# Richard Osman is Oxfam’s most donated author of 2024 – as its book sales raise over £21mn

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/12/31/richard-osman-is-oxfams-most-donated-author-of-2024-as-its-book-sales-raise-over-21mn/
- Published: 2024-12-31T10:02:00+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Oxfam is celebrating a record year for book sales, up by £1mn for a second year
in a row and making over £21 million for the charity.**

Richard Osman was the most donated author in 2024 – and one of [Oxfam’s](https://www.oxfam.org.uk/)
most sold.

Other books in Oxfam’s most-donated hall of fame of 2024 include Terry Pratchett’s
_Discworld _series, Victoria Hislop’s _The__ Island_, Yann Martel’s _Life of Pi_
and Jessie Burton’s _The Miniaturist.   _

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The most-donated non-fiction books to Oxfam in 2024 are Adam Kay’s _This is Going
to Hurt_ and Jamie Oliver’s cookbook_ Veg_, followed closely by Matt Haig’s _Reasons
to Stay Alive_ and Michelle Obama’s memoir _Becoming_.  

In children’s fiction, the most popular donated authors include Roald Dahl and Michael
Morpurgo, while there was a also ‘a surge’ of donations of Jacqueline Wilson books.

Ian Falkingham, Oxfam’s Donated Goods Strategy Lead, said:

> “The joy of second-hand books is that they have their own story to tell. Once 
> a book is donated, it opens the door for someone else to discover a new world,
> meet a new character or fall in love with a recipe. Clearly, from Oxfam’s book
> sales this year, people are falling in love with second-hand books more than ever.
>  
> “It is no surprise authors like Richard Osman, Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline 
> Wilson are some of Oxfam’s most donated this year, when they are also some of 
> the most loved and sold authors too.  
>  
> “Every time any of their books, or any other wonderful book we are donated, is
> sold by Oxfam, they help raise vital funds to help tackle poverty and inequality
> across the globe – and for that, we are immensely grateful.” 

An Oxfam survey found that nearly half of Brits who consider gifting second hand(
49%) said books were the gift they were most likely to buy for others at Christmas.

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