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Spain Top 10


Tree bumper texts of 600-plus pages top the charts in Spain, which reports a fiction-heavy top 10 with just two kids’ titles


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Mailer tale surpasses Quebert hit for Dicker


Joël Dicker’s breakthrough title may have been The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair—now a Hollywood mini-series, garlanded with awards across Europe—but in Spain, his two succeeding titles have reached even greater heights than La Verdad Sobre el Caso Harry Quebert. Released in June, La Desaparación de Stephanie Mailer, with its Edward Hopper-esque cover, has already sold 105,863 copies, claiming third place.


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Bestseller Lists Spain Top 10


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Like Italy and the UK, Spain crowns a homegrown fiction author as its number one—María Dueñas’ La Hijas del Capitán has sold 207,752 copies so far this year. Spain likes big books (and it cannot lie)—the top three titles of 2018 to date come in at 1,905 pages between them, with La Hijas del Capitán the shortest, at a mere 624 pages.


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Javier Castillo, known as “el chico del tren”


in his homeland, wrote his début El Día que se Perdió la Cordura on his train commute. It charts fourth for the year to date, with the follow-up in ninth place


Talent show winner Ndjocu amplifies poetry sector


year’s poetry hit


Poet César Brandon Ndjocu found countrywide fame after featuring on “Got Talent España”. He won the talent competition earlier this year, after performing a poem about how much he hates Microsoft Word in the final. Obviously. His first collection of poetry and short stories, Las Almas de Brandon (Te Souls of Brandon) shifted 72,083 copies after his perfomances went viral on YouTube. Can it be a coincidence that the Spanish poetry category is up 12% in volume (and nearly 11% in value) for the year to date? Probably not, as the volume difference between 2018 and 2017 for the category so far is 76,722 books—almost exactly what Las Almas de Brandon has sold.


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Dan Brown’s Origen is set in Barcelona, has


Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia on the cover, and even sees Robert Langdon abscond with the Spanish prince’s fiancée. Unsurprisingly, it’s been a hit in Spain, charting eighth overall


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Savvy Castillo replicates digital success in print


Javier Castillo features twice in the top 10. His 2017 début has shifted 85,682 copies this year to claim fourth place, but sequel El Día que Se Perdió El Amor is catching up, having sold 68,811 copies to date. Castillo sold his first book to a Spanish publisher after writing it on the train on his way to work, but savvily kept the digital rights—and the self-published title spent more than a year in Amazon Spain’s bestseller charts.


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2 Patria Basques in success


Fernando Aramburu’s Basque Country-set epic Patria has been a blockbuster hit in Spain, selling nearly 700,000 copies to date. Two years after publication, it’s still in second place overall.


5 Sierra drives sales


Javier Sierra’s El Fuego Invisible, a Dan Brown- esque art history thriller, has managed to beat Brown at his own game. Sierra’s title, released a month after Origen, has outsold it by 6,181 copies.


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Thank you, and Buenas Noches...


Spain’s Ficción Adulto category was leapfrogged as the biggest sector by Infantiles, Juveniles y Educacionales in 2018, despite just 10 kids’ titles hitting the top 50, compared to 24 Adult Fiction books. Its strength is arguably its depth— but it doesn’t hurt either to have Francesca Cavallo right and


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