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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Trump exposé boosts the market—again


Title £28.9m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK –10.0%


Mary J Trump’s book about her uncle helped the market maintain its strong form since bookshops reopened, as one of two new category number ones


Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien


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avid Walliams and Tony Ross’ The World’s Worst Parents has scored a third week running as the Official UK Top 50 number one, selling 32,013 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM. With more than 155,000 copies sold in two and half weeks, it is now the bestsell- ing Children’s title of the year to date—though of course, this is without the first several weeks of sales for both Walliams’ Slime and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, due to Nielsen’s data curtain descending in lockdown. David Baldacci’s A Minute to Midnight clocked in atop the Mass-Market Fiction chart to give the author his second category chart pole of the year, as Santa


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1 The World’s Worst Parents 2 A Minute to Midnight


3 Too Much and Never Enough 4 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox... 5 The Secret Hours 6 Dear NHS


7 The Second Sleep 8 The Hidden Beach 9 Girl, Woman, Other


10 Why I’m No Longer Talking... 11 Where the Crawdads Sing 12 Queen Bee


13 How to Disappear 14 No Mercy


15 Utopia Avenue 16 Cajun Justice


17 Deliciously Ella Quick & Easy 18 Blue Moon Slime


19= 


19= The Beekeeper of Aleppo 21 Normal People 22 So Lucky 23 Skincare


24 The Secret of Cold Hill 25 The Shape of Night


26 Women Don’t Owe You Pretty 27 Find Them Dead 28 The Family Upstairs


29 The Smeds and the Smoos Queenie


30  32 Natives


33 The Nickel Boys 34 The Guardians 35 Three Women


Author; Illustrator D Walliams; T Ross


Imprint HarperCollins ISBN 0008305796


David Baldacci Pan 1509874484 Mary L Trump Simon & Schuster 1471190131 Charlie Mackesy Ebury 1529105100 Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169656 Adam Kay et al Orion 1398701182 Robert Harris Arrow


1787460966


Karen Swan Pan 1529006223 Bernardine Evaristo


Penguin


Reni Eddo-Lodge Bloomsbury Delia Owens Corsair Jane Fallon Penguin


0241984994 1408870587 1472154668 1405943345


Gillian McAllister Penguin 1405942423 Martina Cole Headline David Mitchell Sceptre James Patterson Arrow Ella Mills Woodward Yellow Kite Lee Child Bantam D Walliams; T Ross


1472249449 1444799422 1787465404


HarperCollins Christy Lefteri Manilla


Sally Rooney Faber & Faber Dawn O’Porter HarperCollins


TCM total 155,569 25,265 15,396


684,484 25,546 34,260 24,321 18,774


105,603 244,894 126,725 19,412 14,307 43,868 7,169


10,966


1473639249 28,660 0857503633 0008342586 1838770013 0571334650 0008126100


36,994 76,780 39,136


Caroline Hirons HQ 0008375522 Peter James Pan 1509816255 Tess Gerritsen Bantam Florence Given Cassell Peter James Macmillan Lisa Jewell Arrow


31 How Do We Know We’re Doing... Pandora Sykes Hutchinson Akala Two Roads Colson Whitehead Fleet John Grisham Hodder Lisa Taddeo Bloomsbury Dilly Court HarperCollins Nadine Dorries Head of Zeus Peter May riverrun Ian Rankin Orion


36 The Country Bride 37 The Velvet Ribbon 38 Lockdown 39 Westwind


40 The Lying Room 41 Pinch of Nom


42 Pinch of Nom Everyday Light


0857504319 1788402118 1529004304 1787461482


355,253 11,061 66,458 30,505 8,806


32,334 16,650


165,323


J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 29,952 Candice Carty-Williams Trapeze


1409180074 67,472 1786332073 1473661233 0708899427 1473684478 1526611642 0008287832 1786697592 1529411690 1409196068


41,462 7,187


Nicci French Simon & Schuster 1471179266 Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird


43 Mrs Hinch... Little Book of Lists Mrs Hinch Michael Joseph 44 The Official Highway Code - TSO 45 Daughters of Cornwall 46 Draw With Rob 47 An Inspector Calls 48 After the End 49 Criss Cross


Fern Britton HarperCollins Rob Biddulph HarperCollins J B Priestley Heinemann Clare Mackintosh Little, Brown James Patterson Arrow


50 The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf Orion Children’s


26,011 36,652 6,490


1529014068 1,240,401 1529026405 538,874 0241461877 0115533426 0008225254 0008419110 0435232825 0751564914 1787461857 1510105010


22,727


819,334 24,111 12,297


630,513 23,026 36,306


183,394


Week ending 18th July 2020. 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.


5,312


91,083 14,797 49,606 9,778


Volume 32,013 15,573 15,262 14,883 14,738 13,622 13,147 11,458 11,428 11,028 10,265 9,428 9,073 7,335 6,955 6,952 6,708 6,198 6,197 6,197 6,087 6,042 6,037 5,768 5,723 5,653 5,569 5,544 5,467 5,320 5,202 5,109 5,047 5,024 4,694 4,403 4,296 4,268 4,175 4,054 3,920 3,918 3,806 3,696 3,695 3,606 3,329 3,260 3,259 3,210


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