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Amazon Charts: Heather Morris and Pinch of Nom top 2019 bestsellers
Heather Morris and Pinch of Nom have topped the Amazon Charts for 2019 as women dominate all four categories, with the retailer revealing its top five bestsellers in Most-Read: Fiction, Most-Sold: Fiction, Most-Read: Non-Fiction and Most-Sold: Non-Fiction charts for the year to date.
Blockbuster bestseller Pinch of Nom (Bluebird), by food bloggers Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson, swiped the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction pole, having sold over a million copies through BookScan since its release in March. Fellow influencer Mrs Hinch swept into fourth place in the chart, with her cleaning guide Hinch Yourself Happy (Michael Joseph). Pinch of Nom was also the most pre-ordered title of the year through Amazon.
Heather Morris' The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Zaffre), a bestseller across the world, swiped the year's Most-Sold: Fiction number one, with 2019's bestselling independently-published novel, Nicola May's The Cornershop in Cockleberry Bay, hitting third place.
Michelle Obama's Becoming (Viking), which became last year's Christmas number one through Nielsen BookScan, topped the Most-Read: Non-Fiction top five, beating the slightly less topical Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (originally published 1936). The former First Lady's memoir was also the most-listened-to audiobook of the year.
It wouldn't be an Amazon chart without J K Rowling, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Pottermore/Bloomsbury) thundered into the Most-Read: Fiction number one, sixteen years after it was first published. Four Harry Potter books muscle into the Most-Read: Fiction top five, though Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth (Penguin/David Fickling), which debuted in the Amazon Charts just 10 weeks ago, claimed second place.
“Amazon Charts’ Year in Books gives us the most comprehensive indication of which books people in the UK have been reading and loving in 2019 because it takes into account ebooks read on Kindle and audiobooks from Audible,” said Simon Johnson, Country Manager for Amazon UK Books. “We hope that our first-ever chart of the year inspires readers to try the titles written by the top writers if they haven’t already.”
Most-Read
| Fiction |
Non-Fiction |
| 1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling | 1. Becoming by Michelle Obama |
| 2. The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two by Philip Pullman | 2. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie |
| 3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling | 3. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson |
| 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling | 4. Take Control of Your Life by Mel Robbins |
| 5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling | 5. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay |
Most-Sold
| Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| 1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris | 1. Pinch of Nom by Catherine Allinson, Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone |
| 2. The Rumour by Lesley Kara | 2. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay |
| 3. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay by Nicola May | 3. Becoming by Michelle Obama |
| 4. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood | 4. Hinch Yourself Happy by Sophie Hinchcliffe |
| 5. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry | 5. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson |
