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was the sixth bestselling book in the Republic) fill out the rest of the top 10. The UK’s top 10 authors comprise nine Brits and one lonely American— if one deems James Paterson and his army of co-authors “lonely”. The Americans are almost as patriotic in their book-buying, with eight Yanks and two Brits (Rowling and Paula Hawkins, the only two authors to appear in all three nations’ top 10s). Jeff Kinney, the 11th most valuable author in the UK, just missed out (by £17,000) on completing that treble, but he can comfort himself with the fact that Double Down is the only title alongside Cursed Child to feature in the UK, US and Irish bestseller charts. Rival David Walliams may have two titles—Christmas Number One The Midnight Gang and short story collec- tion The World’s Worst Children—in the UK top 10, but he sold only 16,069 copies across his entire oeuvre in the US in 2016. Joe Wicks has also failed to crack America. Lean in 15 sold a lean 8,000 copies across the pond, compared to more than a million in the UK. But “The Body Coach” can dry his


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tears with bank notes (if not dollar bills)—his £13.1m UK earnings put him in the top five authors in value terms, all of whom brought in more than £10m. And Wicks did it with only three books, compared to the bulky s of Rowling, Donaldson and


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Ireland title


1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2 The Battle 3 Holding


4 The Midnight Gang 5 The Girl on the Train 6 Born to Run 7 Double Down


8 Mathematical Tables 9 Lean in 15


10 Guinness World Records 2017


United Kingdom title


1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2 The Girl on the Train 3 Lean in 15


4 The Midnight Gang


5 Lean in 15: The Shape Plan 6 The World’s Worst Children 7 After You


8 Guinness World Records 2017 9 Double Down


10 Five on Brexit Island


United States title


1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2 Double Down


3 Killing the Rising Sun 4 The Girl on the Train 5 A Man Called Ove 6 The Whistler


7 Fantastic Beasts... Find Them 8 The Magnolia Story


9 Miss Peregrine’s... Peculiar Children 10 Oh, the Places You’ll Go!


Author Top 10s Ireland


author 1 J K Rowling


2 David Walliams 3 Paul O’Connell 4 Jeff Kinney 5 Joe Wicks


6 Julia Donaldson 7 Jojo Moyes


8 Graham Norton 9 Bruce Springsteen 10 Paula Hawkins


value


€2,557,291 €1,793,590 €1,272,847 €1,068,411 €992,500 €859,595 €700,143 €697,580 €663,863 €642,628


52 weeks to 11th February 2017 author imprint isbn (978+)


Rowling, Thorne, Tiffany Little, Brown 0751565355 Paul O’Connell Graham Norton David Walliams Paula Hawkins


Penguin Ireland 1844882236 Hodder


1444792034


Bruce Springsteen Jeff Kinney –


Joe Wicks


HC Children’s 0008188573 Black Swan S&S


Puffin – Guinness...


Stationery Office 1406422832 Bluebird


0552779777 1471157790 0141373010


1509800667 1910561324


sales


70,727 68,175 56,194 48,009 40,002 38,569 36,412 32,828 31,020 27,219


52 weeks to 11th February 2017 author imprint


Black Swan Bluebird


isbn (978+) sales


Rowling, Thorne, Tiffany Little, Brown 0751565355 1,477,954 Paula Hawkins Joe Wicks


0552779777 1,153,011 1509800667 730,368


David Walliams Joe Wicks


David Walliams Jojo Moyes


Bruno Vincent


HC Children’s 0008164614 669,058 Bluebird


1509800698 526,016


HC Children’s 0008197032 491,895 Penguin


– Guinness... Jeff Kinney


Puffin Quercus


1405909075 487,692 1910561324


423,955


0141373010 377,780 1786483843 377,403


52 weeks to 11th February 2017 author imprint Amulet isbn (978+) sales


Rowling, Thorne, Tiffany Arthur A Levine 1338099133 4,446,752 Jeff Kinney


B O’Reilly & M Dugard Henry Holt Paula Hawkins


Riverhead Doubleday


1419723445 1,182,230 1627790628 1,137,800 1594634024 952,517


Fredrik Backman Washington Sq... 1476738024 747,339 John Grisham J K Rowling


0385541190 692,132 Arthur A Levine 1338109061 690,336


Chip & Joanna Gaines Thomas Nelson 0718079185 677,498 Ransom Riggs Dr Seuss


Quirk 1594746031 620,750 Random House 0679805274 568,872


52 weeks to 11th February 2017


United Kingdom author


1 J K Rowling


2 Julia Donaldson 3 David Walliams 4 Joe Wicks


value


£29,754,025 £14,122,738 £14,024,616 £13,125,331


5 J Hazeley/J Morris £12,258,726 6 Paula Hawkins 7 James Patterson 8 Lee Child


9 Jamie Oliver 10 Roald Dahl


£7,738,631 £6,820,332 £6,251,065 £6,096,509 £6,093,552


United States author


1 J K Rowling 2 Dr Seuss


3 Jeff Kinney 4 Roger Priddy 5 Rick Riordan 6 Paula Hawkins 7 Nora Roberts 8 Sarah Young 9 John Grisham 10 Stephen King


volume


6,874,241 3,573,551 2,951,715 2,882,571 2,000,939 1,961,941 1,809,001 1,797,439 1,719,985 1,705,550


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