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DECEMBER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS

FRANCE

Fiction Nonfiction
L’ordre du jour Le miracle Spinoza
The Agenda The Miracle Spinoza
1 Eric Vuillard Frédéric Lenoir
Actes Sud Fayard

Darker La vie secrète des arbres
Darker The Hidden Life of Trees
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Popular E.L. James Peter Wohlleben
Les Arènes
Jean-Claude Lattès
Fiction Topped La disparition de Josef Mengele Sapiens: une brève histoire de l’humanité
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
December Lists 3 Olivier Guez Yuval Noah Harari
Grasset et Fasquelle Albin Michel
rench readers still have a han- For the week ended Dec. 30, 2017; used by arrangement with GFK/Livres Hebdo
kering for WWII fi ction. Eric
Vuillard’s Goncourt Prize– GERMANY
Fwinner The Agenda, a historical
Fiction Nonfiction
novel about the Nazi annexation of Austria,
Tyll Die Kunst des guten lebens
remained at #1 at the end of December.
Tyll The Art of the Good Life
Olivier Guez’s The Disappearance of Josef 1
Mengele fell from the second spot on the Daniel Kehlmann Rolf Dobelli
Rowohlt Piper
list to the third. The nonfi ction list, too,
retained the same top-selling title as last
Origin Über den anstand in schwierigen...
month: The Miracle Spinoza, a hagiography Origin On Decency in Difficult Times...
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of the Dutch philosopher by Frédèric Lenoir. Dan Brown Axel Hacke
German fiction fans embraced Tyll in Bastei Lübbe Kunstmann
December. The latest novel by perennial
bestseller Daniel Kehlmann is a fanciful Flugangst 7A Nächste ausfahrt zukunft
tale about the eponymous hero’s adventures 3 Fear of Flying 7A Next Exit Future
in 17th-century Europe following the Sebastian Fitzek Ranga Yogeshwar
Droemer Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Thirty Years’ War. The popular thriller
writer Sebastian Fitzek had the third-best- For the week ended Jan. 2; used by arrangement with Buchreport
selling novel last month with The Fear of
Flying 7A, about a mentally ill passenger SPAIN
who threatens to crash an airliner. In
Fiction Nonfiction
German nonfiction, readers moved Swiss
philosopher Rolf Dobelli’s The Art of the El fuego invisible Qué está pasando en Cataluña
Good Life to the top position. The book The Invisible Fire What Is Happening in Catalonia
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appeared last year in an English translation Javier Sierra Eduardo Mendoza
Planeta Seix Barral
published by Hachette.
In Spain, Javier Sierra’s The Invisible
Patria Contra el separatism
Fire, a thriller about the hunt for the Holy Fatherland Against Separatism
Grail, ended last year atop the fiction list. 2 Fernando Aramburu Fernando Savater
Several of Sierra’s books have been pub- Tusquets Ariel
lished in English translations by Atria.
The Spanish nonfiction list remains con- Eva Fugas
sumed by books about Catalonian politics, Eva Escapes
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with Eduardo Mendoza’s What Is Happening Arturo Pérez-Reverte James Rhodes
in Catalonia taking the top spot, followed Alfaguara Blackie
by the polemic Against Separatism by
Fernando Savater. —Ed Nawotka For the week ended Jan.2; used by arrangement with El Cultural

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