Elif Shafak, Peter James, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler were among the prize-winners at the ceremony, presented by comedian Shaparak Khorsandi.
The four titles that achieved Platinum status are inducted into the Hall of Fame, which now includes 157 titles. The unstoppable Richard Osman received his second Platinum award for The Bullet That Missed. Children’s book duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler achieved Platinum status for another of their titles, The Highway Rat. Sally Rooney and Colleen Hoover both had titles simultaneously recognised in the Platinum and Gold categories – Rooney’s Normal People achieved Platinum status with Gold awards going to her first novel, Conversations with Friends and most recent book Beautiful World, Where Are You, and Hoover’s runaway hit It Ends with Us (Platinum) was honoured alongside It Starts With Us (Gold).
Speaking in his recorded acceptance speech, Richard Osman said: "Thank you to the readers, thank you to the booksellers, and thank you to Nielsen. Honestly, this is absolutely extraordinary, wonderful, and I cherish it."
Two authors received Author Platinum Awards on the night, having sold over five million copies across all their titles: Susan Lewis who celebrated fifty bestselling novels in 2023, and Victoria Hislop, whose career has included runaway success The Island which is already a Platinum Bestseller in its own right. Miriam Margolyes’ This Much is True achieved Gold status, alongside novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, T.M. Logan, Sally Page and Miranda Crowley Heller. Peter James received the highest number of awards this evening, with four books achieving Silver status.
Other winners included:
Platinum Winners
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Gold Winners
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Holiday by T.M. Logan
The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Silver Winners
Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up: The funniest WTF AM I DOING? by Alexandra Potter
Dead at First Sight by Peter James
Dead if you Don’t by Peter James
Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant by Shamil Thakrar
Find them Dead by Peter James
Left You Dead by Peter James
Murdle by G. T. Karber
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Author Platinum Awards (for authors who have sold over five million copies across their titles)
Susan Lewis
Victoria Hislop