I don't bother with looking at the best seller list. Some of the authors I read end up there and I wonder why, their books definitely aren't the best written books.
Not bad, but not great.
Since I am hungry (lunch time) I'll use food as a comparrison, salad, steak and baked potato are the classics, pizza would be the from well known and good authors, D. Koontz type, have some substance, but not "great" books. Then the hot fudge sundie, the romance, mainly paranormal.
I see on the covers remark, so and so has been the on the NYT best seller list, and I wonder how in the world these authors ended up on the lists. Some put out five and six books a year, there is no way they can put out a really decent book.
Okay, but not decent, just fun book to read. Some do write only one or two books a year and their books are good fiction.
So, I want excellent, satisfying I read classics, I want really good, decent, fairly well-written I read Koontz, Nice, good I read N. Singh, L. Adrian's series, I want just something to satisfy my "sweet-tooth" I will read Leigh, Sands or other.
So, NYT best list, nay, I don't bother with it, I go with what my taste buds are craving.