Amazon Charts: Walliams and Kinney grapple for the top

David Walliams and Tony Ross' The Beast of Buckingham Palace (HarperCollins) has held the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top spot for a second week, over the same week it ascended to the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan with 100,899 copies sold. Despite knocking Jeff Kinney's Wrecking Ball (Puffin) from the top spot through BookScan, the 14th Wimpy Kid title swept up through the Amazon Charts, rising six places to join The Beast in second place.

With Walliams and Kinney at the top, the chart was unusually rich in children's titles, with Walliams' The World's Worst Teachers and Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (RHCP) also charting.

Angela Marsons' First Blood (Bookouture) also rose six places in the Most-Sold: Fiction chart, claiming third and earning the "unputdownable" tag, indicating Kindle and Audible readers finished it faster than similar books.

Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Picador) once again held the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction top spot, with Anne Glenconner's Lady in Waiting (Hodder) rising to join it in second, the same week "The Crown"'s third series dropped on Netflix. With Christmas now less than a month away, both Guinness World Records 2020 (GWR) and Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Century) charted.

Bill Bryson's The Body (Transworld) was the Most-Read: Non-Fiction number one for a sixth time, earning more listeners on Audible than readers on Kindle, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Pottermore/Bloomsbury) re-claimed its Most-Read: Fiction pole from Lee Child's Blue Moon (Transworld).