All three titles at the top of France’s fiction bestseller list for March are new to the chart. At #1, Guillaume Musso’s The Present Moment is a love story about a struggling actress and a young ER doctor in Manhattan. In second place is After Ever Happy, by Anna Todd, the fourth book in her After series. Todd, a star of Wattpad, the online reading and writing community, was signed by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery imprint in May 2014. S&S released After Ever Happy in the U.S. in February 2015. Ice Age, the latest crime novel from Fred Vargas, ranked third.
María Dueñas debuted at #1 on Spain’s fiction list for early April with Temperance. The novel follows Mauro Larrea on his “feverish journey from Mexico to Jerez de la Frontera,” according to publisher Planeta, which announced a 500,000-copy first printing. Also new to the list, at #2, is Arturo Pérez Reverte’s Good Men. The book takes place at the end of the 18th century and tells the story of two members of the Spanish Royal Academy who travel to Paris to get the 28 volumes of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. At #3 is another new title, The Blue World—the final novel in Albert Espinosa’s Color trilogy.
Joris Luyendijk held on to his lead on the Netherlands combined list with This Can’t Be True, a look, per the publisher, into the “world of bankers and stock exchange speculators” that also deals with the recent financial crisis. Esther Verhoef’s thriller Dear Mum was new to the list at #2, and it was followed by two more new releases: Rutger Bregman and Jesse Frederi’s Why Garbage Collectors Deserve More than Bankers and Jaap Toorenaar’s My Mother Always Said, a collection of motherly advice, at #3 and #4, respectively.
France
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | L’instant present The Present Moment Guillaume Musso XO | Cosmos Cosmos Michel Onfray Flammarion |
| 2 | After, saison 4 After Ever Happy Anna Todd Hugo Roman | Cette nuit la mer est noire That Night, the Sea Is Black Florence Arthaud Arthaud |
| 3 | Temps glaciaires Ice Age Fred Vargas Flammarion | Mémoires Memoirs Klarsfeld/Klarsfeld Flammarion/Fayard |
For the week ended April 5; used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo.
Spain
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Templanza Temperance María Dueñas Planeta | Diario de un ministro Diary of a Minister José Bono Planeta |
| 2 | Hombres Buenos Good Men Arturo Pérez Reverte Alfaguara | Pactos y señales Covenants and Signs J.J. Benítez Planeta |
| 3 | El mundo azul. Ama tu cao The Blue World: Love Your Chaos Albert Espinosa Grijalbo | La economía The Economy Santiago Niño Becerra Los libros del lince |
For the week ended April 10; used by arrangement with El Cultural.
Netherlands
| Combined | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dit kan niet waar zijn This Can’t Be True Joris Luyendijk Atlas Contact | 4 | Mijn moeder zei altijd My Mother Always Said Jaap Toorenaar Thomas Rap |
| 2 | Lieve mama Dear Mum Tatiana de Rosnay Prometheus | 5 | Gouden jaren Golden Years Annegreet van Bergen Atlas Contact |
| 3 | Waarom vuilnismannen meer verdienen dan bankiers Why Garbage Collectors Deserve More than Bankers Rutger Bregman & Jesse Frederi Lemniscaat | 6 | Dagboek van een muts 7. Drama voor de camera Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star Rachel Renée Russel De Fontein |
For the week ended April 12; used by arrangement with CPNB.
