The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2011

This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 2011.

The most popular books of the year was The Help, by Kathryn Stockett and Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen with respectively 15 and 8 weeks at the top. The author James Patterson was at the top for three different books (Tick Tock, Now You See Her and Kill Alex Cross).

Date	Book	Author
January 2	Dead or Alive	Tom Clancy and Grant Blackwood
January 9
January 16	What the Night Knows	Dean Koontz
January 23	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest	Stieg Larsson
January 30	The Inner Circle	Brad Meltzer
February	One of Our Thursdays Is Missing	Jasper Fforde
February 6	Shadowfever	Karen Marie Moning
February 13	Tick Tock	James Patterson
February 20
February 27
March 6	Alone	Lisa Gardner
March 13	Treachery in Death	J. D. Robb
March 20	The Wise Man's Fear	Patrick Rothfuss
March 27	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
April 3
April 10	Live Wire	Harlan Coben
April 17	The Land of Painted Caves	Jean M. Auel
April 24	The Fifth Witness	Michael Connelly
May 1	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
May 8
May 15
May 22	Dead Reckoning	Charlaine Harris
May 29	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
June 5
June 12
June 19	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
June 26
July 3
July 10	Smokin' Seventeen	Janet Evanovich
July 17	Now You See Her	James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
July 24	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
July 31	A Dance with Dragons	George R. R. Martin
August 7	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16	The Affair	Lee Child
October 23	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
October 30	The Best of Me	Nicholas Sparks
November 6
November 13	The Litigators	John Grisham
November 20	Zero Day	David Baldacci
November 27	11/22/63	Stephen King
December 4	Kill Alex Cross	James Patterson
December 11	Explosive Eighteen	Janet Evanovich
December 18	The Drop	Michael Connelly
December 25	Red Mist	Patricia Cornwell