Charts Digital


Monthly E-Book Sales Ranking


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mns title author 1 Into the Water


3 The Handmaid’s Tale 1 The Babylon Idol 1 Need You Dead 7 Night School 1 Assassin’s Fate


5 The Couple Next Door 4 Small Great Things 5 Conclave


10 2 The Thirst 11 6 I See You 12 2 The Fix 13 1 Girl A


14 1 He Said/She Said 15 28 The Girl on the Train 16 1 The Clever Guts Diet 17 2 The Girl Before 18 6 This Was a Man 19 4 Truly Madly Guilty 20 1 American Gods 21 1 Love Me Not


22 1 No Middle Name 23 3 Big Little Lies


24 1 The Queen of Wishful Thinking 25 2 Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay 26 3 This Must Be the Place 27 1 The Forever House 28 4 Sapiens


29 1 I Never Gave My Consent 30 2 Thirteen Reasons Why 31 3 Dead to Me


32 1 Lord of Shadows 33 1 The Dark Prophecy 34 4 My Not So Perfect Life 35 1 The Burial Hour 36 1 The Villa in Italy 37 1 Against All Odds


38 5 Lion: A Long Way Home 39 1 Last Piece of My Heart 40 5 The Flame Bearer 41= 1 The Black Book 41= 7 The Last Mile 43 4 The Girls


imprint Paula Hawkins


Margaret Atwood Scott Mariani Peter James Lee Child


Robin Hobb Shari Lapena Jodi Picoult Robert Harris Jo Nesbo


Clare Mackintosh David Baldacci Girl A


Erin Kelly


Paula Hawkins Michael Mosley J P Delaney


Jeffrey Archer Liane Moriarty Neil Gaiman M J Arlidge Lee Child


Liane Moriarty Milly Johnson Jill Mansell


Maggie O’Farrell Veronica Henry


Yuval Noah Harari Holly Archer Jay Asher


Lesley Pearse


Cassandra Clare Rick Riordan


Sophie Kinsella Jeffrey Deaver


Transworld Vintage


HarperCollins Macmillan Transworld


HarperCollins Transworld Hodder


Cornerstone Vintage Sphere


Macmillan Ebury


Hodder


Transworld Short Books Quercus


Macmillan


Michael Joseph Headline


Michael Joseph Transworld


Michael Joseph S&S


Headline


Tinder Press Orion


Vintage S&S


Puffin Fiction Michael Joseph S&S


Puffin Fiction Transworld Hodder


Elizabeth Edmondson HarperCollins Danielle Steel Saroo Brierley Paige Toon


Macmillan


Michael Joseph S&S


Bernard Cornwell James Patterson David Baldacci Emma Cline


44 5 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Joanna Cannon 45 4 The Kept Woman 46 1 Dunstan


47 4 Behind Closed Doors 48 1 Admissions


49 1 The House on Bellevue Gardens 50 1 Adults in the Room


Henry Marsh Rachel Hore


Yanis Varoufakis


Karin Slaughter Conn Iggulden B A Paris


HarperCollins Cornerstone Macmillan Vintage


HarperCollins Cornerstone


Michael Joseph HarperCollins W&N S&S


Vintage WORDS Kiera O’Brien e% of monthly total


e sales 35,421 19,709 17,407 16,229 12,349 11,074 11,015 9,316 9,299 9,092 8,323 8,290 8,066 7,815 7,688 7,535 7,520 7,498 7,387 7,076 6,967 6,732 6,657 6,318 5,827 5,710 5,100 5,047 5,015 4,886 4,802 4,587 4,576 4,462 4,357 4,197 4,057 4,014 3,911 3,830 3,771 3,771 3,769 3,709 3,668 3,636 3,575 3,566 3,516 3,436


108,766 units, back in April 2015. However, this is probably less a judgement on Hawkins’ appeal and more a sign of the fortunes of the e-book market. While in April two years ago “e” represented nearly 70% of The Girl on the Train’s total sales across all formats, in May 2017 Into the Water’s print volume hit 96,913 copies (and with a hard- back’s a.s.p. of more than £10), giving digital just a 25% slice of the all-format sales pie. In the time that readers have come to trust Hawkins as a writer worth spending a tenner on, they also appear to have begun to aban-


don their e-readers. The Handmaid’s Tale spent a third month in the ranking, but soared into its highest posi- tion yet: second place. Though the television adaptation only began on Channel 4 in the last weekend of May, it managed to hit the Weekly E-Book Rank- ing pole before the series had even begun—so it was no doubt racking up considerable sales throughout May. Aside from Into the Water, new hardback fiction titles had a great month in “e”, with Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Fate scoring fiſth place, Erin Kelly’s He Said/ She Said going straight into 12th, and Child’s short-story collec- tion No Middle Name hiting 19th place. ×


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Date range 1st–31st May 2016 Titles with a digital list price of less than £2 are excluded.


Participating publishers: Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster, Faber Factory, Canongate, Walker Books and Bonnier Zaffre. MNS months in chart


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