2017 Year of publication for Amor Towles’ stalwart Gentleman in Moscow
Year-to-date Fiction Heatseekers Excitement builds for Dolan’s début
Heatseekers chart for the year to date. Débuts, award winners and
quirkier word-of-mouth hits tend to find their home in the Heatseekers chart. Emma Stonex’s hardback début The Lamplighters charted third, while Ingrid Persaud’s Costa First Novel Award-winner Love After Love killed two birds with one stone in seventh place. Kohei Horikoshi’s graphic
novel My Hero Academia zipped into 11th place. The series, which recently saw its 28th title released in the UK, has shifted a
Exciting Times’ weekly volume has fallen below 1,000 copies sold just twice since bookshops reopened
EMMA STONEX ABOVE AND NAOISE DOLAN LEFT BOTH FARED WELL IN THE HEATSEEKERS LIST
whisker under half a million copies through the TCM in total. The first title tends to see a sales bounce, often accompanied by bagging a Fiction Heatseekers chart berth, with every new issue in the long- running series. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s
Title
1 Exciting Times 2 A Sister’s War
3 The Lamplighters 4 If I Can’t Have You 5 The Best Things 6 Meet Me in Hawaii 7 Love After Love 8 The Passenger
9 A Gentleman in Moscow 11 My Hero Academia, Vol. 1 Author Imprint
Naoise Dolan W&N Molly Green Avon Emma Stonex Picador
Georgia Toffolo Mills & Boon Ingrid Persaud Faber & Faber Ulrich A Boschwitz Pushkin Amor Towles Windmill
10 The Cottage on Sunshine Beach Holly Martin Sphere Kohei Horikoshi Viz
13 The Phone Box at the Edge... 14 Nineteen Eighty-Four
15 The Never-Ending Summer
17 Spring at Blueberry Bay 18 Meet Me in London 19 It Ends With Us
12 The Miseducation... Evie Epworth Matson Taylor Scribner Laura Imai Messina Manilla
ISBN (+978) Volume 1474613460 0008332501 1529047318
Charlotte Levin Pan 1529032420 Mel Giedroyc
George Orwell William Collins Emma Kennedy Arrow
16 The Cottage of New Beginnings Suzanne Snow Canelo Escape Holly Martin Sphere Georgia Toffolo Mills & Boon
20 The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon Bloomsbury
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21,295 16,301 14,633 13,900 12,785 12,256 11,830 11,604 11,541 11,333 11,081 10,967 10,788 10,742 10,741 10,160 10,133 9,645 9,578 9,229
The Passenger, written in 1938 in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, was republished by Pushkin in April, and has thun- dered into the Heatseekers top 20, charting eighth. The chart’s lean to classic political dystopias is still evident: George Orwell’s once dominant Nineteen Eighty- Four still scores a respectable 14th place, though it appears a little diminished compared to its
sales in the Trump presidency era. However, the book-buying public’s move towards comfort reading during the pandemic is clear. Gentle romantic fiction—and particularly romantic fiction in that currently most elusive of settings, a glorious summertime and/or exotic destination—domi- nated the top 20.
Date Range 14th March to 26th June 2021 Source Nielsen
In the spotlight
A Sister’s War Molly Green Avon
Molly Green’s latest historical saga A Sister’s War breezed into second spot in the Fiction Heatseekers chart. Released just as numbers returned to the BookScan charts, A Sister’s War is already nipping at the heels of 2020 predecessor A Sister’s Song.
The Best Things Mel Giedroyc Headline Review Comedian and former host of “The Great British Bake Off” in its original (and best) BBC iteration, Mel Giedroyc’s début has performed strongly in hardback to date, charting fifth in the Fiction Heatseekers chart.
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