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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


take A Y Chao’s Shanghai Immortal (Hodderscape), a subbies-hit Original Fiction number one last June with 8,902 units sold. The following week it shiſted 134 copies and has sold fewer than 114 copies per week since, only three times exceed- ing the three-figure mark.


Of course, these authors might never


have got a shot at mainstream success—or even been published in the UK, given many are US-based—without a subbies surge. We are in early days of the model, so the long-term effects on authors’ careers, and whether it truly helps build on the SFF fanbase going forward, are still to be determined.


All that said, it was a strong week overall in romantasy/New Adult fantasy, with five titles in the Top 50, including Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses, bouncing back into the upper


TCM actual selling price 52-week history


£10


Original Fiction Title


1 The City of Stardust 2 Iron Flame 3 Fourth Wing


4 The Last Devil to Die 5 The Spy Coast 6 Munich Wolf 7 The Secret    


      


8 Murder on Lake Garda 9 The Wedding of the Year 10Good Material 11Prophet Song     


12The Running Grave 13The Mystery Guest 14Random in Death 15Faebound 16Upside Down  


20


17The Woman on the Ledge 18Relight My Fire 


19The Queen of Poisons Piglet


Author


Georgia Summers Rebecca Yarros Rebecca Yarros Richard Osman Tess Gerritsen Rory Clements


Imprint


ISBN (+978)


ASP Volume


Hodderscape 1399714204 £19.74 11,020 Piatkus Piatkus Viking


Bantam


Lee & Andrew Child Bantam Tom Hindle Jill Mansell


Dolly Alderton Paul Lynch


Robert Galbraith Nita Prose J D Robb


Saara El-Arifi Danielle Steel Ruth Mancini C K McDonnell


Century Headline Fig Tree


Oneworld Sphere


Bonnier Books UK 1804181423


0349437026 £11.85 0349436999 £11.61 0241512449 £11.97 0857505194 £13.59 £9.30


1787633773 £11.73 1529902198 £11.96 1472287939


£9.54


0241523667 £13.52 0861546459 £15.58 1408730942 £11.51


HarperCollins 0008435776 £10.29 Piatkus


1529085549 £10.18 1529909807


£7.20 0349437392 £19.94


HarperVoyager 0008596965 £15.78 Macmillan Century Bantam


Robert Thorogood HQ Lottie Hazell


Mass-Market Fiction Title


1 Killing Moon 2 The Last Dance 3 The Lie Maker 4 I Will Find You


5 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 6 The Midnight Rose 7 The Wedding Planner 8 The Housemaid 9 Countdown  


        


10Standing in the Shadows 11Hopeless Godkiller


£5


12   


£0 £9.34  YEAR ON YEAR 4.2%


13Lessons in Chemistry 14The Housemaid’s Secret 15It Ends With Us  


16In The Blink of An Eye 17Icebreaker 


18It Starts with Us  


19A Court of Thorns and Roses 20The Sisters


Doubleday


0857505354 £16.56 0008567330 £12.17 0857529565 £15.21


3,039 2,844 2,449 1,783 1,625 1,620 1,516 1,354 1,277 1,237 1,195 1,165 1,131 1,128 1,070 1,016 981 960 942


Author


Imprint


Jo Nesbo ( Kinsella) Vintage Mark Billingham Linwood Barclay Harlan Coben Gabrielle Zevin Lucinda Riley Danielle Steel


Sphere HQ


Penguin Vintage Pan Pan


Freida McFadden Little,Brown


J Patterson & B DuBois Penguin Peter Robinson Elsie Silver


Hodder Piatkus


Hannah Kaner Bonnie Garmus Freida McFadden Colleen Hoover Jo Callaghan Hannah Grace Colleen Hoover Sarah J Maas Claire Douglas


ISBN (+978) 1529920505 1408726358 0008555689 1529160550 1529115543 1035044078 1529022209 1408728512 1529160567 1529343212 0349437743


HarperVoyager 0008521509 Penguin


1804990926


Little, Brown 0349132600 Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Simon & Schuster 1398511194 Simon & Schuster 1398525689 Simon & Schuster 1398518209 Bloomsbury Harper


1526605399 0007594412


ASP Volume £5.37 10,209 £5.20 £5.12 £6.45 £6.97 £5.11 £4.85 £4.52 £4.69 £5.53 £2.88 £7.75 £6.83 £3.62 £5.92 £7.51 £6.02 £5.70 £7.97 £5.51


8,600 8,375 7,291 6,313 6,138 5,267 5,012 4,734 4,654 4,624 4,560 4,425 4,168 4,092 3,893 3,635 3,550 3,488 3,076


Heatseekers Fiction


The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the


overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit thebookseller.com.


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Title 1 Wandering Souls


2 Before the Coffee Gets Cold 3 Clytemnestra 4 Preloved  


   


5 The Graham Effect 6 Poor Things 


9 Poor Things 10The People Watcher


 


7 A Day of Fallen Night 


Author Cecile Pin T Kawaguchi


Costanza Casati Lauren Bravo Elle Kennedy Alasdair Gray


Imprint


ISBN (+978)


1529029581 1405951722


Fourth Estate 0008528812 £19.74 Picador Penguin


Simon & Schuster 1398510654 Piatkus


Bloomsbury Samantha Shannon Bloomsbury


8 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop S Yagisawa (E Ozawa) Manilla Alasdair Gray Sam Lloyd


Bloomsbury Penguin


0349439501 0747562283 1526619815 1786583239 1526657886 1529177428


£3.74 £8.57 £2.57 £9.30 £5.91 £5.15 £3.61 £9.55 £9.21


ASP Volume 2,476 2,176 1,879 1,819 1,775 1,722 1,394 1,323 1,320 1,195


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