List of The New York Times number-one books of 2020

The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.^[1] For the second consecutive year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 7 weeks at the top of the list.

Date	Book	Author	Ref.
January 5	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	[2]
January 12			[3]
January 19			[4]
January 26			[5]
February 2			[6]
February 9	American Dirt	Jeanine Cummins	[7]
February 16			[8]
February 23	Golden in Death	J. D. Robb	[9]
March 1	American Dirt	Jeanine Cummins	[10]
March 8	One Minute Out	Mark Greaney	[11]
March 15	Blindside	James Patterson and James O. Born	[12]
March 22	House of Earth and Blood	Sarah J. Maas	[13]
March 29	The Mirror & the Light	Hilary Mantel	[14]
April 5	The Boy from the Woods	Harlan Coben	[15]
April 12	Little Fires Everywhere	Celeste Ng	[16]
April 19			[17]
April 25			[18]
May 3	Masked Prey	John Sandford	[19]
May 10	Walk the Wire	David Baldacci	[20]
May 17	Camino Winds	John Grisham	[21]
May 24	The 20th Victim	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro	[22]
May 31	Camino Winds	John Grisham	[23]
June 7			[24]
June 14	Hideaway	Nora Roberts	[25]
June 21	The Vanishing Half	Brit Bennett	[26]
June 28	The Summer House	James Patterson and Brendan DuBois	[27]
July 5	28 Summers	Elin Hilderbrand	[28]
July 12			[29]
July 19	The Vanishing Half	Brit Bennett	[30]
July 26			[31]
August 2	The Order	Daniel Silva	[32]
August 9	Near Dark	Brad Thor	[33]
August 16	Deadlock	Catherine Coulter	[34]
August 23	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	[35]
August 30			[36]
September 6	Royal	Danielle Steel	[37]
September 13	Thick as Thieves	Sandra Brown	[38]
September 20	All the Devils Are Here	Louise Penny	[39]
September 27	Shadows in Death	J. D. Robb	[40]
October 4	The Evening and the Morning	Ken Follett	[41]
October 11	The Book of Two Ways	Jodi Picoult	[42]
October 18	The Return	Nicholas Sparks	[43]
October 25	Troubles in Paradise	Elin Hilderbrand	[44]
November 1	A Time for Mercy	John Grisham	[45]
November 8			[46]
November 15	The Sentinel	Lee Child and Andrew Child	[47]
November 22	Fortune and Glory	Janet Evanovich	[48]
November 29	The Law of Innocence	Michael Connelly	[49]
December 6	Rhythm of War	Brandon Sanderson	[50]
December 13	Ready Player Two	Ernest Cline	[51]
December 20			[52]
December 27			[53]

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.

Issue date	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
January 5	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House	[54]
January 12				[55]
January 19				[56]
January 26				[57]
February 2	Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson	Spiegel & Grau	[58]
February 9	A Very Stable Genius	Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig	Penguin Press	[59]
February 16	Profiles in Corruption	Peter Schweizer	HarperCollins	[60]
February 23	Open Book	Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O'Leary	Dey Street	[61]
March 1				[62]
March 8	The Mamba Mentality	Kobe Bryant	Melcher Media	[63]
March 15	The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson	Crown	[64]
March 22				[65]
March 29	Untamed	Glennon Doyle	The Dial Press	[66]
April 5	The Splendid and the Vile	Erik Larson	Crown	[67]
April 12				[68]
April 19				[69]
April 26	Hidden Valley Road	Robert Kolker	Doubleday	[70]
May 3	Untamed	Glennon Doyle	The Dial Press	[71]
May 10				[72]
May 17				[73]
May 24				[74]
May 31				[75]
June 7				[76]
June 14				[77]
June 21	White Fragility	Robin DiAngelo	Beacon Press	[78]
June 28				[79]
July 5	How to Be an Antiracist	Ibram X. Kendi	Random House	[80]
July 12	The Room Where It Happened	John Bolton	Simon & Schuster	[81]
July 19				[82]
July 26				[83]
August 2	Too Much and Never Enough	Mary L. Trump		[84]
August 9				[85]
August 16				[86]
August 23	Live Free or Die	Sean Hannity	Threshold Editions	[87]
August 30				[88]
September 6	Untamed	Glennon Doyle	The Dial Press	[89]
September 13	His Truth Is Marching On	Jon Meacham	Random House	[90]
September 20	Melania and Me	Stephanie Winston Wolkoff	Gallery Books	[91]
September 27	Disloyal	Michael Cohen	Skyhorse Publishing	[92]
October 4	Rage	Bob Woodward	Simon & Schuster	[93]
October 11				[94]
October 18	The Meaning of Mariah Carey	Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis	Andy Cohen / Holt	[95]
October 25	Humans	Brandon Stanton	St. Martin's Press	[96]
November 1	Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	Random House	[97]
November 8	Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	Crown	[98]
November 15				[99]
November 22	Clanlands	Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish	Quercus	[100]
November 29	Humans	Brandon Stanton	St. Martin's Press	[101]
December 6	A Promised Land	Barack Obama	Crown	[102]
December 13				[103]
December 20				[104]
December 27				[105]

See also

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2020s