Closing the counters on August 13, this list could not yet take into account the first offices of the literary season (beginning on August 17). Also, so as not to repeat ourselves, let’s broaden the focus a bit and look at the best sellers, all editions combined. A very instructive look. Indeed, only three titles in large format, On the slabby Fred Vargas, A beautiful lifeby Virginie Grimaldi, and Its smell after the rain, by Cédric Sapin-Defour appear in the Top 20. Everything else is up to the pocket.
With regulars of the genre, Virginie Grimaldi, Colleen Hoover, Maud Ankaoua, Mélissa Da Costa… but also, more surprising phenomena, the first novel (published in 2021) by Maud Ventura, editor-in-chief of NRJ podcasts (“Lalala”) , My husband, a conjugal theater as caustic as it is grating, as well as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dating from 1984, of the late Milan Kundera, who died on July 11.
© / The Express
6. My Missing Piece (t.1)
By Acacia Black
My Missing Piece (t.1) By Acacia Black
© / Nisha and so on
Everything is going very fast. At the end of 2021, the Guadeloupean Acacia Black posts the first chapters of My Missing Piece on Wattpad, which attracts many readers. Spotted by Nisha and Caetera, a label from Éditions de l’Opportun, here is her romance in bookstores – in the form of two volumes, published in May and June 2023. A story of two young friends, Luna and Liam, in Carolina Nord, whom life will separate following Luna’s betrayal, at the age of 16. Heartbreaking in perspective…
8. Rich dad, poor dad
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad By Robert T. Kiyosaki
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This is one of the phenomenal books of recent decades. Published in 1997 by the American Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich dad, poor dad declines “what rich people teach their children about money”. We do not know if his readers got rich, but he certainly made the good fortune of his hundred urbi et orbi publishers. Starting, in France, with A Different World, which sees its 20th anniversary edition (dating from 2017!) parading in the Top 20 of essays.
Italy
Come d’aria
Per Adam d’Adamo
Come d’aria Per Ada by Adamo
© / Elliot
Ada d’Adamo won the Strega prize, the Italian equivalent of Goncourt, but will not know anything about it. Barely had she had time to learn, two days before her death from cancer at the age of 55, that her book, Come d’aria, was selected. It is about his illness, but also and above all that of his adolescent daughter who has been cerebrally handicapped since birth. A love letter that moved the entire Boot and rose to first place in the charts of the Corriere della Sera.