Book sales: the first “winners” of the new school year

Please note, no hasty judgement. If you don’t see Amélie Nothomb, Maria Pourchet, Serge Joncour or even Gaspard Koenig in this list, it’s not because readers have turned away from these tenors, it’s quite simply because on August 20, the date closing of our charts, their novels had not been released. So make way for the offices of August 16 and 17. And to the first “winners” of the start of the school year (all published by Grasset or Gallimard): Sorj Chalandon, Laurent Binet, Caryl Férey, François Bégaudeau, while Fabrice Caro and Lila Hassaine point their noses. Similarly, on the test side, the bonus goes to the first out, such as the Goldman couch Jablonka or The time of battles of a certain Nicolas Sarkozy, whose publication was brought forward by several days at the end of an imbroglio of booksellers and whose circulation exceeds 200,000 copies… Still he will have to compete with the sales of his last two works , credited by Edistat with about 215,000 (The Time of Storms2020) and 250,000 copies (Passions2019).

20. Love

By Francois Bégaudeau

In 90 pages and for 14.50 euros, François Bégaudeau (Between the walls, In war, etc.) recounts the fifty years of life together of Jeanne and Jacques Moreau. A beautiful love story “without crisis or event” between a secretary and a landscape gardener from the west of France which warms hearts and tells of the passing of life. A novel carried from the first days by a good word-of-mouth from booksellers.

1. Goldman

By Ivan Jablonka

He made the front page Point, of The Obs and of Freed and benefited from enthusiastic papers, notably in L’Express. The essay by historian Ivan Jablonka, who masterfully dissects the Goldman “myth”, emerges in 1st place on the list. To know everything about the “Salinger” of the French variety and our collective history.

UNITED STATES

Fourth Wing

By Rebecca Yarros

Married to a “military hero”, mother of six children and living in Colorado, the American bestseller, bridgehead of romantic fantasy, sees her 19th novel, the first episode of the series Empyreanparading at the head of the New York Times. It’s about a ruthless school of war (you graduate or die), dragon riders, and so on.