It has become an end-of-year custom, to list the book sales of the year that is ending. Saturday December 28, l’Express took stock of political works. Among the political books that are successful at the end of 2024, there are three that are floating, far ahead of all the others: Jordan Bardella with 139,071 copies sold for “ What I'm looking for “. Just behind, Philippe de Villiers with “Memoricide » displays 136,529 sales. Finally, the third is Nicolas Sarkozy with 84,000 copies of Fighting time.
For others, the year was more complicated, particularly for left-wing politicians.
Former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne fails with her Twenty months in Matignon (Flammarion) which only interested 4,700 buyers. Even François Hollande, president who became a simple deputy again, only sold 6,700 copies.
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Sandrine Rousseau and Anne Hidalgo good latest
1,700 for Boris Vallaud and Permanently. What carries us (Threshold), by Sandrine Rousseau, does not even reach the 1,000 mark. But the prize for flops goes to Anne Hidalgo with The place of possibilities and its 227 copies sold.
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The figures revealed were finalized in the first week of December, while Christmas shopping certainly boosted certain sales, with the month of December alone representing nearly 15% of bookstores' annual turnover.
