11th April 2025


Charts


The sun shines on the reaping: three weeks at the top for Suzanne Collins


The fifth book in the Hunger Games series holds onto first place despite a drop in sales, while it is a strong first week for Elif Shafak


S Week ending 5th April 2025


uzanne Collins has reaped even more rewards by claiming a third week at the top of the Official UK Top 50


with Sunrise on the Reaping, according to the latest data from Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). The fifth book in the Hunger


Games universe sold 23,288 copies, down 40.8% week-on-week, but manages to stay ahead of its nearest rival – Lee and Andrew Child’s In Too Deep. The latest Jack Reacher title keeps hold of second place and has now sold 42,881 copies in its first two weeks


on sale, down 16.5% against the same period for 2024’s The Secret. The Childs’ performance is still


enough to keep it at the top of the Mass-Market Fiction chart, with more than twice the sales of second- placed Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, which makes its debut paperback appearance with 9,235 copies. An auspicious start for Shafak: her The Island of Missing Trees sold less than half that amount when it was released in April 2022, but has gone on to sell more than a quarter of a million copies. Shafak’s sales were helped by her inclusion in Waterstones’ Book of the Month promotion, and make it


the third-highest new entry of the week, taking the fifth slot in the Top 50 behind Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake and Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell, which take third and fourth place thanks to exclusive editions from FairyLoot. The Atlas Complex, Blake’s most


recent novel released in hardback in January 2024, sold 6,505 copies in its first week, with her 2025 offer- ing selling 12,557 copies, a 93% rise. Meanwhile, the special edition of Where Shadows Meet has sold 10,143 units – it is the author’s first time published in hardback, but it completely outstrips her previous YA title A Phoenix First Must Burn, which has only sold 749 copies since being published in 2020. Blake also takes first place in the Original Fiction (OF) Top 20 ahead of Rebecca Yarros’ Onyx Storm, which rises back into second place, despite a 21.4% drop in week-on- week sales. The second biggest new entry in OF is Amelia Ireland’s debut, The Seven O’Clock Club,


Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky has more than doubled the first-week sales of her last book


The Official 1  Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 9780702340574 19 Data


Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.


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Key No move New entry Climbing Re-entry Falling


2  In Too Deep Lee & Andrew Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675 3  Gifted & Talented Olivie Blake Tor, 9781035011377 Hot Key, 9781471417337


UNI TS 23,288


22,282 12,557 4  Where Shadows Meet Patrice Caldwell 5  There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak Penguin, 9780241988749 6  The Women Kristin Hannah Pan Books, 9781035005697 7  Gozzle Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan Children’s, 9781529076417 8  Breaking the Dark Lisa Jewell Puffin, 9780241488812 Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804947906 10,143 9,235 8,249 8,127 7,119 9  The Dinosaur That Poop... Poynter & Fletcher 10  Sticker... Easter Egg Hunt Watt; Dogliani Usborne, 9781805072430 6,716 6,713 11  The Dark Wives Ann Cleeves Pan Books, 9781529077780 12  My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes Penguin, 9781405945424 13  Someone Is Lying Heidi Perks Orion, 9781398707672 Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804946466


UNI TS 6,707


6,696 6,554 14  All the Colours of the Dark Chris Whitaker HarperCollins, 9780008713348 Scholastic, 9780702340291 6,504 15  The Strawberry Patch Pan... Laurie Gilmore 16  The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey 17  Ward D Freida McFadden Puffin, 9780241591246 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228575 6,074 5,993 5,927 18  There’s a Bunny in Your Book Tom Fletcher 19  The Trading Game Gary Stevenson Penguin, 9781802062731 Penguin (Transworld), 9781804994528 5,708 5,622 20  Death at the Sign of the Rook Kate Atkinson 5,499


Charts


The Top 50


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