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.


Awful Auntie
By David Walliams
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2014
UK publisher: HarperCollins


Billionaire Boy
By David Walliams
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2010
UK publisher: HarperCollins


Demon Dentist
By David Walliams
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2013
UK publisher: HaperCollins


Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
By Jeff Kinney
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2008
UK publisher: Puffin/ PRH


Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
By Jeff Kinney
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2008
UK publisher: Puffin/ PRH


Grandpa’s Great Escape
By David Walliams
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: HarperCollins


Killing Floor: Jack Reacher
By Lee Child
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 1997
UK publisher: Transworld Group


Matilda
By Roald Dahl
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 1998
UK publisher: Penguin Books


Monkey Puzzle
By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2000
UK publisher: Scholastic


Mr Stink
By David Walliams
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2009
UK publisher: HaperCollins


My Autobiography
By Sir Alex Ferguson
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2013
UK publisher: Hodder & Stoughton


PS I Love You
By Cecelia Ahern
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2004
UK publisher: HarperCollins


Stick Man
By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2008
UK publisher: Scholastic


The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 1925
UK publisher: Penguin


The Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Lose Weight
By Dave Myers & Si King
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 2012
UK publisher: Orion


The Twits
By Roald Dahl
Platinum Bestseller
Published: 1980
UK publisher: Penguin Books


5 Ingredients
By Jamie Oliver
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Michael Joseph


Bad Dad
By David Walliams
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: HarperCollins


Dead Famous
By Ben Elton
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2002
UK publisher: Simon & Schuster


Origin
By Dan Brown
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Transworld


Sapiens
By Yuval Noah Harari
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2011
UK publisher: Harper & Brothers


Tales from Acorn Wood: Fox’s Socks
By Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2001
UK publisher: MacMillan Children's Books


The Couple Next Door
By Shari Lapena
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Penguin Books


The Handmaid’s Tale
By Margaret Atwood
Gold Bestseller
Published: 1985
UK publisher: Penguin Random House


The Martian
By Andy Weir
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2012
UK publisher: The Crown Publishing Group


The Miniaturist
By Jessie Burton
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2014
UK publisher: HarperCollins


The Muse
By Jessie Burton
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: HarperCollins


What the Ladybird Heard
By Jula Donaldson & Lydia Monks
Gold Bestseller
Published: 2009
UK publisher: MacMillan Children's Books


A Tiny Bit Lucky: Tom Gates
By Liz Pichon
Silver Bestseller
Published:
UK publisher: Scholastic


After You’d Gone
By Maggie O'Farrell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2001
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


Apple Tree Yard
By Louise Doughty
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2013
UK publisher: Faber & Faber


Cartes Postales from Greece
By Victoria Hislop
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Headline Publishing


Christmasaurus
By Tom Fletcher
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Red Fox Picture Books


Conclave
By Robert Harris
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Hutchinson


Darker
By E L James
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Penguin Random House


Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
By Jill Mansell
Silver Bestseller
Published:
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


Homo Deus
By Yuval Noah Harari
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2015
UK publisher: Harper & Brothers


I See You
By Clare MacIntosh
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Penguin Random House


Instructions for a Heatwave
By Maggie O'Farrell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2013
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


Into the Water
By Paula Hawkins
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Transworld


La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
By Phillip Pullman
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Penguin Random House


My Not so Perfect Life
By Sophie Kinsella
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Bantam Press


Night School
By Lee Child
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Bantam Press


Payback
By Kimberley Chambers
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2014
UK publisher: HarperCollins


Prisoners of Geography
By Tim Marshall
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2015
UK publisher: Simon & Schuster


Rumour Has It
By Jill Mansell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2009
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


Small Great Things
By Jodi Picoult
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Hodder & Stoughton


The Accident
By C. L. Taylor
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2014
UK publisher: Avon UK


The Churchill Factor
By Johnson
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2014
UK publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Author image credit: Boris Johnso


The Dinosaur that Pooped a Plane
By Tom Fletcher & Dougie Poynter
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2013
UK publisher: Red Fox Picture Books


The Essex Serpent
By Sarah Perry
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Serpent's Tail


The Hand that First Held Mine
By Maggie O'Farrell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2010
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


The Keeper of Lost Things
By Ruth Hogan
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: HarperCollins


The Lie
By C.L. Taylor
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2015
UK publisher: Avon UK


The One You Really Want
By Jill Mansell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By Joanna Cannon
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2015
UK publisher: HarperCollins


The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
By Maggien O'Farrell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2006
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group


The Whistler
By John Grisham
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Doubleday


The World’s Worst Children 2
By David Walliams
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2017
UK publisher: Harper Collins Children's


Three Sisters, Three Queens
By Phillipa Gregory
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Simon & Schuster


Top of the Class (Nearly): Tom Gates
By Liz Pichon
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2016
UK publisher: Scholastic


Yes! No (Maybe…): Tom Gates
By Liz Pichon
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2015
UK publisher: Silver


You and Me Always
By Jill Mansell
Silver Bestseller
Published: 2015
UK publisher: Headline Publishing Group