"the new york times" best seller list is a list of best-selling books in the united states that has been published weekly on sundays by the "new york times", a new york city based newspaper since 9 april 1942. it is also released a stand-alone publication, meaning it is sometimes published separately outside of the newspaper, and can also be found online. the list is usually split into fiction and non-fiction sections; each contain ten to twenty titles.