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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
bookshops were having a “staycation boom”, with takings and footfall hugely up owing to changes in pandemic travel. Less international travel appears to have been a boon for UK booksell- ers: just under £29.7m was sold through the TCM last week, broadly in line with £29.97m earned in 2020’s August bank holiday week. The five August bank holidays from 2015 to 2019 all earned between £25.5m and
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Ebury
Hodder
Little, Brown Cornerstone Bloomsbury OUP
Scholastic
Children’s: Pre-school Title
3 Cat’s Cookbook
£2.72m £1.45m £1.17m £1.05m £636k £548k £439k £417k £407k £385k
£26.8m, meaning the pandemic has given the home market about a 15% boost in 2020 and 2021. The devil is in the detail. BookScan is forbidden from breaking down the numbers by retail channel and the sales surge might have had winners and losers. If our reported indie boost was repli- cated across the country, then it might not have been the best week, say, for retailers which have a huge presence in airports.
For the first time since 2016, the year-to-date LibScan chart is not topped by a Lee Child title—and its successor may not be a surprise...
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint
1 There’s a Unicorn in Your Book Tom Fletcher; Greg Abbott Puffin 2 Bluey: The Beach - Ladybird Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan...
4 Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Dragon R Fielding; C Chatterton Ladybird Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan...
5 What the Ladybird... Seaside
6 Disneyland Parks Colouring Book - Autumn 7= The Smeds and the Smoos
9 Dear Zoo 10 Superworm
7= The Whale Who Wanted More Rachel Bright; Jim Field Orchard Rod Campbell Macmillan...
11 Who’s at the Zoo? 12 The Hospital Dog
13 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 14 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 15 Oi Aardvark!
16 Oi Duck-billed Platypus! 17 The Colour Monster... School 18 Dinosaur Activity Case 19 Where’s Spot?
20 Ten Little Unicorns
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 0241466605 0241486948
£4.72 £4.95
1529034363 £4.18 0241464373
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 £4.24 1408349229 0230747722
£4.51
1529023152 £4.64 1838523657
£4.37
£5.08 £4.48
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 £4.46 Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan... Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan... Eric Carle Puffin
Judith Kerr HC Children’s
Kes Gray; Jim Field Hodder Children’s 1444955927 Kes Gray; Jim Field Hodder Children’s 1444937336 Anna Llenas Templar -
Bookoli
Eric Hill Warne Mike Brownlow; Simon Rickerty Orchard
Children’s & YA Fiction Title
1 Megamonster 2 Midnight Sun
3 They Both Die at the End 4 As Good As Dead
6 The Danger Gang 7 One Of Us Is Lying 8 Once Upon a Crime
1787415522 1787727304 0723263661
1529044096 £4.23 1509868322 £4.70 0241003008 0007215997
£5.52 £4.63 £5.21 £2.01 £5.40 £5.21 £4.35
1408355916 £4.70
3,907 2,778 2,564 2,413 2,105 1,985 1,915 1,915 1,880 1,842 1,806 1,740 1,683 1,680 1,656 1,596 1,563 1,562 1,543 1,528
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top the presses, because the LibScan year-to-date lending chart is not topped
by a Lee Child title. This has not happened since 2016, during the unstoppable trajectory of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train through both the Nielsen BookScan and LibScan library lending charts. For 2021, Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club has pipped Child’s first Jack Reacher title written with his brother Andrew to the LibScan top spot. This, of course, will come
Author; Illustrator Imprint
David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Stephenie Meyer ATOM
Adam Silvera S&S Children’s Holly Jackson Farshore
5 Amari and the Night Brothers B B Alston Farshore Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin Karen M McManus Penguin Robin Stevens Puffin J K Rowling Bloomsbury Holly Jackson Electric Monkey Scholastic
9 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 10 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
11 Dog Man 9: Grime... Punishment Dav Pilkey 12 The Ballad of Songbirds... Fing
13
16 Paw Patrol Picture Book 17 Harry... Chamber of Secrets 18 Rowley... Spooky Stories
20 Six of Crows 40
Suzanne Collins Scholastic David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
14 The Beast of Buckingham Palace David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 15 Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome... Jeff Kinney Puffin Patrol Paw Farshore J K Rowling Bloomsbury Jeff Kinney Puffin
19 The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf Orion Children’s Leigh Bardugo Indigo
3rd September 2021
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 0008487591 0349003641 1471166204 1405298605 1405298193
£14.99 £8.99 £7.99 £8.99 £7.99
0241407462 £7.99 0141375632 0241419830 1408855652 1405293181 0702310676 0702309519
£7.99 £6.99 £7.99 £8.99 £8.99 £8.99
0008349110 £6.99 0008438708 £7.99 0241458839 0755502660 1408855669 0241530399 1510105010 1780622286
£6.99 £6.99 £7.99
£12.99 £7.99 £8.99
8,035 6,632 5,284 3,516 2,983 2,799 2,615 2,190 2,103 1,880 1,788 1,721 1,664 1,639 1,622 1,526 1,459 1,457 1,400 1,350
as no surprise to anyone who has so much as glanced at The Bookseller’s charts section in the past year. In hardback, The Thursday Murder Club sold a reported million copies (according to publisher Penguin Random House) and swiped the 2020 Christmas Number One, becoming the first début fiction title to do so. The paperback, published in May, has so far notched up eight weeks in the Official UK Top 50 spot, returning to the number one across August—and it could potentially be knocked from the summit by its own sequel, 16th September- published The Man Who Died Twice, in an undeniably David Walliams-esque move. Of course, the
furore surrounding The Thursday Murder Club in the BookScan charts has had a knock-on effect on the LibScan lending charts. It’s not often that librarygoers are drawn in by hype, as the five years since The Girl on the Train’s
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