![]() ![]() Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly (John Murray Press £25) Megamonster by David Walliams (HarperCollins £14.99) Guinness World Records 2022 (Guinness World Records £20)Īnd Away … by Bob Mortimer (Simon & Schuster £20) Pinch of Nom: Quick and Easy by Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson (Pan Macmillan £20) ![]() The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Penguin £18.99) The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Canongate £8.99) The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury £16.99) The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99) “Of course, Osman brought in nearly £12m in the non-lockdown weeks alone, but both Hamnet and Shuggie Bain hitting the year’s top 20 bestseller list shows literary fiction is rising (and perhaps the nation’s desire to support their local indie too). Fiction rising 20% against 2019 (for the non-lockdown weeks of 2021) is really incredible, given how sluggish fiction sales have been previously,” she said. “It really does seem to be a re-discovered/newfound love of reading driving sales across the board. Kiera O’Brien, charts editor at The Bookseller, welcomes the growth. But one thing we can be certain about: books are most definitely not a pandemic fad and have proved their lasting power time and again.” “The start of 2022 is unfortunately looking a lot like 2021, with a new variant, a rush to vaccinate and widespread uncertainty. “Overall, the year’s bestsellers show book buyers seeking out comfort, laughter, escapism, familiarity and maybe a sense of community, given the continued impact of social media in bringing in new authors with existing platforms and creating conversations around new and old books,” said Nielsen’s Jackie Swope. Adam Silvera’s young adult novel They Both Die at the End, a favourite on TikTok, just made it into the Top 20, the first YA title to do so since 2015. Other strong performers include the Women’s prize winner Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell, and the Booker prize winner Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart, with adult fiction taking nine spots in the Top 20, its highest total since 2012. Charlie Mackesy’s “book of hope”, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, continued to be a source of inspiration for readers as the year’s second bestselling title, revealed Nielsen, followed by Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, an uplifting novel in which heroine Nora struggles with depression. ![]()
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