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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
terrier. Meanwhile, Arnold “the Governator” Schwarzenegger’s Be Useful rose 21 places to fourth, aſter a busy media blitz in the UK.
One of 2023’s bright spots, Science Fiction & Fantasy, contin- ued to shine across children’s and adult. Stephanie Garber’s final volume in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series, A Curse for True Love, sold a subscription box-assisted 16,000 copies to hit
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins S&S
Pan Macmillan Bloomsbury Ebury
Transworld Little, Brown Hodder Orion
Children’s: Pre-school Title
4 Dormouse Has a Cold
5 Jewel Art Fun Sparkly Art... 6 Sticker Dolly Dressing Trick... 7 The Dinosaur that Pooped...
£3.17m £2.51m £1.86m £1.21m £984k £905k £876k £764k £746k £590k
fiſth overall, representing a 45% first-week jump on the last instal- ment, The Ballad of Never Aſter. Kathryn Purdie’s latest fairy tale inspired YA fantasy, The Forest Grimm, moved nearly 12,000 copies to claim eighth overall. In one week, The Forest Grimm doubled the entire TCM unit sales generated by Purdie’s previous four books since she was first published in the UK six years ago.
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Author; Illustrator
1 We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt M Mumford; C Zamazing 2 Funnybones 3 The Baddies
Fiona Watt; Non Figg
8 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Halloween... - 9 The Dinosaur... a Reindeer!
11 Where’s Spidey? 12 That’s Not My Bat...
Imprint Allan Ahlberg; Janet Ahlberg Puffin
Bloomsbury... 1526660404 £4.41 0140565812 £4.45
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 0702325069 £4.98 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... -
Bookoli Usborne
Fletcher & Poynter; Parsons Puffin Ladybird Fletcher & Poynter; Parsons Puffin
10 That’s Not My Christmas Tree‥ Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells -
Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells
13 Bluey: Awesome Advent Book... - 14 Supertato Night... Living Veg
17 Never Touch a Dinosaur... 18 My Big Rainbow... Colouring 19 Fingerprint Art Activity Case 20 Where’s the Spooky Poo?
Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet Usborne
Studio Press Usborne Ladybird
15 The Gruffalo and Friends Advent...Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... 16 Make Your Own... Nightlight Jars - -
Bookoli - - Alex Hunter
Children’s & YA Fiction Title
1 No Brainer 2 The Blunders
3 The Forest Grimm 4 A Christmasaurus Carol 5 The Harry Potter Wizarding...
7 The Completely Chaotic... 8 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 9 The Chalice of the Gods 10 The World’s Worst Monsters 11 Impossible Creatures 12 I Love Paris!
13 The Christmas Pig
14 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 15 Five Star Stories
18 The Boy Who Slept Through... 19 The 156-Storey Treehouse 20 The 169-Storey Treehouse
18 3rd November 2023
Bookoli Orchard
1035006908 £4.48 1802490466 £4.07 1803707754 £4.65 0241488836 £4.38 0241616352 £5.29 0241649077 £4.93 1803707778 £6.76 1800783010 £3.04 1801314961 £4.19 0241654859 £9.85
S&S Children’s 1471189234 £3.93 1035004577 £10.29 1802495027 £4.03
1803681504 £1.23 1802495058 £4.04 1408363102 £2.21
Make Believe 1789474329 £4.30 Igloo
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 7,788 7,133 4,847 4,497 4,396 3,767 3,719 3,332 3,286 3,206 2,915 2,899 2,691 2,640 2,636 2,507 2,473 2,443 2,422 2,295
Hardback series success continues to fuel Osman’s ascent to the Audible chart’s summit despite stiff competition
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien R
Author; Illustrator Jeff Kinney
Imprint Puffin
Magpie
Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin J K Rowling
6 Bunny vs Monkey... Impossible Pig Jamie Smart Katie Kirby
Holly Jackson Rick Riordan
Rachel Renée Russell J K Rowling J K Rowling Pichon, Liz
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 0241583135 £7.80 38,096
David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008305840 £7.49 14,796 Kathryn Purdie
Bloomsbury... 1526646712 £16.95 David Fickling 1788453004 £9.67 Puffin
0241647172 £8.55
Electric Monkey 1405293181 £6.32 Puffin
0241647547 £11.71
David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008305819 £8.29 Katherine Rundell
Bloomsbury... 1408897416 £10.10 S&S Children’s 1471196836 £7.86 Little, Brown 1444964936 £5.89 Bloomsbury Scholastic
16 The Breakfast... Phantom Thief M Rashford & A Falase-Koya Macmillan... 17 The Ballad of Songbirds... Snakes Suzanne Collins Matt Lucas
Scholastic Farshore
Andy Griffiths; Terry Denton Macmillan... Andy Griffiths; Terry Denton Macmillan...
0008588311 £14.98 11,848 0241595879 £7.45
1408855652 £5.56 0702313431 £8.77 1035022670 £4.67 0702309519 £6.27 0008519896 £10.27 1529088687 £6.49 1529097146 £10.68
7,906 5,232 4,004 3,623 3,114 2,981 2,954 2,705 2,570 2,559 2,495 2,493 2,427 2,211 2,209 2,027 1,996
ichard Osman’s The Last Devil to Die stuck its pitchfork straight
into the Audible number one for September, as its hardback smashed records. Osman’s fourth Thursday Murder Club title shifted more than a quarter of a million copies in hardback in its publica- tion month alone, with its launch week, at 146,919 copies, doing much of the heavy lifting. It also soared to the e-book chart number one across both Bookstat and The Bookseller’s publisher-supplied e-book ranking. With the audio- book now also at the number one, The Last Devil to Die has speared every format top spot. The Last Devil
to Die’s series mate, Osman’s
début The Thursday Murder Club, swiped ninth for September, three years on from publication—we know from experience that series titles can often continue to chart for years (shout out to the original Harry Potter seven, hitting the
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