Daily Maverick Best Sellers August 2022

Our list is compiled from print sales data and other sources. It represents the bestselling books in South Africa from the previous four weeks to 06 Aug 2022, and combines Fiction and Non-fiction best sellers.

Months on the list: 7
Previous rank: 1

#1. It Ends With Us

by Colleen Hoover

Sometimes the one who loves you is the one who hurts you the most. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan – her first love and a link to the past she left behind.

Months on the list: 7
Previous rank: 4

#2. Atomic Habits

by James Clear

Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now.

People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call.

He calls them atomic habits.

Months on the list: 3
Previous rank: 5

#3. Finding Me: A Memoir

by Viola Davis

The deeply personal, brutally honest account of Viola’s inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present-day career.

Meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever.

Finding Me will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.

Months on the list: NEW

#4. Hoerkind: Die memoires van ‘n randeier

by Herman Lategan

Lategan is ses jaar oud wanneer sy ma hom by die kinderhuis aflaai. Op 13 beland hy in die kloue van ’n geslepe pedofiel, en as tiener bevriend hy beroemde digters soos Sheila Cussons.

’n Topverkoper uit die boonste rakke, Hoerkind: Die memoires van ’n randeier is ’n aangrypende relaas van verlies en oorwinning wat jou sal laat lag én huil.

Months on the list: NEW

#5. Deception

by Lesley Pearse

After the funeral of her mother, Alice Kent is approached by a man who claims to be her father and served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously.

What does he hope to gain telling her this now, thirty years on? How can her adored Ralph not be her true father?

Faced with deception, Alice knows she must uncover the whole truth about her mother.

Whatever the cost.

Months on the list: 8
Previous rank: 6

#6. **The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck**

by Mark Manson

Zen and the art of running out of f*cks to give, on purpose, as quickly as possible. People aren’t just born not giving a f*ck, after all: you’ve got to learn it. Start here.

Manson’s book has been a regular on the Daily Maverick Best Sellers list for more than two years.

Months on the list: 2
Previous rank: 4

#7. The Summer I Turned Pretty

by Jenny Han

Every year Isabel spends summer at her family friends’ house. There’s the swimming pool at night, the private stretch of sandy beach… and the two boys. Unavailable, aloof Conrad – who she’s been in love with forever – and friendly, relaxed Jeremiah, the only one who’s ever really paid her any attention.

But this year something is different.

Now a major TV series on Amazon Prime Video.

Months on the list: 2
Previous rank: 8

#8. Ugly Love

by Colleen Hoover

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn’t think it’s love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction.

Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her:

Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future.

Months on the list: 3
Previous rank: 2

#9. The Murders at Fleat House

by Lucinda Riley

The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident.

But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss.

Months on the list: NEW

#10. The 6:20 Man

by David Baldacci

Travis Devine leaves the Army under a cloud of suspicion. At thirty-two years old, he’s swapping fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda for a different kind of danger.

His daily commute on the 6:20 a.m. train into New York’s financial district takes him into a world where greed, power, jealousy and ambition result in the enrichment of an elite few. But it is on this daily journey that he passes a house where he sees something that sounds alarm signals he cannot ignore.

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