New titles occupied the top six spots on the Netherlands combined bestseller chart in May. Kieft, Michel van Egmond’s biography of the retired Dutch soccer player Wim Kieft, led the pack, followed by Karin Slaughter’s Cop Town at #2. (Delacorte published the novel in the U.S. on June 24).
In third place on the country’s overall chart was Colleen Dorsey’s Band-It, originally published in the U.S. as Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry in October 2013 by Fox Chapel. The book is a how-to on how to make rubber band jewelry using a loom, a phenomenon that became one of the hottest trends of the 2013 holiday season in the U.S. One of Dorsey’s follow-up titles, Epic Rubber Band Crafts, released by Fox Chapel in February, hit Netherland’s list at #6 under the title Epic Band-It.
The One You Love, from Swedish crime writer Mari Jungstedt, a novel about the mysterious death of a real estate agent, debuted on Sweden’s fiction chart in May at #1, pushing the previous month’s top title, Majgull Axelsson’s My Name Is Not Miriam, to #3. Torgny Lindgren’s Klingsor and the Last Hash jumped from the #9 spot to #2. Eva Robild’s gardening book, Cultivate in a Raised Bed, moved from #2 to the top spot on the country’s nonfiction list, sending Jonas Trolle’s The Hunt for Captain Dress to #2. Another soccer title, former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson’s autobiography, was new to Sweden’s list at #3.
Sveva Casati Modignani’s novel A Magical Wife was new to Italy’s combined list, hitting the #1 spot. The book moved the April bestseller, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, to the #2 spot. The film adaptation of the novel, published in 2006 by Knopf in the U.S., premiered in Italy on March 27. Terzani Tiziano’s An Idea of Destiny, a collection of notes, diary entries, and letters written by the Italian journalist while working as a correspondent in China, was also new to Italy’s list at #3.
International Bestsellers
Sweden
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Den man älskar The One You Love Mari Jungstedt Albert Bonniers förlag | Odla i pallkrage Cultivate in a Raised Bed Eva Robild Ica Bokförlag |
| 2 | Klingsor Klingsor and the Last Hash Torgny Lindgren Norstedts | Jakten på Kapten klänning The Hunt for Captain Dress Jonas Trolle Grasset/Albin Michel |
| 3 | Jag heter inte Miriam My Name Is Not Miriam Majgull Axelsson Brombergs | Min självbiografi My Autobiography Alex Ferguson Forum |
For the month ended May 18, 2014; used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel
Netherlands
| Combined | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieft Kieft Michel van Egmond Voetbal International | 4 | Geachte heer M. Dear Mr. M. Herman Koch Anthos |
| 2 | Veroordeeld Cop Town Karin Slaughter Cargo | 5 | Goudkust Gold Coast Suzanne Vermeer Bruna |
| 3 | Band-it Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry Colleen Dorsey Tirion Creatief | 6 | Epic Band-it! Epic Rubber Band Crafts Colleen Dorsey Tirion Creatief |
For the week ended May 4, 2014; used by arrangement with CPNB De Bestseller.
Italy
| Combined | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La moglie magica A Magical Wife Sveva Casati Modignani Sperling & Kupfer | 4 | La piramide di fango The Pyramid of Mud Andrea Camilleri Sellerio Editore Palermo |
| 2 | Storia di una ladra di libri The Book Thief Markus Zusak Frassinelli | 5 | Pantera Panther Stefano Benni and Luca Ralli Feltrinelli |
| 3 | Un’idea di destino: Diari di una vita straordinaria An Idea of Destiny: Diaries of an Extraordinary Life Terzani Tiziano Longanesi | 6 | Il cardellino The Goldfinch Donna Tartt Rizzoli |
For May 2014; used by arrangement with Informazioni Editoriali.
