Dawn French is the bestselling debut author of 2011 in paperback

Comedian Dawn French has sold 246,102 paperback copies of her novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous, making her the bestselling debut author in paperback so far this year

The top ten bestselling paperback fiction debuts, according to Nielsen BookScan data, are as follows;
A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Dawn French (Penguin) 246,102
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (Quercus) 178,338
When God Was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman (Headline Review) 166,516
The Help, Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) 124,716
My Last Duchess, Daisy Goodwin (Headline Review) 101,086
The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht (Phoenix) 86,125
The Tennis Party, Madeleine Wickham (Black Swan) 78,121
Angelology Danielle Trusson (Penguin) 78,088
The Passage Justin Cronin (Orion) 65,277
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson (Bloomsbury) 62,847