
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A sibling relationship is impacted when the family goes from poverty to wealth and back again over the course of many decades.

8. An Anonymous Girl

Weeks on the list: 11

by: Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen
Release date: Jan 08, 2019
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Jessica Farris’s life unravels when she signs up for Dr. Shields’s psychology study.

9. Circe

Weeks on the list: 11

by: Madeline Miller
Release date: Apr 10, 2018
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Zeus banishes Helios’ daughter to an island, where she must choose between living with gods or mortals.

10. The Nickel Boys

Weeks on the list: 11

by: Colson Whitehead
Release date: Jul 16, 2019
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Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.

11. The Water Dancer

Weeks on the list: 11

by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Release date: Sep 24, 2019
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A young man who was gifted with a mysterious power becomes part of a war between slavers and the enslaved.

12. Redemption

Weeks on the list: 10

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 16, 2019
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The fifth book in the Memory Man series. The first man Amos Decker put behind bars asks to have his name cleared.

13. City Of Girls

Weeks on the list: 10

by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Release date: Jun 04, 2019
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An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.

14. The Giver Of Stars

Weeks on the list: 10

by: Jojo Moyes
Release date: Oct 08, 2019
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In Depression-era America, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books throughout the mountains of Kentucky.

15. Daisy Jones & The Six

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Release date: Jan 01, 2019
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A fictional oral history charting the rise and fall of a ’70s rock ‘n’ roll band.

16. Summer Of ’69

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Elin Hilderbr
Release date: Jun 18, 2019
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The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.

17. The Guardians

Weeks on the list: 9

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 15, 2019
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Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal minister, antagonizes some ruthless killers when he takes on a wrongful conviction case.

18. Olive, Again

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Elizabeth Strout
Release date: Oct 15, 2019
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In a follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Olive Kitteridge,” new relationships, including a second marriage, are encountered in a seaside town in Maine.

19. Normal People

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Sally Rooney
Release date: Apr 16, 2019
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The connection between a high school star athlete and a loner ebbs and flows when they go to Trinity College in Dublin.

20. Nine Perfect Strangers

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Liane Moriarty
Release date: Oct 01, 2019
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A romance writer becomes fascinated by the owner and director of a health resort.

21. One Good Deed

Weeks on the list: 8

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Jul 23, 2019
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A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.

22. The Chef

Weeks on the list: 7

by: James Patterson Max DiLallo
Release date: Feb 18, 2019
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Caleb Rooney, a police detective and celebrity food truck chef, must clear his name of murder allegations.

23. The Last Romantics

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Tara Conklin
Release date: Feb 05, 2019
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A family crisis tests the bonds and ideals of a renowned poet and her siblings.

24. Run Away

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Harlan Coben
Release date: Mar 19, 2019
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A family is torn apart when the daughter becomes addicted to drugs and goes missing.

25. Celtic Empire

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Clive Cussler Dirk Cussler
Release date: Mar 19, 2019
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The 25th book in the Dirk Pitt series.

26. Lost Roses

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Martha Hall Kelly
Release date: Jan 01, 2019
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In 1914, the New York socialite Eliza Ferriday works to help White Russian families escape from the revolution.

27. The 18Th Abduction

Weeks on the list: 7

by: James Patterson Maxine Paetro
Release date: Apr 29, 2019
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The 18th book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer investigates the disappearance of three female teachers.

28. Mrs. Everything

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Jennifer Weiner
Release date: Jun 11, 2019
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The story of two sisters, Jo and Bethie Kaufman, and their life experiences as the world around them changes drastically from the 1950s.

29. Evvie Drake Starts Over

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Linda Holmes
Release date: Jun 25, 2019
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In a seaside town in Maine, a former Major League pitcher and a grieving widow assess their pasts.

30. Ask Again, Yes

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Mary Beth Keane
Release date: May 28, 2019
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The lives of neighboring families in a New York City suburb intertwine over four decades.

Last updated on December 8, 2021