Volume 264
Issue 21
05/22/2017
Rebecca Gablé, the bestselling author of historical fiction, returned to Germany’s fiction bestseller list in April at #1 with The Foreign Queen, the second in her new Otto the Great Series. Gablé’s numerous books have yet to be translated into English, save for a short title based on the board game Settlers of Catan. The second slot on the fiction list was occupied by Fatal Pursuit—British author Martin Walker’s ninth installment in his Inspector Bruno series, which is published in the U.S. by Knopf.
In Holland, Nicci French’s seventh thriller in the Frieda Klein series, Sunday Morning Coming Down, was #1 on the combined bestseller list. At #2 was a graphic memoir by popular Dutch children’s author Francine Oomen. Entitled Oomen Flows Over, the book takes a humorous, sympathetic look at the challenge of facing menopause. Susan Vermeer’s The Paradise was #3. The book carries on the series by the late bestselling writer Paul Goeken, who died in 2011 and wrote under a pseudonym.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli led the bestseller list in Italy at the end of April. The book made headlines after raising $1.9 million through a pair of crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. It offers 100 stories of “extraordinary women” intended to provide real-life role models for young women. The authors, who run the education company Timbuktu Labs out of Los Angeles, are distributing the book direct to consumers in the U.S.
Germany
| Fiction | Nonfiction | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Die fremde königin The Foreign Queen Rebecca Gablé Bastei Lübbe | Heilen mit der kraft der natur Healing with the Power of Nature Andreas Michalsen Insel |
| 2 | Grand prix Fatal Pursuit Martin Walker Knaus | Penguin Bloom Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor Greive Knaus |
| 3 | Selfies The Scarred Woman Jussi Adler-Olsen Dtv | Hillbilly elegie Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Knaus |
For the week ended Apr. 30; used by arrangement with Buchreport
Italy
| Combined Fiction and Nonfiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storie della buonanotte per bambine ribelli Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Francesca Cavallo, Elena Favilli Mondadori | 4 | Tredici Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher Mondadori |
| 2 | L’ultimo faraone Pharaoh Wilbur Smith Longanesi | 5 | I Love Tokyo La Pina & Federico Giunta Vallardi A. |
| 3 | Una mamma per nemica A Mother for an Enemy Matteo Pelusi, Valentino Bisegna Mondadori | 6 | Sete The Thirst Jo Nesbø Einaudi |
For the week ended Apr. 17; used by arrangement with Infomazioni Editoriali
The Netherlands
| Combined Fiction and Nonfiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zondagochtend breekt aan Sunday Morning Coming Down Nicci French Ambo l Anthos | 4 | Selfies The Scarred Woman Jussi Adler-Olsen Prometheus |
| 2 | Oomen stroomt over Oomen Flows Over Francine Oomen Nijgh & Van Ditmar | 5 | Melancholie van de onrust Melancholy of the Unrest Joke J. Hermsen Lemniscaat |
| 3 | Het paradijs The Paradise Suzanne Vermeer A.W. Bruna Uitgevers | 6 | Singing in the brain Singing in the Brain Erik Scherder Uitgeverij Athenaeum |
For the week ended Apr. 23; used by arrangement with CPNB De Bestseller
