4th April 2025


Charts


Collins remains hungry to spend more time at the top


Suzanne Collins reaps what she has sown with a second week at the head of a tight chasing pack


D Week ending 29th March 2025


espite a two-thirds drop in sales after a blockbuster launch, Suzanne Collins has remained at the


summit of the Official UK Top 50 with Sunrise on the Reaping (Scholastic) – the fifth book released in the Hunger Games series. With sales of 39,370 copies


through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market in the past seven days, Sunrise on the Reaping nearly doubled the performance of its nearest rival – Lee and Andrew Child’s In Too Deep (Penguin Transworld), the latest Jack Reacher paperback. The brothers have


scored first-week sales of 20,572 units, an impressive performance for most, but down 12.5% on the first week of the previous instal- ment’s The Secret in 2024. But In Too Deep is the highest of


11 new entries into this week’s Official Top 50 – which includes seven re-entries as well, following the end of the World Book Day redemption period. Gozzle (Macmillan) – Julia Donaldson’s latest collaboration with illustrator Sara Ogilvie – debuts in seventh place in the Top 10, with 8,187 copies sold. The Hospital Dog – the previ- ous title from Donaldson and Ogilvie – shifted 2,076 units in its


first week in October 2020, giving the pair a rise of 294.4% increase. Thanks to the exodus of World


Book Day books there are a lot of re-entries in the Children’s chart, but only one other new entry – Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey: The Whopping World of Puzzles (DFB Phoenix). The latest in the comic-strip series has seen sales of 4,032 copies in its first week – 33.7% more than the paperback edition of Bunny Bonanza managed upon its publication in January. In the week running up to


Mother’s Day, Kristin Hannah’s The Women (Pan) saw a 48.9% rise in sales – with 13,399 copies enough to push it to third place in the TCM, just ahead of Marian Keyes’ My Favourite Mistake (Penguin), which saw a 27.5% volume increase. Eight slots in the Top 10 this


week are taken up with fiction paperbacks, rounded off by this week’s third-biggest new release – All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Orion). The


Suzanne Collins: holding on in pole position with Sunrise on the Reaping


The Official 1  Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 9780702340574 2 Data


Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.


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Key No move New entry Climbing Re-entry Falling


2  In Too Deep Lee & Andrew Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675 3  The Women Kristin Hannah Pan Books, 9781035005697 4  My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes Penguin, 9781405945424 5  The Dark Wives Ann Cleeves Pan Books, 9781529077780 HarperCollins, 9780008713348


UNI TS 39,370


20,572 13,399 11,037 10,355 6  The Strawberry Patch Pancake… L Gilmore 7  Gozzle Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan Children's, 9781529076417 8  Ward D Freida McFadden 9  James Percival Everett Picador, 9781035031269 Orion, 9781398707672 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228575 9,990 8,187 7,734 7,522 10  All the Colours of the Dark Chris Whitaker 7,472 11  Death at the Sign of the Rook Kate Atkinson Penguin (Transworld), 9781804994528 12  Nothing to See Here Susan Lewis HarperCollins, 9780008472054 Puffin, 9780241488812


UNI TS 7,435


7,056 13  The Dinosaur That Pooped… D Poynter et al 14  The Trading Game Gary Stevenson Penguin, 9781802062731 HarperVoyager, 9780008672041 6,845 6,779 15  The Prince Without Sorrow M Wijesekara Usborne, 9781805072430 Penguin, 9780241764220 Piatkus, 9780349437019 6,678 16  Sticker Dolly Dressing… F Watt; D Dogliani 17  Cozy Corner 18  Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros 19  The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702340291 20  To the Women Donna Ashworth Black & White, 9781785307164 6,435 6,426 6,329 6,255 6,210


Charts


The Top 50


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