SECTOR ANALYSIS
Non-fiction Indie Retailers’ Top 50 Trade sales are down as biography soars in indie bookshops
Title
1 Politics on the Edge 2 Unruly 3 Never
4 Ultra-Processed People
6 How They Broke Britain 7 Women Living Deliciously 8 Doppelganger
DAVID MITCHELL
11 Great-Uncle Harry 12 Just One Thing
Te Adult: Non-Fiction market brings in the most revenue, but this year sales were down overall by 7%
15 The Golden Road 16 The Siege
17 Abroad in Japan
18 The Invisible Doctrine 19 Ottolenghi Comfort 20 The Salt Path
21 How to Read a Tree 22 Cairn
23 Inheritocracy
24 Why Women Grow 25 Raising Hare 26 Thunderclap 27 Murdle
Alex Call T
he Adult Non-Fiction: Trade section of the market contains the most varied list of titles,
and while it does not sell the highest volume of books—that honour this year goes to Adult Fiction—it does bring in the highest amount of money, with more than half a billion pounds spent in the year so far, according to Nielsen Bookscan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). Following a strong 2023, sales are down £30m year at this
writing—around 7%—but a full third of that is atributable to Prince Harry’s Spare, which became the fastest- selling Non-Fiction title when it was released in January 2023. Excluding
06 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
28 How to Eat 30 Plants a Week 29 BBC Proms 2024 30 A Thousand Feasts
31 The Orange and Other Poems 32 Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad 33 Strong Female Character 34 What I Ate in One Year 35 Rick Stein’s Food Stories 36 Operation Biting 37 Blossomise
38 Emperor of Rome 39 Unleashed 40 Monsters 41 Henry V
42 The Place of Tides 43 The Rest Is History 44 Divine Might
45 Let the Light Pour In 46 Landlines
47 The Accidental Garden 48 Nexus 49 Less
Author
Rory Stewart David Mitchell Rick Astley
Chris van Tulleken
5 What Does Israel Fear... Palestine? Raja Shehadeh James O’Brien Florence Given Naomi Klein Daniel Howell David Grann Michael Palin
9 You Will Get Through This Night 10 The Wager
13 The Garden Against Time 14 Want
Dr Michael Mosley Olivia Laing
Gillian Anderson William Dalrymple Ben Macintyre Chris Broad
Imprint
Vintage Penguin
Macmillan Penguin Profile
W H Allen Brazen Penguin HQ
ISBN (+978) Format
1529922868 Paperback 1405953191 Paperback 1035049394
Hardback
1529160222 Paperback 1805223474 Paperback 0753560365 Paperback 1914240485
Hardback
1802061956 Paperback 0008407490 Paperback
Simon & Schuster 1471183706 Paperback Penguin Short
Picador
Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Viking
Penguin
G Monbiot/P Hutchison Allen Lane Y Ottolenghi & H Goh Ebury Press Raynor Winn Tristan Gooley Kathleen Jamie Eliza Filby
Penguin Hodder
Sort of Books Biteback
Alice Vincent Chloe Dalton
Laura Cumming G T Karber
Nigel Slater Wendy Cope
Stanley Tucci Rick Stein
Max Hastings Simon Armitage
1804940655 Paperback 1780725901 Paperback 1529066678 1526657954 1408864418 0241675670
Hardback Hardback Hardback Hardback
1804992227 Paperback 0241635902 1785038914
Hardback Hardback
1405937184 Paperback 1529339628 Paperback 1914502002 Paperback 1785908583
Hardback
Canongate Books 1838855468 Paperback Canongate Vintage Souvenir
1805302711
H Fearnley-Whittingstall Bloomsbury -
BBC Proms
Fourth Estate Faber
Daniel Finkelstein William Collins Fern Brady
Brazen Fig Tree
BBC Books
William Collins Faber
Professor Mary Beard Profile Boris Johnson Claire Dederer Dan Jones
James Rebanks
William Collins Sceptre Apollo
Allen Lane
Holland & Sandbrook Bloomsbury Natalie Haynes Lemn Sissay Raynor Winn Richard Mabey
Picador
Canongate Penguin Profile
Yuval Noah Harari Patrick Grant
50 I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with... Miranda Hart Fern Press
William Collins Michael Joseph
Hardback
1529922530 Paperback 1800818026 Paperback 1526672520
Hardback
1912114177 Paperback 0008670740 0571389513
Hardback Hardback
0008483890 Paperback 1914240478 Paperback 0241683132 1785948602 0008642167 0571388417
Hardback Hardback Hardback Hardback
1846683794 Paperback 0008618209
Hardback
1399715072 Paperback 1804541937 0241426937
Hardback Hardback
1526667731 Paperback 1529089516 Paperback 1805301134
Hardback
1405947787 Paperback 1805220701 1911717089 0008664008 1405958332
Hardback Hardback Hardback Hardback
Date range 26 weeks to 2nd November 2024. 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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