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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Osman’s second helping soars to the top


Title £35.9m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK +7.5%


As new releases pepper the charts, including six in the top 10, Richard Osman’s blockbuster sequel charged its way to the summit


Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien


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ichard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice has bombarded into the


Official UK Top 50 number one spot, selling an earth-scorching 114,202 copies in its first three days on sale. This makes it the seventh fastest-selling novel since BookScan records began (excluding children’s novels and lockdown weeks), though an honourable mention should go to Dan Brown’s first post-Da Vinci Code title, The Lost Symbol, which is both the fastest and sixth- fastest seller, in hardback and paperback format respectively. The Man Who Died Twice breezed past the first-week sales of fellow blockbuster sequels Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Hilary Mantel’s


42 24th September 2021


1 The Man Who Died Twice 2 And Away...


3 The Thursday Murder Club 5 Together


6 An Innocent Baby 7 This Much is True 8 Family Comforts


Author; Illustrator Imprint Richard Osman Viking


4 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney Faber & Faber Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph Cathy Glass HarperCollins Miriam Margolyes Hodder Rebecca Wilson DK


9 The Midnight Library


10 Big Panda and Tiny Dragon 11 Piranesi


12 Turn a Blind Eye 13 Find You First 14 It Ends with Us 15 Daughters of War 16 One August Night Belonging


17  19 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox... 21 A Beautiful Spy


22 The Book of Two Ways 23 The Family Man


ISBN 0241425428


Bob Mortimer Simon & Schuster 1398505292 Richard Osman Penguin 0241988268 0571365425 0241431177 0008466480 1529379884 0241534694 1786892737 0241529324 1526622433 1509851386 0008332082


Matt Haig Canongate James Norbury Michael Joseph Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury Jeffrey Archer Pan Linwood Barclay HQ


Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Dinah Jefferies HarperCollins


0008427023


Victoria Hislop Headline Review 1472278449 Alun Wyn Jones Macmillan


1529058086


18 Guinness World Records 2022 - Guinness World... 1913484118 Charlie Mackesy Ebury 1529105100


20 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1982147662 Rachel Hore Simon & Schuster 1471187216 Jodi Picoult Hodder


1473692435


24 Joshua Weissman... Cookbook Joshua Weissman Alpha Courtney Black Thorsons John Grisham Hodder Elodie Harper APOLLO Paula Hawkins Doubleday Jane Dunn Ebury


25 Fit Foods and Fakeaways 26 A Time for Mercy 27 The Wolf Den


28 A Slow Fire Burning 29 Jane’s Patisserie


30 The Evening and the Morning Ken Follett Pan 31 An Inspector Calls 32 The Night Hawks


33 The Wisdom of Crowds 34 They Both Die at the End 35 Where the Crawdads Sing 36 Win


37 Apples Never Fall 38 The Survivors


39 You Are a Champion 40 Before She Disappeared 41 Shuggie Bain


42 The Coffinmaker’s Garden 43 Megamonster 44 Cat’s Cookbook


46  Hamnet 47 Grown Ups


Kimberley Chambers HarperCollins 0008365998 1615649983 0008468545 1529342369 1838933555 0857524447 1529109429 1447278801 0435232825 1787477841 0575095960 1471166204 1472154668 1787462991 0241396087 0349143743


J B Priestley Heinemann Elly Griffiths Quercus Joe Abercrombie Gollancz Adam Silvera S&S Children’s Delia Owens Corsair Harlan Coben Arrow


Liane Moriarty Michael Joseph Jane Harper Abacus


HarperCollins


1787464377 1529019292 0008208349 0008487591


TCM total 114,287 42,614


452,244 65,858 42,285 11,780 11,257 10,839


336,503 9,278


23,093 8,518


30,328 73,774 6,072


103,339 5,885 5,713


1,227,910 79,578 5,365


41,759 5,144 5,165 5,066


94,168 15,197 19,800 91,363 61,079


698,296 43,066 4,436


157,054 454,303 55,982 4,308 4,316


M Rashford & C Anka Macmillan... 1529068177 142,343 Lisa Gardner Arrow Douglas Stuart Picador Stuart MacBride HarperCollins D Walliams; T Ross


13,709


188,807 28,714


254,693 J Donaldson; A Scheffler Macmillan...


45 The Official Highway Code - TSO Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Marian Keyes Penguin Peter May riverrun


48 The Night Gate


49 Bring Me the Head... Taskmaster Alex Horne Bantam S Bala & H Maguire Trapeze


50 Redhanded


1529034363 76,033 0115533426 1472223821 1405918787 1784295080 1529148435 1398707139


Week ending 18th September 2021. 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.


971,416 235,036 129,602 48,435 4,023 3,666


Volume 114,202 42,094 23,966 19,782 12,723 11,730 11,143 10,794 9,386 9,176 8,633 8,432 6,858 6,462 6,045 6,020 5,832 5,613 5,562 5,553 5,334 5,269 5,104 5,091 5,013 4,713 4,696 4,664 4,658 4,572 4,529 4,459 4,387 4,368 4,330 4,303 4,281 4,266 4,115 4,060 4,044 3,964 3,960 3,954 3,908 3,864 3,679 3,654 3,638 3,620


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