Inspector Salvo Montalbano is at it again in Italy, as Andrea Camilleri’s latest detective novel, The Other End of the Wire, was at #1 on the combined fiction and nonfiction lists at the end of June. At #2 was 18-year-old Italian YouTube sensation Sofia Viscardi’s debut novel, It Happens, a bildungsroman following 17-year-old Margherita and her travails—romantic and otherwise—with companions Olimpia, Tom, and Samuele.

In Spain, Swiss novelist Joël Dicker’s The Book of Baltimore topped the fiction list. In his first novel since The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, an international bestseller published in 2014, Dicker again turns his eye to his Quebert protagonist, the successful young novelist Marcus Goldman. In nonfiction, psychologist Rafael Santandreu’s new book, Being Happy in Alaska, intended to refine the methodology of cognitive psychology laid out in his previous works, was #1.

Sweden sees writing partners Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström reach #1 in fiction with Three Minutes, the successor to their award-winning 2011 thriller Three Seconds; though only recently published in Sweden, Quercus has U.S. rights. Italy’s Elena Ferrante, a worldwide sensation, sees My Brilliant Friend listed at #2. In nonfiction, Geoffrey Budworth’s Knots, an illustrated guide to the tying of knots, took the top position, with Fredrik Eklund and Bruce Littlefield’s The Sell—on selling anything to anyone—at #2.

June International Bestsellers

Italy

Combined Fiction and Nonfiction
1 L´altro capo del filo
The Other End of the Wire
Andrea Camilleri
Sellerio Editore Palermo
4 Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri
My Brother Runs After Dinosaurs
Giacomo Mazzariol
Einaudi
2 Succede
It Happens
Sofia Viscardi
Mondadori
5 Cosa pensano le ragazze
What Girls Think
Concita De Gregorio
Einaudi
3 Caffè amaro
Bitter Coffee
Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Feltrinelli
6 Un’estate magica
A Magic Summer
Corina Bomann
Giunti Editore

For the week ended July 3; used by arrangement with Informazioni Editroiali

Spain

Fiction Nonfiction
1 El libro de los Baltimore
The Book of Baltimore
Joël Dicker
Alfaguara
Ser feliz en Alaska
Being Happy in Alaska
Rafael Santandreu
Grijalbo
2 Donde los escorpiones
Nest of Scorpions
Lorenzo Silva
Destino
SPQR. Una historia de la antigua Roma
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
Crítica
3 Historia de un canalla
History of A Scoundrel
Julia Navaro
Plaza & Janés
El libro de las pequeñas revoluciones
The Book of Little Revolutions
Elsa Punset
Destino

For the week ended July 6; used by arrangement with El Cultural

Sweden

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Tre minuter
Three Minutes
Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
Piratförlaget
Knopar
Knots
Geoffrey Budworth
Tukan Förlag
2 Min fantastiska väninna
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Norstedts
Sälj!
The Sell
Fredrik Eklund & Bruce Littlefield
Ekerlids Förlag
3 Det andra ansiktet
The Other Face
Mari Jungstedt
Albert Bonniers Förlag
Omgiven av idioter
Surrounded by Idiots
Thomas Erikson
Hoi Förlag

For the week ended July 3; used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel.