Nothing changes in our charts this week. Nothing, except the figures which climb, which climb. Let’s take a look. First of all, let’s salute Fred Vargas’ very fine return to thriller after six years of absence. Her On the slab close to 200,000 copies. Nice rise also of Franck Thilliez, whose thriller The Rift reached 100,000. Virginie Grimaldi need not be ashamed, who gleaned 120,000 copies ofA beautiful life, released in early May. Likewise, her “sister” Mélissa Da Costa is preparing for a great summer with already 95,000 sold of her women around the world, while Pierre Lemaitre continues his victorious epic with 190,000 copies sold from silence and anger. There remains the astonishing and young Sarah Rivens, unknown yesterday, star today, with more than 270,000 copies of volume I of captive. But let’s stop there this very cruel exercise for all novelists who are struggling to exceed the bar of 1,000 copies.
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14.Blackwater. The epic saga of the Caskey family (t. I). Flood
By Michael McDowell
Blackwater. The epic saga of the Caskey family (t. I). The Flood By Michael McDowell
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The fairy tale continues for Monsieur Toussaint Louverture editions. Published in April 2022, the first volume of McDowell’s saga (1950-1999) and since then sold more than 270,000 copies, reappears in our top 20. The success is such that the publisher has just created a “McDowell library “, which he will feed with the writings of this prolific American writer, starting in October with The Golden Needlespublished in 1980 and unpublished in France.
7. Rose Valland. The spy at work
By Jennifer Lesieur
Rose Valland. The Spy at Work By Jennifer Lesieur
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We spoke to you mid-May of the biography of this shadow spy, curator at the Jeu de Paume museum – where Goering and his henchmen stored the extortionate and looted masterpieces – who saved thousands of paintings. Since then, the book has made its way, boosted in particular by a long interview with Jennifer Lesieur on France Inter, to climb to 7th place in our list.
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The Five-Star Weekend
By Elin Hilderbrand
The Five-Star Weekend By Elin Hilderbrand
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Elin Hilderbrand grew up in Pennsylvania and settled in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Well he took it. His twenty novels, all set in this very chic island of New England, are all successful. So, The Five-Star Weekendreleased on June 13, thrones in the charts of the New York Times. It’s about an “unforgettable weekend” organized for four friends by food blogger Hollis Shaw…