2023-12-18 08:45:18
The novelist, who had dominated the bestseller rankings for 12 years, had to give up his place this year to Mélissa Da Costa, author of the best-seller Femmes du bout du monde.
Guillaume Musso is no longer the best-selling writer in France. The author of The Secret Life of Writers bowed to Mélissa Da Costa after twelve years of interrupted reign. According to information from Parisianthis young 33-year-old novelist has sold more than 1.1 million books this year, driven by the success of her latest novel, Femmes du bout du monde, released in March, and her first, Tout le bleu du ciel (All the blue of the sky ( 2019).
Guillaume Musso, who has not released anything new this year, has sold more than 540,000 copies of his previous titles. He should be in sixth place in the top – pending the release of his 22nd book in March, Someone Else.
In 2022, Mélissa Da Costa had already taken third place in book sales. Since her first novel in 2019, she has already published six books. The next one will appear next fall.
Two other novelists in the top 3
This year she shares the podium with two novelists. Virginie Grimaldi, who was voted French favorite novelist in 2022, is number 2 in the ranking with almost a million copies sold this year thanks to Une belle vie.
In third position is Maud Ankaoua with more than 720,000 copies sold. Since the release of his first novel Kilometer Zero in 2017 (sold one million copies in paperback), his success has continued.
The rest of the ranking is also made up of Pierre Lemaitre (690,000 books sold), who is currently a hit with his fresco The Glorious Years, and Franck Thilliez (600,000 books sold), the master of crime fiction.
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