In France, bestselling author Fred Vargas landed at #1 with a new Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, The Furious Army. Penguin will release a paperback edition of an earlier Adamsberg novel, An Uncertain Plan, in the U.S. in October, but has not yet acquired rights to the newest title. The #1 author in Spain in May, Camilla Läckberg, has a growing following in the U.S. Pegasus Books published her first book, The Ice Princesss, in the U.S. last spring and her second, The Preacher, in May, shipping 15,000 copies, Pegasus's largest first printing in its five-year history. Free Press bought paperback rights to Läckberg's first three titles and published Princess in trade paperback in March with Pocket Books doing a simultaneous mass market paperback release. The paperback editions of Preacher will be released next spring. Her newest edition of the series set in Fjällbacka topping the Spanish charts is The Angel Maker.
Leading the clean sweep of new books in the top four places on the German fiction bestsellers list are the American team of P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast with Tempted. American romance writer Karen Rose has had hits in Germany before, and she landed at #2 there last month with I Can See You. Her most recent book in the U.S., You Belong to Me, was released June 7 in paperback by Signet. The third new German fiction bestseller is by another American romance author, Susan E. Phillips. Call Me Irresistible was published by Morrow in the U.S. in January before becoming a bestseller for Blanvalet. Breaking the run of American romance writers on the German fiction list, Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón landed at #4 with Marina.
International Bestsellers
France
Fiction
L'armée furieuse
The Furious Army
Fred Vargas
Viviane Hamy
L'étrange voyage de Monsieur Daldry
The Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry
Marc Levy
Robert Laffont
L'appel de l'ange
The Call of the Angel
Musso Guillaume
XO
Nonfiction
Indignez-vous!
Rise in Protest!
Stéphane Hessel
Indigène
M. le Président: scènes de la vie politique, 2005–2011
Mr. President: Scenes of Political Life, 2005–2011
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Flammarion
Coups et blessures: 50 ans de secrets partagés avec François Mitterrand
Assault and Battery: 50 Years of Shared Secrets with François Mitterrand
Roland Dumas
Le Cherche Midi
Germany
Fiction
Versucht
Tempted
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Fischer FJB
Todesstob
I Can See You
Karen Rose
Knaur
Der schönste Fehler meines Lebens
Call Me Irresistible
Susan E. Phillips
Blanvalet
Nonfiction
Der ultimative Ratgeber für alles
The Ultimate Guide for Everything
Dieter Nuhr
Bastei Lübbe
Sehnsucht nach Leben
Longing for Life
Margot Käßmann
adeo
Religion in der Verantwortung
Religion and Responsibility
Helmut Schmidt
Propyläen
Spain
Fiction
Las huellas imborrables
The Angel Maker
Camilla Läckberg
Maeva
Si tú me dices ven lo dejo todo... pero dime ven
If You Tell Me "Come," I Leave
Everything... but Tell Me "Come"
Albert Espinosa
Grijalbo
La tierra de las cuevas pintadas
The Land of Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel
Maeva
Nonfiction
¡Indignaos!
Rise in Protest!
Stéphane Hessel
Destino
Reacciona
Reaction
Various Authors
Aguilar
Excusas para no pensar
Excuses for Not Thinking
Eduardo Punset
Destino