This was no easy task, as the lists are not included in the Times’s online archives-only on its microfilm. I happen to know this because around that time, I set off on a research mission to record every baseball book that ever made the list. No baseball book hit the New York Times best sellers list in 2015, the first time that happened in 16 years. Stupid White Men.and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the NatioĪlchemist,The:A Fable About Following Your DreamĪt My Mother's Knee. Popular Culture & Media: General Interest
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus:A Practical Guide for Improvin Atkins' New Diet Revolution:The No-hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss PĮats, Shoots and Leaves:The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation You are What You Eat:The Plan That Will Change Your Lifeĭr. No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency,The:No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency S. Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest,The:Millennium Trilogy Very Hungry Caterpillar,The:The Very Hungry Caterpillar Girl Who Played with Fire,The:Millennium Trilogy Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,The:Millennium TrilogyĬurious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,The Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince:Children's Edition Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Top non-fiction humour: The World According to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson with 1,489,403 sales.Top cookery book: Jamie's 30-Minute Meals, by Jamie Oliver with 1,743,266 sales.Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo is right behind with 1,781,269 sales Top children's book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, with 1,783,535 sales.The list is fascinating in its own right, even without the dominance of the big writers. Fifty Shades itself has sold 3,758,936 copies, with the two follow-ups, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed selling over two million copies each. So we've removed it from this list although it's easy to compare.īut considering the Fifty Shades books have only just been published, they are already a powerful force.
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It's not top on this list: that's got Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code at number one, followed by the Harry Potter novels.įirst thing to say is that the Highway Code dominates everything - but because it has been around for so long it artificially jumps near the top of the list with the many versions since 1998 selling over 4.8m copies. It shows volumes of each book, its publisher and genre. So, bearing that in mind, Nielsen have given us their top 100 list of all-time Uk book sales. Nielsen Bookscan, which collects the retail sales information from point of sale systems in more than 31,500 bookshops around the world, does not provide collated sales across e-books and physical books, which means we' are reliant on publishers. Combined UK sales for the trilogy are in excess of 12m copies, with rights to the book sold around the world and published in languages including Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Serbian and Vietnamese.īut is it right? Proving sales across platforms independently is very difficult as there are so many outlets. The second and third books, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, are also selling fast, with UK sales of 3.6m and 3.2m respectively. The book has remained in the top slot in the UK bestseller lists for the 16th week running. Publisher Cornerstone (part of Random House) announced this week that the erotic novel has sold in excess of 5.3m copies in print and ebook – more than The Highway Code or Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
Fifty Shades of Grey is Britain's best-selling book ever - according to the publishers at least - but how does it compare?
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