There is a myth that books that win the Booker Prize end up selling a lot of copies. But a look at previous winners’ sales shows that isn’t always the case. “Due to the scale of the Booker award any book that wins, whatever your reason for buying it, will be the sort of title that will become a library staple in many people’s homes and will continue to sell across the decades. The surprise this list throws up is how some books you may not have expected are stronger sellers than some of the bigger names further down the list.”