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Only two titles to date have exceeded sales of 200,000 through Nielsen BookScan in 2021
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QUENTIN TARANTINO LANDED JUST OUTSIDE THE TOP 10
of the year, when Nielsen was unable to report them). Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and Robert Galbraith’s Troubled Blood remained firm in second and third place overall, and the pair once again topped the Mass- Market Fiction top 20, with barely 500 copies between them. So far, 2021 truly belongs to paperback fiction, with 14 of the overall top 20 (since 14th March) titles
coming from the category, and The Thursday Murder Club head and shoulders above the rest of the chart in the top spot. Osman’s cosy crime title and Mat Haig’s The Midnight Library are so far the only two titles to surpass 200,000 units sold. However, we should keep in mind that paperback fiction titles do generally have a strong spring/summer, and non-fiction’s January “New Year,
new you” haul is missing from the year-to-date figures, given Lockdown 3.0 was in effect. With World Book Day also taking place just before numbers returned, the Children’s category also missed out on an injection of titles into the bestseller charts. Continues overleaf
ess Gerritsen and Gary Braver’s Choose Me picked out the Bookstat number one spot for the week ending 3rd July. Kindle Unlimited
titles tend to have a strong first week of the month in the chart, and the crime title was joined by Hilary Davidson’s Her Last Breath and Kelly Harms’ The Seven Day Switch in the top three. Fellow Amazon- published titles Carol Wyer’s A Cut for a Cut, Camille Baker’s Have We Met? and Brittainy Cherry’s The Mixtape also thundered into the top 10. Mhairi McFarlane’s Last Night, whose Kindle
price dropped to 99p last week, charted seventh, as Kerry Wilkinson’s The Child in the Photo hit eighth. Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club once
again reigned atop the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 26th June, despite a barrage of new entries into the top 10. Karin Slaughter’s False Witness, M J Arlidge’s Truth or Dare, Lesley Pearse’s Suspects and Clare Mackintosh’s Hostage debuted in the top five, as Robert Galbraith’s Troubled Blood surged into the top 10 as its paperback was issued.
Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1
Title Choose Me 2 Her Last Breath
3 The Seven Day Switch 4 The Family Upstairs 5 The Serial Killer’s Wife 6 A Cut for a Cut 7 Last Night
8 The Child in the Photo 9 Have We Met? 10 The Mixtape
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TESS GERRITSEN TOPPED THE BOOKSTAT CHART
Clarification Hachette has stated that The Child in the Photo sold 6,276 copies.
Imprint
Gerritsen & Braver Thomas & Mercer Hilary Davidson Thomas & Mercer Kelly Harms Lake Union Lisa Jewell Cornerstone Alice Hunter Avon
Carol Wyer Thomas & Mercer Mhairi McFarlane HarperCollins Kerry Wilkinson Bookouture Camille Baker Lake Union Brittainy Cherry Montlake
ISBN (+978) Volume 1542026154 23,357 1542028691 1542028899 1787461482 0008414078 1542020930 0008169534 1800195042 1542029858 1542018364
14,366 7,896 6,878 6,223 5,938 5,278 5,127 4,931 4,529
Data source Bookstat. Week ending 3rd July 2021. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact
info@bookstat.com.
The Publisher E-Book Ranking 1
Title The Thursday Murder Club
2 False Witness 3 Truth or Dare Suspects
4 5 Hostage
6 The Missing Sister 7 Troubled Blood Hamnet
8 9 Freed 10 Shuggie Bain Author
Imprint
Richard Osman Viking Adult Slaughter, Karin HarperCollins M J Arlidge Orion
Lesley Pearse Michael Joseph Clare Mackintosh Little, Brown Lucinda Riley Macmillan Robert Galbraith Little, Brown Maggie O’Farrell Headline E L James Cornerstone Douglas Stuart Picador
ISBN (+978) 0241988275 0008303525 1409188483 1405944625 0751577099 1509840205 0751579963 1472223814 1473597273 1529019308
List price £5.99 £9.99 £6.99 £9.99 £7.99 £9.99 £4.99 £4.99 £5.99 £5.99
Week ending 26th June 2021. Key New Up Same Down. 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, Bonnier Zaffre, Canongate & Joffe Books.
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