JULY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS
Ferrante Hot in
Summer
Norwegian author Maja Lunde’s dystopian tale The History of Bees was the top-selling ;ction
title in Germany in July, the third
month in a row it claimed the #1 spot.
The book was published in the U.S.
this month by Simon & Schuster’s
Touchstone imprint. My Brilliant Friend
by Italian author Elena Ferrante jumped
to the second spot. Andreas Michalsen’s
health guide, Healing with the Power of
Nature, topped the German July non-;ction bestseller list.
In Sweden, Ferrante was also a favorite,
taking the first and third spots on the
fiction bestseller list with The Story of
the Lost Child and Those Who Leave and
Those Who Stay, respectively. In between
them is Top Dog, the latest standalone
thriller by Jens Lapidus. Self-help
business book Surrounded by Idiots by
Thomas Erikson was #1 on the nonfiction list.
In Italy, Paolo Cognetti’s Strega
Prize–winning novel The Eight Mountains
was the country’s bestselling book in
July. It will be published in the U.S.
by Atria Books in March 2018. Two
mysteries follow on the list: Maurizio
De Giovanni’s Swallow Winter at #2 and
Andrea Camilleri’s The Safety Net at #3.
Author Yuval Noah Harari had two
nonfiction works hit different lists.
Sapiens was #2 on the Swedish list, and
his follow-up to that book, Homo Deus,
was second on the German nonfiction
list. Homo Deus was released in the U.S.
in February by Harper.
—Ed Nawotka
Die Geschichte der Bienen
The History of Bees
Maja Lunde
BTB
Meine geniale Freundin
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Suhrkamp
Und ewig schläft das Pubertier
Teenosaurus Rex: A Survival Handbook
for Parents
Jan Weiler
Piper
Heilen mit der Kraft der Natur
Healing with the Power of Nature
Andreas Michalsen
Insel
Homo Deus
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
C.H. Beck
Wunder wirken Wunder
Miracles Work Wonders
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Rowohlt
GERMANY
Fiction Nonfiction
1
2
3
Det förlorade barnet
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
Norstedts
Top dogg
Top Dog
Jens Lapidus
Wahlström & Widstrand
Den som stannar, den som går
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
Norstedts
Omgiven av idioter
Surrounded by Idiots
Thomas Erikson
Hoi Förlag
Sapiens
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Natur & Kultur
Jättetjocka sudokuboken
The Giant Sudoku Book
Mattias Boström
Känguru
For the week ended July 17; used by arrangement with Svenska Bokhandel
Fiction Nonfiction
1
2
3
For the week ended July 24; used by arrangement with Buchreport
Le otto montagne
The Eight Mountains
Paolo Cognetti
Einaudi
Rondini d’inverno
Swallow Winter
Maurizio De Giovanni
Einaudi
La rete di protezione
The Safety Net
Andrea Camilleri
Sellerio Editore Palermo
For the week ended July 17; used by arrangement with Informazioni Editoriali de Bestseller
Combined Fiction and Nonfiction
14
25
36
La vita in due
Two by Two
Nicholas Sparks
Sperling & Kupfer
La strega
The Witch
Camilla Läckberg
Marsilio
Avanti. Perché l’Italia non si ferma
Forward: Because Italy Does Not Stop
Matteo Renzi
Feltrinelli
26 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ; AUGUST 28, 2017
