The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks ...

In the week ending July 20, Publisher’s Weekly reported that Hillbilly Elegy sold over 197,000 copies, dominating the bestseller charts by a margin of 136,000 units.

The No. 1 best seller on the Sept. 2, 2001, nonfiction list is David McCullough’s Pulitzer-winning biography of John Adams, which was lauded by our critic for providing a sense of the “heated ...

Daniel Pink takes on the subject (and all its slithering, stultifying permutations) in his seventh book, “The Power of Regret,” which enters this week’s hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3.

The New York Times will publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year, a reflection of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing.

The best-seller lists as we know them today have their roots in the Aug. 9, 1942, issue — but the Book Review has been tracking sales for much longer than that.