Yuval Noah Harari or Xavier Niel, who sells the most in bookstores? – The Express

There is a lot of action in the tests with no less than eight newcomers. It’s dry! Starting with Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and philosopher, author, notably, of Sapiensof Homo Deus and children’s series We, the indomitableall translated by Albin Michel. This professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-founder of the “Sapienship” organization today publishes an explosive essay in the form of a cry of alarmNexus. A brief history of information networks, from the Stone Age to AIlocated in 3rd place in our ranking.

It helps us understand how information networks have made and unmade our world and how AI is revolutionizing medicine, warfare, democracies, and threatening our very existence. Following him, in 10th place, the journalist Anne Fulda and Olivier Goy wrote a work as poignant as it is impressive, Invincible. Behind the smile, the fight of a life (Editions de l’Observatoire). In 2020, Olivier Goy learned, at the age of 46, that he had Charcot’s disease. This neurodegenerative disease results in progressive paralysis of the muscles, but leaves the patient with his full intellectual capacities. Olivier decided to fight with determination to raise funds for research, make disability more accepted and make the most of his family.

Niel, the child from Créteil who was in prison

Another explosive author, the billionaire Xavier Niel who publishes with Flammarion A real desire to make a mess. Interviews with Jean-Louis Missika. He recounts his journey as a child from Créteil who did not study but spent time in prison and who became a successful businessman – notably founder of the telecommunications group Free and co-owner of the group. The World. He has also been talked about for a long time: Gilles Kepel. The university professor and political scientist has just published The Upheaval of the World (Plon, 21st bestseller), in which he analyzes how the “pogromist raid” followed by the “hecatomb of the Palestinians in Gaza” overturned the world order established after the Second World War, much more as September 11, 2001.

Among the entrants of the week, we should not forget Clément Viktorovitch and Ferdinand Barbet, the authors of The Art of Not Saying. Chronicle of a rampage of language (Threshold). A title which takes up that of the show that the recognized specialist in rhetorical power Clément Viktorovitch co-wrote with its director Ferdinand Barbet and performed in a single-on-stage in 2024 during the Avignon Festival. It is about a former communicator who reveals all the tricks used in his profession to write the speeches of political leaders. Misguided uses of language and hollowing out of politics…

And again Laurent Obertone, whose new book, War. A fight in which you are finally the hero (Magnus). Obertone, the bestselling author of France A Clockwork Orange and the trilogy Guerrilla, pproposes here “a survival manual” “to overcome our faults, mobilize our forces, rearm the survivors”. And also They know I know everything. My life in Françafrique, by Robert Bourgi, with Frédéric Lejeal (Max Milo), where the author relates for the very first time his life, his relationships with his mentor Jacques Foccart and all of the “missions” carried out over nearly forty years on behalf of the African and French presidents.

As for the novels, few changes, except the arrivals of Hazel Diaz (in 3rd place) and her volume I of Kiara. Diamond scratched by blood (The Archipelago), a dark romance published in May 2024; by Bernard Werber, whose The Waltz of Souls (Albin Michel) appears in 11th place; by the late MC Beaton, who places volumes XXIII and XXIV of his saga Hamish Macbeth (Albin Michel); and the Irish Sally Rooney, who, with Intermezzo (Gallimard, in 21st rank) treats, as in Normal Peopleof characters exposing themselves, here two brothers no longer very close to each other who meet again after the death of their father.