IN BRIEF Top 10 Ireland


Trends skew towards non-fiction offerings in the Irish chart, with self-help titles getting a particularly high billing


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Owens is on song in Ireland


Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing continued to sell strongly in Ireland after a blockbuster 2020, selling 26,211 copies. The title was such a staple of 2020 in Ireland that it out-sold even Sally R


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Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated mental health guide The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is Ireland’s bestselling title for 2021. Mental health-related titles feature heavily in the Ireland chart for the year to date, which isn’t surprising given the past year and a half—they are even edging out diet books.


2 Midnight Matt


Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library was a stellar success on both sides of the Irish Sea, with the novel claiming the Irish fiction number one for the year to date. Since publication, it’s shifted 28,242 copies.


Rooney’s success remains out of this world


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Sally Rooney’s third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You is already the fourth-bestselling title of the year in her native Ireland, having been released just a few weeks ago in September. Though the author was a Very Big Deal pre-pandemic, the BBC adaptation of “Normal People”, which dropped worldwide on BBC iPlayer and RTÉ in the spring of 2020, shunted her into a new stratosphere. In the UK, Beautiful World, Where Are You found itself debuting directly in the overall chart’s number one position, giving Rooney her first hardback pole—and retailer Waterstones reported sales of the book through the chain were 950% up on Normal People’s launch-week volume.


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Self-help non-fiction titles are a huge


presence in Ireland’s top 10 for 2021 to date. Homegrown comedian and presenter Dermot Whelan’s meditation guide Mind Full has racked up more than 19,000 copies sold


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Hussey’s handbook leaves readers refreshed


Galway-born sports psychologist Gerry Hussey’s first book Awaken Your Power Within has stormed the charts, selling 17,101 copies since its release in May. Ireland seems to be carving out a space in the self-help market for itself, with Awaken Your Power Within joining Dermot Whelan’s Mind Full as homegrown mental health guides in the bestseller chart.


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Latest Dog Man proves picture perfect


While the UK’s young readers may have eternal loyalty to David Walliams, Dav Pilkey seems to have leapfrogged the comedian-turned-author in the affections of Irish children. The American author and illustrator’s Dog Man series is particularly popular across the Emerald Isle, with the 10th instalment, Dog Man: Mothering Heights, selling 18,859 copies since its publication in March.


A stalwart in the Irish chart, the school


textbook Mathematical Tables scored seventh place for the year to date, with 18,418 copies sold. Educate.ie’s title Project Maths also made Ireland’s top 50


9 Patience is a virtue


Vex King’s Good Vibes, Good Life was a lockdown hit in the UK, topping the Paperback Non-fiction chart in May 2020. In Ireland the title has rocketed up the charts, selling 16,793 copies in 2021 alone.


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