2018 Awards

The following books have been awarded Platinum (1,000,000), Gold (500,000) and Silver (250,000) status at the Nielsen Bestseller Awards in 2018 based on UK sales figures in the 21st Century.

1 Bestseller


Awful Auntie

By David Walliams

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2014

UK publisher: HarperCollins

1 Bestseller


Billionaire Boy

By David Walliams

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2010

UK publisher: HarperCollins

1 Bestseller


Demon Dentist

By David Walliams

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2013

UK publisher: HaperCollins

1 Bestseller


Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

By Jeff Kinney

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2008

UK publisher: Puffin/ PRH

1 Bestseller


Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules

By Jeff Kinney

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2008

UK publisher: Puffin/ PRH

1 Bestseller


Grandpa’s Great Escape

By David Walliams

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: HarperCollins

1 Bestseller


Killing Floor: Jack Reacher

By Lee Child

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 1997

UK publisher: Transworld Group

1 Bestseller


Matilda

By Roald Dahl

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 1998

UK publisher: Penguin Books

1 Bestseller


Monkey Puzzle

By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2000

UK publisher: Scholastic

1 Bestseller


Mr Stink

By David Walliams

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2009

UK publisher: HaperCollins

1 Bestseller


My Autobiography

By Sir Alex Ferguson

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2013

UK publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

1 Bestseller


PS I Love You

By Cecelia Ahern

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2004

UK publisher: HarperCollins

1 Bestseller


Stick Man

By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2008

UK publisher: Scholastic

1 Bestseller


The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 1925

UK publisher: Penguin

1 Bestseller


The Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Lose Weight

By Dave Myers & Si King

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 2012

UK publisher: Orion

1 Bestseller


The Twits

By Roald Dahl

Platinum Bestseller

Published: 1980

UK publisher: Penguin Books

2 Bestseller


5 Ingredients

By Jamie Oliver

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Michael Joseph

2 Bestseller


Bad Dad

By David Walliams

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: HarperCollins

2 Bestseller


Dead Famous

By Ben Elton

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2002

UK publisher: Simon & Schuster

2 Bestseller


Origin

By Dan Brown

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Transworld

2 Bestseller


Sapiens

By Yuval Noah Harari

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2011

UK publisher: Harper & Brothers

2 Bestseller


Tales from Acorn Wood: Fox’s Socks

By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2001

UK publisher: MacMillan Children's Books

2 Bestseller


The Couple Next Door

By Shari Lapena

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Penguin Books

2 Bestseller


The Handmaid’s Tale

By Margaret Atwood

Gold Bestseller

Published: 1985

UK publisher: Penguin Random House

2 Bestseller


The Martian

By Andy Weir

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2012

UK publisher: The Crown Publishing Group

2 Bestseller


The Miniaturist

By Jessie Burton

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2014

UK publisher: HarperCollins

2 Bestseller


The Muse

By Jessie Burton

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: HarperCollins

2 Bestseller


What the Ladybird Heard

By Jula Donaldson & Lydia Monks

Gold Bestseller

Published: 2009

UK publisher: MacMillan Children's Books

3 Bestseller


A Tiny Bit Lucky: Tom Gates

By Liz Pichon

Silver Bestseller

Published:

UK publisher: Scholastic

3 Bestseller


After You’d Gone

By Maggie O'Farrell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2001

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


Apple Tree Yard

By Louise Doughty

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2013

UK publisher: Faber & Faber

3 Bestseller


Cartes Postales from Greece

By Victoria Hislop

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Headline Publishing

3 Bestseller


Christmasaurus

By Tom Fletcher

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Red Fox Picture Books

3 Bestseller


Conclave

By Robert Harris

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Hutchinson

3 Bestseller


Darker

By E L James

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Penguin Random House

3 Bestseller


Don’t Want to Miss a Thing

By Jill Mansell

Silver Bestseller

Published:

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


Homo Deus

By Yuval Noah Harari

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2015

UK publisher: Harper & Brothers

3 Bestseller


I See You

By Clare MacIntosh

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Penguin Random House

3 Bestseller


Instructions for a Heatwave

By Maggie O'Farrell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2013

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


Into the Water

By Paula Hawkins

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Transworld

3 Bestseller


La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One

By Phillip Pullman

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Penguin Random House

3 Bestseller


My Not so Perfect Life

By Sophie Kinsella

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Bantam Press

3 Bestseller


Night School

By Lee Child

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Bantam Press

3 Bestseller


Payback

By Kimberley Chambers

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2014

UK publisher: HarperCollins

3 Bestseller


Prisoners of Geography

By Tim Marshall

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2015

UK publisher: Simon & Schuster

3 Bestseller


Rumour Has It

By Jill Mansell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2009

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


Small Great Things

By Jodi Picoult

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

3 Bestseller


The Accident

By C. L. Taylor

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2014

UK publisher: Avon UK

3 Bestseller


The Churchill Factor

By Johnson

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2014

UK publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Author image credit: Boris Johnso

3 Bestseller


The Dinosaur that Pooped a Plane

By Tom Fletcher & Dougie Poynter

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2013

UK publisher: Red Fox Picture Books

3 Bestseller


The Essex Serpent

By Sarah Perry

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Serpent's Tail

3 Bestseller


The Hand that First Held Mine

By Maggie O'Farrell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2010

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


The Keeper of Lost Things

By Ruth Hogan

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: HarperCollins

3 Bestseller


The Lie

By C.L. Taylor

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2015

UK publisher: Avon UK

3 Bestseller


The One You Really Want

By Jill Mansell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By Joanna Cannon

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2015

UK publisher: HarperCollins

3 Bestseller


The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By Maggien O'Farrell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2006

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group

3 Bestseller


The Whistler

By John Grisham

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Doubleday

3 Bestseller


The World’s Worst Children 2

By David Walliams

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2017

UK publisher: Harper Collins Children's

3 Bestseller


Three Sisters, Three Queens

By Phillipa Gregory

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Simon & Schuster

3 Bestseller


Top of the Class (Nearly): Tom Gates

By Liz Pichon

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2016

UK publisher: Scholastic

3 Bestseller


Yes! No (Maybe…): Tom Gates

By Liz Pichon

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2015

UK publisher: Silver

3 Bestseller


You and Me Always

By Jill Mansell

Silver Bestseller

Published: 2015

UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group