Amazon reveals the best-selling books of 2016

7 December 2016

Amazon has announced its best-selling books of 2016.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling was the best-selling book on Amazon across both the general and Kids and Teens categories.

Rowling’s bestseller also tops the lists for the Most Gifted and Most Wished For book of the year.

The top 100 list of Amazon’s best-selling print and Kindle books of 2016 is available here.

Amazon’s top 20 best-selling books of 2016

  1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script – J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany
  2. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  3. The Whistler – John Grisham
  4. The Last Mile (Amos Decker series) – David Baldacci
  5. Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan – Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
  6. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis – J.D. Vance
  7. Truly Madly Guilty – Liane Moriarty
  8. Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel – Lee Child
  9. The Black Widow: Book 16 of Gabriel Allon Series – Daniel Silva
  10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 11: Double Down – Jeff Kinney
  11. 15th Affair (Women’s Murder Club) – James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
  12. Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
  13. Fool Me Once – Harlan Coben
  14. Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate – Gary J. Byrne
  15. The Wrong Side of Goodbye: A Harry Bosch Novel – Michael Connelly
  16. The Magnolia Story – Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines
  17. The Nest – Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
  18. One with You: Book 5 of A Crossfire Series – Sylvia Day
  19. The Obsession – Nora Roberts
  20. Everything We Keep – Kerry Lonsdale

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