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Monkeying around – Jamie Smart climbs to the top of the indie tree
REPORTING Alex Call
he latest Independent Bookshop Top 20 from NielsenIQ BookData sees no fewer than nine World Book Day
titles appear – including four of them entering the chart for the first time after failing to make the cut in their first week on sale. Those four new titles include Rose Ayling-Ellis’ ( 2) collaboration
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with Katie Blackburn, The Big Bang, leap-frogging nearly all of the others to take third place with the indies. It is beaten only by Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey: Total Chaos!, which this week rises one place to take the crown – oust- ing the previous number one Matt Dinniman’s Operation Bounce House which falls out of the Indie Top 20 completely. NielsenIQ does not provide sales data for titles in independent
Independent Bookshop Top 10 Data source NielsenIQ Book Data. Week ending 21st February 2026.
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Bunny vs Monkey: Total Chaos! Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453929
The Faithful Dark Cate Baumer Hodderscape, 9781399751155
The Big Bang! (WBD) Rose Ayling-Ellis, Katie Blackburn DK Children, 9780241803950
Peppa Pig: One Big Family (WBD) Peppa Pig Ladybird, 9780241803912
How to Launder Money George Cottrell, Lawrence B Files Biteback, 9781837360406
6 Bear Rescue (WBD) Hannah Gold HarperCollins, 9780008792435 7 Pablo and Splash: The Castle… S Dempsey Bloomsbury, 9781037200038 8 Skandar and the Secret… AF Steadman Simon & Schuster, 9781398552555 9 Chaos at the Chocolate… R Dahl, S Pounder Puffin, 9780241810354 10 Funny FACTopia Christopher Lloyd, A Smith What on Earth, 9781804661901
Publisher E-Book Ranking Data source Publisher-supplied. Week ending 14th February 2026.
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This Is Why We Lied Karin Slaughter HarperCollins, 9780008625849
Antihero Gregg Hurwitz Michael Joseph Fiction, 9781405953467
The Killing Time Elly Griffiths Quercus, 9781529433401
Two Can Play Ali Hazelwood Sphere, 9781408737200
Don’t Let Him In Lisa Jewell Penguin, 9781804940273
6 Theo of Golden Allen Levi Fontana, 9780008819439 7 Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney HQ, 9780008371005 8 And the Corpse Wore Tartan Stuart MacBride Macmillan, 9781035087723 9 The Killing Stones Ann Cleeves Macmillan, 9781035043194 10 My Husband’s Wife Alice Feeney Macmillan, 9781035083039 Audible Audio Top 10 Data source Audible. Week ending 21st February 2026. 1
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855683
Harry Potter…Azkaban (Full-Cast Ed) JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855676
HarryPotter…Stone(Full-CastEd) JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855652
Harry Potter… Secrets (Full-Cast Ed) JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855669
My Husband’sWife Alice Feeney Macmillan, 9781035083008
6 The Let Them Theory Mel and Sawyer Robbins Audible Studios, 9781788176187 7 TheHousemaid Freida McFadden Bookouture, 9781408728512 8 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press, 9781472223821 9 Nobody’sGirl Virginia Roberts Giuffre Penguin, 9781529985245 10 AHymntoLife Gisèle Pelicot et al Vintage, 9781847928979 33
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The full Independent Bookshop Top 20 can be found on The Bookseller’s bestseller pages. The Bookseller has adjusted the Independent Bookshop chart to remove some titles where sales do not derive from traditional bricks-and-mortar bookshops, such as exhibition catalogues and those featured on conglomerates’ subscription boxes.
bookshops, so it is impossible to say how Smart’s sales have changed compared with the previous week – although it is likely that they have increased sharply as half term pushes customers into bookshops. Yet despite the school holiday, the WBD books are the only children’s books to appear in the indie ranking. Cate Baumer’s The Faithful Dark
is this week’s highest new entry, appearing in second place – 139 places higher than its TCM placing where it sold 2,031 copies. Its success with the indies is likely boosted by an appearance in Goldsboro’s Fellowship subscription box.
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