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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Osman’s cosy crime pays off once again


Title £28.3m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK –3.1%


Richard Osman’s sequel to his bestselling début tops the charts in the week the paperback hit bookshop shelves


Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien


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ichard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice has soared into the Official UK


Top 50 number one spot, selling 43,768 copies in its launch week. This is an almost eerily consistent launch-week showing—Osman’s début The Thursday Murder Club hit the charts in hardback in September 2020, selling 45,037 copies in its first week, then its paperback arrived on the scene in May 2021 with 44,096 copies sold. The Man Who Died Twice’s paperback shiſted just 418 copies fewer last week. Have we identi- fied the core Osman fanbase at around 44,000 book-buyers? Of course, The Man Who Died Twice’s hardback is the outlier, débuting in September 2021 with an eye- watering 114,202 copies sold.


38 20th May 2022


1 The Man Who Died Twice 2 The World’s Worst Pets 3 The Hairy Dieters’ Simple... 4 Heartstopper Volume Two 5 Heartstopper Volume Three 6 How to Kill Your Family 7 Heartstopper Volume Four 8 Sorrow and Bliss 9 Silverview


10 Heartstopper Volume One 11 The Dark Hours 12 Book Lovers 13 It Ends with Us


14 Not a Happy Family 15 Better Off Dead


16 The Thursday Murder Club 18 The Silver Serpent 21 The Paper Palace 22 Death of the Black Widow 24 Solitaire


25 Nick and Charlie 26 Ugly Love


28 Bad Actors 30 


19 Heartstopper Volume One 20 Malibu Rising


Author; Illustrator Imprint ISBN


Richard Osman Penguin 0241988244 Walliams; Stower HarperCollins The Hairy Bikers Seven Dials


0008305802 1841884356


Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444951400 Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444952773 Bella Mackie Borough Press


0008365943


Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444952797 Meg Mason W&N John le Carré Penguin


Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444951387 Michael Connelly Orion Emily Henry Penguin


1474622998 0241994535


1409186182 0241995341


Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Shari Lapena Penguin Lee & Andrew Child Penguin


17 Why Has Nobody Told Me This... Dr Julie Smith Michael Joseph Scott Mariani HarperNorth


0552177047 0552177528


Richard Osman Penguin 0241988268 0241529713 0008365578


Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444968927 Taylor Jenkins Reid Penguin Miranda Cowley Heller Penguin James Patterson Penguin


23 The Official Highway Code - Stationery Office 0115539954 Alice Oseman HarperCollins Alice Oseman HarperCollins


1529157147


TCM total 44,193


119,035 14,069 66,075 55,467 65,208 53,159 34,191 32,810 89,950 10,215 9,164


399,707 28,625


106,042 953,598 163,051 7,404


14,414 23,201


0241990452 19,447 1529157383


0007559220 0008389666


Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1471136726


27 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398515697 Mick Herron Baskerville Kazuo Ishiguro Faber & Faber Elizabeth Day Fourth Estate


29 Klara and the Sun Magpie


31 The Distant Shores 32 Verity


33 Where the Crawdads Sing 34 Nine Lives 35 Thrown


36 The Beloved Girls


37 Conversations with Friends 38 Legacy


39 The Summer Fair 40 The Wim Hof Method


41 The Island of Missing Trees 42 The Palace Papers 43 Twin Crowns


44 A Lady’s Guide to Fortune... 45 Still Life


47 The New Kingdom 48 This Winter


49 The Heron’s Cry 50 The Midnight Library


1529378702 0571364909 0008374983


Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471197062 Colleen Hoover Sphere Delia Owens Corsair


Danielle Steel Pan 1529021547 Sara Cox Coronet


1529373837


Harriet Evans Headline Review 1472251060 Sally Rooney Faber & Faber Nora Roberts Piatkus


0571333134 0349426266


Heidi Swain Simon & Schuster 1471195860 Wim Hof Rider & Co Elif Shafak Penguin Tina Brown Century


Webber & Doyle Electric Monkey Sophie Irwin HarperCollins Sarah Winman Fourth Estate


Alice Oseman HarperCollins


1846046308 0241988725 1529124705 0755503643 0008519520 0008283391


46 Skandar and the Unicorn Thief A F Steadman Simon & Schuster 1398502710 Smith & Chadbourn Zaffre


1786892737


1785767999 0008412937


Ann Cleeves Pan 1509889709 Matt Haig Canongate


1408726600 1472154668


28,133 59,876 32,737 30,296


168,707 149,366 5,364


88,562 14,325 35,996


101,196 609,867 4,459 4,383


12,195


329,682 3,943 3,826


21,184 23,357 17,918 3,446 3,464


65,796 15,521 3,242


15,654 91,103


577,424


Week ending 14th May 2022. 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.


Volume 43,768 29,193 14,001 13,045 11,272 11,270 10,779 10,295 10,078 9,621 9,243 9,057 9,004 8,740 8,672 8,359 7,796 7,376 7,009 6,855 6,685 6,349 6,240 5,958 5,883 5,757 5,658 5,300 4,727 4,699 4,660 4,515 4,457 4,453 4,373 4,102 4,004 3,856 3,812 3,789 3,544 3,524 3,433 3,424 3,393 3,248 3,226 3,138 3,125 3,086


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