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Normal People Sally Rooney


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White Tee Teeth Zadie SmithZadie Smith


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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman


10TH PLACE The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold


HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE JKR wling’s book, p


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nchise thatnowatnowextends into film, theatre, gaming, theme parks, and, um, other books. With life sales of close to six million copies through Nielsen BookScan, it is not only the biggest title on the short- est, but the book that sold the most copies in 2019. Its original Nibbie win came in 1998.


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NORTHERN LIGHTS Lyra Belacqua’s first outing came in Philip Pullman’s densely packed opener for the His Dark Materials series— published by Scholastic—which now stretches into film, televi- sion and an “equel” series, The Book of Dust. The book’s influ- ence has grown in proportion to its commercial impact, with life sales of 1.5 million units, and sales last year of 60,000, through Nielsen.


WHITE TEETH White Teeth established Zadie Smith as a writer to watch, and she has not looked back. The Penguin-published book won multiple honours, including the Whitbread and Guardian First Book Award, becoming one of the first novels to capture the multicultural “Cool Britannia” zeitgeist of the early Noughties. The novel won Smith the Newcomer of the Year Nibbie at 2001’s awards.


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THIS IS GOING TO HURT


A groundbreaking


book that launched the seemingly unstoppable “memoirs that matter” trend, Adam Kay’s


junior doctor autobiog- raphy is a funny book with serious intent;


one that has gone on to sell in vast proportions while establishing the author as a brand for the next decade. Kay narrowly missed out on a Nibbie—and it must have hurt.


So, we have invited him back for another try...


WOLF HALL This title is the only Booker Prize-winner on the shortlist, which tells you as much about the Booker as it does about the Nibbies. That rare combination of quality and commercial success was achieved by Hilary Mantel’s novel, issued by Fourth Estate, and was reward for one of best and most deserving writers published in the past 30 years. Mantel’s Nibbie win was in 2010.


THE LOSTWORDS A modern cl


Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’ book wasn’t the first beauti- fully illustrated oversized title to grace the trade, but it was the first to break out beyond the trade, with funds crowd-sourced to get the book into schools. The combination of artist Morris with nature writer Macfarlane was a


ern classic? Robert ea


masterstroke from publisher Hamish Hamilton.


WILD SWANS An absolute game-changer in terms of the modern memoir, Jung Chang’s Wild Swans told us much about China through its tale of three generations of women, but it also established the market for serious, outward-looking narrative non-fiction when William Collins published it in 1991. It won Book of the Year at the Nibbies a year on, and has sold 310,000 TCM units to date.


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