From comics to Goncourt, via an investigation that sparked a debate in society, GfK – Livres Hebdo unveils the list of the biggest literary successes of the past year.
La BD The endless world, by climate and energy specialist Jean-Marc Jancovici and cartoonist Christophe Blain is the best-selling book of the year 2022, according to GfK figures – Livres Hebdo published on Wednesday. The book, which was released by Dargaud in the last quarter of 2021, has sold 514,000 copies this year, according to this barometer.
It is followed by The Alaska Sanders case by Joël Dicker (432,000 copies sold by his own publishing house, Rosie & Wolfe) and The big world: the glorious years by Pierre Lemaître (335,000 copies), which will be released in early January the sequel entitled silence and anger.
Comics and manga are gaining more and more followers
“The 50 best-selling books in 2022 generated 11.7 million copies, down 9% from the exceptional year 2021, but still above the level of sales in 2020 and 2019,” Gfk said in a statement. press release, noting the continued progress of comics and manga.
In terms of literary prizes, the Goncourt is a small vintage (198,000 copies sold for live fast by Brigitte Giraud at Flammarion, against an average of more than 500,000 copies in general for this price), largely exceeded this year by the price of the French Academy, The Kremlin Mage by Giuliano Da Empoli (Gallimard, more than 320,000 sales).
Journalist Victor Castanet, Albert London Prize, has sold more than 160,000 copies of his investigation into Ehpad Orpéa (The Gravediggers at Fayard). GfK data correspond to sales of new printed books purchased in France, in stores or online.