Best literary sales: it’s on the move!

It was predictable: the literary returns do not wait for ages to produce their first effects, so, after four short days of sale, some of the books released on January 4 are already disturbing our charts. Thus the eighth and last volume of the saga Malaussene from the sympathetic Pennac, emerging in second place in fiction, just ahead of the 12th novel by the delicate Marie-Hélène Lafon and behind the fourth opus feel good from coach Maud Ankaoua.

New productions by Philippe Besson, Nine Gorman and Mathieu Guibé, and Victoria Aveyard, Philippe Claudel and Véronique Ovaldé are also appearing, patiently in the top 30. On the test side, the same “intrusion” of new releases, with the works of lawyer Richard Malka, the former Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot, the Franco-American astrobiologist Nathalie A. Cabrol, while the psychotherapist Marie de Hennezel stands in ambush. And that’s just the beginning of the big replacement, with the January 11 posts in the starting blocks. Marianne Payot

4. Springs

By Marie-Helene Lafon

The discreet novelist from Cantal, with a degree in classics, has undoubtedly multiplied her number of fans since winning the 2020 Renaudot prize for son story. Also, his brief account of finesse on the life of a woman abused by her husband in an isolated Auvergne farm in the 1960s moved to 4th place in fiction.

2. Treaty on Intolerance

By Richard Malka

The show Daily gave the the from January 4, the other media followed, and here is the oral argument of October 17, 2022 from the lawyer of Charlie Hebdo Richard Malka in front of the special Assize Court of Paris in second place on our list. Praise of the right to blasphemy, reflection on the nature of the Koran, reminder of the controversies within Islam… This treatise on intolerance certainly hits the mark.

Spain

Esperando al diluvio

Por Dolores Redondo

After an incursion into New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina (The North Face of the heart), the famous Basque-Navarrese novelist ventures with this Esperando al diluvio (first on the list ofEl Cultural) in 1980s Scotland with an investigator on the trail of a serial killer. An investigation that takes him to Bilbao on the eve ofdeadly floods. “The writer of storms” has never worn her nickname so well.