# The Bestselling Books of 2015

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Publishers Weekly has published lists of the top 20 each bestselling fiction, nonfiction and juveniles in 2015 along with the number of copies printed:

> **[Bestselling Books of 2015](https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/69054-bestselling-books-of-2015.html)**
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> Harper Lee, Marie Kondo, and Jeff Kinney topped the print bestseller lists in 2015 for adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and juvenile books, respectively. Here are the 20 bestselling books of the year in each of those categories.

Here are the fiction books:

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> 1. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (Harper)
> 2. Grey by E.L. James (Vintage)
> 3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
> 4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
> 5. The Martian (trade paper) by Andy Weir (Broadway)
> 6. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham (Doubleday)
> 7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Grand Central)
> 8. See Me by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)
> 9. Gray Mountain by John Grisham (Dell)
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> The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s)
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> The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Scribner)
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> The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (Knopf)
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> The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner)
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> The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne)
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> Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (Morrow)
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> Finders Keepers by Stephen King (Scribner)
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> The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty (Berkley)
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> Cross Justice by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
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> Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)
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> The Martian (mass market movie tie-in) by Andy Weir (Broadway)
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I was surprised Harper Lee did so well (a million and a half copies for the Watchman book); I thought she was the kind of classic author people read in literature classes and nowhere else. The only books I have read are The Great Gatsby and Fahrenheit 451–and those were decades ago. I started on The Girl in the Spider’s Web, but stopped after a couple chapters.

In nonfiction the bestselling book was The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo–I am surprised a book dealing with clutter would do so well.

Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10) by Jeff Kinney was the bestselling juvenile. Dr. Seuss still had several entries in this list.

Anyone see anything they recommend on any of the lists?