According to theguardian report,2014 was the year of the first official Super Thursday : the day in October earmarked
by publishers as the best day to release books for maximum Christmas sales.We wanted to see whether books
published on Super Thursday would perform better than titles published on other days,so we asked Amazon UK,
Waterstones,Foyles,Blackwell's,Mr B's,Chorleywood Bookshop,Walkers Bookshops and industry publication The
Bookseller to predict which books they thought would top the charts this year.
Each top 20 has been ordered by total UK sales figures.Some have no sales yet because they are only just out .
Figures will be updated regularly as we blog ; please check back to see how titles are selling.
Amazon UK
Awful Auntie by David Walliams (published 25 September 2014): 216,843
Jamie’s Comfort Food by Jamie Oliver (published 28 August 2014): 108,519
The Pointless Book by Alfie Deyes £8.99 (published 4 September 2014): 93,273
Great British Bake off: Big Book of Baking by Linda Collister (published 14 August 2014): 59,321
The Second Half by Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle (published 9 October 2014): 55,569
Desert God by Wilbur Smith (published 25 September 2014): 40,492
Waterstones
Jamie’s Comfort Food by Jamie Oliver (published 28 August 2014): 108,519
Personal: Jack Reacher by Lee Child (published 28 August 2014): 93,895
Desert God by Wilbur Smith (published 25 September 2014): 40,492
The Children Act by Ian McEwan published 2 September 2014): 38,086
Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett (published 16 September 2014): 34,920
Us by David Nicholls (published 30 September 2014): 31,999
More Fool Me by Stephen Fry (published 25 September 2014): 29,584
The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop (published 25 September 2014): 28,054
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell (published 11 September 2014): 26,620
Lamentation by CJ Sansom (published 23 October 2014): 25,965
Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi (published 11 September 2014): 24,057
