"Le monde sans fin", the comic strip by climate and energy specialist Jean-Marc Jancovici and designer Christophe Blain, is the best-selling book of the year 2022, according to GfK figures - Livres Hebdo published this Wednesday.
The comic was released by Dargaud in the last quarter of 2021.
The book sold 514,000 copies in 2022, according to the GfK barometer.
It is followed by “The Alaska Sanders Affair” by Joël Dicker (432,000 copies sold) and “The Big World: The Glorious Years” by Pierre Lemaître (335,000 copies), which will be released as a sequel “Silence and Anger” in early January. 2023.
Nice score for "The Gravediggers"
"The 50 best-selling books in 2022 generated 11.7 million copies, down 9% from the exceptional year 2021, but still above the level of sales in 2020 and 2019," Gfk said in a statement. communicated.
The firm notes in its report the continued progression of comics and manga in French purchases.
As for literary prizes, the Goncourt is a small vintage this year, with 198,000 copies sold for "Vivre Vite" by Brigitte Giraud, against an average of more than 500,000 copies in general for this prize.
The prize of the French Academy, "Le mage du Kremlin" by Giuliano Da Empoli, sold more than 320,000 copies.
Journalist Victor Castanet, Albert Londres Prize 2022, has sold more than 160,000 copies of his investigation into the Ehpad Orpéa which caused a stir, "Les Fossoyeurs".
GfK data corresponds to sales of new printed books, purchased in France, in stores or on the Internet.
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