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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
category chart top 10, as Imad Alarnab’s Imad’s Syrian Kitchen rose into sixth place. Pinch of Nom: Budget spent a
fourth week in the Paperback Non-Fiction number one spot, as Michael Mosley’s Just One Thing débuted in fourth. Ed Yong’s An Immense World notched up 10th place.
Where’s Spidey? returned to the Pre-School and Picture Book top 20 for the first time since January,
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins Pan Macmillan S&S
Little, Brown Vintage Hodder
Bloomsbury Orion Ebury
Children’s: Pre-school Title
1 Where’s Spidey?
2 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 3 Guess How Much I Love You
5 Where’s Grogu? 6 Bluey: Unicorse
£1.83m £1.55m £1.34m £727k £652k £486k £479k £420k £402k £400k
with “The Mandalorian” tie-in Where’s Grogu? débuting in fiſth place and Rhiannon Fielding and Chris Chaterton’s Ten Minutes to Bed title Little Dinosaur’s Big Race entering the chart in 11th place. Walliams and Stower reigned
atop the Children’s and YA Fiction top 20, as Adam Silvera’s The First to Die at the End scored 12th and Lauren Roberts’ fantasy title Powerless hit 18th place.
Social media stars hawking cookbooks dominate the pre-order top 20, with established followings showing their value
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien
Author; Illustrator -
Judith Kerr
4 Supertato: Mean Green Time... Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet - -
7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 8 Welcome to Hinch Farm 9 Bluey: Swim School
10 My Big Rainbow... Colouring 11 Ten Minutes... Big Race 12 Oh, The Places You’ll Go! 13 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 14 Oh Dear! 15 Dear Zoo
16 The Smeds and the Smoos 17 Fox’s Socks
Eric Carle Mrs Hinch - -
R Fielding; C Chatterton Dr Seuss
Imprint Studio
Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1800783010 £3.06
HC Children’s 0007215997 £4.52 1406358780 £4.21
Simon & Schuster 1398511675 £4.56 Studio
Ladybird Puffin Puffin
Ladybird Igloo
Ladybird
M Rosen; H Oxenbury Walker Rod Campbell Rod Campbell
18 Bumper Animal Colouring Book -
Macmillan... Macmillan...
1800786172 £4.08 0241649435 £4.76 0241003008 £4.63 0241569603 £3.41 0241605165 £4.26 1800229792 £1.45 0241545638 £4.70
HC Children’s 0007413577 £5.98 1406363074 £4.28 1529097887 £3.74 1529074932 £4.40
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 £4.49 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... Igloo
19 We’re Going to a Birthday Party M Mumford; C Zamazing 20 Zog and the Flying Doctors
Children’s & YA Fiction Title
1 The World’s Worst Monsters 2 Lottie Brooks’s... School-Trip 3 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 4 Bunn... Machine Mayhem
7 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 8 Good Girl, Bad Blood 9 Big Shot
10 The Ghoul in the School 11 City of Stolen Magic
12 The First to Die at the End 13 The Colour Monster... School 14 Diper Överlöde
15 Loki... Ruling the World 16 As Good As Dead
17 Harry... Chamber of Secrets 18 Powerless
1529023473 £4.15 1786701435 £2.00
Bloomsbury... 1526632234 £4.44 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407173504 £4.30
5,285 3,386 3,119 2,691 2,591 2,551 2,489 2,328 2,266 2,245 2,231 2,103 1,980 1,864 1,844 1,784 1,770 1,765 1,731 1,728
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athan Anthony’s Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Book swipes
the number one for pre-orders in the Bookstat pre-order chart for the year to 15th July. Released in March, the cookbook sold 111,228 copies in its launch week, with Bookstat estimating 61,567 of those copies were pre-ordered. It’s likely many of these came after book-buyers had snapped up Anthony’s first Bored of Lunch title, The Healthy Slow Cooker Book, in early January. Anthony’s publishing schedule
Author; Illustrator
Holly Jackson Jamie Smart
5 Dog Man 11: Twenty Thousand... Dav Pilkey 6 Robodog
Imprint Puffin ISBN (+978) ASP Volume
David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008305819 £7.93 21,545 Katie Kirby
0241562055 £4.84
Electric Monkey 1405293181 £5.70 David Fickling 1788452977 £7.00 Scholastic
1338801910 £9.24
David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008469559 £8.13 J K Rowling
Bloomsbury
Holly Jackson Jeff Kinney
M Rashford & A Falase Koya Macmillan... Nazneen Ahmed Pathak Adam Silvera Anna Llenas Jeff Kinney
Puffin
Louie Stowell Holly Jackson J K Rowling
Lauren Roberts
19 The Night We Got Stuck... Story Ben Miller 20 The Ballad of Songbirds...
16 21st July 2023 Suzanne Collins Walker 1408855652 £5.39
Electric Monkey 1405297752 £5.27 Puffin
0241396988 £5.33 1529076660 £4.53 0241567487 £6.27
Simon & Schuster 1398521681 £5.65 Templar Puffin
1787415522 £4.80 0241583081 £9.05 1529501230 £5.93
Electric Monkey 1405298605 £5.78 Bloomsbury
1408855669 £5.05
Simon & Schuster 1398529489 £6.74 S&S Children’s 1471192500 £4.70 Scholastic
0702309519 £6.53
5,831 4,448 3,382 2,974 2,741 2,737 2,381 2,366 2,305 2,136 2,075 2,044 1,949 1,879 1,854 1,773 1,750 1,710 1,690
seemed to be following in the footsteps of fellow Instagram star turned cookbook bestseller Joe Wicks, whose first three Lean in 15 titles were released within 11 months of one another in 2016—perhaps apeing the minute- to-minute content publishing schedule of social media. The top
20 is neatly bookended by The Healthy Slow Cooker Book in 20th place—as this is a year-to-date chart, the first Bored of Lunch cookbook, released in the first five days of the year, likely garnered the
bulk of its pre-orders before 2023 started. But it still notched up 6,169 pre-orders in that brief time before publication. Given the zeitgesty angle of
The Healthy Air Fryer Book—one of four recipe books devoted to the energy-saving kitchen
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