In the waning weeks of summer, debut titles began to populate the top spots on the international bestseller lists. Although a few mainstay titles, like Dan Brown’s Inferno, held on for the month of August, several new releases fared well in the foreign markets last month.
Titles new to the list dominated the top three spots on the French fiction chart. The third book of Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series, Entwined with You (published by Berkley in the U.S.), debuted at #1. Day’s book was followed by Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb’s new title, The Happy Nostalgia, which landed at #2. Albin Michel announced a 200,000 print run for the Belgian writer’s 22nd novel, which is described as an autobiographical narration of her childhood in Japan. At #3 was French journalist Jean d’Ormesson’s One Day I Will Go Without Being Told Everything.
In the Netherlands, Jens Olde Kalter’s biography of Badr Hari, the Moroccan-Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer, made its first appearance on the country’s combined bestseller list at #1. American novelists held the next two spots, with Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed landing at #2 and Brown’s Inferno coming in at #3. Yet another debut—Simone van der Vlugt’s thriller about the disappearance of a child, Tomorrow I’m Back Home—landed at #4
In Germany, Timur Vermes’s satire that ponders what would happen if Hitler were at-large in 21st-century Berlin, He’s Back, climbed from #3 to #1 on the fiction list. But, again, a handful of new titles appeared on the top half of the list, including Daniel Kehlmann’s story of three brothers, F, at #3, and American novelist Karen Slaughter’s Fallen, debuting at #4.
International Bestsellers
France
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crossfire, vol. 3: Enlace-moi Entwined with You Sylvia Day J’ai lu | Le meilleur médicament, c’est vous! The Best Medicine Is You! Frédéric Saldmann Albin Michel |
| 2 | La nostalgie heureuse The Happy Nostalgia Amélie Nothomb Albin Michel | Un été avec Montaigne A Summer with Montaigne Antoine Compagnon Ed. des Equateurs |
| 3 | Un jour je m’en irai sans en avoir tout dit One Day I Will Go Without Being Told Everything Jean d’Ormesson Robert Laffont | Immortelle randonnée: Compostelle malgré moi Immortal Hike: Compostela Despite Me Jean-Christophe Rufin Guérin |
| For week ended Sept. 1, used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo | ||
Netherlands
| Combined | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badr Badr Jens Olde Kalter Prometheus | 4 | Morgen ben ik weer thuis Tomorrow I’m Back Home Simone van der Vlugt Anthos |
| 2 | En uit de bergen kwam de echo And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini De Bezige Bij | 5 | Zusje Sister Rosamund Lupton Boekerij |
| 3 | Inferno Inferno Dan Brown Luitingh | 6 | De voedselzandloper The Food Hourglass Kris Verburgh Bert Bakker |
| For week 35, used by arrangement with CPNB De Bestseller | |||
Germany
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Er ist wieder da He’s Back Timur Vermes Eichborn | Goethe. Kunstwerk des Lebens Goethe: Artwork of Life Rüdiger Safranski Hanser |
| 2 | Inferno Inferno Dan Brown Bastei Lübbe | 1913 1913 Florian Illies S. Fischer |
| 3 | F F Daniel Kehlmann Rowohlt | 5 Dinge, die Sterbende am meisten bereuen The Top Five Regrets of the Dying Bronnie Ware Arkana |
| For week 37, used by arrangement with Buchreport | ||
