The Sunday Times Bestseller List is the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and the one that every author wants to be on. The listings are based on data collected each Saturday for the following Sunday by Nielsen BookScan (which has been collecting digital data since 1998) and the chart is the most accurate and comprehensive estimation of book sales in the country.
• Last week World Book Day took over the charts — with Bluey in the lead, 1.8 million children’s books were snapped up in total. That’s 46 per cent of all the books sold last week.
• Meanwhile, in the realm of grown-ups, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade, Dream Count, debuts at No 1 in the fiction hardback chart. Remarkably, it is the Nigerian author’s first Sunday Times No 1.
General hardbacks
1 To the Women by Donna Ashworth (Black & White £12.99)
Poetry collection celebrating the beauty, strength and joy of being a woman (6,495)
2 The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House £22.99)
Stop wasting your time and energy on the things that you can’t control (5,090)
Read our interview with Mel Robbins
3 Take Care by Lindsey Burrow (Century £22)
On the upheaval that followed the MND diagnosis of her husband, Rob (4,620)
Read our interview with Lindsey Burrow
4 The House of My Mother by Shari Franke (Gallery £20)
The true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the cycle of abuse (2,520)
5 Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (Canongate £18.99)
How an unlikely friendship with a newborn hare transformed the author’s life (1,515)
Read our review of Raising Hare
6 The Dose Effect by TJ Power (HQ £20)
The secret powers of dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins revealed (1,390)
Read our interview with Tj Power
7 The Little Things in Life by Catherine Hapka and Mike Wall (Studio £14.99)
Illustrated mindful moments and affirmations from Disney’s Winnie the Pooh (1,325)
8 What’s Your Dream? by Simon Squibb (Century £20)
The entrepreneur shares lessons learnt from his business life and personal life (1,215)
9 Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar (Bloomsbury £18.99)
Revealing how minority elites rule majorities by creating divisive culture wars (1,185)
Read our review of Minority Rule
10 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Ebury £20)
A fable containing gentle life philosophy (1,035)
Read our interview with Charlie Mackesy
General paperbacks
1 The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson (Penguin £10.99)
The rags-to-riches memoir of a former City trader and why he gave it all up (5,195)
Read our review of The Trading Game
2 Atomic Habits by James Clear (Random House Business £17.99)
The minuscule changes that can result in life-altering outcomes (2,755)
3 The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (Picador £10.99)
A love letter to gardens, their abundant pleasures and their possibilities (2,720)
Read our review of The Garden Against Time
4 The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (Allen & Unwin £10.99)
A philosopher and a student discuss the means to achieve lasting happiness (2,330)
5 The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin £10.99)
How a shift from free play to smartphones in childhood has affected our health (2,275)
Read our review of The Anxious Generation
6 Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne (Bluebird £10.99)
A life lived on the edge of the law and a battle to understand her diagnosis (1,955)
Read our review of Sociopath: A Memoir
7 Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken (Penguin £10.99)
Investigating the science and economics of highly processed food (1,660)
Read our review of Ultra-Processed People
8 The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel (Harriman House £16.99)
A series of essays on the strange ways people think about money (1,645)
9 Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst (Vintage £1.0.99)
A couple’s love is put to the test when cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (1,385)
Read our review of Maurice and Maralyn
10 Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson (Vermilion £10.99)
How knowing personality types can improve human interaction (1,355)
Fiction hardbacks
1 Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4th Estate £20)
The interconnected story of four women, their loves, longings and desires (15,645)
Read our review of Dream Count
2 Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Piatkus £25)
As war heightens in Basgiath loyalties are tested; sequel to Iron Flame (4,880)
Read our review of Onyx Storm
3 The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare (Tor £22)
Lin and Kel chart a perilous course between love and lies; sequel to Sword Catcher (3,655)
4 Our Sweet Violet by Rosie Goodwin (Zaffre £14.99)
As secrets about her family come to light, Violet Stroud finds herself homeless (3,070)
5 25 Alive by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Century £20)
The detective Lindsay Boxer’s friend and former partner is found murdered (3,005)
6 We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes (Michael Joseph £22)
When Lila Kennedy’s estranged dad reappears in her life it feels like the final straw (2,280)
Read our interview with Jojo Moyes
7 Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (John Murray £16.99)
A happily married mother’s life is upturned when a former flame resurfaces (2,185)
8 Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid (Del Rey £18.99)
A girl goes on the run in a desolate wasteland, tracked by an engineered assassin (1,660)
9 Quicksilver by Callie Hart (Hodderscape £20)
A young woman with strange powers lands in the middle of a centuries-long conflict (1,645)
10 Three Days in June by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus £14.99)
A mother navigates tricky days around her daughter’s wedding (1,555)
Read our review of Three Days in June
Fiction paperbacks
1 Wild Side by Elsie Silver (Piatkus £9.99)
A marriage of convenience turns into something deeper in this small-town romance (17,285)
2 Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson (Penguin £9.99)
Jackson Brodie is marooned at a hotel hosting a murder mystery weekend (12,630)
Read our review of Death at the Sign of the Rook
3 My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes (Penguin £9.99)
A beauty PR trades the skyscrapers of Manhattan for a tiny Irish town (10,290)
Read our interview with Marian Keyes
4 The Women by Kristin Hannah (Pan £9.99)
In 1965 a sheltered daughter of conservative parents enlists as a nurse in Vietnam (9,220)
Read our review of The Women
5 James by Percival Everett (Picador £9.99)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim (9,100)
Read our review of James
6 Shadows in the Moonlight by Santa Montefiore (Orion £9.99)
A psychic time-travelling detective probes the disappearance of a young child (7,010)
7 The Murder Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox (Penguin £9.99)
The owner of an inn defends his home, friends and town from a crime boss (6,615)
8 Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Piatkus £10.99)
A young woman is among many candidates to become an elite dragon rider (6,170)
Read our interview with Rebecca Yarros
9 Funny Story by Emily Henry (Penguin £9.99)
A woman bonds with the ex-boyfriend of her former partner’s new love (5,995)
Read our review of Funny Story
10 Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors (4th Estate £9.99)
Three estranged siblings return to their childhood home to prevent its sale (5,655)
Read our review of Blue Sisters
Children’s
1 Bluey’s Little Book by Bluey (Ladybird £1)
Meet Bluey, Bingo and all their family, friends and toys in this World Book Day picture book (54,530)
2 Pokémon: The Epic Pocket Guide Pokémon (Farshore £1)
Become an expert Pokémon trainer with this guide full of facts, stats, tips and training styles (44,660)
3 The Adventures of Paddington: Farm Escape! (HarperCollins £1)
Paddington forgets to shut the gate at a farm and all the animals escape (42,715)
4 Tales from Acorn Wood: Who’s in Acorn Wood? by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan £1)
Rhyming search-and-find book (40,290)
5 Lego: Our Amazing Universe (DK Children £1)
Explore the wonders of the universe through illustrated nature and space-themed Lego models (37,855)
The lists are prepared by and the data is supplied by (and copyrighted to) Nielsen BookScan, and are taken from the TCM for the week ending 08/03/25. Figures shown are sales for the seven-day period.
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