The author is at the top again this year in the Figaro ranking with the GfK institute. A very feminine and young list of achievements.
This year once again it is the novelist Mélissa da Costa who is at the top of the most read authors in France. After having dethroned Guillaume Musso in 2023, Mélissa Da Costa therefore retains her crown in 2024, according to the list published by Le Figaro on Wednesday.
This annual ranking of the 10 best-selling French-speaking writers in France is established by the GfK institute, a reference for book sales.
The first woman to appear at the top of this “top 10” last year, Mélissa Da Costa, 34, remained at the top, with more than 1,162,000 copies sold in 2024.
Enough to justify the broadcast of a TV film adapted from his first novel released in 2019, All the blue of the skyJanuary 27 on TF1 and Netflix.
Guillaume Musso, who had not published anything new in 2023 and had been relegated to sixth place, at the end of an uninterrupted reign since 2011, this time arrives on the second step of the podium, with more than 1,104,000 copies sold .
-Six writers in the top 10
The writer, who released someone else in March 2024 at Calmann-Lévy, is the only one with Mélissa Da Costa to exceed one million.
Like last year, the list is dominated by female writers, six in number.
Among them, Morgane Moncomble, 28, star of the “new romance”, a publishing phenomenon popular with young readers, moved from 10th to 3rd position with more than 984,000 copies sold, ahead of Virginie Grimaldi (more than 946,000 copies) .
A sign of the times, at only 25 years old, the Algerian Sarah Rivens, priestess of “dark romance”, a sulphurous sub-genre of “new romance”, maintains her eighth place with more than 540,000 copies sold.
The ranking is also marked by the absence of Marc Levy, a first since 2004. The novelist, who has long been in the lead, was the only one to appear there for twenty years.
