“There are remarkable weeks, not for the presence of this or that novelist, but, on the contrary, for the absence of certain ones. Thus, while romance authors of all genres (new, dark and co) have a hell of a tendency to have been infiltrating our fiction charts for months, the week of November 20 to 26 should be marked with a cross: only two novelists labeled thus, Chloé Wallerand and Laura Swan, take their place in the Top 20”: here is what that we wrote on Thursday 30, just before receiving the final rankings on Friday, including sales in large food stores (GSA). All false !
There are finally four of them to appear. The two authors cited, therefore, with their novels that don’t sound very “French Academy”: the first with The Devil’s Sons, volume 3previously published on the Wattpad platform and now also at Plumes du Web, and the second with Troublemaker, t. 1, also published first on the famous platform then published by HLab. Finally, the young Morgane Moncomble and her novel were added Seasons (volume I). An autumn to forgive you (Hugo Romans) and the Irish Lucinda Rey with The Heiress’ Estate (Charleston).
Meanwhile, the winners of the fall grand prizes are still continuing their harvest. With, in the order of arrival, the Goncourt, the Femina, the Renaudot, the Interallié, the grand prize of the French Academy (in 23rd position)…… Still missing is the Medici (Kevin Lambert) and the various foreign winners…
On the testing side, it’s the big gap. With, on the one hand, experienced essayists, journalists, historians, writers, philosophers, etc. and on the other, a few rare “acrobats”. Let’s start again: Franz-Olivier Giesbert continues to battle with Stéphane Alix, Thomas Pesquet and Georges Bensoussan to be at the top of the podium, while Laure Murat (Prix Médicis essay for Proust, family novelRobert Laffont) and Catherine Nay (Life secrets, Books) are yoyoing. And that Olivier Wieviorka (Total History of World War IIPerrin), Charles Pépin (Living with your pastAlbin Michel) and Gilles Kepel (Prophet in his country, L’Observatoire) accumulate the weeks of presence. More recent in our list, the so-called “acrobats”, namely Jacques Dutronc (And me and me and meCherche Midi) and David Hallyday (Best album. Autobiography), who both look at their past and this with the same publisher, Le Cherche Midi, while the American Britney Spears goes it alone at Lattès with her own, Mémoires, entitled The Woman in me.