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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


42 26th May 2023


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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