For once, we will focus on what you never see, that is to say the bestseller charts, all genres and formats combined. And the result is impressive: 17 of the first 25 places are occupied by pockets! The only “survivors” in large format: the new thrillers by Fred Vargas (On the slab), by Franck Thilliez (The Rift), by Douglas Kennedy (And that’s how we’ll live), the Prix du Livre Inter by Mathieu Belezi (Attack the earth and the sun) and the novels of Virginie Grimaldi (A beautiful life) and Paolo Coelho (The Supreme Gift).
A sextet to which must be added Riad Sattouf’s comic strip, the 8th volume of Notebooks of Esther. As for the essays, the situation is even more astonishing, since only the tract (at a low price) from the Linguists appalled, French is fine, thank you, is in the list. As for the pockets, they are signed Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Maud Ventura, Virginie Grimaldi, Mélissa Da Costa, Leïla Slimani, Nicolas Mathieu, Karine Tuil, Hannah Arendt, Laclos… Marianne Payot
3757 winners
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6 The Supreme Gift
By Paulo Coelho
The Supreme Gift By Paulo Coelho
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He is always there ! Thirty-five years after the release of The Alchemist, the Brazilian continues to publish. Of course, the sales figures no longer have anything to do with those of his world bestseller… The fact remains that his novels systematically appear in our top 20. This time, the Compostela pilgrim offers an adaptation of Henry Drummond’s text on Saint Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. Lots of love in perspective…
9 The War of Intelligences in the age of ChatGPT
By Laurent Alexandre
The war of intelligences
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In 2017, the surgeon and enarque Laurent Alexandre published The War of Intelligences, in which he discussed the prospects of artificial intelligence. Following the meteoric irruption of ChatGPT into our lives (200 million users), he updated his trial. He evokes this fundamental turning point which requires reinventing a humanism, while providing plenty of advice to young people.
Italy
ELP
Per Antonio Manzini
ELP
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It was in 2013 that the Italian actor, director, screenwriter and writer imagined his sub-prefect of police Rocco Schiavone. A success that the adventures of this Roman dandy transferred to northern Italy. In ELP, 10th part of the series, the commissioner is confronted with the murder of a violent man and the attack carried out by the APL, the Army for the liberation of the planet. This very societal whodunnit takes first place in the charts of the Corriere della Sera.