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Dean Koontz's The Eyes of Darkness (Headline) has leapfrogged Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) atop the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart, rising two places in its third week in the chart.
The thriller, which was first published in 1981, details the spread of a virus, developed in Wuhan as a chemical weapon, across the world and has gone viral amid the coronavirus pandemic. Unsurprisingly, the title also earned the tag "conversation starter", as readers rushed to leave a review as soon as possible after finishing.
James and Paul Anderson's Twochubbycubs: The Cookbook (Yellow Kite) returned to the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart in the top spot, following a brief period of its e-book being priced at 99p. It was joined in the top two by psychic Sylvia Browne's End of Days (Piatkus), in which she claims to have predicted the coronavirus outbreak and the end of the world.
The Eyes of Darkness also leapt six places up the Most-Read: Fiction chart, to 12th place. The Mirror and the Light rose to fifth in the same chart—alongside Marian Keyes' Grown-Ups (Penguin), one of the only two titles to break up the Harry Potter series' monopoly on the top. Mantel superfans no doubt immediately got cracking on the 900-page ending to the Cromwell trilogy.
It's reassuring to know that even during a global pandemic, the top three Most-Read: Non-Fiction titles haven't budged—once again, Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin), Bill Bryson's The Body (Transworld) and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens (Vintage) took the top three, as they have done for the past five weeks.