Autobiography books best sellers 2013
Books best sellers 2010.
Top selling biographies and autobiographies since 2001
They may now be the least popular type of book, but as recently as 2005, sales of autobiographies were not doing so badly.
Autobiography books best sellers 2013
Last year, autobiographies made up just 0.58% of all book sales, while 'romance and sagas', accounted for 11.26%, due partly to the huge success of EL James' Fifty Shades of Grey.
Nielsen BookScan collected the data directly from over 35,500 bookshops' point of sale systems on a weekly basis.
That does mean however that sales of e-books are not included in the data, and second-hand book sales are likely to be under-estimated.
The best-selling autobiography since 2001 is 'A Child Called It' by Dave Pelzer, shifting over a million copies and generating over £5.5 million in revenue.
Peter Kay's autobiography 'The Sound of Laughter' tops the chart in terms of revenue at £9.3 million. Comedians figure prominently on the list with Paul O'Grady, Dawn French, Russell Brand, Michael McIntyre and Frank Skinner all