The Sunday Times Bestsellers List — the UK’s definitive book sales chart

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.

● The conclusion to Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters saga, Atlas, hits the top spot in Fiction Hardbacks, with the biggest weekly sale from a hardback novel in 2023 — almost 30,000 copies. It’s also one of the biggest novels published this year in terms of pure size: readers have 784 pages to get through.

● Alastair Campbell’s