Charts Digital D


AVID WALLIAMS AND Tony Ross’ The World’s Worst Children 3 has scorched


into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot. With a first- week volume of 77,794 copies sold, the third title in the series of short story collections is the fastest-selling book of the year to date. Though last Novem- ber’s Bad Dad still holds the duo’s record for straight out- of-the-gate sales, The World’s Worst Children 3 outperformed its predecessors in the series, with a 33% jump in first-week volume on 2017’s The World’s Worst Children 2.


As is traditional for a new


Walliams title, his backlist expe- rienced a boost. The Midnight Gang jumped nine places in the top 50, in its 17th week in the chart, while the Children’s & YA Fiction top 20 was overrun with his titles. Ten charted in total, with Billionaire Boy and The World’s Worst Children 2— joining The World’s Worst Children, which made its re-entry a week ago—climbing. The World’s ren 3’s 0,91


World’s


ren, which -entry a climbing.


Even with The World’s Worst Children 3 s value (£570,918) stripped out, the author’s haul


t, th


18) he


jumped 47% week on week. The Children’s market bene- fited too, increasing in value 4% year on year. Volume tipped over the million-copy mark, making this year’s summer half- term holiday 3.7% beter for book sales than 2017’s.


Marian Keyes’ The Break frac- tured Paula Hawkins’ run at the top of the Mass-Market Fiction chart, with 23,867 copies sold in its first three days on sale. It is the author’s best launch-week sale since 2009’s This Charming Man, up 26% up on the initial The Woman Who


sales of 2015’s TheWoman Who Stole My Life The. The


Break gave Keyes her 15th week in total atop the category chart.


char


Heads also rolled in the hardback charts,arts, with Anthony Horowitz’s


rolled in cha


y ) www.thebookseller.com 11 T&Cs


Data is for week ending 26th May 2018 Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster and Bonnier. WKS the number of weeks in chart. DLP digital list price.


op EXCLUSIVE Weekly E-Book Ranking wks title author imprint


1 50 Eleanor Oliphant... Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2 16 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 2 Dead if You Don’t 1 The Outsider


3 4


5 12 This is Going to Hurt 6 22 The Handmaid’s Tale 7 28 The Midnight Line 8


Heather Morris Peter James Stephen King Adam Kay


Margaret Atwood Lee Child


9 17 Then She Was Gone 10 8 Little Fires Everywhere 11 10 Two Kinds of Truth


HarperCollins Zaffre


Macmillan Hodder Picador Vintage


Transworld


8 The Guernsey Literary and Potato... A Barrows & M A Shaffer Bloomsbury Lisa Jewell Celeste Ng


12 30 The Keeper of Lost Things 13 4 The Burning Chambers


Michael Connelly Ruth Hogan Kate Mosse


14 13 The Girl Who Takes... Eye for an Eye David Lagercrantz 15 6 The Fallen


16 1 Portnoy’s Complaint 17 17 Still Me 18 1 Recovery 19 24 Origin


20 9 All the Light We Cannot See


E-Book Ranking number one spot forever, but as the print charts have taught us, the Honeyman period is a long way from being over. The Costa First Novel Award-winner returned to spend a 16th week at the top of the e-book list, with its old companion The Tattooist of Auschwitz also returning, into second place. It means Peter James’ Dead if You Don’t, which spectacularly inter- rupted the part a week ago, was banished to third place. Since the first week of March, the Oliphant–Tattooist team has topped the weekly chart nine times.


A


Stephen King’s The Outsider was the highest new entry, charting fourth in a dry week for fresh-faced releases—only Russell Brand’s Recovery (18th) and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (16th) joined him. Roth enters the exclusive club of authors who kly


have débuted in the Weekly E-Book Ranking posthumously, seemingly as a direct result of the news of their deaths break- ing. The varied bunch includes Stephen Hawking, Carrie


Fisher, A A Gill and Philip Kerr. umber


ip K one Margaret Atwood’s The


Former seven-week number The


mously, ult of break- cludes e


David Baldacci Philip Roth Jojo Moyes


Russell Brand Dan Brown


Anthony Doerr


WEEK AGO IT seemed Eleanor Oliphant... had packed her trunk and bade farewell to the Weekly


Hodder Mantle


Quercus


Macmillan Vintage Penguin Bluebird


Transworld Fourth Estate


Cornerstone Little, Brown Orion


WORDS Kiera O’Brien isbn (978+) dlp


0008172138 £3.99 1785763663 £2.99 1509816385 £16.99 1473676411 £9.99 1509858644 £8.99 1446485477 £5.99 1473542297 £4.99 1408803318 £7.67 1473538337 £2.99 1408709702 £3.99 1409147565 £3.99 1473635494 £3.99 1509806867 £16.99 0857056443 £3.99 1509874309 £14.99 1409040750 £4.99 1405924214 £9.99 1509844968 £8.99 1473543348 £6.99 0007548682 £2.99


Handmaid’s Tale returned to the ranking, as the television adaptation’s second series returns to make Sunday nights even more depressing. Another former number one, Michael Connelly’s Two Kinds of Truth— a nine-week veteran of the e-book chart following its hardback release—made a return in 11th place, following its paperback publication a week ago.


Some of the year’s most-persistent e-book ranking hangers-on rebounded back into the list in the run-up to the late May Bank Holiday weekend—likely the starting gun for the beginning of the holiday reading period. Former number ones Jojo Moyes’ Still Me and Dan Brown’s Origin—both, crucially, still only available in hardback in print—bounced back into the top 20, with David Lagercrantz’s The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, David Baldacci’s The Fallen and Kate Mosse’s The Burning Chambers all climbing week on week too. Adam Kay’s T


Adam Kay’ This is Going to Hurt racked up a


racked up a 12th week in the e-book chart, as it, as it dominates the Paper- back Nonback Non-Fiction top 20 in print. It’s only t ing Saroo


as the non-fiction title with the longest s


list, which stands at 14 weeks. ×


s only three weeks shy of break- ing Saroo Brierley’s Lion record as the no


longest stay in the weekly digital list, whic


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48