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thriller, with The Couple Next Door scoring fiſth place and J P Delaney’s The Girl Before cracking the top 10. The UK children’s category is over- whelmingly dominated by one man (as is Ireland’s): David Walliams. The author has three titles in the UK’s overall top 10, and also scored a clean sweep of the kids’ chart, penning the five top-selling children’s books of 2017 to date . However, in the US Hollywood drives the children’s market. With the exception of the inevitable Dr Seuss bestseller, four


the bestseller lists


Ireland title


1 Mathematical Tables 2 Into the Water


3 The World’s Worst Children 2 4 Orange Blossom Days 5 The Couple Next Door 6 Days Without End 7 Blob


8 When Breath Becomes Air Year to date (9th September) author imprint Doubleday Corgi isbn (978+)


– Stationery Office 1406422832 Paula Hawkins David Walliams Patricia Scanlan Shari Lapena


HarperCollins 0008259679 S&S


Sebastian Barry David Walliams Paul Kalanithi


J P Delaney 0857524430


1471151132 0552173148


Faber & Faber 0571277049 HC Children’s 0008221539 Vintage


9 The Official Driver Theory Test CD-ROM – Prometric Ireland 0995513037 10 The Girl Before


Quercus


United Kingdom title


1 The Couple Next Door


2 The World’s Worst Children 2 3 Night School 4 Blob


5 I See You 6 Sapiens


7 Lean in 15 8 Mary Berry Everyday


9 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep 10 Grandpa’s Great Escape


Lee Child has enjoyed a stellar 2017 in the UK; his Night School charts third


of the top six Juvenile and Young Adult titles are film or TV tie-ins. R J Palacio’s Wonder, which had already shiſted 1.7 million copies prior to 2017, tacked on another 514,054 units ahead of the release of its film adap- tation in November. Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything was the best- selling YA title of the year—on Yoon’s home turf the film tie-in edition, with star Amandla Stenberg on the cover, sold 411,756 copies—136% more than the original edition.


There’s a first, too: Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why—which sees separate editions take second and third place in the US’ YA chart—has emerged as the first Netflix-driven best- seller. The stream- ing serviice’s adap- tation helped the


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United States title


1 Milk and Honey


2 Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 3 A Man Called Ove 4 Camino Island 5 Wonder


6 Hillbilly Elegy


7 The Woman in Cabin 10 8 The Handmaid’s Tale 9 You are a Badass


10 Everything Everything


Author Top 10s Ireland


author


1 David Walliams 2 Julia Donaldson 3 J K Rowling 4 Jeff Kinney


5 Paula Hawkins 6 Enid Blyton 7 Roald Dahl


8 Jacqueline Wilson 9 James Patterson 10 Sebastian Barry


sales


100,129 70,725 65,642 50,044 28,657 27,268 24,330 23,869 23,125 22,705


1786480286 1784701994 sales


27,663 18,779 17,569 14,957 14,612 14,123 13,207 12,659 12,049 11,082


Year to date (9th September) author


Shari Lapena David Walliams Lee Child


David Walliams Clare Mackintosh Yuval Noah Harari Joe Wicks Mary Berry


Joanna Cannon David Walliams


imprint Corgi


isbn (978+) sales 0552173148 309,176


HarperCollins 0008259624 307,542 Bantam


0857502704 298,149


HC Children’s 0008221539 238,798 Sphere Vintage Bluebird BBC


0751554144 202,950 0099590088 184,133 1509800667 182,517 1785941689 161,964


Borough Press 0008132170 161,828 HC Children’s 0008183424 159,681


Year to date (22nd September) author


Rupi Kaur Dr Seuss


imprint isbn (978+) sales


Andrews McMeel 1449474256 692,396 RH Children’s 0679805274 550,225


Fredrik Backman Washington Sq... 1476738024 544,334 John Grisham R J Palacio J D Vance Ruth Ware


Doubleday 0385543026 523,737


Alfred A Knopf 0375869020 514,054 Harper


0062300546 486,162


Margaret Atwood Jen Sincero Nicola Yoon


Gallery/Scout 1501132957 463,294 Anchor


Running Press 0762447695 438,187 Ember


0553496673 411,765 0385490818 446,250


Year to date (22nd September)


United Kingdom author


1 Julia Donaldson 2 David Walliams 3 J K Rowling


4 James Patterson 5 Lee Child 6 Joe Wicks 7 Fiona Watt 8 Jeff Kinney 9 Roald Dahl 10 Liz Pichon


sales


1,928,963 1,666,452 1,059,646 866,177 739,194 576,672 534,438 521,986 475,801 445,231


United States author


1 James Patterson 2 Dr Seuss


3 Roger Priddy 4 J K Rowling 5 Stephen King 6 Dav Pilkey 7 Jeff Kinney


8 John Grisham 9 Rick Riordan 10 James Dean


sales (m) 3.8 3.7 2.2 1.9 1.7 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.3


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