Amazon Charts: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race soars to top

Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race (Bloomsbury) has rocketed straight into the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one spot in its first week in the chart. Following the death of George Floyd on 25th May and subsequent protests over police brutality across the US, the title featured prominently in many reading lists shared on social media. The author has asked book buyers to match the cost of the book with a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund. Adam Rutherford's How to Argue with a Racist (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Layla Saad's Me and White Supremacy (Quercus) also jumped into the top five.

Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient (Orion) checked in at the top of the Most-Sold: Fiction top 20, ending the run of Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) at the top. Psychological thrillers had a strong week, with Jackie Kabler's The Perfect Couple (One More Chapter) and Lisa Jewell's The Family Upstairs (Cornerstone) leaping upwards, while Bernardine Evaristo's Booker Prize-winner, Girl, Woman, Other (Penguin), climbed eight places to 11th.