Jens Lapidus had a big hit in Sweden last year with Never Fuck Up, and his new book, a graphic novel illustrated by Peter Bergting, debuted at #1 last month. Gang War 145 is the third title in what Lapidus calls his Stockholm Noir series. Lapidus does not have an American publisher. Landing in the second spot was Mari Jungstedt, with the newest installment in Jungstedt's Anders Knutas mystery series. Minotaur published a previous Knutas mystery, The Inner Circle, in November.
In Spain, the highest-ranking debut came in at #4 with Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind. The first title in a fantasy trilogy, Wind was published in the U.S. in hardcover by DAW Books in 2007 and trade paperback this spring.
In nonfiction there were a number of titles either debuting high on bestsellers lists or moving up the ranks. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor landed in third place in both France and Sweden and is scheduled to be released in the U.S. by Viking this fall. With the Tour de France in full stride, the top-selling nonfiction book in France at the end of June was a look back on the cycling world by French star Laurent Fignon. The worldwide economic crisis is the focus of six of the top 10 nonfiction bestsellers in Spain.
International Bestsellers
| France | ||
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
| 1 | What Would I Be Without You?Guillaume Musso XO | We Were Young and InnocentLaurent Fignon Grasset |
| 2 | The Girl with the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson Actes Sud | So Let's Forget About ItMichel Sardou XO |
| 3 | Just Take My HeartMary Higgins Clark Albin Michel | D-Day: The Battle for NormandyAntony Beevor Calmann-Levy |
| For week ending June 21, used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo | ||
| Sweden | ||
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
| 1 | Gang War 145Jens Lapidus & Peter Bergting Wahlstrom & Widstrand | Morberg: The Stage, the Life and the Art of CookingPer Morberg Bonnier Fakta |
| 2 | The Double SilenceMari Jungstedt Albert Bonniers | Summer SweetsMonica Eisenman Bonnier Fakta |
| 3 | Three SecondsAnders Roslund & Borje Kajsa Piratforlaget | D-Day: The Battle for NormandyAntony Beevor Historiska Media |
| For week ending June 21, used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel | ||
| Spain | ||
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
| 1 | The Girl with the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson Destino | The Crash of 2010Santiago Nino Becerra Los Libros del Lince |
| 2 | The Girl Who Played with FireStieg Larsson Destino | The SecretRhonda Byrne Urano |
| 3 | The Loneliness of the Prime NumbersPaolo Giordano Salamandra | Anatomy of a MomentJavier Cercas Mondadori |
| For week ending June 21, used by arrangement with El Cultural | ||
