Book sales: these novelists propelled in the ranking by social networks

You will have to get used to it. New names appear in our list of fiction, which you have not necessarily heard of until now, any more than literary criticism for that matter. What do these entrants have in common? They are all novelists, working in the fields of romance, fantasy, thriller/SF, “young adult”, “bit lit”, mainly driven by social networks and published by publishers who are not familiar with our records.

Thus Colleen Hoover, the former social worker and American super mega-seller who emerges in second place. In the bag of the author ofFor evermore than one million subscribers on TikTok, nearly two million followers on Instagram. Francophones are not left out. Coach Maud Ankaoua (36,000 subscribers on Facebook, 33,500 on Insta) ranks third with Never again without methe young Algerian Sarah Rivens (104,000 on Insta, 75,000 on TikTok) never stops delighting her young readers with her series captiveChloé Wallerand (21,300 on Instagram, 34,400 on TikTok), published by Plumes du Web, infiltrates 19th place with The Devil’s Sons. So many sacred competitors to our more familiar authors.

13. My Fragile

By Jerome Garcin

The journalist definitely doesn’t get used to the disappearance of loved ones, so he intends to leave a trace of them. After mentioning his father (horse fall) and of his twin brother (Olivier)here is the moving tribute to his mother, Françoise, painter and his brother, Laurent, who died recently.

8. The Time of Feminisms

By Michelle Perrot and Eduardo Castillo

She is admired by everyone who reads or listens to her. At 94, the doyenne of French historians has kept all her punch and clarity of mind. Both intimate and theoretical, her book recounts the intellectual journey of a precursor of women’s history who intends to overcome divisions.

Das glückliche Geheimnis

Von Arno Geiger

Expected for five years, the new novel by Austrian Arno Geiger, one of the glories of German-language literature (Everything is fine, Self-Portrait with Hippopotamus…) points in the list of the best sales of the Spiegel. He recounts in this “Happy Secret” his years before success, his years spent rummaging through… trash cans. An excavation, which, he writes, says a lot about a civilization.