Go beyond just the current list of New York Times Fiction Best Sellers to discover every bestselling book listed on the NYT Bestseller List in 2022.
Since 1931, The New York Times has been publishing a weekly list of bestselling books. Since then, becoming a New York Times bestseller has become a dream for virtually every writer.
When I first started reading adult fiction, one of the first places I went for book recommendations was the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers. I wanted to know what books were the most widely read, and start with those.
However, scrolling through the list week by week on The New York Times website is rather annoying. I just wanted all the bestselling fiction books gathered together in one place.
When I couldn’t find it, I decided to create it.
Here are all the New York Times fiction bestsellers from this year. I’ve got the current #1 and this week’s bestselling list, both of which you can find all over the place.
This list also compiles every book that appears on the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers list in 2022 for Hardcover Fiction. Every week I update it so you can get the most accurate view of the year in one place.
Since this is a bit of a sprawling post, feel free to jump to the section that most interests you or take your time scrolling through the complete list of New York Times fiction best sellers.
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Current #1 New York Times Best Seller
Invisible
Danielle Steel
(1 Week) Growing up a neglected child in a loveless marriage, Antonia Adams has perfected the art of making herself invisible, drawing as little attention as she possibly can. Dreaming of becoming a screenwriter, a summer job at a Hollywood studio unexpectedly lands her a spot in the limelight. Will Antonia be able to face the scrutiny and her demons or fall back into the security of obscurity?
Current List of New York Times Best Sellers
1.Invisible by Danielle Steel
The daughter of a couple in a loveless marriage is discovered by a British filmmaker and thrust into the public eye.
2.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
3.
Call US What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
A debut collection of poems on identity and history by the presidential inaugural poet who wrote “The Hill We Climb.”
4.
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Two friends who escaped from a juvenile work farm take Emmett Watson on an unexpected journey to New York City in 1954.
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The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
6.
The Judge’s List by John Grisham
The second book in the Whistler series. Investigator Lacy Stoltz goes after a serial killer and closes in on a sitting judge.
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Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Diana O’Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.
8.
The Maid by Nita Prose
When a wealthy man is found dead in his room, a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel becomes a lead suspect.
9.
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
After a ship explodes, nine people struggling to survive pull a man who claims to be the Lord out of the sea.
10.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
An interconnected cast of dreamers and outsiders are in dangerous and disparate settings past, present and future.
11.
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Six visitors who go to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean encounter death and danger.
12.
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
Maggie Dawes, a renowned travel photographer, struggles with a medical diagnosis over Christmas.
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Star Wars: The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray
The third book in the High Republic series. Marchion Ro plans a new attack.
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
The ninth book in the Outlander series. As the Revolutionary War moves closer to Fraser’s Ridge, Claire and Jamie reunite with their daughter and her family.
15.
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
After one moment of poor judgment, government officials will decide if Frida Liu will get to keep her child.
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Previous #1 New York Times Fiction Best Sellers
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
(34 Weeks) Before Owen Michaels disappeared, he smuggled a note to his new wife Hannah: Protect her. Hannah knows he’s referring to his sixteen-year-old daughter Bailey, but Bailey doesn’t want anything to do with Hannah. As Owen’s boss gets arrested and the FBI come knocking, Hannah and Bailey must come together to discover Owen’s secrets.
Billy Summers
Stephen King
(20 Weeks) From the master of fiction comes a new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Sniper for hire Billy Summers is picky about his jobs. The decorated Iraq war veteran only accepts hits on men who are truly evil. Before getting out of the game, Billy decides to accept one last job when everything goes wrong.
The Wish
Nicholas Sparks
(15 Weeks) As a troubled teenager, Maggie Dawes was sent to live with her aunt in a remote North Carolina beach town. Her life is changed forever when she met Bryce Trickett, a handsome local teen who taught her to love the island and introduced her to photography before he heads off to West Point. Now a renowned travel photographer, Maggie recounts the story of her first love to her young assistant after Maggie is diagnosed with a crippling illness.
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
(14 Weeks) After spending a year at a prison work farm for involuntary manslaughter, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his Nebraska hometown. With his mother gone and his father recently deceased, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head West. But his plans are derailed when two friends from the work farm suddenly appear with a scheme of their own.
The Judge’s List
John Grisham
(12 Weeks) After taking on a criminal syndicate that was paying off a federal judge in The Whistler, Florida Board of Judicial Conduct investigator Lacy Stoltz returns in Grisham’s latest thriller. In her latest case, the crimes are even worse than before. Instead of taking bribes, a corrupt judge is taking lives with his own hit list.
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Mitch Albom
(10 Weeks) How would you react if you called for help from God and He answered? In Albom’s new Christian novel, a group of shipwrecked strangers pulls a man from the sea. He claims to be “The Lord” and can save them, but only if they all believe in him.
State of Terror
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
(9 Weeks) Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton teams up with acclaimed mystery novelist Louise Penny in one of the most-anticipated best new thriller books of Fall 2021. Years of American withdrawal from the world stage have left a power vacuum that its enemies have been more than happy to fill. After a series of terrorist attacks, novice Secretary of State Ellen Adams, under the administration of her rival, must unravel a deadly global conspiracy.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
(7 Weeks) Hitting the upper end of the new adult genre, Sally Rooney’s latest novel follows the lives of four single 30ish Irish protagonists as they try to find their way in life. On a whim, Alice, a novelist, invites Felix, a warehouse worker she just met, to travel to Rome with her. Meanwhile, while recovering from a breakup, Alice’s best friend Eileen begins flirting with Simon, a childhood friend.
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon
(7 Weeks) In the 9th Outlander book, a reunited Claire and Jamie face being torn asunder again as the American Revolution approaches their North Carolina home. After finally being reunited with their daughter Brianna and her family, the family is worried as the tensions of the colonists grow and the perils of the 1700s seem less safe than they thought.
A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins
(6 Weeks) When a young man is murdered on a London houseboat, police investigate three women: his one-night stand Laura, his grieving aunt Carla, and his nosy neighbor Miriam. Even though Miriam spotted Laura leaving the houseboat that night covered in blood, she is loath to say anything. For Miriam knows exactly what it’s like to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman
(5 Weeks) In 2021, Amanda Gorman became the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history when she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at President Biden’s inauguration. In her expanded collection, Amanda Gorman becomes a new voice in American poetry.
Heavyweights
(10+ Weeks on the NYT Bestseller List)
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
(57 Weeks) In the Midnight Library, there are two books – one book for the life you’ve lived and one for the one you could have lived. Nora Seed must decide which book to choose from. What if she had made different choices? Would her life truly have been better?
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
(44 Weeks) To escape a forced marriage, Addie LaRue makes a bargain with the devil in 1714. She gets to live forever, but the catch is she will be forgotten by everyone she meets. After 300 years, Addie has become resigned to her fate until she meets a young man who remembers her name.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
(17 Weeks) In a last-ditch effort to save Earth from an extinction-level event, a group of astronauts is sent on a desperate mission in a cobbled-together spacecraft. But when Ryland Grace wakes up, he has no memory of his mission or why the rest of the crew is dead. The sole survivor, he must take on an impossible task with no margin for failure.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
(15 Weeks) From the author of All the Light We Cannot See comes an ambitious work of literary fiction. Doerr’s novel toggles between three timelines – the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, present-day Idaho, and interstellar ship far in the future. Each piece explores the power of stories as a fictional ancient Greek comedy weaves throughout the entire book. The awe-inspiring power of the written word that Doerr evokes in every sentence will be appreciated by literary fiction lovers.
Fan Favorites
(5+ Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List)
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
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(8 Weeks) Ray Carney, a family man who sells furniture on 125th Street, gets a new clientele made up of vicious and unsavory characters.
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
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(6 Weeks) Diana O’Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.
Mercy by David Baldacci
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(6 Weeks) The fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. Atlee discovers her twin sister survived an abduction at the age of 6.
The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
(6 Weeks) A death on New Year’s Eve, an unsolved murder and a hunt for serial rapists bring Bosch and Ballard back together.
Fear No Evil by James Patterson
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(5 Weeks) The 29th book in the Alex Cross series. Cross fights the mastermind who has stalked him for years.
Honorable Mention
(2-4 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List)
Under the Whispering Door by TJ KluneWhen given seven days to cross over, Wallace tries to pack in a lifetime’s worth of living in that week.
One Hit Wonders
(1 Week on the New York Times Best Seller List)