Book sales: Zemmour, Salomé Saqué and… Mitterrand in our list

Here is one that does not complicate life when it comes to finding a book title: after France has not said its last wordEric Zemmour publishes I didn’t say my last word. Having more success in bookstores than in the polls, the polemicist here reconnects with success by quietly inviting himself to the top of essay sales.

In the rest of the classification, we find several authors on his side (Sonia Mabrouk, Eugénie Bastié). But a 27-year-old journalist, Salomé Saqué, is resisting: Be young and shut up. Response to those who criticize the youth has everything to annoy Zemmour. Are right and left irreconcilable? Not at all, answers Sébastien Le Fol with In an organized gang, the fascinating investigation he devotes to the friendships of François Mitterrand. He recalls that the socialist president has never broken with his far-right comrades, and that he had as a patron André Bettencourt, husband of the famous Liliane, the billionaire heiress of L’Oréal. Like what the ideological quarrels of facade often disappear in private… This will be our last word. Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld

8. The passenger

By Cormac McCarthy

It’s been fifteen years since his post-apocalyptic masterpiece The road, which McCarthy had no longer published. The great 89-year-old writer returns with an ample noir novel in two volumes – The passenger will be followed in May by Stella Maris. If we are to believe the reception reserved for him in bookstores, his readers have not forgotten him.

9. The Origin of Time. Stephen Hawking’s latest theory

By Thomas Hertog

Stephen Hawking died in 2018, but his thinking continues to pay off. The Belgian cosmologist Thomas Hertog, a former collaborator and friend of Hawking, here revisits the big bang theory “by applying to physics what Darwin had achieved in biology”. A book for specialists that manages to reach a wide audience.

Italy

Buonvino tra amore e morte

Sun Walter Veltroni

We no longer count the hats of Walter Veltroni: journalist, director, essayist, politician (Minister of Culture, Mayor of Rome), he is also the author of fifteen novels. His latest hobby: detective books featuring Commissioner Buonvino. The fourth volume in this series has had the same success as the previous ones, ranking second in sales of fiction in the Corriere della Sera.