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Haig, Osman and Owens top Amazon's most read of 2021
Matt Haig, Richard Osman and Delia Owens wrote the top three most read books on Amazon this year.
Haig's The Midnight Library (Canongate) topped the chart, which includes e-book and audiobooks in Audible in addition to physical copies, followed by Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) and Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing (Corsair).
Children's classic Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling (Bloomsbury Children's Books) came in fourth, followed by Jeanine Cummins' American Dirt (Tinder Press) in fifth, The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (Zaffre) in sixth and Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain (Picador) in seventh. Brit Bennett came in eighth with The Vanishing Half (Dialogue), while Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Faber & Faber) was ninth and Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber) rounded off the top 10.
The Midnight Library also topped the charts for the most sold fiction books, followed by Rowling's Harry Potter Children’s Collection: The Complete Collection (Bloomsbury Children's Books) and Where the Crawdads Sing.
In non-fiction, cooking, cleaning and organising books lead the list, with Kay Featherstone's Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy: 100 Delicious, Slimming Recipes (Bluebird) topping the charts, followed by Stacey Solomon's Tap to Tidy: Organising, Crafting & Creating Happiness in a Messy World (Ebury) and Jane Dunn's Jane’s Patisserie: Deliciously Customisable Cakes, Bakes and Treats (Ebury).
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year longlist, chosen by its editorial team, gave the top spot to Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Faber & Faber), followed by Stanley Tucci's Taste (Fig Tree) and Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Serpent's Tail).
Lisa de Meyer, UK books country manager at Amazon.co.uk, said: "We’ve been lucky to have a breathtaking array of brilliant books to choose from while we’ve been in and out of lockdown over the past year and the British public have shown they have wide ranging tastes from crime to cookery and romance to real life stories."
