SECTOR ANALYSIS
Non-fiction Indie Retailers’ Top 50 A mixture of history and politics leads the way in the non-fiction top titles for indies
Title
1 Politics On the Edge 2 Unruly
3 Landlines 4 The Salt Path
5 Great-Uncle Harry 6 Berserker!
7 I Want to Die but I Want to Eat... 8 Murdle
RORY STEWART TOPS THE LATEST NON-FICTION CHART
9 Rick Stein’s Simple Suppers 10 Emperor of Rome 11 Divine Might
12 The Lost Rainforests of Britain 13 Undoctored
There are big differences between the Non-Fiction charts overall and the chart based on bestselling titles through indie bookshops
14 The Farmer’s Wife 15 Let the Light Pour In 16 Ultra-Processed People 17 Agatha Christie
18 The Almanac: Seasonal Guide... 19 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox... 20 Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad 21 Walk Yourself Happy 22 The Wild Silence 23 All About Love
24 Everything is Everything 25 American Prometheus 26 Super-Infinite
27 The Ship Beneath the Ice 28 Just One Thing 29 Thunderclap
Tom Tivnan @tomtivnan
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here is no other time and category when independent bookshops diverge as sharply from the rest of the market than the second half of a year—particularly in the fourth quarter—and in Non-Fiction.
The upper end of the overall Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market chart during this period is replete with big ticket celeb memoirs and telly chefs’ latest. But as we can see in this top 50, those books do not dominate in indies, and most that appear are on
the lower reaches. For example, in the second half of 2023 Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me is by a good whack (some 30,000 units and £500,000)
06 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
30 Everything I Know About Love 31 Taste
32 What About Men? 33 The Creative Act 34 Pax
35 Prisoners of Geography 36 Colditz
37 Dear Dolly 38 Witchcraft 39 Femina
40 Why Women Grow
41 The Official Highway Code 42 The Power of Geography 43 Entangled Life 44 Brilliant Maps
45 Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays... 46 The Future of Geography 47 The Body Keeps the Score 48 Oh Miriam!
49 The Woman in Me 50 The Escape Artist
Author
Rory Stewart David Mitchell Raynor Winn Raynor Winn Michael Palin
Imprint ISBN (+978) Format
Jonathan Cape 1787332713 Hardback Michael Joseph 1405953177 Hardback Penguin Penguin
Adrian Edmondson Macmillan B Sehee, A Hur G T Karber Rick Stein
Professor Mary Beard Profile Natalie Haynes
Helen Rebanks Lemn Sissay
Picador
Bloomsbury Souvenir
BBC Books
1405947787 Paperback 1405937184 Paperback
H Heinemann 1529152616 Hardback 1035014279 Hardback 1526648099 Paperback 1800818026 Paperback 1785948145 Hardback 1846683787 Hardback 1529089486 Hardback
Guy Shrubsole William Collins 0008527990 Paperback Adam Kay
Trapeze Faber
Canongate
Chris van Tulleken Cornerstone Lucy Worsley Lia Leendertz
Charlie Mackesy Ebury Press
Piatkus Penguin
1398700390 Paperback 0571370580 Hardback 1805301134 Hardback 1529900057 Hardback
Hodder Paperback 1529303919 Paperback Gaia
1856754644 Hardback 1529105100 Hardback
Daniel Finkelstein William Collins 0008483845 Hardback Julia Bradbury Raynor Winn bell hooks Clive Myrie
K Bird & M J Sherwin Atlantic Katherine Rundell Faber Mensun Bound
Dr Michael Mosley Short Laura Cumming Dolly Alderton Stanley Tucci Caitlin Moran Rick Rubin
Tom Holland Tim Marshall Ben Macintyre Dolly Alderton Marion Gibson
Chatto
Penguin Fig Tree
Ebury Press Canongate Little, Brown
Macmillan
0349436234 Hardback 0241401477 Paperback
HarperCollins 0060959470 Paperback Hodder
1399714983 Hardback 1838959708 Paperback 0571345922 Paperback 1035008414 Hardback 1780725901 Paperback 1784744526 Hardback 0241982105 Paperback 0241501009 Paperback 1529149159 Hardback 1838858636 Hardback 1408706985 Hardback
Elliott & Thompson 1783962433 Paperback Penguin Penguin
Janina Ramirez W H Allen Alice Vincent -
Tim Marshall
Merlin Sheldrake Vintage Ian Wright Judi Dench Tim Marshall
Granta
Simon & Schuster 1398508507 Hardback 0753558263 Paperback 1838855437 Hardback
Canongate
Stationery Office 0115539954 Paperback Elliott & Thompson 1783966028 Paperback 1784708276 Paperback 1846276637 Paperback
Bessel van der Kolk Penguin Miriam Margolyes Britney Spears
Michael Joseph 0241632178 Hardback Elliott & Thompson 1783966875 Hardback 0141978611 Paperback 1399803359 Hardback
John Murray Jonathan Freedland John Murray
Simon & Schuster 1398522527 Hardback 1529369069 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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