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Bestseller Lists UK Top 10


United Kingdom Top 10


Cookbooks, thrillers, a popular science revelation and two breakout débutants feature in the UK’s top 10 for the year to date


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Oliphant’s stampede


of the charts


Gail Honeyman has been completely fine in the number one spot for some time, since Eleanor Oliphant... leapfrogged Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good in the spring. With nearly 700,000 copies sold in 2018, its claim on bestseller of the year looks unassail- able—though David Walliams and Jamie Oliver are lurking with festive season releases.


Kay’s junior doctor memoir scrubs up well


medical memoir


Adam Kay’s Tis is Going to Hurt, a breakout hardback hit in 2017, has really found its feet in paperback, shifting more than 330,000 copies and spending 22 weeks as the Paperback Non-fiction number one. Te junior doctor memoir became an unlikely summer hit as UK book- buyers opted to read about unfortunate genitalia accidents and crippling NHS cuts beside the pool—sales stepped up over July and August, with Tis is Going to Hurt finally topping the Official UK Top 50 after five months on sale. It’s been a consistently strong seller in e-book format too, topping the Weekly E-Book Ranking three times in August—a record for a non-fiction title.


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Walliams’ short stories go from strength to strength


David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Children 3 completes a neat hat-trick for the comedian-turned-author’s short story collection trilogy. The top-selling children’s title of the year (it will be until his annual November-released shot at the Christmas Number One) posted the biggest single-week sale of any title in the series upon its publication in the spring, and remains the fastest- selling title of 2018 to date.


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Sapiens seals breakout star Harari a top 10 slot


Yuval Noah Harari’s 2015 début Sapiens sold a solid 96,000 copies in its year of release, then rocketed by 240% in 2017. With more than a year spent consecutively in the Top 50, 19 weeks as the Paperback Non-Fiction number one, and a further 220,000 copies sold in 2018, it’s fair to say Sapiens was a bit of a hit. Harari’s follow-ups, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, have sold nearly 400,000 copies combined.


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Dan Brown’s Origin may become his


first post-The Da Vinci Code titles to sell more in paperback than in hardback. A six-week run at number one has seen its sales surpass 250,000 units already


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Marian finds the Keyes to success


Marian Keyes’ lucky 13th novel, The Break, represented a stunning return to form for the Irish author. Its first-week volume was 26% up on that of 2015’s The Woman Who Stole My Life. It also generated Keyes’ biggest single-week sale in the Mass-Market Fiction number one spot since 2011’s The Brightest Star in the Sky, earning the writer her 16th top spot in 17 years. All this, plus a 28-week run in the Weekly E-Book Ranking.


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Kerridge lays Wolff to waist with dieting title


The book that briefly prevented Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury from bagging the UK number one spot—and demonstrated to the world that Brits are a little more concerned about their waistlines than the White House’s current resident (it was January, after all)— Lose Weight for Good has helped boost Tom Kerridge’s sales by 177% year on year, and is still the most valuable book of the year to date, at a whisker under £4m.


4 Child extends his Reacher


The Midnight Line, Lee Child’s 22nd Jack Reacher title, has clocked up 312,319 copies to date, 2% up on last year’s series instalment Night School.


7 Making waves


Into the Water, Paula Hawkins’ follow-up to million-copy bestseller The Girl on the Train, made a splash in the charts in May, reigning for two weeks in the number one spot.


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Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients, 2017’s


bestselling book, carried on selling in 2018. With more than 200,000 copies sold this year, it became the chef’s third million-copy bestseller—and his first since 2012’s 15-Minute Meals


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