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Te nmber ot times David Walliams has topped the chart in the Nielsen BookScan era


Digital Bestseller Lists Connelly illuminates at top of chart Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien M


DAVID WALLIAMS CLIMBED TO CLAIM THE OVERALL NUMBER ONE SPOT


For a second week running, Pinch of Nom: Enjoy sold more copies than the number one bestseller, yet was excluded from The Bookseller’s charts because of its 85% discount. The cookbook’s average selling price fell even further week on week, to £3.02— an Amazon Prime Day deal had it at £3. Volume rose to its second highest week since release, with only its launch week shiſting more. The World’s Worst Monsters notched


up Walliams’ first number one of 2023, his 79th week in the overall top spot to date. The comedian- turned-author is only a handful of weeks away from the all-time record, with J K Rowling (and Robert Galbraith) on 87 weeks in the number one spot and Dan Brown on 82 in the Nielsen BookScan era. However, let’s not forget Jamie Oliver, on 70 weeks— the celebrit chef is arguably the most consistent aside


from Walliams, with at least one week at number one in 16 of the past 20 years. With 5 Ingredients: Mediterranean on the horizon, it’s likely Oliver will be closing the gap on Walliams soon. Perhaps it was the effect of Prime Day, or inflation finally Continues overleaf 


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ichael Connelly’s Desert Star twinkled at the very top of the Bookstat chart for the week ending 15th July, climbing


three places week on week to knock Ian McEwan’s Lessons from the top. The fifth Renee Ballard title scored Connelly’s first Bookstat number one since May 2021, with Fair Warning. Mhairi McFarlane’s Between Us held steady


in third place, as Chris Whitaker’s We Begin at the End became the chart’s highest new entry in third. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new title Carrie Soto Is Back was joined by the author’s originally 2015-published Forever, Interrupted, which débuted in sixth. Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry, the


current Adult Fiction bestseller of the year in print, returned to the Publisher E-Book Ranking number one, reigning for the week ending 8th July. The publisher-supplied e-book chart saw a huge influx of new entries, with S J Parris’ Alchemy, Lesley Pearse’s Betrayal, Suzanne


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title


2 Lessons 


Desert Star 


3 Between Us      


4 We Begin at the End 5 Carrie Soto Is Back 6 Forever, Interrupted 7 The Lost Bookshop 8 One Day With You 9 Trust 


10Forever Home Author


Michael Connelly Ian McEwan


Mhairi McFarlane Chris Whitaker


CONNELLY’S DESERT STAR KNOCKS MCEWAN FROM HIS PERCH


Wright’s Hunted and James Patterson’s Obsessed achieving a clean sweep from third to sixth. In fact, only three books in the chart had more than one word in their title, with Sally Page’s former number one knocked to second and Richard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed hitting 10th.


Clarification Hachette has stated that Desert Star has sold 10,362 copies and Forever Home 9,735


Imprint Orion


Vintage Digital HarperCollins Zaffre


Taylor Jenkins Reid Penguin


ISBN (+978) Volume 1409186243 1529116311 0008412487 1250759665 1529152128


Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398516748 Evie Woods Shari Low


Hernan Diaz Graham Norton


One More Chapter 0008609214 Boldwood Picador Coronet


1804268674 1526623362 1529391398


4,220 2,535 2,344 2,225 2,136 2,025 1,999 1,885 1,813 1,700


Data source Bookstat. Week ending 15th July 2023. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact info@bookstat.com.


The Publisher E-Book Ranking 1 


Title


2 The Keeper of Stories 3 Alchemy 4 Betrayal 5 Hunted 6 Obsessed 7 Yellowface 8 Atlas


Lessons in Chemistry 


9 Palazzo 


      


10The Bullet That Missed Author


Bonnie Garmus Sally Page S J Parris


Lesley Pearse


Suzanne Wright James Patterson Rebecca F Kuang Lucinda Riley Danielle Steel Richard Osman


Imprint Transworld


ISBN (+978) List price 1473594531


One More Chapter 0008453503 HarperCollins Penguin Piatkus Penguin


The Borough Press 0008532796 Macmillan Macmillan Penguin


0008208561 1405951371 0349428505 1529158717


£5.99 £2.99 £9.99 £9.99 £5.49 £9.99 £7.99


1529043556 £11.99 1529022469 £11.99 0241992395


Week ending 8th July 2023. Key New Up Same Down. Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster, Bonnier Zaffre, Canongate & Joffe Books.


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