Best literary sales: 2022, end clap!

Week 52! Here we are, we are at this last week of sales of the year 2022. The bets are cast… But as the bookstore never stops, we are already pawing the way, eager to know which of the 517 novels for the start of the 2023 school year (379 French , including 72 first novels, and 138 foreign novels) will do well. Without being a great cleric, we can already throw in a few names of authors, such as Pierre Lemaitre, Didier Decoin, Véronique Ovaldé, Daniel Pennac, Philippe Claudel or Colson Whitehead, which you can find in this issue or in the very next ones.

In the meantime, our prize lists remain very, very stable, with, on the fiction side, a few winners of the autumn grand prizes and many cadors (Sylvain Tesson, Guillaume Musso, Virginie Despentes, Jonathan Coe, Amélie Nothomb) and, on the essay side, subscribers to best-sellers, Thomas Pesquet, Frédéric Lenoir, Delphine Horvilleur, Olivier de Kersauson, Lola Lafon, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, François Cheng, Michelle Obama… Looking forward to next week! Marianne Payot

16. We Were Wolves

By Sandrine Collette

Winner of the Renaudot prize for high school students and the Jean-Giono prize, Sandrine Collette finally enters the prize list with her formidable atmospheric novel, We were wolves, pitting the thirty-year-old Liam, tracker-hunter in the mountains of a country du Nord, her five-year-old son, Aru, and extreme nature. To read in the warm, as some 50,000 aficionados of the author of And always the forests.

12. Ethnographers of Worlds to Come

By Philippe Descola and Alessandro Pignocchi

Or how to remake the world together… Between the ecological thinker Descola, professor at the College de France, and the researcher and author of BD Pignocchi, the current passes. This sketch of a new hybrid society, via a lively dialogue and a few comic strips, is ranked 12th in the charts.

Italy

Fabricator of tears

Per Erin Doom

the Corriere della Sera has just published its top 10 best-selling books in the Boot in 2022. And it is Erin Doom, a young author writing under a pseudonym, who comes first and even places a second title there. Behind the bestseller, three Italian novelists and a single essayist, Aldo Cazzullo (on Mussolini). Note that the first foreigner, ranked 6th, is none other than Joël Dicker with his Alaska Sanders Affair.