Volume 262
Issue 21
05/25/2015
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s The Boundless, the sixth volume in the Danish author’s Department Q crime thriller series, held on to its top spot on Germany’s fiction list last month. Martin Walker’s The Children Return debuted on the list at #2. The book was released in the U.S. by Knopf in April (and published under the title Children of War in the U.K.).
The top two titles on Germany’s nonfiction list were both new to the chart. At #1 was Autumn Blond, the autobiography of Thomas Gottschalk, one of Germany’s most famous radio and television hosts. Inside ISIS, by Jürgen Todenhöfer, came in at #2. Todenhöfer, who the publisher said was the first Western journalist allowed into areas controlled by ISIS, reports on the everyday lives and motives of the ISIS fighters.
Like in Germany, the top-selling novel in France also led the chart the previous month: Guillaume Musso’s The Present Moment was once again at #1. Checkpoint, by Jean-Christophe Rufin, at #2, is new to the list. In the psychological thriller, Rufin follows 21-year-old humanitarian volunteer worker Maud, who is working on a convoy in Bosnia. Intrigue follows as her companions slowly reveal their “secret wounds,” and she finds out what they actually transport.
All three titles on France’s nonfiction chart are new releases, including #3, If We Love France, by the late economist and journalist Bernard Maris, who was killed during the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In this work, finished a few days before his death, Maris “draws a portrait of the France that he loves and regrets the pessimistic views on the nation’s current state.”
Sweden’s top title in April was also the bestselling novel at the end of March, Camilla Lackberg’s The Lion Tamer.
International Bestsellers
Germany
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verheißung The Boundless Jussi Adler-Olsen DTV | Le crépuscule d’une idole Herbstblond Autumn Blond Thomas Gottschalk Heyne |
| 2 | Provokateure The Children Return: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel Martin Walker Diogenes | Inside IS. 10 Tage im ´Islamischen Staat´ Inside ISIS: 10 Days in the Islamic State Jürgen Todenhöfer C. Bertelsmann |
| 3 | Altes Land Old Country Dörte Hansen Knaus | Was ich noch sagen wollte A Few More Things on My Mind Helmut Schmidt C.H. Beck |
For the week ended May 9; used by arrangement with Buchreport.
France
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | L’instant present The Present Moment Guillaume Musso XO | Prenez votre santé en main! Take Charge of Your Health! Frédéric Saldmann Albin Michel |
| 2 | Checkpoint Checkpoint Jean-Christophe Rufin Gallimard | Icônne Icônne Natoo Ed. Privé |
| 3 | Temps glaciaires Ice Age Fred Vargas Flammarion | Et si on aimait la France If We Love France Bernard Maris Grasset |
For week ended May 3; used by arrangement with CPNB De Bestseller.
Sweden
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lejontämjaren The Lion Tamer Camilla Läckberg Bokförlaget Forum | SÃLJ! konsten att sälja vad som helst till vem som helst The Sale: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone Fredrik Eklund & Bruce Littlefield Ekerlids Förlag |
| 2 | Stalker Stalker Lars Kepler Albert Bonniers Förlag | Lär dig leva Learn to Live Mats & Susan Billmark Livskraft |
| 3 | Mios blues Mio’s Blues Kristina Ohlsson Piratförlaget | Det är bara lite cancer It’s Just Little Cancer Klas Ingesson & Henrik Ystén Ekblom Offside Press |
For April 2015; used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel.
