a list of winners that makes you dizzy – L’Express

There is something for all tastes, as we will have understood. Whether in fiction or essays, it is an understatement to say that the readership makes a big gap between very different genres. If I tell you that Anita Rigins started posting on Whattpad, that she has 29,500 followers on Instagram and many fans on TikTok, you will say that I stutter. But that’s how it is (just refer to the information given during the arrivals in this list of Sarah Rivens, Morgane Moncomble, Laura Swan, Alice Desmerveilles). Released on January 25, Beautiful Sinner, his “dark romance”, is, according to his publisher, Addictives, “a plunge into the heart of darkness, alongside a man with a soul stained with blood”. A romance which therefore propels itself to 10th place just three days after its publication. And this is how six romances join this list from January 22 to 28.

Which also means that more “classic” authors are still in the majority. On this occasion we will mention Sylvain Tesson (on the first step of the podium), David Foenkinos, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Michel Bussi, Romain Puertolas, Cécile Coulon, Philippe Besson, Lisa Gardner… Note, the presence of two unknowns: Julia Malye and Marion Fayolle. The first is the author of Louisiana (Stock), a novel which has the particularity of having been written in English before being translated by its author herself. Its story, set in 1720, dealing with a real news item – a hundred “volunteer” women from Salpêtrière were sent to Louisiana in order to marry French colonists – hits the mark. As for the second, Marion Fayolle, she published her first novel there, From the same wood, at Gallimard. This press cartoonist and author of graphic novels, born in 1988 and raised in Ardèche, immerses her reader, with a delicacy praised by the press, in a very topical universe: that of a farm near the Loire, with its workers of the land and its livestock breeders.

As for the essays, we find, as for the fictions, very dissimilar appetites with on the one hand, the followers of “better living” (to put it quickly) and on the other hand, the candidates for the understanding of the world and Of the history. In the first group (very extensive this week), we will include, in particular, the works of Frédéric Saldmann, Stéphane Allix, Fabrice Midal, David Goggins, and in the second, we will cite, among others, those of Alain Finkielkraut, Julian Jackson (The Pétain Trial. Vichy facing its judges), Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Patrice Duhamel (Le Cat and the Fox. Presidents and Prime Ministers: a couple of things I know about them…). Not sure that buyers from the first group will flock to works from the second. And vice versa…