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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


10 is Jane McDonald’s Let the Light In which cruises into eighth place. In the Non-Fiction Paperback,


Rory Stewart holds onto the top spot, with the other titles in the top 10 shuffling around to make room for Adam Richardson’s How to Build a Body That Lasts, while the paperback edition of Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women positions itself in 10th. The Children’s Top 20 sees only one other new release aside from


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan


Simon & Schuster Faber


Bloomsbury Cornerstone Ebury


Little, Brown Hodder


Children’s: Pre-school Title


1 Jonty Gentoo


2 The Dinosaur that Pooped... ! 3 We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt 4 Sticker Dolly Dressing... Party 5 That’s Not My Pumpkin‥ 6 Funnybones 


     


7 Ten Little Pumpkins   


9 Paddington’s Trick or Treat 10Dear Zoo  


11Bluey: The Most Amazing... 12Spot’s Happy Halloween    


17Bluey: Goodnight Fruit Bat 18Bluey: Let’s Get Spooky  


£2.92m £1.87m £1.10m £862k £844k £728k £700k £612k £603k £403k


Doyle and Rick Riordan’s titles: Bill Wood’s YA novel Let’s Split Up in sixth. But in kids’, it’s still really all about Halloween with four spooky books inside the top 10.


Overall this week, volume sales through the TCM grew 6.7% versus last week to 3.5 million with value stepping ahead slightly further, up 8.9% to £35.1m. Against 2023, though, the volume dropped 2.3% with the value down 2.6%.


Hot titles abound but backlist drives gains


Alex Call  W Author; Illustrator Imprint Puffin


Bloomsbury Usborne Usborne


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 0702329432 £7.46 Tom Fletcher et al Martha Mumford Fiona Watt Fiona Watt


Janet & Allan Ahlberg Mike Brownlow


Puffin Books Orchard


8 Room on the Broom Halloween... Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Michael Bond Rod Campbell -


Eric Hill


13Peppa Pig: Spooky Clubhouse - 14The Very Hungry Caterpillar 15Ten Minutes to Bed 16Room on the Broom  


Eric Carle


Ladybird Puffin


Rhiannon Fielding; C Chatterton Ladybird Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan - -


Ladybird Ladybird


19Sticker Dolly Dressing Halloween Fiona Watt; N Figg & S Baggett Usborne 20Supertato Night of the Living... Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


1 The Dagger and the Flame 2 Wrath of the Triple Goddess 3 Let’s Split Up


4 Impossible Creatures 5 Powerless 6 Reckless 


     


7 Turtle Moon 


10A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 11Powerful 


  


12The Scarlet Shedder   


14The Majorly Awkward BFF... 15Cobweb   


0241488836 £4.35 1526660404 £4.30 1835408407 £4.65 1805072645 £4.21 0140565812 £4.75 1408366684 £4.64 1035025329 £4.28


HarperCollins 0008604011 £8.66 Macmillan Ladybird Puffin


1529074932 £4.34 0241714942 £9.43 0241654293 £4.54 0241666081 £4.33 0241003008 £4.64 0241687826 £4.47 1035050703 £4.75 0241486795 £4.20 0241574201 £5.64 1474986922 £4.98


Simon & Schuster 1471189234 £4.26


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 8,904 7,224 6,327 5,183 4,450 4,447 2,904 2,715 2,691 2,609 2,590 2,551 2,392 2,380 2,370 2,250 2,055 2,052 2,045 1,938


hile Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift and Charli XCX’s “Brat Summer”


took over pop music in the past few months, a strong paperback Fiction market was also led by a trio of women: Colleen Hoover, Freida McFadden and Sarah J Maas. More than 14 million paperbacks


were sold in the 12 weeks from 30th June through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market Fiction category—up over a million copies (or 9.8%) against the same period last year. Value sales, meanwhile, surged 10.1% to £101.7m. The average selling price rose slightly as well—from £7.14 to £7.17—suggesting that the surge has been driven by higher footfall rather than any price discounting. With Hoover’s It Ends with Us spending nine weeks inside the top 10 in the period we’re looking at—including two weeks at number one, helped by its film adaptation


Author; Illustrator Catherine Doyle Rick Riordan Bill Wood


Katherine Rundell Lauren Roberts Lauren Roberts Hannah Gold


8 Dexter Procter the 10-Year-Old... Adam Kay 9 Class Action


John Patrick Green Holly Jackson Lauren Roberts Dav Pilkey


13The Haunted House on Hollow... Derek Landy Katie Kirby


16Harry Potter and the... Stone 17The Impossible Pig 18Diper Överlöde  


16 4th October 2024


Michael Morpurgo J K Rowling Jamie Smart Jeff Kinney


19A Bad God’s Guide to Making... Louie Stowell 20The Extremely... Lottie Brooks Katie Kirby


Imprint Scholastic Bloomsbury ISBN (+978) ASP Volume


Simon & Schuster 1398528376 £16.76 12,928 Puffin


0241691694 £12.00 12,689 0702338526 £5.18 1408897430 £6.23


Simon & Schuster 1398529489 £5.56 Simon & Schuster 1398530126 £5.51 HarperCollins 0008582050 £13.19 Puffin


Macmillan


0241668597 £9.36 1035015436 £7.20


Electric Monkey 1405293181 £6.40 Simon & Schuster 1398535732 £5.62 Scholastic


1338896435 £8.92


HarperCollins 0008708474 £14.05 Puffin


0241647257 £9.10


HarperCollins 0008352134 £13.11 Bloomsbury


1408855652 £6.62


David Fickling 1788453127 £7.15 Puffin


0241583104 £5.11


Walker Books 1529515800 £6.28 Puffin


0241460887 £5.56


6,162 4,813 3,155 2,854 2,215 2,200 1,902 1,816 1,804 1,712 1,642 1,634 1,600 1,499 1,445 1,440 1,358 1,291


being released in cinemas—it’s no surprise to see that she is the author with the biggest volume sales, at over half a million units (552,635). What may be surprising is that this is actually down 15% when compared to her standout performance in the summer of 2023. Despite robust results from It Ends with Us and its sequel It Starts wth Us—up 31% against 2023—sales of Hoover’s backlist have dropped 97,000 copies, down from her BookTok-driven previous summer. If Colleen Hoover isn’t respon-


sible for 2024’s bumper paperback summer, who is? Claire Douglas, for one, who gave us the summer’s bestselling individual title, The Wrong Sister, which shifted nearly 50,000 more copies in the period against her 2023 thriller The Woman Who Lied (Penguin).


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