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OR THE 12 TH time, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train has steamed into


the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, having sold 25,041 copies for a value of £120,353. Amazingly, this is its longest consecutive run at the top (four weeks): the grip-lit smash hit has spent at least a week at the summit in every month since its release—except August.


However despite its consistency, its streak at number one has been intermitently derailed by a pesky “eighth Harry Poter”, David Walliams’ short story


collection or a rock-star memoir. Rather like the US presiden- tial election, the race to a million copies between the paperback of The Girl on the Train and Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15 has tightened dramatically. While Lean in 15 has been dutifully pulling in sales since December, Hawkins’ psychological thriller— released in paperback five months aſter the healthy eating cook- book, in May—looked to be the rank outsider until recently, when its film adapta- tion propelled its


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already stellar sales into the strasophere. Now The Girl on the Train is just 24,000 units away from Lean in 15’s total and, based on current form, both could conceivably hit the six- figure mark in two weeks’ time. Though the momentum is all within the upstart ...Train, it will go right down to the wire.


However, there wasn’t such good news for The Girl on the Train’s film tie-in last week. Despite holding the runner- up position for the past three weeks, it was leapfrogged by Peter James’ Love You Dead which shiſted some 600 more copies. James has had a


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1 25 The Girl on the Train 2 3 4 5 6 7


8 23 After You 9


1 The Wrong Side of Goodbye 1 Betrayal


1 Miracle on 5th Avenue 1 Chaos


1 The Light Between Oceans 3 The Flame Bearer


1 Behind Closed Doors


10 3 Cold Blood 11 4 Inferno


12 24 Me Before You 13 5 Conclave


14 1 Love You Dead


15 1 Christmas at Little Beach Street... 16 2 Bridget Jones’s Baby 17 1 Hidden Killers 18 1 Runaway Girl 19 3 Cold Earth


20 1 An Orphan’s Secret


given way to an autumn of Paula Hawkins, as her commuter thriller pulls level with the 11 weeks that Moyes’ Me Before You and Aſter You collectively spent at the top. The last time neither author topped the chart was nearly six months ago: in mid-May, Peter James’ Love You Dead was number one, as its hardback edition tore up the print charts. The Roy Grace title has now gone through a full life cycle and is out in paperback, returning to the digital chart in 14th place. Its “e” figures are noticeably smaller compared to its original, blistering entrance—it shot straight to number one— but it did shiſt 18,524 copies in paperback in the week this list covers (to 22nd October). The ranking is currently a breeding ground for newly released hardback fiction, with Michael Connelly’s The Wrong Side of Goodbye thundering straight into second place. A total of nine hardback fiction titles feature; an equivalent top 20 for print fiction would contain 14 paperbacks and six hardbacks. The Wrong Side of Good-


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Robert Harris Peter James Jenny Colgan Helen Fielding Lynda La Plante Casey Watson Ann Cleeves Maggie Hope


NOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER e-book rank- ing number one for The Girl on the Train. A summer of Jojo Moyes has


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significantly more units in “e” than “p”. The crime author’s newest paperback, The Crossing, actually charted above The Wrong Side of Goodbye in the print chart, but it got nowhere near the Weekly E-Book Rank- ing. Increasingly with established series authors—or hyped débuts, such as summer smash hit Emma Cline’s The Girls—impa- tient fans are opting for the e-book over the hardback (for price reasons) and the paper- back (due to its later publication). Another hardback fiction release from a veteran of hard-boiled crime hit third place: Martina Cole’s Betrayal. Her most recent paperback, Get Even, spent 10 weeks in the weekly ranking over the summer.


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