He finished first, the favorite astronaut of the French. With more than 140,000 copies of his story My life without gravity (Flammarion), Thomas Pesquet is finishing his year 2023 in style. Especially since these considerations about his career, he can also be proud of reaping the fruits of his youth album Thomas Pesquet tells about our blue planet published in October 2023 (still by Flammarion), while his beautiful book The Earth in our handsdating from November 2022, continues to sell and is close to 240,000 copies….
In second position, we find the former major reporter and paranormal specialist Stéphane Allix who flirts with 100,000 copies of Death does not exist (Harper Collins). A great end to the year also for the journalist and writer Franz-Olivier Giesbert, 3rd in our list of essays, including the 3rd volume of History intimate of the Fifth Republic, French tragedy (Gallimard), is approaching 70,000 copies and should equal or even exceed its first two volumes. Among the big winners of the 4th quarter, we will again note Frédéric Lenoir, who exceeds the 55,000 mark with The Odyssey of the Sacred (Albin Michel), Charles Pépin with approximately 53,000 copies sold Living with your past. A philosophy for moving forward (Allary éditions), Amin Maalouf, including Le Labyrinth of the lost. The West and its adversaries (Grasset) can boast of close to 50,000 copies.
Finally, we must point out the spectacular returns of two American UFOs: Robert T. Kiyosaki, whose Rich dad, poor dad (A Different World) published in 1997, which describes “what rich people teach their children about money”, has to date sold some 325,000 copies. And Robert Greene, whose Power. The 48 laws of power (Alisio) has garnered around 270,000 copies since its publication in France in 2009 (two editions, including one condensed, successively). As a reminder, the ex-journalist screenwriter analyzes in this world bestseller the laws of power, the keys to seduction and the strategies of war through 3,000 years of history and world literature.
A quick glance at the fiction list? Unsurprisingly, the Goncourt Jean-Baptiste Andrea, the winner of the Thirty Million Friends Literary Prize Cédric Sapin-Defour, the winner of Femina (and the Goncourt des lycéens) Neige Sinno, the collective 13 at the table! and the Quai des orfèvres prize Martial Caroff constitute the leading quintet. With figures which far exceed those of the tests, since between them, they reach 1 million 225,000 copies (including some 460,000 for Watch over her). It just goes to show that the French have not lost the good habit of giving away books (especially novels) at the end of the year!
The literary prize list.
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