Charts Global bestsellers
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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