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The Official UK Top 50 ‘Majorly awkward’ number one


Title  TCM value £32m £3 m 32m WEEK O WEK ON WEEK +4.0% 4..0 0%


Aftershocks from the latest US election news shake the charts and middle-grade fiction steps into the spotlight


A Zoe Knowles


uthor/illustrator Katie Kirby scored her first Official UK Top 50 number one last week. The sixth book in the Lotie Brooks series, The Majorly Awkward BFF Dramas of Lottie Brooks went straight to the top with 20,995 copies sold through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market and is by far the best first-week result for the series to boot. Kirby, who ranked 13th among last year’s top 30 illustrators, also claimed her second Children’s and Young Adult number one last week. She was last at the top in August 2022 with The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks. Her children’s books have been gaining momentum since Lotie Brooks made her début in March 2021. Prior to last week’s release, the series record for most


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3 Murder on Lake Garda 4 Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt 5 Yellowface  


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6 The Darkness Within Us 7 The Exchange 


8 Pinch of Nom Air Fryer     


10A Court of Thorns and Roses 11The Last Devil to Die 12The Edge 13Reckless   


14The Night Ends With Fire 15The Housemaid Is Watching 16The Burnout    


17A Thousand Broken Pieces 18Politics on the Edge 19The Last Word 20Oh Miriam!      


21The Black Bird Oracle 22Someone Else’s Shoes 23It Ends With Us 24Island in the Sun 25The Dream Home 26Kala    


Author; Illustrator


1 The Majorly Awkward... Brooks Katie Kirby 2 The Wrong Sister


Claire Douglas Tom Hindle


Imprint Puffin


Penguin Penguin


L Riley & H Whittaker Pan Rebecca F Kuang Tricia Levenseller John Grisham


Kay & Kate Allinson


9 Taylor Swift: Little People, Big... Vegara; Fallberg Sarah J Maas Richard Osman David Baldacci Lauren Roberts K X Song


Freida McFadden Sophie Kinsella Tillie Cole


Rory Stewart Elly Griffiths


Miriam Margolyes Deborah Harkness Jojo Moyes


Colleen Hoover Katie Fforde T M Logan Colin Walsh


27A Court of Thorn and... Box Set Sarah J Maas 28The Housemaid 29The Impossible Pig 30Hot Girl Summer     


31Sisters Under the Rising Sun 32The Running Grave 33It Starts With Us 34Our Holiday 35Murdle 


36Fourth Wing  


37Ultra-Processed People 38Powerless   


39None of This Is True 40Unnatural Death 41Our Fair Lily  


42A Court of Mist and Fury 43Astrochimp   


44The Housemaid’s Secret 45The Ghost Ship 46Emperor of Rome  


49Just One Thing 


47A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 48The Secret 


50Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...


Freida McFadden Jamie Smart Sophie Gravia Heather Morris Robert Galbraith Colleen Hoover Louise Candlish G T Karber


Rebecca Yarros Chris van Tulleken Lauren Roberts Lisa Jewell


Patricia Cornwell Rosie Goodwin Sarah J Maas


Walliams, David Freida McFadden Kate Mosse Mary Beard


Holly Jackson ISBN TCM total Volume


0241647257 21,158 20,995 1405957618 47,089 16,264 1804942369 37,458 12,275 1529043549 12,256 12,210


Borough Press 0008532819 143,854 11,561 Pushkin Hodder Bluebird


Frances Lincoln 0711295087 61,333 Bloomsbury Penguin Pan


1526605399 305,903 0241992401 245,242 1529062113 29,296


Simon & Schuster 1398530126 57,710 Hodderscape 1399725255 10,788 Poisoned Pen 1464223310 66,130 Penguin Penguin Vintage Quercus


1804990810 52,412 1405962964


8,010


1529922868 75,997 1529433470


1035410163 7,525


John Murray 1399803373 23,802 Headline Penguin


7,107 1405943505 140,296


Simon & Schuster 1471156267 1,394,551 Penguin Zaffre


1529158151 1804181362


Atlantic


Bloomsbury Little,Brown


6,002 5,947


1838958626 17,266 1526657077 42,566 1408728512 273,656


David Fickling 1788453127 14,533 Orion Zaffre Sphere


1398715721 7,749


1786582256 16,682 1408730973 46,773


Simon & Schuster 1398518209 316,052 HQ


Souvenir Piatkus Penguin


0008614652 19,244 1800818026 407,733 0349437019 134,504 1529160222 94,759


Simon & Schuster 1398529489 146,826 Penguin Sphere Zaffre


1804940204 170,090 1408728673


Bloomsbury 5,108


1804184431 16,276 1526617163 174,110


HarperCollins 0008587574 56,819 Little,Brown Pan


Profile


Lee & Andrew Child Penguin Michael Mosley Gabrielle Zevin


Short Books Vintage


0349132600 166,057 1509806935 31,213 1846683794 16,566


Electric Monkey 1405293181 602,235 0552177566 192,038 1780725901 96,484 1529115543 512,761


Week ending 20th July 2024. 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.


1782694274 11,324 11,287 1399724869 32,608 1035054565 122,564


9,743 9,729 9,370 9,083 8,873 8,814 8,792 8,385 8,382 8,149 7,769 7,698 7,507 7,205 7,054 7,029 6,579 5,960 5,915 5,658 5,501 5,435 5,397 5,388 5,354 5,136 5,115 5,111 5,005 4,577 4,495 4,448 4,444 4,440 4,419 4,412 4,164 4,156 4,155 4,144 4,109 3,988 3,929 3,921


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