146,919 Launch week hardback volume of The Last Devil to Die Audible Audio Download Chart


top 20 in its entirety since November 2015). Speaking of which, September’s


other big hardback behemoth, Robert Galbraith’s The Running Grave, scored second in the Audible ranking. The Robert Glenister- narrated Cormoran Strike book knocked The Last Devil to Die off the top spot in the Nielsen BookScan weekly print charts upon release, though the latter had boomeranged back to the top a week later. The first two books in Galbraith’s private detective series pre-date the Audible chart’s inception in The Bookseller, but every title since has claimed the Audible monthly number one, as recently as The Ink Black Heart in August 2022. Podcaster and


former MP Rory Stewart’s Politics on the Edge scaled third place, pipping fellow podcaster Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO to the non-fiction top spot for the month. Stewart’s call-to-arms fared considerably better than his co-host Alistair Campbell’s But What Can I Do?, which charted eighth in May, and obliterated his former boss’ Theresa May’s The Abuse of Power—which shifted 21,805 fewer copies than Politics on the Edge in hardback in their shared


launch week and didn’t trouble the audio charts at all. With an all-new top four push-


ing the previous month’s number one, Lisa Jewell’s None of This is True, down to fifth place, the chart notched up a total of nine new entries in September, with Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk and Stephen King’s


We know from experience that series titles can often continue to chart for years


OSMAN: ENJOYING A DEVILISH RUN


Title


1 The Last Devil To Die 2 The Running Grave 3 Politics on the Edge 4 The Diary of a CEO 5 None of This Is True 6 Elon Musk


7 Atomic Habits Holly


      


8   


9 The Thursday Murder Club 10Ultra-Processed People  


14The River’s Edge Mythos


15    


20


ROBERT GALBRAITH, A.K.A. J K ROWLING, TOOK SECOND PLACE


11Harry Potter... Philosopher’s... 12Oh Miriam!  


16Harry Potter... Goblet of Fire 17Harry Potter... of Azkaban 18Harry Potter... of the Phoenix 19Lessons in Chemistry Unruly


Author


Richard Osman Robert Galbraith Rory Stewart Steven Bartlett Lisa Jewell


Walter Isaacson James Clear Stephen King Richard Osman Chris van Tulleken J K Rowling


Miriam Margolyes


13Harry Potter...Chamber...Secrets J K Rowling Joy Ellis


Stephen Fry J K Rowling J K Rowling J K Rowling


Bonnie Garmus David Mitchell


Holly also barrelling into the top 10. Miriam Margolyes’ Oh Miriam!, her follow-up to multiple Audible chart number one This Much is True, hit 12th, as Joy Ellis’ The River’s Edge, narrated by Richard Armitage, surged into 14th. David Mitchell’s Unruly, released right at the tail end of September, notched up 20th place. But with a two-week reign in the Nielsen BookScan Hardback Non-Fiction top 20 at the start of October, maybe it’ll be eyeing up Osman’s throne for next month.


Narrator/s


F Shaw, R Osman Robert Glenister Rory Stewart Steven Bartlett


Imprint


Penguin Audio Hachette Audio Penguin Audio Penguin Audio


N Walker, L Brealey Penguin Audio Jeremy Bobb James Clear


S&S Audio Penguin Audio


J Lupe, Stephen King Hodder Manville, Osman, Keyes Penguin Chris van Tulleken Stephen Fry


Miriam Margolyes Stephen Fry


04


Penguin Audio Pottermore John Murray Pottermore


Richard Armitage Audible Studios Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Stephen Fry Stephen Fry


Penguin Audio Pottermore Pottermore Pottermore


Miranda Raison David Mitchell


Penguin Audio Penguin Audio


Audible Audio Download Chart Date Range 1st–30th September 2023 Source Audible Physical Audio Top 5 Date Range 9th September–7th October 2023 Source Nielsen Key New Up Same Down


TheBookseller.com 98 units


Peter Harness BBC Physical Audio


117 units


It’s Never Too Late… to Play Piano Pam Wedgwood Faber


130 units


Mark Wright BBC Physical Audio


Exclusive Faustian pact pays dividends for Osman


Physical Audio Top 5


01 402 units


Children’s Top 100 Favourite Nursery Songs CRS


02 311 units


Darren Jones BBC Physical Audio


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05


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