1990 Year of publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Studies


LBTBTQ+ Publishing Spotlight Cookbooks, Kay and Shuggie stand tall


are still unknown—though, by early December, it was a go-to Christmas gift, shifting over 31,000 copies two weeks in a row. The paperback burst into the charts in the week bookshops reopened following Lockdown 3.0, selling 17,879 copies in three days and charting in second overall. It repeated the trick a week later, holding the overall runner-up spot in the latest BookScan charts. Adam Kay’s This is


Going to Hurt saw a resurgence in sales last year as the pandemic threw NHS workers into the spotlight. The former junior doctor’s kid’s non-fiction title Kay’s Anatomy, illustrated by Henry Paker, also sold strongly across the autumn, charting eighth in the LGBT chart.


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[Pinch of Nom duo] Featherstone and Allinson may be the most successful couple in BookScan history


ADAM KAY AND JUDITH BUTLER LEFT BOTH HIT THE CHARTS


Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, the


LGBT Chart Top 10 (2020) Title


1 Pinch of Nom Everyday Light 2 Girl, Woman, Other 3 Pinch of Nom


4 Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy 5 Shuggie Bain


6 This is Going to Hurt 7 Ottolenghi FLAVOUR 8 Kay’s Anatomy 9 Untamed


10 Life’s What You Make It Author Imprint


Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird Bernardine Evaristo


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Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird Douglas Stuart Picador Adam Kay Picador Y Ottolenghi & I Belfrage Ebury Press Adam Kay Puffin Glennon Doyle Vermilion Phillip Schofield Michael Joseph


ISBN (+978) 1529026405 0241984994 1529014068 1529034981 1529019278 1509858637 1785038938 0241452912 1785043352 0241501177


TCM Rank 3 7


11 18 32 36 62 75


100 109


Gender Studies/Gay & Lesbian Studies Top 10 (TCM36 2020) Title


Author 1 Gender Trouble... 2 Queer City: Gay London... 4 Life Isn’t Binary Imprint


Judith Butler Routledge Peter Ackroyd Vintage


3 In Their Shoes... Non-Binary Life Jamie Windust Jessica Kingsley A Iantaffi & M-J Barker Jessica Kingsley


6 Out of the Shadows... 8 Gender Explorers


7 Trans Power: Own Your Gender Juno Roche Jessica Kingsley Juno Roche Jessica Kingsley


9 Transgender History... 10 Non-Binary Lives


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author’s inspirational memoir about falling in love with her now wife, rocketed in sales in August following an endorsement from Adele. The singer posted the book’s cover on Instagram, telling her 38.5 million followers that the “pro-bloody-found” title had changed her life. Untamed’s UK sales increased by 796% in volume over a fortnight, swiping the Paperback Non-fiction number one twice. The 2006 edition of Judith


ISBN (+978) Volume 0415389556 0099592945 1787752429 1785924798


5 The Stonewall Reader - Penguin Classics 0143133513 Walt Odets Penguin


0141990149 1787750197 1787752597


Susan Stryker Seal 1580056892 Twist, Vincent et al Jessica Kingsley


1787753396


1,532 781 755 591 449 438 402 398 257 235


Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity topped the Gender Studies/Gay & Lesbian Studies category chart for the 36 weeks of 2020 that sales data was available. The originally 1990-published text, which argues that gender is an improvised performance, became founda- tional to queer theory. In 2018, playwright Jordan Tannahill read the entirety


of Gender Trouble outside the Hungarian Parliament building, in protest of Viktor Orban’s decision to revoke accreditation and fund- ing for gender studies programmes in Hungary.


Date Range 29th Dec 2019–2nd Jan 2021 Source Nielsen


The Stonewall Reader Penguin Classics Released in 2019 for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in the US, The Stonewall Reader collates first-hand accounts, diaries and periodic literature, high- lighting forgotten figures in the movement and contextualising the pivotal events that led to the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights.


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Life’s What You Make It Philip Schofield “This Morning” presenter Schofield came out early last year via Instagram and a live interview on the ITV show. His autobiography, written during Lockdown 1.0, was published in October and quickly climbed the charts, scoring 109th place in the ranked 2020 charts overall.


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