 This graph represents fiction titles only.Years with smaller numbers means one or more titles dominated as major best sellers, notably "The Da Vinci Code" in 2003 and 2004, "Fifty Shades of Grey" in 2012 and "Where the Crawdads Sing" in 2019.The list is compiled by the editors of the "News Surveys" department, not by "The New York Times Book Review" department, where it is published.