For 12 years now, Guillaume Musso has always been in first position in the top book sales charts. This year, a writer came to dethrone him.
This year, Guillaume Musso is not the writer who sold the most books in France. While it has dominated the best-selling book rankings for twelve years now, he was dethroned by Mélissa Da Costathe author of the bestseller Women at the end of the world, released last March. With more than 1.1 million books sold in one yearthis young 33-year-old novelist has managed to establish herself as the biggest seller of French-speaking novels in France in 2023, as reported The Parisian.
If his last work was successful, his very first novel, All the blue of the sky, published in 2019, continues to sell in paperback version. For his part, Guilaume Musso only sold a little over 540,000 copies, placing him in sixth place in the ranking. It must be said that the writer has not published anything new this year. However, he could return to first place next year with the release next March of his book entitled Someone else.
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More than 1.1 million books sold in 2023
Since his first novel in 2019, Mélissa Da Costa has already published six books, and she should release another one next fall. For its publisher Lina Pinto, its success can be explained because it “never write the same book”. “With her I am always surprised and her next text which will be released in the fall is no exception to the rule, she continues. She is a writer who follows her instinct, she is sincere and talented. She’s a beautiful person.” Last year, Mélissa Da Costa had already climbed to third place on the podium in the book sales ranking, behind Guillaume Musso and Joël Dicker.
This year, it is placed just in front of Virginie Grimaldivoted favorite novelist of the French, with almost a million copies sold in 2023. The latter has also released a new novel called A beautiful life. In third position, we find Maud Ankaoua with more than 720,000 copies sold. His first novel Zero kilometer, released in 2017, has just passed the milestone of one million copies in paperback. Comes next the first man in the ranking in 4th place. This is Pierre Lemaitre, which has sold more than 690,000 books this year. We then find the king of thrillers, Franck Thilliezwith 600,000 books sold.
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