After dethroning Guillaume Musso in 2023, Mélissa Da Costa retained her crown as the best-selling French-speaking novelist in France in 2024, according to the list published by Le Figaro Wednesday January 23. 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 distribution 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 . 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 “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.
