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have claimed the fastest-selling-non-fiction title record, were it published a fortnight earlier. The cleaning guide, which with Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying has helped boost the House & Home category 161%, has shiſted 351,464 copies in the first half of the year, behind only Pinch... and David Walliams and Tony Ross’ Fing.
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The Official UK Top 50 First half of 2019
Title
1 Pinch of Nom 2 Fing
3 Hinch Yourself Happy
4 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 5 Still Me
6 Past Tense
7 This is Going to Hurt 8 Nine Perfect Strangers 9 Diary of Greg Heffley’s... 10 The Mister 11 The Fast 800
12 Eleanor Oliphant...
HEATHER MORRIS’ THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ IS THE TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR
While Fing scored second place for the half year, with a volume just under half that of Pinch of Nom, Walliams’ June-published The World’s Worst Teachers managed to swipe 42nd place in the half-year chart on just three days’ worth of sales—shiſting 86,001 copies in its launch week. The series title is so far the fastest selling of all Walliams’ World’s Worst... titles, and is already more than halfway to leapfrogging Fing to become the bestselling Children’s title of 2019.
David and Goliath
The kids’ book market wasn’t all Walliams though, just mostly: the bestselling World Book Day 2019 title, Jeff Kinney’s Diary of Greg Heffley’s Best Friend, sold 181,862 copies, and Craig Smith and Katz Cowley’s The Wonky Donkey shiſted 133,333 copies. No picture book has recorded a longer run as the Children’s number one. Fiction hung on to growth by the skin
of its teeth, improving 0.8% year on year in value—though volume fell 3.9% against the six-month period in 2018 in which Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine sold 488,408 copies. Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz continued to sell in 2019, aſter racking up 13 weeks as the Mass-Market Fiction number one at the end of 2018. Up to the half year, it sold 329,072 copies, beating Jojo Moyes’ Still Me to the fiction top spot. Liane Moriart’s Nine Perfect Strangers soared past the 200,000-copy mark, and Sally Rooney’s Nibbies Book of the Year Normal People shiſted 127,472 copies to hit the 2019 top 20, bagging 19th place.
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13 Diary of an Awesome... Kid 14 First Man In 15 Becoming
16 The Woman in the Window 17 The Wonky Donkey 18 Ten Little Bookworms 19 Normal People 20 Transcription
21 LEGO Minifigure Mayhem 22 The Language of Kindness 23 Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start 24 Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking 25 Bad Dad
26 In a House of Lies
27 Percy Jackson... Apollo 28 Broken Ground
29 The Librarian of Auschwitz 30 Veggie Lean in 15 31 The Salt Path
32 The President is Missing 33 Bad Mermaids... Witches 34 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 35 The Secret Barrister
Author Imprint
Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird D Walliams; T Ross
HC Children’s
Mrs Hinch Michael Joseph Heather Morris Zaffre Jojo Moyes Penguin Lee Child Bantam Adam Kay Picador Liane Moriarty Penguin Jeff Kinney Puffin E L James Arrow
ISBN (+978) Volume 1529014068 0008342579 0241399750 1785763670 1405924207 0857503626 1509858637 1405919463 0241388822 1787463608
Michael Mosley Short 1780723624 Gail Honeyman Harper 0008172145 Jeff Kinney Puffin
Ant Middleton HarperCollins Michelle Obama Viking
A J Finn HarperCollins C Smith; K Cowley Scholastic M Brownlow; S Rickerty Orchard Sally Rooney Faber
Kate Atkinson Black Swan B Davies & H Murray DK Christie Watson Vintage Tom Kerridge Absolute Mary Berry BBC Books D Walliams; T Ross
Ian Rankin Orion Rick Riordan Puffin
Val McDermid Little, Brown Antonio Iturbe
Ebury
Joe Wicks Bluebird Raynor Winn Penguin B Clinton & J Patterson Arrow
HC Children’s
0241405604 0008245733 0241334140 0008234188 1407195575 1408357989 0571334650 0552776653 0241370735 1784706883 1472962805 1785943898 0008164669 1409176909 0241380734 0751568257 1529104776 1509856152 1405937184 1787460171
Pounder; Cockcroft et al Bloomsbury 1526604538 J K Rowling Bloomsbury The Secret Barrister Picador
36 Hundred and One Dalmatians... Peter Bently Egmont 37 The Great Rocket Robbery 38 The Clockmaker’s Daughter 39 The Ice Monster
40 The Burning Chambers 41 Wild Fire
42 The World’s Worst Teachers 43 The Meltdown 44 Everdark
45 Pieces of Her 46 Dark Sacred Night
48 The Official Highway Code 49 Watching You 50 The Getaway
Frank Cottrell Boyce Macmillan 1529012651 Kate Morton Macmillan David Walliams HC Children’s Kate Mosse Pan Books Ann Cleeves Pan Books D Walliams; T Ross
HarperCollins Jeff Kinney Puffin
Abi Elphinstone S&S Children’s Karin Slaughter HarperCollins Michael Connelly Orion
47 Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton -
Penguin TSO
Lisa Jewell Arrow Jeff Kinney Puffin
1447200871 0008164690 1509806850 1447278269 0008305789 0241321980 1471178351 0008150853 1409182740 0241982105 0115533426 1784756277 0141385259
1408855652 1509841141 1405294379
812,794 389,745 351,464 329,072 267,834 240,866 236,023 208,179 181,862 163,373 163,131 157,225 155,763 144,994 136,787 136,445 133,333 131,462 127,472 119,438 117,796 117,719 117,362 110,462 107,298 102,452 102,232 101,703 100,053 98,882 96,729 96,267 92,583 92,310 91,125 90,222 90,084 88,801 88,750 87,962 87,777 86,010 84,306 84,002 83,737 80,372 80,286 80,235 78,307 78,267
Date range 26 weeks to 29th June 2019. Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from the 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.
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