Amazon Charts: Wicks and Rooney score a hat-trick

For a third week running, Joe Wicks' Wean in 15 (Bluebird) and Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) have topped the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold categories for the week ending 17th May. Wicks' baby-weaning guide topped the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart in the same week that it grabbed the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, and Rooney's BBC-adapted Millennial romance held the Most-Sold: Fiction top spot. The author's debut Conversations with Friends zipped up to sixth place.

Normal People also held firm in second place in Most-Read: Fiction, though J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Pottermore/Bloomsbury) remained unbeatable in the top spot. Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient (Orion) leapt to fifth place, with L J Ross' The Shrine and Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) also breaking up the usual Potter monopoly in the top 10—perhaps a sign lockdown has seen more people cracking into their new books immediately, as Nielsen research last week showed 41% of consumers felt they were reading more while in self-isolation.

Ant Middleton's The Fear Bubble (HarperCollins) leapfrogged Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin) to claim the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction runner-up spot, with his debut memoir First Man In rising four places up the chart—the new series of "SAS: Who Dares Wins" won't have hurt sales. Deborah Orr's autobiography Motherwell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) also made its debut in the chart.

Amazon may as well retire the Most-Read: Non-Fiction top spot, as Becoming isn't going anywhere. The same week the former First Lady's memoir jumped back into the Nielsen BookScan Top 50, boosted by the Netflix documentary following her book tour, it held the number one spot in its 44th week in the chart.