Amazon Charts: Cameron scoops number one

David Cameron's For the Record (William Collins) has risen to the top of the Amazon Charts Most-Sold: Non-Fiction list, with more Audible listeners than Kindle readers in the past week. The former prime minister narrates the audiobook himself, which may have helped it become the fastest-selling in the format for publisher HarperCollins. 

The memoir knocked Jamie Oliver's Veg (Penguin) off the top spot and also debuted in fourth place in the Most-Read: Non-Fiction chart, racking up more pre-orders than any other title. In hardback, Cameron's memoir sold 20,792 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market to claim the Hardback Non-Fiction number one last week.

Whether it can challenge Michelle Obama's Becoming (Viking), which reigns for a 10th week in the Most-Read: Non-Fiction number one, remains to be seen. Becoming seems to have struck a particular chord with readers—its readers were quicker to review the memoir than any other book in the chart and, with a 4.8 star rating, the vast majority are positive.

Last week's number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (Vintage) also secured the Most-Sold: Fiction top spot. Its predecessor, The Handmaid's Tale, scored second place, Atwood's second consecutive double on the trot.

Self-published author L J Ross entered the Most-Sold chart with the first title in a new series, Imposter, featuring forensic psychologist Alexander Gregory. This is Ross' third new title to chart since the Amazon Charts began 10 weeks ago.

In Most-Read: Fiction, The Testaments leapfrogged Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Pottermore/Bloomsbury) to swipe the number one, with The Handmaid's Tale rising to seventh place.