David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, which was a hot book overseas in August, continued to do well in a host of international markets in September, topping the fiction charts in Sweden—home to Stieg Larsson, the creator of the hugely popular Millennium series. Landing at #3 in fiction in Sweden last month was Killer Anders and His Friends (and the Occasional Enemy), the newest novel by Jonas Jonasson, whose two previous works, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel, were international bestsellers.
In France, The Girl in the Spider’s Web was joined on the fiction list last month by five new titles, including The Book of Baltimore by Joel Dicker, which was the top-selling novel in France at the end of September. Dicker is the author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair: A Novel, which won a number of literary prizes in France and was published in the U.S. by Penguin.
The highest debuting book in Italy in September was After We Fell by Anna Todd, which hit #2. The novel is the third volume in Todd’s After series, and the first two titles in the series were among the top 10 sellers in Italy last month as well. Gallery Books has been publishing the After titles in the U.S.
The adult coloring-book craze showed signs of spreading worldwide in September. Although none hit the top three spots on Sweden’s nonfiction list last month, four coloring books were in the top 10, including Johanna Basford’s Enchanted Forest (#5) and Secret Garden (#10), both of which have been big sellers in the U.S.
International Bestsellers
France
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les livre des Baltimore The Book of Baltimore Joel Dicker Ed. de Fallois | Le charme discret de l’intestin The Discreet Charm of the Intestine Guilia Enders Actes Sud |
| 2 | Ce qui ne me tue pasi The Girl in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz Actes Sud | Le moment es venu de direct ce que j’ai vu The Time Has Come to Say What I Saw Philippe de Villliers Albin Michel |
| 3 | Lontano Lontano Jean-Christophe Grange Albin Michel | Faire Doing Francois Fillon Albin Michel |
For the week ended Oct. 4; used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo/Ipsos
Sweden
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Det som inte dodar oss The Girl in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz Norstedts | Lar dig leva Learn to Live Mats & Susan Billmark Livskraft |
| 2 | Bla stjarnan The Blue Star Jan Guillou Piratforlaget | Halvvags Halfway Fredrik Reinfeldt Albert Bonniers Forlag |
| 3 | Mordar-Anders och hans vanner (samt en och annan ovan) Killer Anders and His Friends (and the Occasional Enemy) Jonas Jonasson Piratforlaget | Tid: livet ar inte kronologiskt Time: Life Is Not Chronological Alex Schulman & Sigge Eklund Bookmark Forlag |
For the week ended Sept. 15; used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel
Italy
| Combined | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La ragazza del treno The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Piemme | 4 | Educarsi al pensiero di Cristo. Lettera pastorale 2015–2017 Education in the Spirit of Christ: Pastoral Letter 2015–2017 Angelo Scola Centro Ambrosiano |
| 2 | Come mondi lontani After We Fell Anna Todd Sperling & Kupfer | 5 | Permetto di sbagliare I Promise to Make Mistakes Pedro Chagas Freitas Garzanti Libri |
| 3 | Quello che non uccide The Girl in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz Marsilio | 6 | La targa The Plague Andrea Camilleri Rizzoli |
For September; used by arrangement with Informazioni Editoriali
