Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. The First Bad Man by Miranda July
  2. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  4. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
  5. The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
  6. Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
  7. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  8. Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
  9. Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
  10. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

Our top seller for last week is Miranda July’s debut novel, The First Bad Man, which has been praised by the likes of A.M. Homes. Our reviewer writes, ‘July’s ability to present us with the mundane and then surprise us is her forte, and it makes for a very funny and oddly heartfelt book’. Read the full review here.

The list also features two titles that have recently been adapted for the screen: Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Both adaptations are already critically-acclaimed: the film of Wild has been nominated for three Academy Awards, while the mini-series of Olive Kitteridge was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards.