Best-selling books: the stars at the rendezvous

Certainly, it was not very difficult to predict, remains that we were not mistaken in predicting the immediate arrival in our list of fictions by Daniel Pennac, Marie-Hélène Lafon, Philippe Claudel and Philippe Besson. They are the very first winners of this 2023 season, with 517 new titles. It is dominated by the undisputed master of the “popular soap opera”, Pierre Lemaitre, whose novel, Silence and Anger (printed at 270,000 copies), continued of Big world (320,000 copies sold, according to Edistats), and 2nd volume of his copious tetralogy entitled The Glorious Years assumes first place as soon as it is published.

Few surprises also on the side of the essays and its newcomers (Prince Harry, Gaspard Proust), if not the irruptions of the investigative book by journalist-writer Mathieu Palain on male violence, and, in the top 30, of the report of the IPCC synthesized and deciphered by the journalist specializing in climate issues Sylvestre Huet, embellished with around forty infographics and maps.

3. Never Without Me Again

By Maud Ankaoua

We rub our eyes when discovering the figures of his two previous bestsellers (Breathe210,000 copies, zero kilometer, 710,000, all formats combined), and we can better understand why the new novel by this coach and director of a consulting company infiltrates the 3rd rank of fiction. It’s about a brilliant lawyer who will finally find true love…

1. The Alternate

By Prince Harry

You had to be in the stars with Thomas Pesquet this January 10 not to know that the Duke of Sussex published his Memoirs. With a first print run of 210,000 copies, and reprints amounting to some 180,000 copies (according to its publisher, Fayard), The Substitute, memories of the prince taking more from the settling of accounts at Buckingham Palace than from the manual of royal manners, aroused the prompt enthusiasm of the irreducible French Republicans.

The January 6 Report

by the House January 6th Committee

Published on December 29, this official report by the special committee of the House of Representatives on the January 6 attack on the Capitol is a disaster across the Atlantic (3rd in the list of New York Times). Accompanied by an edifying investigation by lawyer and presenter of the MSNBC news channel Ari Melber, he points to the overwhelming responsibility of Donald Trump.