Bestselling in 2014 in ... the UK (and France)

       The Guardian has now posted Bestselling books of 2014: the chart -- the 100 top sellers for 2014, complete with sales-figures, through 21 December (why they couldn't wait ten more days to get a definitive list ... who knows ?).
       They also have John Dugdale's commentary / observations -- including his surprise that: "there should be a market for video game spin-off books at all, let alone such a stunning one" (I'm more surprised that they're counted as 'books' for these sorts of purposes, but ... whatever). He also finds that: "this has been another annus horribilis for non-fiction"; suspicious of (and not particularly interested in) popular non-fiction anyway, I heartily approve of this trend.
       Only two of the titles in the top 100 are under review at the complete review:

• 14. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• 61. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

       At JDN they have an even more premature list of bestselling-in-France titles (but at least also with sales-figures), Les meilleures ventes de livres de 2014: topped by Valérie Trierweiler's confessional, and followed by books by E.L.James and Guillaume Musso this is a pretty unsightly thing to behold and consider; at least Patrick Modiano makes it on the list, at number 13.
       The only title under review at the complete review is La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker