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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Walliams outclasses Grisham for top slot


Title £28.0m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK +1.0%


David Walliams retains pole position despite a 45% increase in week-on-week sales for John Grisham and his latest novel, The Reckoning


Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien


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avid Walliams’ The World’s Worst Teachers is once again top of the


class, chalking up a fourth week as the Official UK Top 50 number one. The Tony Ross-illustrated title is now just a handful of copies away from the 250,000 units sold mark, aſter under a month on sale, and it is already the eighth-bestselling book of the year.


Though John Grisham’s second-placed The Reckoning spiked upwards 45% in volume in its first full week on sale, narrowing the gap between itself and The World’s Worst Teachers to just under 10,000 copies, the kids’ title is still looking prety untouchable at the top. It’s likely that the short story collection


20 26th July 2019 Author; Illustrator


1 The World’s Worst Teachers Walliams; Ross 2 The Reckoning 3 Target


5 Pinch of Nom 6 I Owe You One


Imprint HarperCollins


John Grisham Hodder James Patterson Arrow


4 Captain Marvel... Further Faster - Centum Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird Sophie Kinsella Black Swan


7 The Spanish Promise


8 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 9 Battle Scars 10 Normal People


11 Long Road to Mercy 12 Swallowtail Summer 13 In a House of Lies 14 Widows’ Revenge


16 Nine Perfect Strangers 17 This is Going to Hurt 18 The Horse Dancer 19 Careless Love 20 When All is Said


23 The Secret Barrister 24 Heroes 25 Knife


26 I Looked Away ISBN


0008305789 1473684423 1784753658 1913265458


Karen Swan Pan 1529006186 Heather Morris Zaffre Jason Fox Corgi Sally Rooney Faber


1785763670 0552176019 0571334650


David Baldacci Pan 1509874361 Erica James Orion Ian Rankin Orion Lynda La Plante


Zaffre


15 The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Milly Johnson S&Sr Liane Moriarty Penguin Adam Kay Picador Jojo Moyes Hodder Peter Robinson Hodder Anne Griffin Sceptre Gail Honeyman Harper Ruth Jones Black Swan The Secret Barrister Picador Stephen Fry Penguin Jo Nesbo Harvill Secker Jane Corry Penguin Bailey & Pattison Short


21 Eleanor Oliphant... Fine 22 Never Greener


27 The Fast 800 Recipe Book 28 The Wives


29 How to Be a Footballer 30 Time to Eat


31 Pinch of Nom Food Planner 33 Past Tense 34 Sweet Sorrow Lauren Weisberger HarperCollins


1409173793 1409176909 1785768323 1471178474 1405919463 1509858637 0340961605 1444786958 1473683020 0008172145 1784162221 1509841141 1405940368 1787300767 0241984635 1780724133 0007569274


Peter Crouch Ebury 1785039782 Nadiya Hussain Michael Joseph Featherstone et al Bluebird


0241396599 1529023060


32 No One is Too Small... Difference Greta Thunberg Penguin 0141991740 Lee Child Bantam David Nicholls Hodder Antonio Iturbe Ebury Val Wood Corgi


35 The Librarian of Auschwitz 36 Rich Girl, Poor Girl 37 The Newcomer


38 The President is Missing 39 An American Marriage 40 Diary of an Awesome... Kid 41 An Unwanted Guest 42 Dark Sacred Night 43 How to be Famous


44 The Spy and the Traitor 45 Maybe This Time 46 Clock Dance


47 Why Mummy... Give a ****! 48 Three Women 49 First Man In 50 Paris Echo


Fern Britton HarperCollins Clinton & Patterson Arrow Tayari Jones Oneworld Jeff Kinney Puffin Shari Lapena Corgi David Baldacci Orion


Penguin


Jill Mansell Headline Anne Tyler Vintage Gill Sims HarperCollins Lisa Taddeo Bloomsbury Ant Middleton HarperCollins Sebastian Faulks Vintage


0857503626 1444715408 1529104776 0552176255 0008225247 1787460171 1786075192 0241405604 0552174879 1409182740


Caitlin Moran Ebury 0091948993 Ben MacIntyre


0241972137 1472248466 1784708597 0008301255 1526611635 0008245733 1784704100


TCM total 249,189 49,715 27,196 15,376


70,517 18,560


Volume 36,912 27,779 17,101 15,376


1529014068 859,240 14,175 1784163570


730,463 18,247


157,149 45,921 15,001


131,875 12,541 13,115


232,217 798,435 55,579 68,981 19,243


1,040,624 81,954


108,572 30,343 13,285 31,976 62,927 8,546


58,035 7,029


91,022 46,479


256,864 11,046


116,781 8,772


29,558


112,399 46,902


168,609 70,100 95,259 8,619


65,289 35,341 7,443


19,865 10,579


156,747 33,068


Week ending 20th July 2019. 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.


14,121 11,124 10,484 10,365 9,868 8,893 8,783 8,645 8,168 8,049 7,985 7,125 6,663 6,497 6,400 6,036 5,964 5,753 5,748 5,737 5,700 5,654 5,513 5,505 5,440 5,393 5,292 5,224 5,212 5,209 5,203 5,017 4,945 4,738 4,389 4,344 4,200 4,183 4,105 4,096 3,998 3,993 3,952 3,898 3,885


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