"Fantasy, mystery and psychological thriller series dominate the UK's bestsellers list for 2025, topped by Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune. The fifth book in his Thursday Murder Club series secured the top position at 391,429 hardback sales. Adult colouring also had a resurgence this year: colouring books aimed at all ages made it into the top 20 chart, according to analysis by NielsenIQ BookData."
"Coming in behind Osman is Freida McFadden with the 2022 psychological thriller The Housemaid (the follow-up, The Housemaid's Secret, also appears in the top 20), and in third place is Suzanne Collins' prequel to The Hunger Games, Sunrise on the Reaping. Freida McFadden's The Housemaid sold 342,899 paperbacks this year. Photograph: Steven/AFF-USA/Shutterstock In literary fiction, the One Day author David Nicholls makes the top 20 with his romance You Are Here, along with Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky."
Fantasy, mystery and psychological thriller series led the UK's bestselling books for 2025. Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune topped the chart with 391,429 hardback sales. Freida McFadden's The Housemaid sold 342,899 paperbacks, with its follow-up The Housemaid's Secret also in the top 20, and Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping placed third. Adult colouring books for all ages returned to the top 20. The Let Them Theory shifted 218,919 hardback copies in self-help. Osman's 2024 We Solve Murders reached fourth, while Rebecca Yarros's Onyx Storm and earlier instalments featured among the 20 bestselling titles.
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