In L'Express they report on a gathering of bestselling-in-2014 French authors, Best-sellers 2014: menu "people" au Bristol -- complete with list of the thirty-two top-selling titles (by French-writing authors, in France) of 2014 -- scroll down.
The new Modiano made it to number four (but he was a no-show -- as was number ten, Goncourt-winning Lydie Salvayre).
Amélie Nothomb did make it -- even if her Pétronille only came in twenty-fifth -- a spot behind the new Kundera (another no-show). One big reveal (complete with Simenon-comparison): her forthcoming novel is titled: Les Meurtres de Neuville. (In other Nothomb news: she's apparently been elected to the Académie royale de Belgique.)
Amélie Nothomb did make it -- even if her Pétronille only came in twenty-fifth -- a spot behind the new Kundera (another no-show). One big reveal (complete with Simenon-comparison): her forthcoming novel is titled: Les Meurtres de Neuville. (In other Nothomb news: she's apparently been elected to the Académie royale de Belgique.)