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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Reckless and Powerful at the top


Title 1 Reckless £31.3m £313m  TCM value 31.3m m


+10.1% WEEK O W


10.1% EK ON WEEK


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Readers rally behind new fiction, pushing series for children and young adults to the top


Zoe Knowles T


he second half of 2024 is off to a good start. Volume and value through


Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market were up by more than 10% on the previous week as 3.5 million books rang in at £31.3m. The first 26 weeks of the year fell short of the same period in 2023, but the overall outlook is optimis- tic (see pp6-9).


The second instalment in the Powerless Trilogy by Lauren Roberts rocketed straight to the top last week, earning the American fantasy author her first Official UK Top 50 number one. Reckless sold 38,028 copies in its launch week, practically tripling the first-week result of the previous book set in the world. Powerful was released in April this year,


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2 Pinch of Nom Air Fryer 3 The Wrong Sister   


  


4 Murder on Lake Garda 5 The Burnout 6 Yellowface    


7 The Running Grave 8 The Last Devil to Die 9 Politics on the Edge 10The Exchange   


11The Housemaid Is Watching 12Oh Miriam! 13The Edge     


19Emperor of Rome 20Loyalty  


21The Housemaid 22Kala  


23Fourth Wing 24Our Fair Lily 


2512 Months to Live   


30It Ends With Us  


26Ultra-Processed People 27Powerful 28The Secret 


29The Housemaid’s Secret 31Powerless 


32None of This Is True 


34 


35Death Rocks    


33Sisters Under the Rising Sun Unruly


36A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 37How They Broke Britain 38Astrochimp 39The Bee Sting   


40A Court of Mist and Fury 41Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 42Not in Love  


43It Starts With Us 44The List    


45Confessions of the Dead 46The Impossible Pig 47Ink Blood Sister Scribe 48Tom Lake  


49A Lesson in Dying 50Butter


Author; Illustrator Lauren Roberts


Kay & Kate Allinson Claire Douglas Tom Hindle


Sophie Kinsella Rebecca F Kuang Robert Galbraith Richard Osman Rory Stewart John Grisham


14A Court of Thorns and Roses 15Someone Else’s Shoes 16Taylor Swift 17The Ghost Ship 18Our Holiday  


Freida McFadden Miriam Margolyes David Baldacci Sarah J Maas Jojo Moyes


Vegara; Fallberg Kate Mosse


Louise Candlish Mary Beard


Imprint ISBN TCM total Volume


Simon & Schuster 1398530126 38,149 38,028 Bluebird Penguin Penguin Penguin


1408730973 34,599 0241992401 227,707 1529922868 58,588 1399724869


9,039 1529062113


1035054565 100,332 16,340 1405957618 11,181 10,983 1804942369 11,109 10,534 1804990810 34,681 10,390


Borough Press 0008532819 122,596 10,350 Sphere Penguin Vintage Hodder


Poisoned Pen 1464223310 48,913 John Murray 1399803373 Pan


8,433 8,271


Bloomsbury Penguin


1526605399 289,150 1405943505 126,388


Frances Lincoln 0711295087 46,051 Pan HQ


Profile


Martina Cole & J Rose Headline Freida McFadden Colin Walsh


Rebecca Yarros Rosie Goodwin


J Patterson & M Lupica Penguin Chris van Tulleken Lauren Roberts


Penguin


Lee & Andrew Child Penguin Colleen Hoover Freida McFadden Lauren Roberts Lisa Jewell


Heather Morris David Mitchell L J Ross


Holly Jackson Penguin Dark Skies James O’Brien W H Allen Penguin


Little,Brown Atlantic Piatkus Zaffre


1509806935 21,501 0008614652 1846683794


6,321 6,125


1472249494 46,170 1408728512 262,600 1838958626


5,751


0349437019 125,083 1804184431


5,124


1529160055 19,653 1529160222 85,762


Simon & Schuster 1398535732 53,770 0552177566 183,639


Simon & Schuster 1471156267 1,382,117 Little,Brown


1804940204 161,153 1786582256


4,853 0349132600 157,026


Simon & Schuster 1398529489 138,557 Penguin Zaffre


1405953191 48,849 1912310210 14,107


Electric Monkey 1405293181 593,324 0753560365 58,843


D Walliams; A Stower HarperCollins 0008587574 49,080 Paul Murray Sarah J Maas Gabrielle Zevin Ali Hazelwood Colleen Hoover Yomi Adegoke


Bloomsbury Vintage Sphere


J Patterson & J D Parker Penguin Jamie Smart Emma Törzs Ann Patchett Ann Cleeves


Simon & Schuster 1398518209 306,660 Fourth Estate 0008544539 52,615 1804948866


David Fickling 1788453127 Penguin


1529159431


Bloomsbury Pan


1526664297 29,205 1529070538 11,315


Asako Yuzuki (P Barton) Fourth Estate 0008511685 61,316


Week ending 6th July 2024. Key New Up Same Down 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.


0241984406 62,264 1526617163 165,667 1529115543 505,081 1408728901 22,668


3,576 3,557 3,680


9,769 9,684 9,577 8,985 8,574 8,352 8,236 7,981 6,953 6,632 6,624 6,278 6,103 5,992 5,809 5,435 5,336 5,111 4,913 4,911 4,905 4,858 4,727 4,654 4,649 4,360 4,337 4,300 4,282 4,166 4,069 4,024 3,974 3,917 3,903 3,665 3,659 3,578 3,561 3,514 3,494 3,491 3,469 3,452


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