Digital Bestseller Lists: Jewell completes Bookstat hat-trick
Lisa Jewell’s The Night She Disappeared (Penguin) remained atop the Bookstat chart for the week ending 30th April; it has now scored three of the past four number ones.
Ashley Audrain’s The Push (Penguin) held the runner-up spot, as Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers (Penguin) débuted in third place. Though non-fiction e-book hits tend to be few and far between, Brown’s royal exposé ascended into the Bookstat, Audible and Hardback Non-fiction top 20s in its first week on sale—but this could be more to do with the book’s blanket coverage in the international press.
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro’s 22 Seconds (Penguin) hit sixth place, as Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper: Volume One (Hodder Children’s) entered the chart in seventh. If non-fiction is rare in the digital chart, then graphic novels are virtually non-existent. Heartstopper is, in fact, the first graphic novel to feature in the Bookstat chart since The Bookseller began running it in early 2020. The Netflix adaptation has lit a rocket under Oseman’s four-part series in the print charts, and Heartstopper novella Nick and Charlie featured in the Audible chart too.
Susan Lewis’ I Have Something to Tell You (HarperCollins) returned to the top of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 23rd April, as HarperCollins stablemate Mhairi McFarlane’s Mad About You thundered into third.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that Heartstopper: Volume One sold 2,307 copies.
