Best literary sales: a market that is struggling to take off as Christmas approaches

One more effort, fellow readers. You only have three short weeks left to make authors, publishers and booksellers smile. As of December 4, the closing date of our weekly rankings, the market is still struggling to take off. As proof, we will want the “cozy” sales figures (according to Edistat) of the winners of this end of the year (with the exception of the Grand Prize for the novel of the French Academy, Giuliano da Empoli, released it is true in April and sold 160,000 copies): thus, Brigitte Giraud’s novel, Prix Goncourt, sold 95,000 copies, that of the Prix Femina, Claudie Hunzinger, 18,000, and that of Goncourt high school students, Sabyl Ghoussoub, to 11,000. As for the winners of the Renaudot (Simon Liberati) and Médicis (Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam) prizes, completely absent from our top 20 fiction films, they peak at 10,000 and 7,000 copies respectively – while the foreign Médicis, Andreï Kurkov, who also won the Europe prize from L’Express, saves the day with 42,000 copies sold. Marianne Payot

8. The Constancy of the Predator

By Maxime Chatham

46 years old, and already 28 novels. The native of Herblay alternates series (The Evil Trilogy, Other worldetc.) and so-called “independent” titles, such as The Illusion in 2020. The 2022 vintage, The Constancy of the Predatoris part of the series Ludivine Vanckerresiding in the research section of Paris. It’s about tracking VSHaron, the ferryman of the dead, whose singular signature, a bird’s head, marked dozens of victims…

2. Veritas tantam potentiam habet ut non subverti possit.

By Olivier de Kersauson

Or, in Terran French, “The truth has such power that it cannot be annihilated”. How to stay the course in the middle of storms so as not to capsize? How to remain free in an increasingly constrained society? How not to sink into “ideologisms”? It’s simple, just follow the advice of Captain Kersauson, who chose a facetious title to better mark the spirits.

UNITED STATES

So Help Me God

By Mike Pence

While Michelle Obama’s latest book, This light within us prances at the head of New York Times, Trump’s former vice-president (from 2017 to 2021) is also in the top 5 with his memories of his political career, including his time in the White House and his attitude during the January 6 insurrection. Does this success foreshadow his election within the Republican Party, of which he is one of the favorites for the presidential election of 2024?