List of The New York Times number-one books of 2015

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] The most frequent weekly best seller was The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins with 16 weeks at the top of the list.

Date	Book	Author
January 4	Gray Mountain	John Grisham
January 11	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn
January 18	All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr
January 25
February 1	The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
February 8
February 15
February 22
March 1
March 8
March 15
March 22
March 29
April 5
April 12
April 19
April 26
May 3	The Liar	Nora Roberts
May 10	Memory Man	David Baldacci
May 17	Gathering Prey	John Sandford
May 24	14th Deadly Sin	James Patterson
May 31	The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
June 7
June 14	Radiant Angel	Nelson DeMille
June 21	Finders Keepers	Stephen King
June 28	The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins
July 5	Grey	E. L. James
July 12
July 19
July 26
August 2	Go Set a Watchman	Harper Lee
August 9
August 16
August 23	Alert	James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
August 30	Go Set a Watchman	Harper Lee
September 6	Friction	Sandra Brown
September 13	X	Sue Grafton
September 20	The Girl in the Spider's Web	David Lagercrantz
September 27	Make Me	Lee Child
October 4	The Martian	Andy Weir
October 11
October 18
October 25	The Survivor	Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills
November 1	See Me	Nicholas Sparks
November 8	Rogue Lawyer	John Grisham
November 15
November 22	The Crossing	Michael Connelly
November 29	Rogue Lawyer	John Grisham
December 6	Tricky Twenty-Two	Janet Evanovich
December 13	Cross Justice	James Patterson
December 20	The Nightingale	Kristin Hannah
December 27	Rogue Lawyer	John Grisham

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.^[2] The most frequent weekly best sellers of the year were American Sniper and Killing Reagan.

Date	Book	Author	Publisher
January 4	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	Random House
January 11
January 18
January 25
February 1	American Sniper	Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice	Morrow/HarperCollins
February 8
February 15
February 22
March 1
March 8
March 15
March 22
March 29	Dead Wake	Erik Larson	Crown
April 5
April 12	Becoming Steve Jobs	Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli	Crown
April 19	Dead Wake	Erik Larson	Crown
April 26	The Residence	Kate Andersen Brower	Harper
May 3	The Road to Character	David Brooks	Random House
May 10	And the Good News Is...	Dana Perino	Twelve
May 17	Hope	Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus	Viking
May 24	The Wright Brothers	David McCullough	Simon & Schuster
May 31
June 7
June 14
June 21
June 28
July 5
July 12	Down the Rabbit Hole	Holly Madison	Dey Street
July 19
July 26
August 2	Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Spiegel & Grau
August 9
August 16
August 23	Plunder and Deceit	Mark Levin	Threshold Editions
August 30
September 6	It Is About Islam	Glenn Beck	Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
September 13
September 20	A Walk in the Woods	Bill Bryson	Broadway
September 27
October 4	Why Not Me?	Mindy Kaling	Crown
October 11	Killing Reagan	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	Holt
October 18
October 25
November 1	Humans of New York: Stories	Brandon Stanton	St. Martin's
November 8	Killing Reagan	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	Holt
November 15
November 22	Troublemaker	Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley	Ballantine
November 29
December 6	Killing Reagan	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	Holt
December 13
December 20	Humans of New York: Stories	Brandon Stanton	St. Martin's Press
December 27	Killing Reagan	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	Holt

See also

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s