They've now tallied the 2014 sales in France and while the official GFK/Livres Hebdo figures aren't freely accessible online they do offer a bit of a summary.
Valérie Trierweiler's tell-all topped the list as bestselling title, with 603,300 copies sold. The three E.L.James titles all made the top ten, while Guillaume Musso's Central Park came in third (with 556,600 copies sold) and his Demain came in fifth.
Good to see: fiction dominated, with 39 of the top 50 bestselling titles.
Meanwhile, Livres Hebdo editor in chief Christine Ferrand explained:
Valérie Trierweiler's tell-all topped the list as bestselling title, with 603,300 copies sold. The three E.L.James titles all made the top ten, while Guillaume Musso's Central Park came in third (with 556,600 copies sold) and his Demain came in fifth.
Good to see: fiction dominated, with 39 of the top 50 bestselling titles.
Meanwhile, Livres Hebdo editor in chief Christine Ferrand explained:
Les lecteurs ont plébiscité en 2014 les feel good booksWhich is one way of putting it, I suppose.