Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo is right behind with 1,781,269 sales
#FIFTY SHADES OF GREY BOOKS IN ORDER CODE#
It's not top on this list: that's got Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code at number one, followed by the Harry Potter novels.įirst thing to say is that the Highway Code dominates everything - but because it has been around for so long it artificially jumps near the top of the list with the many versions since 1998 selling over 4.8m copies. It shows volumes of each book, its publisher and genre. So, bearing that in mind, Nielsen have given us their top 100 list of all-time Uk book sales. Nielsen Bookscan, which collects the retail sales information from point of sale systems in more than 31,500 bookshops around the world, does not provide collated sales across e-books and physical books, which means we' are reliant on publishers. Combined UK sales for the trilogy are in excess of 12m copies, with rights to the book sold around the world and published in languages including Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Serbian and Vietnamese.īut is it right? Proving sales across platforms independently is very difficult as there are so many outlets. The second and third books, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, are also selling fast, with UK sales of 3.6m and 3.2m respectively. The book has remained in the top slot in the UK bestseller lists for the 16th week running. Publisher Cornerstone (part of Random House) announced this week that the erotic novel has sold in excess of 5.3m copies in print and ebook – more than The Highway Code or Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Fifty Shades of Grey is Britain's best-selling book ever - according to the publishers at least - but how does it compare?