List of The New York Times number-one books of 1947

This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1947.

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only six books topped the list that year. The most popular titles were Gentlemen's Agreement (14 weeks) and House Divided, which spent much of the last quarter of the year at the top of the list and a total of 15 weeks at the top overall. Two other novels, Lydia Bailey and The Moneymen each spent 12 weeks at the top. Sinclair Lewis had his only No. 1 bestseller that year (at least since the list went national in 1942).

Date	Book	Author
January 5	B.F.'s Daughter	John P. Marquand
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2	Lydia Bailey	Kenneth Roberts
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 2
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 13
April 20
April 27	Gentlemen's Agreement	Laura Z. Hobson
May 4
May 11
May 18
May 25
June 1
June 8
June 15
June 22
June 29
July 6	Kingsblood Royal	Sinclair Lewis
July 13
July 20	Gentlemen's Agreement	Laura Z. Hobson
July 27
August 3
August 10
August 17	The Moneyman	Thomas B. Costain
August 24
August 31
September 7
September 14
September 21
September 28
October 5
October 12
October 19
October 26
November 2
November 9
November 16	House Divided	Ben Ames Williams
November 23
November 30
December 7
December 14
December 21
December 28

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books.

See also

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1940s