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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


leap than Lincoln in the Bardo— which jumped 1,440% aſter its win last October—Milkman shiſted some 7,000 copies more copies in its winning week than Saunders’ epic, which never charted in the top 50. Granted, Lincoln in the Bardo was at a disadvantage, with only its £18.99 hard-


back edition available in print at the time of its win, but the Spring- released paperback never really took flight. A similar problem of timing dogged Eleanor Caton’s The Luminaries, the winning title in 2013, yet its post-win paper- back still topped 120,000 units. Lincoln in the Bardo is the lowest-selling Booker winner in the BookScan era with a total volume across print editions of just 73,957 copies. That’s nearly


100,000 copies fewer than any of its fellow winners—excepting Burns, naturally. While Milkman was labelled “challenging” by the


Actual selling price 52-week history


£10


Original Fiction Title


1 Tombland


2 In a House of Lies 3 War of the Wolf 4 Lethal White


5 Why Mummy Swears 6 Killing Commendatore 7 One Enchanted Evening 8 Nine Perfect Strangers Ambush


9 


10 Normal People 11 Absolute Proof 12 Courtney’s War 13 A Keeper


14 Shadow of Night 15 The Book of Life


16 In His Father’s Footsteps 17 The Fox


18 Unsheltered


19 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 20 Transcription


Author


Imprint


C J Sansom Mantle Ian Rankin Orion


Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins Robert Galbraith Sphere


Gill Sims HarperCollins Haruki Murakami Harvill Secker Anton Du Beke Zaffre


Liane Moriarty Michael Joseph James Patterson Century Sally Rooney Faber Peter James Macmillan Wilbur Smith Zaffre Graham Norton Coronet Deborah Harkness Headline Deborah Harkness Headline Danielle Steel Macmillan Frederick Forsyth Bantam Barbara Kingsolver Faber Heather Morris Zaffre Kate Atkinson Doubleday


Mass-Market Fiction Title


1 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 2 Dead If You Don’t


3 Eleanor Oliphant... Fine 4 17th Suspect Milkman


5 


6 Anatomy of a Scandal 7 An Unsuitable Match 8 Uncommon Type


9 The Forget-Me-Not Sonata 10= The Seven Deaths of Evelyn...


ISBN (+978) 1447284482 1409176886 0008183837 0751572858 0008284213 1787300194 1785764806 0718180294 1780895239 0571334643 0230772182 1785766480 1473664975 0755384754 0755384792 1509877577 0593080580 0571346981 1785763649 0857525888


ASP


£10.44 £10.72 £10.47 £11.87 £4.48


£16.77 £10.25 £12.15 £10.71 £13.07 £10.62 £10.46 £10.86 £8.40 £8.14 £9.73


£12.62 £16.39 £6.25


£15.31


Volume 45,633 8,639 7,102 5,201 2,811 2,532 2,409 2,283 1,987 1,931 1,820 1,770 1,695 1,617 1,594 1,585 1,462 1,362 1,299 1,288


Author


Imprint Heather Morris Zaffre


ISBN (+978) 1785763670


Peter James Pan 1509816378 Gail Honeyman Harper James Patterson Arrow Anna Burns Faber Sarah Vaughan S&S Joanna Trollope Pan


Tom Hanks Arrow Books £5


10= Christmas at Tuppenny Corner Katie Flynn Arrow 12 I Invited Her In 13 Fall from Grace Macbeth


14 


15 The Innocent Wife Origin


16  £0 £8.99  YEAR ON YEAR 0.1%


19 Death is Not Enough 20 Little Fires Everywhere


Dan Brown Corgi


17 Christmas Cakes and Mistletoe... Carole Matthews 18 Our House


Sphere


Louise Candlish S&S Karen Rose Headline Celeste Ng Little, Brown


0008172145 1784753696 0571338757 1471165023 1509823505 1784759438


Santa Montefiore S&S 1471175817 Stuart Turton Raven


1408889510 1784755249


Adele Parks HQ 0008284619 Danielle Steel Pan 1509800421 Jo Nesbo Vintage Amy Lloyd


Arrow


0099598060 1784757106 0552174169 0751560299 1471168062 1472244086 0349142920


ASP


£5.37 £4.29 £5.44 £4.14 £8.11 £4.92 £4.52 £5.38 £4.72 £6.84 £3.83 £4.67 £4.51 £4.76 £5.06 £5.24 £4.37 £5.00 £4.25 £3.07


Volume 32,615 18,350 10,611 9,772 9,466 9,147 8,182 6,866 6,517 6,411 6,411 6,032 5,858 5,778 5,330 5,017 4,615 4,060 3,907 3,717


Heatseekers Fiction


The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen Book-Scan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the


overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit thebookseller.com.


18 26th October 2018


Title


1 One Day in December 2 One Enchanted Evening 3 Hush Hush 4 Only Child


5 Codename Villanelle 6 The Cactus 7 The Collector


8 If Cats Disappeared... 9 Daughter of the Dales 10 The Cry


Author


Imprint


Josie Silver Penguin Anton Du Beke Zaffre Mel Sherratt Avon Rhiannon Navin Pan


Luke Jennings John Murray Sarah Haywood Two Roads Fiona Cummins Pan Genki Kawamura Picador Diane Allen Pan


Helen FitzGerald Faber & Faber


ISBN (+978) 0241982273 1785764806 0008271046 1509855605 1473666412 1473660632 1509812721 1509889174 1447295174 0571342945


ASP £5.11


£10.25 £3.38 £5.23 £5.55 £5.76 £3.74 £8.14 £3.74 £7.56


Volume 2,760 2,409 2,210 2,171 1,795 1,699 1,613 1,597 1,528 1,298


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