List of The New York Times number-one books of 2013

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.

The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Inferno by Dan Brown with 6 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith with 5 weeks.

Nonfiction
The following list ranks the number-one best selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander with 11 weeks at the top of the list.