Charts International Heatseekers Fiction


Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant... has been one of the début successes of 2017


fearmongering demagogue” who “runs for president—and wins”. However, It Can’t Happen Here charted inside the top 50 in February, cresting in 42nd place and thus ruling itself out of the Heatseekers chart. Nineteen Eight-Four missed out on a top 50 place by a scant 200 copies, yet has continued to sell consist- ently throughout the year. Its sales spiked again in the first week of June—aſter Trump criti- cised Mayor of London Sadiq


200 copies, y


Khan following the Borough Market terrorist atacks—and again in mid-August, follow- ing the Charlotesville neo- Nazi marches. However, poor George (or whoever controls his estate) may have to wait for either Trump’s impeachment or full authoritarianism in the US before Nineteen Eight-Four gets another chance to crack the top 50.


The Heatseekers chart is


obviously a natural stomp- ing ground for début authors, whether they’re selling strongly enough in hardback—see Gail


www.thebookseller.com


Even Leo Tolstoy only made the [top 50] grade when War and Peace was adapted for the BBC’s Sunday night schedule last year


Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine or J P Delaney’s The Girl Before—or the recipi- ent of an award-win boost—like Costa First Novel Award-winner Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill. Keith Stuart’s début A Boy Made of Blocks is a rare example of a Richard & Judy Book Club title that fell short of the top 50 while still flying off the shelves consistently, week aſter week. Film and television adapta- tions generally give their source material a boost up the charts, though some are more under the radar than others. Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle has no doubt been assisted into the Heatseekers top 20 by its Amazon Prime adaptation—its volume has jumped 378% since 2014. Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, on the other hand, won’t see its Steven Spielberg- directed film adaptation hit UK cinemas until March 2018, but it’s already scaling the book charts, placing ninth for the year to date. ×


Heatseekers Fiction (2017) title


1 Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 A Boy Made of Blocks 3 A Shilling for a Wife 4 Golden Hill


5 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine 6 The Girl Before 7 A Dog’s Purpose


8 Among the Lemon Trees 9 Ready Player One 10 Lord of the Flies 11 Black Widow


12 The Other Mrs Walker 13 Animal Farm


14 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 15 The Chalk Pit


16 Mothering Sunday 17 The One


18 All That Man Is


19 The Man in the High Castle 20 The Course of Love


author


George Orwell Keith Stuart


Emma Hornby Francis Spufford Gail Honeyman J P Delaney


W Bruce Cameron Nadia Marks Ernest Cline


William Golding Chris Brookmyre Mary Paulson-Ellis George Orwell


imprint isbn (978+) Penguin Sphere Corgi


Faber & Faber HarperCollins Quercus Pan Pan


Arrow


Faber & Faber Abacus Picador Penguin


Quercus Scribner Del Rey Vintage


units


0141187761 54,523 0751563290 47,650 0552173230 42,667 0571225200 40,870 0008172114 39,679 1786480293 38,879 1509852826 37,983 1509815715 36,211 0099560432 34,632 0571191475 30,310 0349141329 28,989 1447293927 27,713 0141182704 27,572


Robert Louis Stevenson Wordsworth Editions 1853260612 27,234 Elly Griffiths Graham Swift John Marrs David Szalay Philip K Dick


1784296629 25,558 1471155246 24,173 1785035623 22,596 0099593690 22,131


Alain de Botton


Penguin Classics 0141186672 21,699 Penguin


0241962138 21,065


The climbing Elm Man Booker-shortlisted titles tend


to cluster in the Heatseekers chart around this time of year, benefiting from a steady but not spectacular boost in sales. (Except the winner.) However, Fiona Mozley’s Elmet, currently the bestseller among the 2017 Booker Heatseekers, has done even better than last year’s bookseller-turned- nominee Graeme Macrae Burnet—to date it’s outselling the winning title, George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, by 920 copies.copie


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Crime writer Mick Herron’s Slow Horses galloped up the charts when it was selected as a Waterstones Book of the Month in the summer, clinching the Heatseekers weekly number one twice during August. His follow-up Jackson Lamb thriller, , performed the


Spook Street, performed the same trick in September


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Date range 1st January–28th October 2017 The chart uses data from Nielsen BookScan US’ Total Consumer Market.


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