Fiction (p48) and Non-fiction (p49) charts in full I
t has been a good week for Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders with sales of 30,484 copies, a growth of 21.2% week-on-week
and 8.3% more than The Last Devil to Die achieved in the same week in 2023. With lifetime sales of 360,827
units, Osman’s latest hardback moves to the top of the 2024 best- seller list, leapfrogging over, well, himself by pushing the paperback edition of The Last Devil to Die into second place. Butter by Asako Yuzuki bucks
the trend this week and finds itself sliding up the charts into sixth place. Already popular in indie bookshops, sales have risen 70% week-on-week as it enjoys its first full week in the Waterstones Book of the Year spotlight. The highest new release in the
Original Fiction chart is Brandon Sanderson’s Wind and Truth. The hotly anticipated fifth instalment in The Stormlight Archive has sold 11,736 copies, despite a hefty £30 RRP. Rhythm of War – the fourth
BookScan TCM volume 6,680,039 16.1% week on week BookScan TCM value (£) 66,204,860 18.8% week on week
in the series – was released during lockdown in 2020 and so we don’t have launch-week sales figures for it, but it is a 484% improvement on November 2023’s Defiant. Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is
the fifth bestselling book of the week and is sitting comfortably atop the Mass Market Fiction (MMF) chart with sales of 24,213 units: a 3.4% rise week on week and nearly 14,000 more copies than its nearest rival – Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, which climbs one place to take the second spot in the MMF chart. ITV’s primetime hit The 1% Club has seen its success replicated in
the Paperback Non-Fiction chart as it takes a second consecutive week at number one and moves into the overall top 10 for the first time with sales of 14,938 – a 74.1% growth compared with the previous seven days. However, the most impressive
growth in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart comes from David Grann’s The Wager, with sales jumping 210% following a recommendation from Ben Miller on BBC Two’s Between the Covers. It pushes it into the overall top 50 with sales of 7,429 copies – a volume rise of more than 5,000 units. Christmas finally seems to have
kicked into gear in bookshops across the country as the calendar has turned to December. Volume sales have risen 16.1% to 6.7 million books sold, bringing with it a total value of £66.2m – up 18.8%. This is still not enough to match
2023, though: volume sales are down 1.3% with value increase of 1% – a miss of around £900,000.
REPORTING Alex Call UK Top 50 21 Pinch of Nom: All in One Kay & Kate Allinson Bluebird, 9781529079487 22 Cher Cher HarperCollins, 9780008355340 23 The Hotel Avocado Bob Mortimer Simon & Schuster , 9781398529625 Bluebird, 9781035054565
UNI TS 10,207
9,498 9,471 24 Pinch of Nom: Air Fryer Kay & Kate Allinson 25 Beano Annual 2025 DC Thomson, 9781845359911 26 Unleashed Boris Johnson Alison Green, 9780702329432 William Collins, 9780008618209 27 Jonty Gentoo Donaldson; Scheffler 28 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Piatkus Books, 9780349437057 HarperCollins Children’s, 9780007365548 9,467 9,444 9,431 9,360 9,326 29 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr Seuss 30 A Pawtobiography Ted the Dog Ebury Spotlight, 9781529944969 9,246 8,986 31 The Book of Gifts Lucy Claire Dunbar Michael Joseph, 9780241719176 32 Intermezzo Sally Rooney Faber, 9780571365463 33 Dear Santa Rod Campbell Macmillan Children’s, 9781529050714 Macmillan Children’s, 9781529087086 Macmillan, 9781035041084 HarperCollins, 9780008305857
UNI TS 8,895
8,858 8,447 34 What the Ladybird... Donaldson; Monks 35 Match Annual 2025 8,195 8,148 36 Super Sleuth David Walliams; Adam Stower 37 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2025 Century, 9781529941203 38 Weird but true! 2025 Collins, 9780008694128 39 Our Family Favourites Hairy Bikers Seven Dials, 9781399607322 40 All That Matters Chris Hoy Hodder, 9781399741842 7,995 7,917 7,814 7,789 7,715 41 Dogs and Their Humans Noel Fitzpatrick Simon & Schuster , 9781398539433 Arrow Books, 9780099533672
UNI TS 7,673
42 The Truth About Melody Browne Lisa Jewell 43 Think Twice Harlan Coben 44 The Wager David Grann Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804943410 Simon & Schuster, 9781471183706 Guinness World Records, 9781913484521 7,589 7,509 7,429 45 Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2025 46 The Wrong Sister Claire Douglas Penguin , 9781405957618 Bloomsbury, 9781526605399 7,371 7,365 47 A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J Maas 48 Viz Annual 2025 Diamond, 9781916421950 Bloomsbury Children’s, 9781408872413 7,346 7,317 49 We’re Going on an Elf Chase Mumford; Hughes 50 Minecraft Annual 2025 Farshore, 9780008615673 7,214 7,159 47
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