Only two small entries in the fiction list which should not change much between now and the end of the year. First of all, that of Ana Huang, one of the stars of new romance. The American also participated from November 3 to 5 at the Strasbourg convention center in the seventh edition of the New Romance Festival organized by its publisher Hugo Publishing (which also publishes Anna Todd, Colleen Hoover and Morgane Moncomble). After placing the first volume of his saga Twisted in October (Twisted Love sold nearly 50,000 copies in our list, here is the 2nd volume (Twisted Games) which settles in 14th place. When we know that the lady has published four volumes in the series, all of which appeared on the bestseller list of the New York Times in the years 2021-2022, we will not be surprised to see it reappear very soon. Second entry of the week: Julia Chapman. With the British novelist, change of register, place at cozy mystery and his series of the Yorkshire Detectives, whose two heroes Samson and Delilah evolve in a very bucolic universe, between hills and Yorkshire sheep. His 9th volume The Yorkshire Detectives (volume IX). meeting with justicereleased on December 7, seeps into 20th place.
For the rest, we find, as in previous weeks, the winners of the major autumn literary prizes (Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Neige Sinno, Ann Scott, Gaspard Koenig) as well as those of various prizes (Trente Millions d’Amis, Quai des Orfèvres), Cédric Sapin-Defour and Martial Caroff. Without forgetting the “polardeux”, Maxime Chattam, Karin Smimoff, Marc Levy and Harlan Coben.
Same stability on the testing side which only knows one entry, that of Juan-David Nasio with 10 stories of life, suffering and love (Gallimard/France Inter). The Franco-Argentinian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and essayist relates ten “stories of suffering and love, true and tragic stories which found a happy ending to which (he) contributed”. Otherwise, Thomas Pesquet, Stéphane Alix, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Jacques Dutronc, Frédéric Lenoir, Amin Maalouf, David Hallyday… continue their epic.