Digital Bestseller Lists: Douglas doubles up at summit
Claire Douglas’ The Girls Who Disappeared (Penguin) rose into the Bookstat e-book number one for the first time, becoming Douglas’ second title on the trot to swipe the digital weekly top spot. The Couple at No 9 was a regular sight in the Bookstat chart across autumn 2021 and into early 2022.
Jenny Colgan’s The Christmas Bookshop (Sphere) jingled into second place, as Beth Moran’s Let it Snow (Boldwood) joined it among the seasonal romance e-book hits in the Bookstat chart. Christmas-themed fiction began as an e-book trend but it seems to have migrated over to the paperback charts since the late 2010s. However, the biggest festive romance paperbacks still appear in the digital chart.
Belinda Bauer’s Booker-longlisted crime title Snap (Transworld Digital) made its début in third place, as Jodi Ellen Malpas’ This Woman hit fourth.
Michael Connelly’s Desert Star (Orion) drifted into the Publisher E-Book Ranking number one in its first week, with David Baldacci’s Long Shadows (Macmillan) just behind in second place. Phillipa Ashley’s The Christmas Holiday (Avon) and Sarah Morgan’s Snowed in for Christmas (HQ) added to the Christmas fiction quota, as Simon Scarrow’s Death of an Emperor (Headline) also entered the chart.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Christmas Bookshop sold 7,098 copies, Hidden Scars 4,882 and The Girlfriend 2,141.
