Book sales: when Putin fascinates readers

There are heroes in evil as well as in good, and what is true in the field of morality is also true in bookstores. No offense to Florent Pagny, a man overshadows him: Vladimir Poutine. Between The Great Showdown by Raphael Glucksmann and Vladimir Putin, the accusation co-signed by Robert Badinter, Bruno Cotte and Alain Pellet, the Russian head of state finds himself in several essays that make the news – he also appears in Supporters of Dominique Bona, because of the astonishing friendship which bound him to Maurice Druon. As for novels, The Mage of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli has not said his last word, present in our ranking for almost a year. Putin: certainly a subject that fascinates and sells.

We must therefore salute the originality of Christine Ockrent who, in The Emperor and the Red Billionaires, tackles another controversial figure: Xi Jinping. There too it is a question of a great confrontation with the Western democracies. On Amazon, it is indicated that this book is frequently bought together with that of Glucksmann. Two complementary attempts to understand today’s world? Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld

6. The Will of King Krogold, sfollow-up The Legend of King René

By Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Third and last unpublished work by Céline: following War And Londonplace to The Will of King Krogold, a “half-rhyme half-prose Gaelic legend” set in “an operatic Middle Ages” and written in an “epic and bardic” style. Where we discover an heir of Chrétien de Troyes behind the misanthropic doctor of Meudon.

11. Zero stress to lose weight. Above all, do not go on a diet!

By Jimmy Mohammad

Here is one who will put the sweet tooth on his side: in his new book, Dr. Jimmy Mohamed offers thirty tips for losing weight easily without upsetting his eating habits. We’ll have to talk to our nutritionist…

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Simply Lies

By David Baldacci

We cannot say that he is inspired by the silence of JD Salinger: since the 1990s, David Baldacci has published around fifty books. In his new thriller, we do not meet any of his recurring heroes. A former detective, Mickey Gibson, is manipulated by a terrible sociopath, against the backdrop of a staged murder… Hardly thrilling presented like this, and yet at the top of the sales of fictions of the New York Times.