List of The New York Times number-one books of 2010

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 hardcover fiction category.[1]

The most popular books of the year were The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson and The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, with respectively 8 and 6 weeks at the top. The author James Patterson was at the top for five different books (Worst Case, The 9th Judgment, Private, The Postcard Killers and Cross Fire).

Date	Book	Author
January 3	The Lost Symbol	Dan Brown
January 10
January 17
January 24	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21	Worst Case	James Patterson
February 28
March 7	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
March 14	Fantasy in Death	J. D. Robb
March 21	House Rules	Jodi Picoult
March 28
April 4	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
April 11	Caught	Harlan Coben
April 18	Silver Borne	Patricia Briggs
April 25	Changes	Jim Butcher
May 2	The Shadow of Your Smile	Mary Higgins Clark
May 9	Deliver us from Evil	David Baldacci
May 16	The 9th Judgment	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
May 23	Dead in the Family	Charlaine Harris
May 30
June 6	61 Hours	Lee Child
June 13	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest	Stieg Larsson
June 20
June 27
July 4	The Overton Window	Glenn Beck
July 11	Sizzling Sixteen	Janet Evanovich
July 18	Private	James Patterson
July 25	The Search	Nora Roberts
August 1	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest	Stieg Larsson
August 8	The Rembrandt Affair	Daniel Silva
August 15	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest	Stieg Larsson
August 22
August 29
September 5	The Postcard Killers	James Patterson and Liza Marklund
September 12	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest	Stieg Larsson
September 19	Freedom	Jonathan Franzen
September 26
October 3	Safe Haven	Nicholas Sparks
October 10	Freedom	Jonathan Franzen
October 17	Fall of Giants	Ken Follett
October 24	The Reversal	Michael Connelly
October 31	American Assassin	Vince Flynn
November 7	Worth Dying For	Lee Child
November 14	The Confession	John Grisham
November 21	Towers of Midnight	Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
November 28	Hell's Corner	David Baldacci
December 5	Cross Fire	James Patterson
December 12
December 19	Port Mortuary	Patricia Cornwell
December 26	Dead or Alive	Tom Clancy and Grant Blackwood

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best selling nonfiction books, in the hardcover nonfiction category.[2]

Date	Book	Author	Publisher
January 3	Going Rogue	Sarah Palin	HarperCollins
January 10	Have a Little Faith	Mitch Albom	Hyperion
January 19	Committed	Elizabeth Gilbert	Viking
January 24	Game Change	John Heilemann and Mark Halperin	HarperCollins
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
March 7
March 14	No Apology	Mitt Romney	St. Martin's
March 21	Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang	Chelsea Handler	Grand Central
March 28	The Big Short	Michael Lewis	Norton
April 4
April 11
April 18
April 25	Oprah: A Biography	Kitty Kelley	Crown
May 2	The Big Short	Michael Lewis	Norton
May 9
May 16	Spoken from the Heart	Laura Bush	Scribner
May 30
June 6
June 13
June 20	Shit My Dad Says	Justin Halpern	HarperCollins
June 27
July 4
July 11
July 18
July 25
August 1	The Obama Diaries	Laura Ingraham	Threshold Editions
August 8	Shit My Dad Says	Justin Halpern	HarperCollins
August 15
August 22
August 29
September 5
September 12	Crimes Against Liberty	David Limbaugh	Regnery
September 19
September 26	The Grand Design	Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow	Bantam Books
October 3
October 10	Earth (The Book)	Jon Stewart and others	Grand Central
October 17	Obama's Wars	Bob Woodward	Simon & Schuster
October 24
October 31	Earth (The Book)	Jon Stewart and others	Grand Central
November 7
November 14	Life	Keith Richards with James Fox	Little, Brown
November 21
November 28	Decision Points	George W. Bush	Crown
December 5
December 12
December 19
December 26

See also

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

References

1. Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 2010 Hawes Publications
2. "Hardcover Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 April 2015.