Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg has seen international success since releasing her 2003 debut, Ice Princess (published in 2010 by Pegasus), and to date her books have been translated into 33 languages. In France, her 2008 novel The Drowning was the top title. Earlier this year, Pegasus published another of her novels, The Stonecutter.
In Germany, Rachel Joyce’s debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, landed at #3. Joyce, a British writer who was longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, had her book published by Random House in July 2012. On Germany’s nonfiction chart, two books that have found international success continued their streak: Sort of Best Friends (a revised edition of The Second Wind, the basis for the blockbuster Intouchables) and Thinking, Fast and Slow were at #2 and #3 on the chart, respectively.
Spain’s fiction list was topped by three books that have U.S. connections—George R.R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice books are some of the bestselling fantasy books in the last decade (A Dance with Dragons has sold nearly 600,000 copies in the U.S. since its publication in 2011) and there’s been no bigger story in publishing than Fifty Shades of Grey. Spain’s #3, however, has yet to be published stateside, but that will change on September 11 when Hyperion releases The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Jonas Jonasson’s novel has sold over two million copies worldwide.
France
Fiction
La sirène
The Drowning
Camilla Lackberg
Actes Sud
La liste de mes envies
My List of Desires
Grégoire Delacourt
Lattès
Si c’était à refaire
If I Had to Do It Again
Marc Levy
Robert Laffront
Nonfiction
L’âme du monde
The Soul of the World
Frédéric Lenoir
Nil
Le monarque, son fils, son fief
The Monarch, His Son, His Fief
Marie-Célie Guillaume
Ed. du Moment
Les Strauss-Kahn
The Strauss-Kahns
Raphaëlle Bacqué, Ariane Chemin
Albin Michel
Germany
Fiction
Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem
Fenster stieg und verschwand
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson
Carl’s Books
Bretonische Verhältnisse
Breton Relations
Jean-Luc Bannalec
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Die unwahrscheinliche Pilgerreise des Harold Fry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce
Krüger
Nonfiction
Die Kunst des klaren Denkens
The Art of Precise Reasoning
Rolf Dobelli
Hanser
Ziemlich beste Freunde
Sort Of Best Friends
Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
Hanser
Schnelles Denken, langsames Denken
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Siedler
Spain
Fiction
Danza de dragones. Canción de hielo y fuego 5
A Dance with Dragons. A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5
George R.R. Martin
Gigamesh
Cincuenta sombras de Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
Grijalbo
El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largo
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson
Salamandra
Nonfiction
Una mochila para el universe
A Backpack for the Universe
Elsa Punset
Lunwerg
Indecentes
Indecent
Ernesto Ekaizer
Espasa
El arte de no amargarse la vida
The Art of Not Making Our Lives
Miserable
Rafael Santandreu
Oniro
