Amazon Charts: Blue Moon phases into the top spot

Lee Child's Blue Moon (Transworld) has scored a double, topping both the Amazon Charts' Fiction rankings. It climbed 11 places in Most-Sold: Fiction to swipe the top spot in its first week on sale, earning the "most anticipated" tag as the most pre-ordered book in the chart. The 24th Jack Reacher title also went straight to the top of the Most-Read: Fiction ranking, defeating Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Pottermore/Bloomsbury). Blue Moon is the current UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan, selling 56,700 copies in its first week on sale.

Elsewhere in Most-Sold: Fiction, Amazon-published title Lucinda Berry's What She Returned (Thomas & Mercer) climbed six places to second place. Erin Kinsley's Found (Headline) leapfrogged former number one Rosie Walsh's The Man Who Didn't Call (Mantle) to claim third.

Agatha Christie's The Thirteen Problems (HarperCollins) toppled Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Vintage) as the oldest book in the chart. Despite this chart covering the week of Halloween, there didn't seem to be a huge amount of horror in the chart—but Christmas bells were already jingling threateningly in the distance, with Trisha Ashley's The Christmas Invitation (Transworld) hitting 13th.

The festive decorations have long been up in the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart, with Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Picador) holding the top spot. The Queen's dresser Angela Kelly's memoir, The Other Side of the Coin (HarperCollins) soared into third place, and will no doubt find itself under the tree of many a grandma come Christmas Day. Anne Glenconner's Lady in Waiting (Hodder), by Princess Margaret's former friend, also charted. Has Netflix's "The Crown" fuelled a boost in royal publishing?

Bill Bryson's The Body (Transworld) held the Most-Read: Non-Fiction number one, with the chart's top 16 titles identical to the week before.