11th April 2025


Data source Nielsen. Date range 2025 Weeks 1-13


Bestselling Books


(excluding World Book Day titles) 1 Onyx Storm


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437064


2 Sunrise on the Reaping


Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 9780702340574


3 Fourth Wing


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437019


4 Iron Flame


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437057


5 The List of Suspicious Things 90,774


Jennie Godfrey Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804942949


6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20


Easy Air Fryer Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph, 9780241733431


Orbital Samantha Harvey Vintage, 9781529922936


My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes Penguin, 9781405945424


The Crash Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen, 9781464228636


The Women Kristin Hannah Pan Books, 9781035005697


The Housemaid Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512


Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781338896459


85,512 78,941 78,310 77,534 75,355 74,411 73,092


A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury, 9781526605399


Blue Sisters Coco Mellors Fourth Estate, 9780008623036


The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins Hay House UK, 9781788176187


67,757 64,029 62,608


Butter Asako Yuzuki; Polly Barton (trans) Fourth Estate, 9780008511685


The Trading Game Gary Stevenson Penguin, 9781802062731


Atomic Habits James Clear Random House Business, 9781847941831


The Wrong Sister Claire Douglas Penguin, 9781405957618


The Strawberry Patch… Laurie Gilmore HarperCollins, 9780008713348


61,405 60,809 60,296 50,226 49,466 30 Charts


First quarter of 2025: market flat, but Rebecca Yarros storms to the top


T


he clocks have gone forward, the sun is shining and tempera- tures are rising – so, with a quarter of 2025


passed, it feels like a good time to take the temperature of the book market. It is more or less flat year- on-year, according to data provided by Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market with sales hitting £392.2m in the first 13 weeks of 2025 – excluding the free World Book Day titles – up the barest of margins (0.1%) on the same period in 2024, the equivalent of £339,927. This data runs up to the end of


Saturday 29th March, so covers the run-up to Mother’s Day in both years. But with Easter coming two weeks later in 2025, delaying the


start of the school holidays, there is still a little bit of an issue with doing a like-for-like comparison. For instance, titles which feature the word “Easter” delivered £3.3m in the previous 12 months compared to 2025’s £1.8m – meaning that this year’s sales figure may be healthier than it initially appears. Volume sales are down 2.1% in


the same period – nearly 900,000 units – almost a third of which can be accounted for by the slower start to Easter sales. It means that this year’s average selling price is sitting at a strong £9.05 – a 17p rise on 2024 – which is perhaps no surprise, considering this year’s two biggest books so far are Rebecca Yarros’ Onyx Storm and Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping.


Yarros’ Onyx Storm is one of only three titles to sell more than 100,000 copies so far in 2025 – the second being Collins’ Hunger Games prequel


91,460 103,672 157,812 226,725


Charts Market Spotlight


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