Our bestsellers this week:
Reni Eddo-Lodge – Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race
Delia Owens – Where the Crawdads Sing
Phoebe Stuckes – Platinum Blonde
Zadie Smith – Intimations
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
September 5, 2020
Bestsellers on the Board
This week’s bestsellers…
Sophie Ward – Love and Other Thought Experiments
Oyinkan Braithwate – My Sister the Serial Killer
Elena Ferrante – The Lying Life of Adults
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
August 29, 2020
Bestsellers on the Board
Our bestsellers this week…
Zadie Smith – Intimations
Lauren Wilkinson – American Spy
Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
July 21, 2020
Re-opening bestsellers
Our bestselling books, from 7 July to today 21 July:
1. Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
2. Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People about Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
3. My Name is Why – Lemn Sissay
4. Three Women – Lisa Taddeo
5. Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
6. Utopia Avenue – David Mitchell
7. Black and British – David Olusoga
8. Machines Like Me – Ian McEwan
9. Normal People – Sally Rooney
10. City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
11. Humankind: a Hopeful History – Rutger Bregman
12. Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
13. Too Much and Never Enough – Mary L. Trump
14. Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski
15. Mouth Full of Blood – Toni Morrison
February 2, 2020
January Bestsellers
1. Nora Ephron – I Feel Bad About My Neck
2. Greta Thunberg – No-one is Too Small to Make a Difference
3. Josh Cohen – Not Working
4. Charlie Mackesy – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
5. David Wallace-Wells – The Uninhabitable Earth
6. Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
6 = Emily Maitlis – Airhead
8. Bridget Collins – The Binding
8 = Livia Franchini – Shelf Life
8 = Tayari Jones – An American Marriage
8 = Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister, the Serial Killer
12. Lucy Foley – The Hunting Party
13. Nathan Filer – This Book will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
13 = Deborah Orr – Motherwell
13 = David Nott – War Doctor
13 = Laura Shepherd-Robinson – Blood and Sugar
13 = Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age
13 = Taylor Jenkins Reid – Daisy Jones and the Six
19. Malcolm Gladwell – Talking to Strangers
19 = ed. Alain de Botton – The School of Life
19 = Sally Rooney – Conversations with Friends
19 = Jeanine Cummins – American Dirt
19 = Richard Powers – The Overstory
24. Stephane Garnier – How to Live Like Your Cat
24 = Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again
24 = Sara Collins – The Confessions of Frannie Langton
24 = Andrew Sean Greer – Less
24 = Okechukwu Nzelu – The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
24 = Candice Carty-Williams – Queenie
24 = Ian McEwan – The Cockroach
24 = Shoshana Zuboff – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
24 = Lemn Sissay – My Name is Why
24 = Carmen Maria Machado – In the Dream House
24 = Various – Dog Poems
24 = Esi Edugyan – Washington Black
24 = Lillian Li – Number One Chinese Restaurant
March 25, 2019
Bestsellers this week
This week, London Bridge is loving:
Akala – Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (our bestseller)
Cathy Newman – Bloody Brilliant Women
Stephane Garnier – How to Live Like Your Cat
Dolly Alderton – Everything I Know About Love
Sally Rooney – Conversations with Friends
Yanis Varoufakis – Talking to my Daughter About the Economy
Andrew Sean Greer – Less
John Carreyrou – Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Sarah Moss – Ghost Wall
Samantha Harvey – The Western Wind
Yuval Noah Harari – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
December 19, 2018
Christmas bestsellers at Riverside!
We have you covered this Christmas for all your books, gifts, cards and wrap… and here are our current bestsellers to get you thinking:
Michelle Obama – Becoming
Anna Burns – Milkman
The Story of Brexit
Sally Rooney – Normal People
Yotam Ottolenghi – Simple
Private Eye Annual 2018
Genki Kawamura – If Cats Disappeared from the World
How to be Right – James O’Brien
Stephen Hawking – Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Women and Power: a Manifesto – Mary Beard
Leonard Cohen – The Flame
Andrew R Grumbridge – Today South London, Tomorrow South London
Scarlett Curtis – Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies
And we have some excellent children’s books as well:
Vashti Harrison – Little Leaders
Marion Billet – Listen to the Christmas Songs
David Walliams – Ice Monster
Amy Sparkes and Nick East – Ellie’s Magic Wellies
Happy Christmas from everyone at Riverside!
November 3, 2018
Riverside’s top sellers from January to October 2018
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
- Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
- Everything I Know about Love – Dolly Alderton
- Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff
- This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
- The Power – Naomi Alderman
- Women and Power: A Manifesto – Mary Beard
- Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
- The Secret Barrister – The Secret Barrister
- Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami
- Normal People – Sally Rooney
- The Refugees – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
- Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
- Swing Time – Zadie Smith
- Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
- My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
- Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
- Flights – Olga Tokarczuk
- Peppa Goes to London
- To Die in Spring – Ralf Rothmann
- Anything is Possible – Elizabeth Strout
January 3, 2018
December’s bestsellers – and a Happy New Year!
Thanks to all the customers who helped us have a great December. Our bestsellers for the month were:
- The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump – Robert Sears
- The Power – Naomi Alderman
- Women and Power: A Manifesto – Mary Beard
- La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust v. 1 – Philip Pullman
- Swing Time – Zadie Smith
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
- Private Eye Annual – Ian Hislop
- How to Swear – Stephen Wildish
- Perpetual Disappointments Diary – Nick Asbury
- Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Hariri
- Paddington Pop Up London
- The Things You Can Only See When You Slow Down – Haemin Sunim and Chi-Young Kim
- Autumn – Ali Smith
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories – Tom Hanks
- This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor – Adam Kay
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
- A Short History of Drunkenness – Mark Forsyth
- Not Working – Lisa Owens
- Imaginary Friends – Philip Pullman
- Faber and Faber Poetry diary 2018 – Poets!
We are especially delighted that we continue to sell many copies of Gwendoline Riley’s excellent First Love, and also Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba. We are also really looking forward to reading Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde (with a new introduction by Sara Ahmed and a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge) – our customers are ahead of us on this, having bought many copies before Christmas!
September 5, 2017
Bestsellers in July and August
Excellent fiction, a good dose of feminism and fun children’s books make up our top 20 
from the last two months. In reverse order:
Jennifer Bell – The Smoking Hourglass
Jennifer Bell – The Crooked Sixpence
Noam Chomsky – Optimism over Despair
J K Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Emma Cline – The Girls
Matt Haig – How to Stop Time
Elizabeth Strout – My Name is Lucy Barton
Sam Bourne – To Kill the President
Paul Beatty – The Sellout
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – We should all be Feminists
Haruki Murakami – Desire (Vintage Minis)
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
David Szalay – All that Man Is
Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens
Deborah Levy – Hot Milk
Lisa Owens – Not Working
Zadie Smith – Swing Time
Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
Naomi Alderman – The Power
… and at number one, we are proud to announce:
Peppa goes to London!
We predict that this month several new things will fly off the shelves – including Maggie O’Farrell’s memoir I am, I am, I am and John le Carré’s A Legacy of Spies.
January 8, 2017
Riverside bestsellers of 2016
We’re quite impressed with the books we’ve sold this year… Among our top 30 were:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J K Rowling
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
The Sellout – Paul Beatty
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
We Should all be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
His Bloody Project – Graeme Macrae Burnet
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back – Neil Gaiman
The Little Book of Hygge – Meik Wiking
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics – Tim Marshall
The Green Road – Anne Enright
The Crooked Sixpence – Jennifer Bell
Number 11 – Jonathan Coe
Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter
Sweet Caress – William Boyd
The Silk Roads: a New History of the World – Peter Frankopan
The Dog Who Dared to Dream – Sun-mi Hwang
Trump and Me – Mark Singer
Politics and the English Language – George Orwell
Black Holes – the Reith Lectures – Stephen Hawking
Several of these are Team Riverside favourites so we’re feeling pretty chipper about it all. What will be the surprise hits of 2017?
