Audible Charts: My Sh*t Therapist leaps to top spot

Michelle Thomas' My Sh*t Therapist (Lagom) has risen to the top of the weekly Audible top 10 for the week ending 19th April, defeating the previous week's number one, Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin). Thomas' journey through therapy after suffering a major depressive episode, narrated by the author herself (pictured), was a Kindle Daily Deal last week and seems to have struck a chord with locked-in listeners.

Lemn Sissay's My Name is Why (Canongate) also charted in the weekly Audible chart, hitting fourth place, one of six audiobooks on the list that features the author's own narration.

Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me (Random House) debuted in third place, as the bestselling fiction audiobook of the week. Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl (HarperCollins) also made its debut in the audio top 10.

It's rare for a Children's book that hasn't been written by J K Rowling or Philip Pullman to feature in the Audible charts, but David Walliams' Slime (HarperCollins Children's) glided into eighth place, the same week it scored a second number one spot through Nielsen BookScan's TCM in hardback format.