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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
last week—never forget, it had sold 6,900 copies since its 2016 publication before 2021. M K Lobb’s Seven Faceless Saints débuted atop the Original Fiction chart, a week aſter its fellow Sci-Fi and Fantasy title Hannah Whiten’s The Foxglove King claimed the pole. The
SFF category has followed up an excellent 2022 with an even beter start to 2023, with nearly a million books sold for £10.6 million—a rise of 13% in volume and 12% in value year on year, and a mind- blowing 54% improvement in volume and 77% jump in value against immediately pre-lockdown 2020. With sales of Illumicrate titles and TikTok boosting the romantasy genre, the 2023 top 10 is a clean sweep for female
authors, compared to 2020’s chart, which features eight male- authored titles in the top 10. Dale Vince and John Robb’s
TCM actual selling price 52-week history
£10
Original Fiction Title
1 Seven Faceless Saints 2 I Will Find You 3 It Starts with Us
4 Old Babes in the Wood 5 The Bullet That Missed 6 Someone Else’s Shoes 7 23rd Midnight
8 A Day of Fallen Night 9 Heart Bones
11 Worthy Opponents Cuddy
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13 One Enchanted Evening 14 In Memoriam 15 Old God’s Time 16 Birnam Wood 17 The Pink House 18 The Mother
19 The Dead of Winter 20 Really Good, Actually
Author
Imprint
M K Lobb Titan Harlan Coben Century
ISBN (+978) 1803363806 1529135503
Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1398518162 Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus 1784744854 Richard Osman Viking
Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph James Patterson Century
10 Solo Leveling, Vol. 6 - Ize Press Danielle Steel Macmillan
0241512425 0241415535 1529136753
ASP
£17.99 £10.50 £7.89
£20.34 £11.01 £12.28 £10.57
Samantha Shannon Bloomsbury Circ... 1526619792 £16.59 Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1398525030 8400900266 1529022230
£9.42
Benjamin Myers Bloomsbury Circ... 1526631503 Katie Fforde Century Alice Winn Viking
Sebastian Barry Faber & Faber Eleanor Catton Granta
Catherine Alliott Michael Joseph T M Logan Bonnier Stuart MacBride Bantam Monica Heisey Fourth Estate
Mass-Market Fiction Title
1 Lessons in Chemistry 2 The Rising Tide
3 Murder Before Evensong 4 Escape
5 Wrong Place Wrong Time 6 Never Never
7 How to Kill Your Family 8 It Ends With Us 9 Cold, Cold Bones Beautiful
10 11 The 6:20 Man £5
12 An Island Wedding 13 Hunting Time 14 The Blackbird
16 Verity £0 £8.63 YEAR ON YEAR n/a% 17 Icebreaker
18 The Man Who Died Twice 19 Thrown
20 The Thursday Murder Club
1529136159 0241567821 0571332779 1783784257 0241525043 1804180839 1787634923 0008511722
£13.51 £10.23 £18.13 £9.86
£13.96 £17.43 £18.22 £8.45 £9.44
£11.98 £11.24
Volume 10,884 3,919 2,538 1,909 1,870 1,819 1,769 1,160 1,132 1,124 1,089 1,033 1,028 1,000 944 933 904 849 811 768
Author
Imprint Bonnie Garmus Penguin
ISBN (+978) 1804990926
Ann Cleeves Pan 1509889655 Reverend Richard Coles W&N James Patterson Penguin
Gillian McAllister Penguin 1405949842 C Hoover & T Fisher HQ
Bella Mackie Borough Press
1474612647 1529159332
0008620486 0008365943
Colleen Hoover Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Kathy Reichs Simon & Schuster 1398510814 Danielle Steel Pan 1529021967 David Baldacci Pan 1529061987 Jenny Colgan Sphere
Jeffery Deaver HarperCollins Tim Weaver Penguin
15 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398515697 Colleen Hoover Sphere
Hannah Grace Simon & Schuster 1398525689 Richard Osman Penguin 0241988244 Sara Cox Coronet
ASP
0751580396 0008503857 1405943741
1408726600 1529373868 Richard Osman Penguin 0241988268
£6.85 £5.19 £5.59 £4.74 £5.65 £4.97 £5.67 £5.70 £4.70 £4.69 £5.71 £4.82 £5.00 £5.85 £6.08 £5.26 £5.21 £5.71 £5.47 £6.12
Volume 21,101 15,910 9,792 9,778 8,159 7,695 6,608 6,206 5,996 5,900 5,579 5,269 4,961 4,048 3,991 3,965 3,827 3,614 3,559 3,477
Heatseekers Fiction
The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan 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.
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Title
3 Vera... Advice for Murderers 4 The Midnight House 5 Stepping Up
6 Such a Good Mother
7 I’m Sorry You Feel That Way 8 The Bookseller of Inverness 9 The Exhibitionist 10 Damascus Station
Author
Imprint
1 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V E Schwab Titan 2 How to Kill Men and Get Away... Katy Brent HarperCollins Jesse Sutanto
HQ
Amanda Geard Headline Sarah Turner Penguin Helen Monks Takhar HQ Rebecca Wait riverrun S G MacLean Quercus Charlotte Mendelson Picador David McCloskey
Swift
ISBN (+978) 1789098754 0008536695 0008558734 1472283740 0552177115 0008340230 1529420463 1529414219 1529052787 1800752696
ASP
£6.79 £5.10 £5.07 £6.60 £5.45 £4.54 £7.85 £8.84 £8.77 £9.17
Volume 2,661 2,349 2,137 1,847 1,818 1,680 1,470 1,282 1,220 1,199
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