Every Saturday, an update on the public’s favorite works.
“A wind of heroism is blowing over the start of the school year.” This is what we can read on the posters for the new novel by Olivier Norek, a former police officer turned best-selling author, fifth this week and also named in the first Goncourt selection released on Tuesday. Also included are Gaël Faye, Kamel Daoud and Maylis de Kerangal. Olivier Guez, Alice Zeniter and Jérôme Ferrari are not there, but they may bounce back on other lists. Jean-Michel Blanquer, that’s less certain. We don’t see him in the table, but the former minister is fourteenth with the Citadel, where we learn in particular that he met Emmanuel Macron for the first time, then a candidate in the 2017 election, at the restaurant “Je-Thé-Me” in the 15th arrondissement. “I was well aware of his ability to seduce. From the outset, he catches the eye and gives the feeling of a unique, exclusive, privileged interlocution. […] Hot iron, an “at the same time” of ice and fire. After that it gets worse, there are “dirty tricks”. It almost looks like Mélissa Da Costa, who sits tenth. T.St.
Source : Datalib and Adelc, based on a panel of 341 top-tier independent bookstores. Ranking of new releases noted (excluding pocket books, school books, guides, games, etc.) out of a total of 91,508 different titles.
