450,000 copies (according to Edistat) sold from The Alaska Sanders Affair by the Helvetian Joël Dicker (more than 100,000 copies for French-speaking Swiss), more than 300,000 copies for The Mage of the Kremlin (grand prize of the novel of the French Academy) of the former political advisor to the President of the Italian Council Matteo Renzi, teacher at Sciences Po, Giuliano da Empoli; more than 320,000 copies for The Great World of the former “polar deux” Pierre Lemaitre, who has unquestionably become the French master of the “popular soap opera”; nearly 240,000 copies of the Dear asshole by Virginie Despentes ; some 220,000 copies of theannihilate by Michel Houellebecq. And that for the year 2022 alone. The figures make you dizzy, the counters panicked in this post-Covid year.
They are 39 happy authors (Natacha Calestrémé being present with two titles) to appear in our annual list of best-selling novels and essays (out of pocket, comics, illustrated books and supermarkets), novelists holding the top of the list. ‘attach.
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As for publishers, Gallimard won the Palme d’Or with 7 titles, followed by Albin Michel (5 citations), Fayard (4), Flammarion and Robert Laffont (3 each), 19 publishers sharing the whole of the bonanza. Many of them were brought together by L’Express on Wednesday March 8 for the traditional lunch of bestsellers organized each year. In this case, at the Royal Monceau, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. And this, despite the strikes and, even more astonishing, given the turbulence currently agitating the world of publishing, in harmony. But we’ll tell you more very soon.