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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
The Thursday Murder Club has spent more time in the category chart top spots than out of it since its release in hardback a year ago. With the hardback scoring 29 weeks atop Original Fiction, it only fell from the top spot upon its paperback publica- tion in May. The paperback has gone
on to score a further 17 weeks as Mass-Market Fiction number one, including last week, when it rose 76% in volume—presumably due to the knock-on effect of The Man Who Died Twice hype. An author holding both the Original Fiction and Mass-Market Fiction number ones in the same week is certainly a rare feat—the last person to achieve it was the ultra-prolific James Paterson, whose 16th Seduction and Never Never did
the double in March 2017. Naturally, the Osman avalanche boosted the print market. Last week was the
TCM actual selling price 52-week history
£10
Original Fiction Title
1 The Man Who Died Twice
Author
Imprint Richard Osman Viking
2 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney Faber & Faber 3 The Family Man 4 A Slow Fire Burning 5 The Wisdom of Crowds 6 Apples Never Fall 7 The Heron’s Cry Magpie
8
9 The Dark Remains 10 The New Kingdom 11 Harlem Shuffle 12 Freckles
13 The Whistleblower 14 Snow Country 15 Billy Summers 16 Tenderness 17 Iced
18 The Women of Troy 19 Empire of the Vampire
ISBN (+978) 0241425428 0571365425
Kimberley Chambers HarperCollins 0008365998 Paula Hawkins Doubleday Joe Abercrombie Gollancz
Liane Moriarty Michael Joseph Ann Cleeves Macmillan Elizabeth Day Fourth Estate I Rankin & W McIlvanney Canongate W Smith & M Chadbourn Zaffre Colson Whitehead Fleet
Cecelia Ahern HarperCollins Robert Peston Zaffre Sebastian Faulks Hutchinson Stephen King Hodder... Alison MacLeod Bloomsbury...
0857524447 0575095960 0241396087 1509889686 0008374945
ASP
£11.36 £13.19 £9.56
£11.87 £17.06 £13.53 £12.18 £9.58
1838854102 £13.51 1785767975 £10.99 0708899441 0008194925 1838775247 1786330185 1529365726 1408884669
£15.08 £9.31
Felix Francis Simon & Schuster 1471196614 Pat Barker Hamish Hamilton 0241427231 Jay Kristoff HarperCollins
20 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney Faber & Faber
Mass-Market Fiction Title
1 The Thursday Murder Club 2 The Midnight Library 3 Piranesi
4 Turn a Blind Eye 5 Find You First 6 It Ends with Us 7 Daughters of War 8 One August Night
10 A Beautiful Spy
11 The Book of Two Ways 12 A Time for Mercy 13 The Wolf Den
£5 15 The Night Hawks £0 £9.03 YEAR ON YEAR n/a% 18 The Survivors
0008350437 0571365432
£10.01 £18.17 £12.28 £18.70 £15.76 £17.34 £16.59 £12.25
Volume 114,202 19,782 5,104 4,664 4,387 4,281 3,453 3,255 2,857 2,744 2,587 2,132 2,109 2,006 1,728 1,646 1,558 1,509 1,424 1,370
Author
Imprint
ISBN (+978)
Richard Osman Penguin 0241988268 Matt Haig Canongate Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury Jeffrey Archer Pan Linwood Barclay HQ
1786892737 1526622433 1509851386 0008332082
Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Dinah Jefferies HarperCollins Victoria Hislop Headline
0008427023 1472278449
9 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1982147662 Rachel Hore Simon & Schuster 1471187216 Jodi Picoult Hodder John Grisham Hodder Elodie Harper Apollo
14 The Evening and the Morning Ken Follett Pan Elly Griffiths Quercus Delia Owens Corsair Harlan Coben Arrow Jane Harper Abacus Lisa Gardner Arrow Douglas Stuart Picador
16 Where the Crawdads Sing 17 Win
19 Before She Disappeared 20 Shuggie Bain
1473692435 1529342369 1838933555 1447278801 1787477841 1472154668 1787462991 0349143743 1787464377 1529019292
ASP
£5.69 £5.65 £7.29 £4.73 £4.67 £6.74 £4.58 £5.50 £6.82 £4.99 £5.05 £5.37 £7.09 £6.14 £5.29 £6.58 £5.39 £6.11 £4.65 £6.41
Volume 23,966 9,386 8,633 8,432 6,858 6,462 6,045 6,020 5,553 5,334 5,269 4,713 4,696 4,572 4,459 4,330 4,303 4,266 4,060 4,044
Heatseekers Fiction
The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the
overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit
thebookseller.com.
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Title 1 Dune
Author
2 The Last House on Needless... Catriona Ward 3 The Whistleblower 4 Tenderness
5 The Marlow Murder Club 6 Meet Me in Tahiti
7 Everything is Beautiful 8 Whisper Cottage 9 Lord of the Flies
10 The Bird in the Bamboo Cage
Imprint
Frank Herbert Hodder Viper
Robert Peston Zaffre
Alison MacLeod Bloomsbury... Robert Thorogood HQ
Georgia Toffolo Mills & Boon Eleanor Ray Piatkus Anne Wyn Clark Avon
William Golding Faber & Faber Hazel Gaynor HarperCollins
ISBN (+978) 0340960196 1788166188 1838775247 1408884669 0008435912 0008375911 0349427416 0008459970 0571191475 0008393670
ASP
£8.13 £6.15
£10.01 £18.70 £5.79 £3.14 £4.83 £4.11 £7.40 £4.87
Volume 2,516 2,374 2,109 1,646 1,530 1,524 1,498 1,455 1,319 1,303
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