SECTOR ANALYSIS
Fiction Indie Retailers’ Top 50 Independent bookshops champion literary fiction and prize-winning authors
Title
1 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and... 2 Demon Copperhead 3 Lessons in Chemistry 4 The Marriage Portrait 5 The Last Devil To Die 6 Lessons
7 The Satsuma Complex 8 So Late in the Day
9 The Whalebone Theatre 10 Shrines of Gaiety
CLAIRE KEEGAN HAS THREE TITLES APPEAR ON THIS CHART
11 Small Things Like These 12 Act of Oblivion 13 Yellowface
14 The Bullet That Missed 15 Stone Blind
The more literary end of fiction is an staple, but indies can cater to the mainstream
16 Before the Coffee Gets Cold 17 Trespasses 18 Trust
19 The Fraud 20 The House of Fortune
21 Cleopatra and Frankenstein 22 The Romantic 23 Still Life
24 The Ghost Ship 25 Babel
26 The Thursday Murder Club 27 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 28 Foster
Tom Tivnan @tomtivnan
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ne of the most interesting things in examining independent retailer lists
is parsing out the divide between them and—by looking at Nielsen BookScan’s full Total Consumer Market charts (which, of course, also include indie numbers)—chains, supermarkets and online retailers. In Fiction, the clear division is how much beter literary titles work in the upper echelons over genre fiction. In this top 50, 30 novels are coded for BookScan’s General & Literary Fiction category, compared to just 12 in the overall TCM Fiction
chart over the same period. The full TCM Fiction top 50 boasts 22 Crime, Thriller & Adventure titles to 11 for
06 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction 29 Lucy by the Sea
30 Murder Before Evensong 31 Bournville
32 The Island of Missing Trees 33 A Little Life
34 The Running Grave 35 Really Good, Actually
37 A Death in the Parish
39 The Secret Hours 40 The Ink Black Heart 41 The Secret History 42 A Stroke of the Pen 43 Tom Lake
44 Young Mungo
45 How to Kill Your Family 46 The Seventh Son 47 Time Shelter
48 The Last Remains
49 The Man Who Died Twice 50 Best of Friends
Author Gabrielle Zevin
Barbara Kingsolver Bonnie Garmus Maggie O’Farrell Richard Osman Ian McEwan Bob Mortimer Claire Keegan Joanna Quinn Kate Atkinson Claire Keegan Robert Harris
Rebecca F Kuang Richard Osman Natalie Haynes
Imprint Vintage
Faber
Transworld Tinder Press Viking
Vintage Penguin
Transworld Faber
Cornerstone
ISBN (+978) Volume 1529115543 Paperback
0571376483 Paperback 1804990926 Paperback 1472223883 Paperback 0241512449
Hardback 1529116311 Paperback
Simon & Schuster 1398521230 Paperback Faber
0571382019 Hardback
The Borough Press 0008532772 Penguin Picador
Kawaguchi/Trousselot Picador Louise Kennedy Hernan Diaz Zadie Smith Jessie Burton Coco Mellors William Boyd Sarah Winman Kate Mosse R F Kuang
Richard Osman Yagisawa/Ozawa Claire Keegan Elizabeth Strout Richard Coles Jonathan Coe Elif Shafak
Hanya Yanagihara Robert Galbraith Monica Heisey
36 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid Richard Coles
Robert Galbraith Donna Tartt
Terry Pratchett Ann Patchett Douglas Stuart Bella Mackie
Sebastian Faulks
Richard Osman Kamila Shamsie
Bloomsbury Picador
Fourth Estate Penguin
HarperCollins Mantle
HarperVoyager Penguin
Manilla Press Faber Viking
Weidenfeld Viking
Penguin Picador Sphere
Fourth Estate
38 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka Sort of Mick Herron
0241994146 Paperback 1804991053 Paperback 0571368709 Paperback 1529160321 Paperback Hardback
Hamish Hamilton 0241336991 Picador
0241992388 Paperback 1529061512 Paperback 1529029581 Paperback 1526623362 Paperback 1529074529 Paperback Hardback
1509886104 Paperback 0008421793 Paperback 0241994078 Paperback 0008283391 Paperback 1509806911
Hardback
0008501853 Paperback 0241988268 Paperback 1786583239 Paperback 0571379149 Paperback 0241607008 Paperback 1474612647 Paperback 0241517406 Paperback 0241988725 Paperback 1447294832 Paperback 1408730942
Hardback 0008511760 Paperback
Simon & Schuster 1398515697 Paperback Weidenfeld
1474612678
Baskerville Sphere Penguin
Doubleday Bloomsbury Picador
G Gospodinov, A Rodel Weidenfeld Elly Griffiths
Quercus Penguin
Hardback
1914502071 Paperback 1399800532
Hardback
0751584196 Paperback 0140167771 Paperback 0857529633 1526664273
Hardback Hardback
1529068788 Paperback
The Borough Press 0008365943 Paperback H Heinemann
1529153200 Hardback
1474623070 Paperback 1529409758 Paperback 0241988244 Paperback
Bloomsbury Circus 1526647719 Paperback
Date range 26 weeks to 18th November 2023. Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
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