Digital Bestseller Lists: Harlan seals victory with Win as Hamnet debuts

Harlan Coben’s Win (Random House) crossed the finish line for the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 12th February. Sarah Pearse’s The Sanatorium (Transworld) made a similar leap upwards, climbing five places to claim the runner-up spot. Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (Headline) has been a stellar seller in print since its publication in paperback, becoming the first post-Lockdown 3.0 number one through Nielsen BookScan in March 2021. After a brief sojourn at 99p, its e-book edition bounced into the Bookstat top 10 last week, joined by the equally briefly-discounted Billy Connolly’s Windswept & Interesting (Two Roads), fresh from hitting the 2021 Biography and Autobiography category’s top two—and claiming the Scotland number one.  

Elly Griffiths’ The Locked Room (Quercus) battered down the door to the Publisher E-Book Ranking number one for the week ending 5th February, ending Richard Osman’s long reign with The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin). Victoria Henry’s The Impulse Purchase (Orion) and Ant Middleton’s Mental Fitness (HarperCollins) debuted in the top 10, with current Original Fiction hardbacks Jessie Keane’s Diamond (Hodder & Stoughton) and Linwood Barclay’s Take Your Breath Away (HQ) also debuting. 

Clarification: Hachette has stated that Hamnet sold 9,285 copies; Windswept & Interesting 9,682; The Ship
of Brides 4,912; Abandoned in Death 4,591; and Magpie Murders 4,681.