Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: India and Ukraine. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the…Continue Reading
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Tagged 1991, About People, Ajay K Pandey, Amish Tripathi, Ana Iris Simón, And Only The Sweet Moments Last, Antonio Manzini, Benedict Wells, Bullet Train, Caraval, Castilian, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chetan Bhagat, Constantin Schreiber, Donna Leon, Durjoy Datta, E.L. James, Eduardo Mendoza, Elisabet Benavent, Ernest Hemingway, Everyone Has A Story 2, Ewald Arenz, Fair, franck thilliez, Freed, Fresh Water for Flowers, From Getting Up, Georges Simenon, Glenn Cooper, Guillaume Musso, Hard Land, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Heads You Win, Helga Schubert, Home, Hugo Lindenberg, Immortals Of Meluha, In the Country of Others, In the Middle of the Night, Independence, Irina Grabovska, It Happened At Night, It Was Twice, J. K. Rowling, Javier Castillo, Javier Cercas, Jeffrey Archer, John Green, Judith Hermann, Juli Zeh, Kotaro Isaka, Laetitia Colombani, Later, Laurent Gounelle, Leila Slimani, Leoburg, Life Is A Novel, Life is What you Make it, Lorenzo Silva, Lost Girls, Lucinda Riley, Madeline Miller, Marc Levy, Marco Vichi, María Dueñas, Mark Twain, Mikel Santiago, Mikhail Bulgakov, Old Acquaintances, One Day It Will Be Empty, One Indian Girl, Perfect Us, Pierre Lemaitre, Preeti Shenoy, Roald Dahl, Robert Galbraith, Savi Sharma, Sira, Stay Away From Gretchen, Stefania Auci, Stephanie Garber, Stephen King, Susanne Abel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Art of Cheating Karma, The Candidate, The Fault in Our Stars, The Florios of Sicily, The Game of the Soul, The Girl in Room 105, The Great Summer, The Hand, The Kite, The Man Who Risked It All, The Master and Margarita, The Missing Sister, The Old Man and the Sea, The Song of Achilles, The Taken Girls, The Uppercase Serpent, Toreadors from Vasyukivka, Transfer in Moscow, Transient Desires, Troubled Blood, Valérie Perrin, Virginie Grimaldi, Vsevolod Nestayko, Winter of the Lions, You Are The Best Wife
For more results from this survey, check out Holiday Books Survey Results and Book-Giving Etiquette Guide. When asked to list the books they are giving as gifts this year (whether they’re schnorring, swiping from work, or buying), respondents were extremely forthcoming—ditto when asked to list the titles they hope to receive themselves. A * indicates…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amy Sedaris, Emma Donoghue, Finishing the Hat, freedom, Jonathan Franzen, Just Kids, keith richards, Life, Mark Twain, Patti Smith, Room, Stephen Sondheim
German Media Guru Kicks Off Literacy Campaign With a Little Help From Friends With many of our overseas contacts on summer holiday, we thought we’d bring you a special report from Germany, where the Oprah-esque German media guru Elke Heidenreich is pulling out all the stops in her latest and most far-reaching attempt to get…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Simon & Schuster’s various imprints have been trimmed over the past few weeks: Rachel Klayman has been laid off from The Free Press, Jeff Neuman has left S&S (and may be reached at neudors@yahoo.com), and Rosemary Ahern (who arrived from Dutton less than two years ago), and Kim Kanner and an assistant have departed…Continue Reading
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