Digital Bestseller Lists: This Much is True hits the top spot
Miriam Margolyes’ This Much is True (John Murray) has swiped the Bookstat number one for the first week of 2023, bouncing four places up the chart to its summit. The print edition of the actor’s memoir claimed the Nielsen BookScan Official UK Top 50 number one back in July 2022, spending eight weeks in the Paperback Non-fiction pole over last summer, but this is its first digital top spot.
James Clear’s Atomic Habits (Random House) also returned to the Bookstat chart, making it an unusually non-fiction heavy ranking.
In fiction, Adele Parks’ One Last Secret (HQ) rebounded into the chart, claiming second, as Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace (Penguin) jumped into eighth.
Richard Osman’s The Bullet that Missed and The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) held the number one and runner-up spot of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 31st December, with James Patterson’s Private Beijing (Penguin) the highest new entry, in third place, as Ian Rankin’s A Heart Full of Headstones (Orion) returned to the top 10. Clear’s Atomic Habits also climbed the publisher-supplied
chart for the last week of 2022.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that This Much is True sold 7,605 copies.
