AWARDS – Sold over one and a half million copies, or fifteen albums sold per minute, Asterix’s latest album was by far the most purchased book in France in 2021, the year in which the novelist Guillaume Musso remained the number one author in bookstores.
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The success of Asterix is undeniable. The last album of the famous Gaul, Asterix and the Griffin (editions Albert René), was by far the best-selling book of 2021. The year was also marked by the novelist Guillaume Musso, who remained the best-selling author in bookstores, according to published rankings. Wednesday by Weekly Books and Le Figaro. Like every two years, namely the rate of publication of the adventures of the famous Gaul, largely dominates the ranking established by the GfK firm.
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The album sold 1,547,576 copies after its October 21 release, a rate of almost 21,500 comic books per day, or 15 per minute. As for authors, all titles combined, Guillaume Musso continues, at 47, to outclass his competitors. It tops the chart for the eleventh consecutive year, with 1.278 million books sold according to GfK.
“L’Anomalie”, by Hervé Le Tellier, second best-selling book of 2021
He is followed by Virginie Grimaldi (2nd as in 2020, with 877,000 copies), Franck Thilliez (750,000 copies) and Michel Bussi (721,000 copies). Then come six authors who are between 600,000 and 656,000 copies: in order Marc Levy, Bernard Minier, Valérie Perrin, Mélissa Da Costa (new in this top 10), Marie-Bernadette Dupuy and Aurélie Valognes. The Swiss Joël Dicker, who was fifth in 2020, suffers from not having published in 2021, even in pocket. It plans to relaunch in 2022 with The Alaska Sanders Affair, expected in March.
Far behind Asterix, The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier (Gallimard), Prix Goncourt 2020, is the second best-selling book of 2021, under half a million copies, at 491,884. This brings sales to nearly 933,000 since the discreet release of this novel in August 2020. The podium is completed by Life is a novel, by Guillaume Musso, released in May 2020 in large format, and in March 2021 in paperback, with 433,355 copies. Comes in fourth place: The Stranger of the Seine (Calmann Lévy), published in September, has accumulated 399,615 copies.
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As for Goncourt 2021, The most secret memory of men by the Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Philippe Rey editions), it is in fifth position with 378,219 copies, followed by After All the blue of the sky, a 2019 novel by Mélissa Da Costa (with 331,010 copies). Presidential candidate Eric Zemmour also managed to rise in this list where political books rarely shine with 282,671 copies sold for France has not said its last word, which he self-published.
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