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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


as well. Sales for the top 10 Heatseekers were up 44% last week on the previous week with début authors seting the chart alight. Jennie Godfrey’s The List of Suspicious Things led the way, followed by fellow début author Gareth Brown’s The Book of Doors in second and the paper- back edition of Emilia Hart’s first novel, Weyward, in third. Meanwhile, in Mass Market Fiction Kate Morton’s newest,


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Bloomsbury Ebury


Little, Brown S&S


Cornerstone Hodder


Transworld


Children’s: Pre-school Title


1 Greg the Sausage Roll...


2 Elmer and the Patchwork Story... David McKee 3 Charlie McGrew & The Horse... Rob Biddulph 4 Etch Art Creations Squishmallows- 5 We’re Going on an Egg Hunt 6 Bluey: I Love My Family 7 Bluey: Queens 8 The Baddies     


       


9 Guess How Much I Love You 10The Very Hungry Caterpillar 11My Big Rainbow Book of... 12Peppa’s Great Dinosaur Hunt 13Five Little Easter Bunnies    


18Bluey: My Mum Is the Best 19That’s Not My Dog‥ 20Where’s Wally?


£1.82m £1.56m £988k £750k £605k £600k £586k £584k £500k £455k


Homecoming, débuted in number one giving the Australian author her fourth top spot in that chart. Further down MMF, holding positions five and 10, are two editions of David Nicholls’ One Day, which continued to atract new audiences off the back of a Netflix adaptation. The limited series topped Netflix UK’s TV charts last week and was a top 10 show in 89 countries worldwide.


Several new titles burst through, but tried and true backlist remains audio’s sweet spot


Zoe Knowles  L Author; Illustrator Imprint Mark & R Hoyle; G Conway Puffin


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 0241672280 £1.00 18,917


Andersen Press 1839134616 £1.00 11,323 HarperCollins 0008653040 £1.00 Hinkler


Martha Mumford - -


Bloomsbury Ladybird Ladybird


Puffin Igloo


1488940385 £3.75 1408870112 £4.37 0241656655 £4.34 0241662588 £4.37


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 0702325069 £5.14 Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker Eric Carle - -


Ladybird Martha Mumford


14The Gruffalo 25th Anniversary... J Donaldson; A Scheffler 15Peekaboo Love 16Rabbit’s Nap 17Where’s Spot?   


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


1 High-Rise Hijinks (WBD)


2 Loki: Tales of a Bad God (WBD) Louie Stowell Jeff Kinney


3 Diper Överlöde   


  


4 Dinosaur Club (WBD) 5 Creepy Creations (WBD) 6 Bunny Bonanza!  


9 If Only I Had Told Her 10Onyeka and the Secret... 11Heartstopper Volume 5 12No Brainer 


Bloomsbury Macmillan


Warne


1406358780 £4.32 0241003008 £4.37 1803681504 £1.22 0241659335 £4.31 1526660176 £4.04 1035028399 £4.44


Camilla Reid; Ingela P Arrhenius Nosy Crow 1788005791 £4.30 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Eric Hill -


Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells Martin Handford


Ladybird Usborne Walker


1529023527 £4.09 0723263661 £4.39 0241550687 £4.15 1805312239 £4.04 1406305890 £4.51


7,515 3,671 3,398 2,875 2,772 2,722 2,637 2,558 2,552 2,464 2,333 2,296 2,239 2,213 2,156 2,138 1,887 1,858


ooking over the top 50 downloads through Audible in 2023 and there is a more


than a bit of the familiar. Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series backlist was present and accounted for—though Osman’s titles were topped by his 2023 release The Last Devil to Die in fifth—alongside all seven in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. In second place, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone scored its fourth top-two position in the annual chart in succession: 10 points to Gryffindor! Or, in this case Pottermore. Likewise, James Clear’s third-placed Atomic Habits made its fourth year-end appearance among the top 15 audiobooks. But though familiarity is a


Author; Illustrator Green & Hastings; Lewis Imprint


Macmillan Walker Puffin


Rex Stone; Louise Forshaw DK Children Jennifer Killick Jamie Smart


Farshore


7 The Friend Mission (WBD) 8 Powerless    


13A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder  


16Marv and the Ultimate... 17The World’s Worst Teachers  


19All This Twisted Glory 


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ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1035034864 £1.00 1529519723 £1.00 0241583104 £5.26 0241669587


£1.00 0008652074 £1.00 David Fickling 1788453066 £9.27


R Jones; N Smillie & L Trinidad Hodder Children’s 1444974584 £1.00 Lauren Roberts Laura Nowlin Tolá Okogwu Alice Oseman Jeff Kinney


Holly Jackson


14Twenty Thousand Fleas Under... Dav Pilkey 15Wonka  


Roald Dahl et al Alex Falase-Koya


18The Fight for the Hidden Realm S McDermott; Yuzhen Cai Tahereh Mafi


20The Doomsday Date (WBD) Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé


Simon & Schuster 1398529489 £5.91 Sourcebooks Fire 1728276229 £6.93 Simon & Schuster 1398528697 £1.00 Hodder Children’s 1444957655 £9.19 Puffin


0241583135 £10.29


Electric Monkey 1405293181 £6.42 Scholastic Puffin OUP


0702330025 £6.79 0241618134 £5.88 0192794802 £1.00


David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008637545 £4.97 Hodder


1444970142 £6.46


Electric Monkey 0755500130 £17.27 Usborne


1805076483 £1.00


8,502 7,519 6,564 6,342 5,915 5,041 5,026 4,598 4,430 4,229 3,740 3,658 3,530 3,479 3,435 3,076 2,820 2,782 2,614 2,578


proven audiobook driver (more below), there were plenty of new titles breaking through too, chiming with their sales in the print charts. Not least Spare by Prince Harry, crowned number one in both the Audible and Nielsen BookScan charts last year. (It also appeared in Bookstat’s top 20 e-books for 2023.) Overall, 28 of the top 50 audiobooks also ranked within the top 500 print books through BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Digital and print charts often


have big points of divergence: e-books, for example, are far more heavily weighted toward genre, particularly crime fiction. But audio and print seem to be converging


somewhat. A recent survey by Nielsen BookData confirms that there is a correlation between audiobook and print sales. According to its Understanding the UK Audiobook Consumer 2023 report, purchase influences are shifting. The latest annual survey—based on responses from 2,000 audiobook consumers aged


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