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CHARTS GLOBAL BOOK MARKETS


15.04.15 www.thebookseller.com


The letter of the law


Religion and lawyers drive sales in Brazil, controversy reigns at the top of the charts in Italy, Chetan Bhagat defies the critics to claim another number one in India, while OUP rules in the Rainbow Nation. Tom Tivnan breaks down the BookScan data for four key international territories


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look at the Brazilian bestseller charts (below right) for the first 10 weeks


of 2015 makes one think: “there must be a lot of lawyers in Brazil”. The third-bestselling book is Vade Mecum 2015 (Saraiva), the weighty annual update of Brazilian law that is a must for all law practitioners. Its hefty average selling price of R$84.05 (around £19) is almost twice that of any other book in Nielsen BookScan Brazil’s Top 100. Brazilian lawyers, law students and those who love them have spent an impressive $R5.7m (£1.3m) on eight different Saraiva Vade Mecum editions in 2015. Brazil’s rapidly growing


Evangelical Christian movement is evidenced by 2015’s runaway bestseller, the third memoir and collection of religious musings by Edir Macedo, Nada a Perder (Planeta). Macedo is a banker and media mogul—he owns Brazil’s second-biggest television network, Rede Record—and has a net worth of around $US1.1bn, estimates Forbes. In 1977,


Macedo founded the Pentecostal


Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Rio, which now has around 12 million members worldwide (roughly nine million of that number reside in Brazil). His previous two memoirs have also topped the Brazilian charts. The children’s sector, particularly


Young Adult, is very strong in Brazil. In the full-year 2014 Brazilian BookScan charts, John Green was responsible for five titles in the overall top 20. In 2015, Green’s


compatriot Gayle Forman has started strongly, with two books in the top 10: Se Eu Ficar and Para Onde Ela Foi (If I Stay and Where She Went, respectively, both Novo Cencelto). Meanwhile, another American YA heavyweight, Veronica Roth, has four books in the top 30, while Green himself has six titles in this year’s top 100.


POS TITLE


1 Nada a Perder - Livro 3 2 Se Eu Ficar


3 Vade Mecum 2015


4 Cinquenta Tons Mais Escuros 5 Ansiedade


6 Cinquenta Tons De Liberdade 7 Eu Fico Loko


8 Cinquenta Tons De Cinza 9 Nao Se Apega Nao 10 Para Onde Ela Foi 11 O Pequeno Principe 12 A Culpa E Das Estrelas 13 Jardim Secreto


14 O Poder Da Escolha 15 Destrua Este Diario


16 Box Da Trilogia Cinquenta Tons De Cinza 17 Insurgente 18 Divergente 19 Somente Sua


POS


20 Cidades De Papel TITLE


1 Numero Zero 2


Sottomissione


3 Cinquanta Sfumature di Grigio 4 Sette Brevi Lezioni di Fisica 5 Avrò Cura di te


6 Storia di una Ladra di Libri 7 La Relazione


8 Cinquanta Sfumature di Nero 9 American Sniper


10 Cinquanta Sfumature di Rosso 11 La Parola Contraria 12 Non è Stagione


13 La Regola dell’Equilibrio 14 I Tre Giorni di Pompei


15 La Guerra dei Nostri Nonni 16 Non Temete per noi


17 Il Magico Potere del Riordino 18 L’amica Geniale 19 Sfortuna Nera


20 Le Mille Luci del Mattino


MY HERO ZERO RCS imprint Bompiani occupies the top two spots in the Italian chart (bottom), with the grand old man of Italian letters, Umberto Eco, in pole position, edging out French professional


contrarian Michel Houellebecq. Both books come with some


controversy. One half of Eco’s dual TITLE IN ENGLISH


Vade Mecum 2015 Fifty Shades Darker Anxiety


Fifty Shades Freed I’m Going Loco


Fifty Shades of Grey Don’t Cling


Where She Went The Little Prince


The Fault in Our Stars Secret Garden


The Power of Choice Wreck This Journal Fifty Shades Box Set Insurgent Divergent


Captivated by You Paper Towns


TITLE IN ENGLISH Number Zero


Submission Fifty Shades of Grey AUTHOR


Nothing to Lose (Book 3) Macedo, Edir If I Stay


Forman, Gayle –


James, E L


Cury, Augusto James, E L


Caldas, Christian F De James, E L


Freitas, Isabela Forman, Gayle


Basford, Johanna Gasparetto, Zibia Smith, Keri James, E L


Roth, Veronica Roth, Veronica Day, Sylvia Green, John


AUTHOR Eco, Umberto


Houellebecq, Michel James, E L


Seven Short Physics Lessons Rovelli, Carlo I Will Take Care of You The Book Thief The Report


Fifty Shades Darker American Sniper Fifty Shades Freed The Contrary Word It’s Not the Season The Rule of Balance Three Days of Pompeii Our Grandparents’ War Fear Not for Us


The Magic Power of . . . The Genial Friend Hard Luck


Gramellini & Gamberale Zusak, Markus


Camilleri, Andrea James, E L


De Luca, Erri


Manzini, Antonio Carofiglio, Gianrico Angela, Alberto Cazzullo, Aldo Calabresi, Mario Kondo, Marie Ferrante, Elena Kinney, Jeff


The Bright Lights of Morning Sánchez, Clara


narrative Numero Zero concerns a shady media baron who bears a striking resemblence to Silvio Berlusconi, a portrait that some of the divisive former leader’s supporters have decried. Houellebecq’s novel Sottomissione imagines a France in which radical Muslims come to


PUBLISHER Planeta


Novo Conceito Saraiva Juridico Intrinseca Saraiva


Intrinseca


Novo Conceito Intrinseca Intrinseca


Novo Conceito


Saint-Exupery, Antoine Agir Green, John


Intrinseca Sextante


ISBN VALUE VOLUME


9788542204148 R$7,483,057 256,510 9788581635415 R$979,212 42,333 9788502616592 R$3,219,686


38,309


9788580572100 R$900,421 34,607 9788502218482 R$440,634 33,918 9788580572162 R$748,672 30,034 9788581636818 R$645,756 29,794 9788580572186 R$764,424 29,656 9788580575330 R$767,003 28,122 9788581635675 R$614,674 27,958 9788522005239 R$428,357 26,821 9788580575019 R$443,268 20,867 9788543101637 R$558,693 20,296


Vida E Consciencia 9788577223794 R$661,666 20,246 Intrinseca Intrinseca Rocco Rocco


9788580574166 R$420,519 19,576 9788580572797 R$1,255,475


Paralela Intrinseca


PUBLISHER Bompiani


Bompiani Mondadori Adelphi


Longanesi Frassinelli Mondadori Mondadori


Kyle, McEwan & De Felice Mondadori James, E L


Mondadori Feltrinelli


19,215


9788579801556 R$505,515 18,287 9788579801310 R$507,520 17,796 9788565530835 R$405,534 17,378 9788580573749 R$388,842 17,334


ISBN


9788845278518 9788845278709 9788804648895 9788845929250 9788830436688 9788820055905 9788804649540 9788804648918 9788804650652 9788804648901 9788807421389


Mondadori Mondadori Vallardi A E/O


Il Castoro Garzanti Libri


9788806218126 9788817077309 9788804622994 9788804644293 9788867315192 9788866320326 9788880338949 9788811682981


R.R.P. VOLUME €17.00 65,667


€17.50 €10.00 €10.00 €16.00 €16.90 €17.00 €10.00 €18.00 €10.00 €4.00


Sellerio Editore Palermo 9788838932885 €14.00 Einaudi Rizzoli


€19.00 €20.00 €17.00 €17.00 €13.90 €18.00 €12.00 €18.60


57,312 49,904 48,355 47,353 44,854 39,041 33,964 33,522 28,274 27,637 27,630 26,194 24,568 24,040 23,781 22,163 21,231 21,149 18,965


 Source: BookScan Italy, 10 weeks to 7th March Source: BookScan Brazil, 10 weeks to 7th March


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