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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
The Official UK Top 50 Osman still sharp shooting at number one
Title £26.3m TCM value
WEEK ON WEEK -4.8%
Selling faster than The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed is quickly cementing Osman’s summer position
Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien
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ichard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed gunned down the UK Official Top 50 number one for a second week, selling 44,971 copies—up 3.6% on its launch week.
Aſter barely a week and a half on the shelves, the title is already staring down the barrel at 90,000 copies sold in total, and will likely top six figures next week. So far, The Bullet That Missed’s paperback is selling slightly faster than its predecessor The Man Who Died Twice, having shiſted around 20% more copies compared to the later at the same time in its selling life. Let’s not forget, The Man Who Died Twice reigned for six weeks in the overall top spot and 11 in the Mass Market Fiction pole across 2022, so if The Bullet
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1 The Bullet That Missed 2 Picture You Dead 3 Atlas
4 Lessons in Chemistry 5 The Family Remains 6 No Plan B
7 A Mother’s Trust 8 Shrines of Gaiety 9 Again, Rachel
10 The Glucose Goddess Method 11 It Ends With Us 12 Desert Star
14 The Curse of Saints 15 The Sunrise Sisterhood 16 The Maid
Author; Illustrator Richard Osman Peter James
Imprint Penguin Pan
L Riley & H Whittaker Macmillan Bonnie Garmus Lisa Jewell
Penguin Penguin
Lee & Andrew Child Penguin Dilly Court
Arrow
Kate Atkinson Marian Keyes
Jessie Inchauspé Colleen Hoover Michael Connelly
13 Bored of Lunch... Air Fryer Book Nathan Anthony Kate Dramis
Cathy Bramley Nita Prose
17 The Thursday Murder Club 18 An Italian Girl in Brooklyn 19 The Guilty Couple
20 Ultra-Processed People 21 Unbreakable 22 Robodog 23
Menopausing
24 The Man Who Died Twice 25 Landlines
26 Happy Place 27 Nightwork
28 How to Kill Your Family 29 Lady’s Well
30 The Poacher’s Daughter 31 Never Never
32 Demon Copperhead
33 The Making of... Masterpiece 34 The White Knight 35 Titans of War
36 Murder Before Evensong 37 Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows... 38 Verity
39 Bluey: My Dad Is Awesome 40 The Three Dahlias
41 The Serial Killer’s Sister 42 Dog Man... Under the Sea
44 Icebreaker
45 The Rising Tide 46 Atomic Habits 47 Ugly Love
Richard Osman Santa Montefiore C L Taylor
Penguin Penguin
New River ISBN TCM total Volume
0241992388 88,658 44,971 1529004380 25,632 14,180 1529043525 41,828 12,173 1804990926 205,176 10,154 1529158564 48,655 0552177542 134,362 0099562542 78,821 1804991053 38,358 1405945394 60,950 1915780003 36,894
Simon & Schuster 1471156267 1,051,386 Orion Ebury
Michael Joseph 0241630907 Orion
1398701434
HarperCollins 0008435769 23,285 Penguin
1409186243 31,101 1529903522 239,320 5,845 9,547
0241988268 1,371,276
Simon & Schuster 1471197109 25,796 Avon
0008379292 19,522
Chris van Tulleken Cornerstone 1529900057 21,164 Ronnie O’Sullivan
Seven Dials
Penguin Penguin Viking
Piatkus 1399610018 9,597
D Walliams; A Stower HarperCollins 0008469559 106,072 D McCall & Dr N Potter HQ Richard Osman Raynor Winn Emily Henry Nora Roberts Bella Mackie L J Ross
0241609460 17,585 0349430195
Margaret Dickinson Pan C Hoover & T Fisher HQ
Scott Mariani
1912310203 12,603 1529077964
0008620486 97,420
Barbara Kingsolver Faber & Faber 0571376483 11,073 Tom Hanks
W Smith & M Chadbourn Zaffre Reverend Richard Coles W&N Jeremy Clarkson Colleen Hoover -
Katy Watson Alice Hunter Dav Pilkey
H Heinemann 1529151800 13,200 HarperNorth 0008505745 19,649 1838776343
6,137
Penguin Sphere
Ladybird Constable Avon
Scholastic
1474612647 99,358 1405954631
6,627
1408726600 456,181 0241550670
5,140 1338801910 55,552
43 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398515697 456,367 Hannah Grace Ann Cleeves James Clear
Simon & Schuster 1398525689 73,995 Pan
1509889655 76,167 Colleen Hoover
48 Sponge Art Unicorns... Creatures - 49 Only Love Can Hurt Like This 50 Trespasses
Paige Toon Louise Kennedy
R House Business 1847941831 386,072 Simon & Schuster 1471136726 509,284 Autumn Penguin
Bloomsbury
1838526139 49,877 1529157901 17,416 1526623362 33,953
Week ending 20th May 2023. 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.
6,620
1408716434 10,536 0008562212
6,940
Borough Press 0008365943 542,407 Dark Skies
7,388
0008517786 169,808 0241988244 616,923 1405947787
8,949
8,964 7,954 7,628 7,353 6,757 6,223 6,102 5,951 5,818 5,306 5,277 5,132 4,968 4,653 4,623 4,586 4,397 4,297 4,163 4,139 4,122 4,108 4,053 4,009 3,999 3,914 3,886 3,796 3,701 3,682 3,592 3,584 3,490 3,457 3,372 3,311 3,173 3,160 3,124 3,085 3,046 3,008 2,894 2,875 2,871 2,830
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