It turns out the Fifty Shades craze is not restricted to the U.S. On all three charts tracked this month, E.L. James’s blockbuster book placed high on the list. In Spain and Italy, where Fifty Shades of Grey debuted in June, it landed at #1 and #2, respectively. In the Netherlands, the book jumped to second place from #13.

Also in the Netherlands, Jeff Kinney’s fifth Wimpy Kid book debuted at #6. The Ugly Truth, like the other books in the series, has sold extremely well; since it was first published in the U.S. by Abrams in 2010, it has sold well over two million copies at outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan. Debuting in fifth place in the Netherlands in June was Leon De Winter’s VSV. De Winter has had two books published by Toby Press, most recently God’s Gym in 2009, which PW called a “slick, entertaining import with the soul of an American thriller-fantasy.”

Another international sensation making waves in his native country is Andrea Camilleri, whose newest book, A Blade of Light, debuted in the top spot in Italy in June. Camilleri’s most recent English-language book was The Age of Doubt from Penguin, published this past May. That book, the 14th starring Inspector Montalbano, has continued the author’s success in America. A Blade of Light is also an Inspector Montalbano book.

International Bestsellers: July 2012

SPAIN

Fiction

Cincuenta sombras de Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey

E.L. James

Grijalbo

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

La conjura de Cortés: Trilogia de Martín Ojo de Plata 3

The Conspiracy of Cortes

Matilde Asensi

Planeta

Nonfiction

Una mochila para el universo

A Backpack for the Universe

Elsa Punset

Lunwerg

El arte de no amargarse la vida

The Art of Not Making Our Lives Miserable

Rafael Santandreu

Oniro

Indecentes

Indecent

Ernesto Ekaizer

Espasa

NETHERLANDS

Conbined

Gijp

Gijp

Michel van Egmond

De Buitenspelers

Vijftig tinten grijs

Fifty Shades of Grey

E.L. James

Prometheus

Bon Bini beach

Guiltless

Suzanne Vermeer

A.W. Bruna

Dinsdag is voorbij

Tuesday’s Gone

Nicci French

Anthos B.V.

VSV

VSV

Leon de Winter

De Bezige Bij

Het leven van een Loser: Niet te doen!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth

Jeff Kinney

De Fontein Jeugd

ITALY

Combined

Una lama di luce

A Blade of Light

Andrea Camilleri

Sellerio Editore Palermo

Cinquanta sfumature di grigio

Fifty Shades of Grey

E.L. James

Mondadori

Sua Santità: Le carte segrete di Benedetto XVI

His Holiness: The Secret

Documents of Benedict XVI

Gianluigi Nuzzi

Chiarelettere

Fai bei sogni

Create Beautiful Dreams

Massimo Gramellini

Longanesi

Léonie

Léonie

Sveva Casati Modignani

Sperling & Kupfer

Se ti abbraccio non aver paura

Don’t Be Afraid of Embraces

Fulvio Ervas

Marcos y Marcos