Euro Politicos Top Nonfiction Lists Overseas

Guillaume Musso’s Brooklyn Girl has Parisians dreaming of Park Slope for the second month running, as the bestseller retains its #1 position on the fiction chart in France for April. In nonfiction, Jean-Louis Debré’s political memoir, I Couldn’t Tell, topped the list. Debré, a career judge and conservative politician, has served stints as president of both the French National Assembly and the country’s Constitutional Council—very roughly equivalent to the speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress and the chief justice of the Supreme Court, respectively. His tell-all has sparked interest.

Neighboring Germany saw a divisive politician at the top of its own nonfiction list: Thilo Sarrazin, former Deutsche Bundesbank board member, who wrote Wishful Thinking. In fiction, Jonas Jonasson’s Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All was #1. Jonasson has an international bestseller under his belt in 2012’s The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared; HarperCollins published an English translation of Hitman in the U.S. in April.

In the Netherlands, Nicci French’s sixth Frieda Klein novel, Saturday Requiem, has retained its place in the #1 position on the combined fiction and nonfiction list. A widely discussed American title has moved high onto the combined list, with Hanya Yanagihara’s acclaimed (and notoriously dismal) bildungsroman A Little Life showing more than a little life of its own—enough to claim the #6 slot on the chart.

France

For the week ended May 1; used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo/Ipsos

Germany

For the week ended May 1; used by arrangement with Buchreport

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

Lee Child’s Make Me, the 20th entry in the Jack Reacher series, was on top of the combined fiction and nonfiction charts in the U.K. for April. Joe Wicks’s Lean in 15, offering 15-minute healthy meals paired with workouts, came in at #2. Sylvia Day’s One with You continues to seduce audiences, taking the #3 slot, with Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling, detailing his adventures in the British Isles, was #4.

Combined Fiction and Nonfiction

Australia

DK’s Disney Pixar Cool Colouring Book was the #1 bestseller on the combined fiction and nonfiction list in Australia in April, with Andy and Jill Griffiths’s The Treehouse Fun Book coming in at #2. Anh Do’s Crazy Weird, the sixth entry in the WeirDo series, was #3.

Combined Fiction and Nonfiction

New Zealand

DK was #1 on New Zealand’s combined fiction and nonfiction list for April as well, with The Great New Zealand Baking Book rising from #4 in March. Wilbur Smith and Tom Cain’s Predator—which has nothing to do with the film franchise about terrifying aliens—took #2. NZ foodies helped bring Nadia Lim’s What’s for Dinner? to #3.

Combined Fiction and Nonfiction

Source: Nielsen BookScan