Natacha Calestrémé, Jessie Inchauspé… These books are still among the best-selling

Out of lucidity or defeatism, we take this observation for granted: in bookstores, novelties do not make old bones. January’s literary season contained some big names. Six months later, who is still on our list? Even Pierre Lemaitre has disappeared. More recent successes, such as those of Jean-Christophe Grangé or Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, yo-yo, entering and leaving the bottom of the ranking. Times are hard…

Now let’s change glasses and focus on the long-sellers: well, there are many of them. The prize goes to Natacha Calestrémé, who has been there for one hundred and fifteen weeks. Close behind her are Jessie Inchauspé, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Michael McDowell, Sarah Rivens, Colleen Hoover, Robert Greene, Maud Ankaoua… These books span the seasons.

Who will survive the summer? We can bet that Cédric Sapin-Defour, driven by excellent word-of-mouth, will still be there in September. As for Edgar Morin, himself a centenarian, he got off to a good start with his book One more moment… A title of circumstance for all authors who hope to last.

5. Against the direction

By Mercedes Ron

Another novelist revealed by Wattpad. Argentinian thirty-something, Mercedes Ron must have been influenced by her first name: Against the direction tells the story of a young girl who moves to California where she falls under the sway of a wealthy kid fond of fights and… frantic car races. To be read after fastening your seat belt.

8. Me, Lucho. The important thing is to stay alive

By Luc Leblanc

With Laurent Jalabert and Richard Virenque, and although more reserved, he was the greatest French cyclist of the 1990s – crowned world champion in 1994 in Agrigento. The climber reinvents himself today as an autobiographer through this moving book (prefaced by Erik Orsenna) which will delight all those nostalgic for the Indurain years…

Germany

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Von Kerstin Gier

A prolific novelist (she has already published some forty books under her name and two pseudonyms), Kerstin Gier signs here the second volume of her new trilogy. His fans find his fantastic universe there: in a parallel world populated by fairies, similar to that of the Chronicles of Narnia, Quinn investigates the death of her father, helped in her quest by her friend Mathilde. Proof that the imagination has not said its last word across the Rhine, the book is at the top of sales in the Spiegel.