Nielsen BookData's The Bestsellers podcast (Nielsen BookData)

Philip and Belle count down the UK's top 20 bestselling books in the month of August (02.00), reveal their "Beyond the Bestsellers" picks (11.28), and chat about The Sunday Times's recently-published top 100 of the past 50 years (19.30). Along they way they discuss TikTok's influence on the UK book market, judging a book by its cover, a book often bought but rarely read, the fact that UFOs are now called UAPs, and that you can cook gnocchi in an air fryer.

Books featured in this episode that can be purchased from all good booksellers include:
— Fiona Watt's That's Not My... Witch
— James Clear's Atomic Habits
— Bob Mortimer's The Hotel Avocado
— Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us
— Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series

Link to It Ends With Us trailer
Link to Mark Owen's pronunciation of "Clementine"
Link to Joe Rogan's chat with Luis Elizondo
Link to The Sunday Times's Top 100 bestsellers of the past 50 years
Link to Nielsen Book blog on judging books by their covers

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit NielsenBook.co.uk. Follow Nielsen Book on X (@bookdata), Linkedin (@nielsenbookdata) and Instagram (@nielsenbook). Get in touch with Philip and Belle at thebestsellerspodcast@nielseniq.com.

Episode hosted by Philip Stone and Belle Edelman, and produced and edited by Chris White. Theme music by Nela Ruiz.

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Philip and Belle count down the UK's top 20 bestselling books in the month of September (02.08), reveal their "Beyond the Bestsellers" picks (10.55), and chat about book trade "evergreens" (19.09) — old books that continue to fly off the shelves to this day. Along they way they discuss folding over the corner of pages instead of using a bookmark, Philip's book-related tattoo, and celebrities writing books for children that involve poop.

Books featured in this episode that can be purchased from all good booksellers include:
— Rebecca Kuang's Yellowface
— Richard Osman's We Solve Murders
— Sally Rooney's Intermezzo
— Janet and Allan Ahlberg's Funnybones
— Rhonda Byrne's The Secret

Link to Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
Link to Nielsen BookData's The Bestseller Awards

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit NielsenBook.co.uk. Follow Nielsen Book on X (@bookdata), Linkedin (@nielsenbookdata) and Instagram (@nielsenbook). Get in touch with Philip and Belle at thebestsellerspodcast@nielseniq.com.

Episode hosted by Philip Stone and Belle Edelman, and produced and edited by Chris White. Theme music by Nela Ruiz.

Thanks for listening!

Philip and Belle count down the UK's top 20 bestselling books in the month of October (02:20), reveal their "Beyond the Bestsellers" picks (11:53), and chat about books gunning for the Christmas number one spot (26:30). Along they way they discuss a cookbook that sold like hot cakes in Australia, why Barack Obama will forever be linked with the UK book trade's "Super Thursday", how nice Rick Astley and Stanley Tucci are, and Pokémon hunting in a posh hotel.
 
 Books featured in this episode that can be purchased from all good booksellers include:
 — Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga's The Courage to Be Disliked
— Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
— Guinness World Records 2025
— Vex King's One Day One Moment
— Lee and Andrew Child's In Too Deep

Link to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up
Link to The Bookseller's story about Boris's memoir hitting the charts
Link to interview with Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 winner Han Kang
Philip's Pokémon Go trainer code: 2058-8321-0182

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit NielsenBook.co.uk. Follow Nielsen Book on X (@bookdata), Linkedin (@nielsenbookdata) and Instagram (@nielsenbook). Get in touch with Philip and Belle at thebestsellerspodcast@nielseniq.com.

Episode hosted by Philip Stone and Belle Edelman, and produced and edited by Chris White. Theme music by Nela Ruiz.

Thanks for listening!

Philip and Belle count down the UK's top 20 bestselling books in the month of November (03.02), reveal their "Beyond the Bestsellers" picks (14.45), and chat about genres that enjoy sales spikes at Christmas in "Under the Spotlight" (26.14). Along the way they discuss the stonking sales of the latest Booker Prize winner, non-fiction books currently selling for under £10 that could be good options for listeners participating in office Secret Santas, "achievable" world records, and  colouring in.
 
Link to the recent Booker Prize announcement
Link to the Guinness World Records page: "most piercings in a lifetime (female)"
Link to The Bookseller's article about Vietnamese artists' collective Coco Wyo's deal with Penguin Random House
Link to a Telegraph article on "French flaps" (SFW)
 
Books featured in this episode that can be purchased from all good booksellers include:
— Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
— The Night Before Christmas
— Asako Yuzuki's Butter 
— George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
— Samantha Harvey's Orbital

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit NielsenBook.co.uk. Follow Nielsen Book on X (@bookdata), Linkedin (@nielsenbookdata) and Instagram (@nielsenbook). Get in touch with Philip and Belle at thebestsellerspodcast@nielseniq.com.

Episode hosted by Philip Stone and Belle Edelman, and produced and edited by Chris White. Theme music by Nela Ruiz.

Thanks for listening!

Philip and Belle count down the UK's top 20 bestselling books in the month of December (02.48), reveal their "Beyond the Bestsellers" picks (11.10), and review book sales in 2024 in "Under the Spotlight" (19.41). Along the way they discuss the bestselling books of the year, two writers that dared to sell more books that Richard Osman, why books are great value for money, and which of us was on Santa's Naughty List (as they didn't receive any books this Christmas).
 
Link to The Bookseller's article on predictions for 2025
Link to Brandon Sanderson's $40M Kickstarter
Link to Nielsen BookData book market overview blog for the UK and Ireland in 2024
Link to Nielsen BookData blog about audiobook listening in 2024 
 
Books featured in this episode that can be purchased from all good booksellers include:
— Asako Yuzuki's Butter (translated by Polly Barton)
— Richard Osman's We Solve Murders
— Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
— Brandon Sanderson's Wind and Truth
— Freida McFadden's The Housemaid

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit NielsenBook.co.uk. Follow Nielsen Book on X (@bookdata), Linkedin (@nielsenbookdata) and Instagram (@nielsenbook). Get in touch with Philip and Belle at thebestsellerspodcast@nielseniq.com.

Episode hosted by Philip Stone and Belle Edelman, and produced and edited by Chris White. Theme music by Nela Ruiz.

Thanks for listening!

Philip and Belle count down the UK's top 20 bestselling books in the month of January (02.21), reveal their "Beyond the Bestsellers" picks (11.24), and discuss New Year, New You season in "Under the Spotlight" (24.39). Along the way they discuss the record-breaking sales of a new fantasy novel, the dramatic rise in sales of personal development titles over the past decade, books that change your life, Plato, Stoicism, linocut Christmas cards, and get all nostalgic looking back at diet fads in years gone by (The Dukan Diet! Dr Atkins! GI Hip and Thigh!).
 
Link to The Guardian's article on the rise in childhood anxiety
Link to The Bookseller's article on sales of Rebecca Yarros's Onyx Storm
Link to Knowledge at Wharton: Life Hacks from Marcus Aurelius
Link to Exupery Design's New Year's Resolutions Generator
 
Books featured in this episode that can be purchased from all good booksellers include:
— Jamie Oliver's Easy Air Fryer
— Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things
— Coco Wyo's Girl Moments
— Daniel Levitin's Music as Medicine
— Anthony Kessel's American Mystery

For more information about who we are and what we do, visit NielsenBook.co.uk. Follow Nielsen Book on X (@bookdata), Linkedin (@nielsenbookdata) and Instagram (@nielsenbook). Get in touch with Philip and Belle at thebestsellerspodcast@nielseniq.com.

Episode hosted by Philip Stone and Belle Edelman, and produced and edited by Chris White. Theme music by Nela Ruiz.

Thanks for listening!