Charts Global bestsellers


affection among international readers. For the 52 weeks to 17th March 2018,


Origin featured in all three non-Anglo- phone Nielsen BookScan territories’ top 10s. It swiped second place overall in Italy, the seting for both Angels and Demons and Inferno (Florence). Spain, of course, welcomed the Barcelona-set Origen with open arms—it hit second there, selling 223,394 copies. Maybe Langdon’s next foray should be in Rio—Brazil was the only territory in which Origem soared to the number one spot, and one of only two territo- ries to crown a foreign author as their bestseller for the chart period. Brown and James are the only adult fiction authors to appear twice among the UK’s 10 top sellers since records began, but James has fallen harder internationally than Brown. In Italy, Darker just eked into the top 100, and even in Cinquenta Tons de Cinza-mad Brazil, Mais Escuro only charted 46th. In contrast to Brazil, both European territories backed their own. Italy’s number one was worldwide bestseller Elena Favilli and Francesca Caval-


Elena F illi and Francesca Caval


territory, despite having no titles in the overall top 100. Rather like Julia Donaldson in the UK, his sales are all about strength in depth.


Geronimo Stilton was the bestselling author in Italy, despite having no titles in the overall top 100. Rather like Julia Donaldson in the UK, his sales are all about strength in depth


lo’s Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, which charted in almost every inter- national territory’s top 20. But Storie Della Buonotte per Bambine Ribelli was received most rapturously on the authors’ home turf, selling 295,340 copies. It was one of only three kids’ titles in Italy’s top 20, the other two being Netflix-boosted Jay Asher’s Tredici, in 19th place, and Hollywood- boosted R J Palacio’s Wonder, in 20th. Yet cartoon mouse Geronimo Stilton was the bestselling “author” in the


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Spain crowned Fernando Aramb- uru Irigoyen’s Patria, a sweeping liter- ary epic covering three generations of one family, living through the armed struggle of terrorist group ETA in the Basque Country. Originally released in 2016, the Catalan title has sold phenomenally well, shiſting 415,829 copies in the past year. Spanish book- buyers clearly know what they want; the top three titles in the country were all about, err, Spain, though two— Origen and Ken Follet’ Una Columna del Fuego—werego—were writen by foreign authors. While Follet’s Kings-


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Author Top 10s Brazil


author


1 Augusto Cury 2 J K Rowling


value (brl) 13,671,055 11,710,029


3 Yuval Noah Harari 10,935,287 4 Stephen King 5 Dan Brown 6 J K Rowling 7 Jojo Moyes 8 Jeff Kinney 9 Neil Gaiman


10 M Sergio Cortella


9,874,673 9,491,333 8,790,203 8,259,895 8,200,741 8,036,153 6,627,628


Augusto Cury was the most valuable author in Brazil in the past 52 weeks, earning almost BRL2m more than J K Rowling


bridge series is technically set in Medieval England, the author was inspired to write World Without End aſter visiting the Santa Maria Cathe- dral in northern Spain. Not only do all Follet titles sell like hot crema cata- lana in Spain, but the cathedral now has a statue of him outside it.


Though Spain’s chart was largely fiction by homegrown authors, Brazil solidly plumped for non-fiction, Origem side. YouTuber Felipe Net had the second-bestselling title of the period, with his imaginatively titled autobiography Felipe Neto, and several


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52 weeks to 17th March 2018 Italy author


1 Geronimo Stilton 2 J K Rowling 3 Jeff Kinney


4 Andrea Camilleri 5 Favilli & Cavallo 6 Elena Ferrante


volume 711,018 551,028 433,729 413,286 330,935 307,717


7 Maurizio De Giovanni 292,908 8 Alessandro D’Avenia 9 Dan Brown 10 Fabio Volo


292,298 290,875 280,147


Spain author value (€)


1 Fernando A Irigoyen 9,749,509 2 Geronimo Stilton 3 Ken Follett 4 Dan Brown 5 Jeff Kinney


6 Roberto Santiago 7 J K Rowling


8 Dolores Redondo 9 Tea Stilton


10 Elísabet Benavent


9,167,644 6,541,835 6,039,297 5,876,959 4,853,781 4,694,765 4,526,356 4,291,000 4,120,436


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