French Bestsellers 1996

Please pardon the lack of accent marks.

Fiction

Joyeaux Noel Mary Higgins Clark
Le Chasseur Zero Pascale Roze
Truismes Marie Darrieussecq
Desolation Stephen King
Le Monde de Sophie Jostein Gaarder
Les Honneurs Perdus Calixthe Beyala
Le Dame d'Abou Simbel Christian Jacq
Le Messie Marek Halter
Instruments des tenebres Nancy Huston
Rhapsodie Cubaine Eduardo Manet
Les Deux Fins d'Orimita Karabegovic Janine Matillon

Non Fiction

Entre Nous Alain Juppe
Initiales B.B. Brigitte Bardot
L'Horreur Economique Viviane Forrester
Cosima la Sublime Francoise Giroud
Ma Vocation, don et Mystere Pope John Paul II
Nicholas II Helene Carrere d'Encausse
La Plus Belle Histoire du Monde Hubert Reeves
Le Defi de L'argent George Soros
Signe Malraux Jean-Francois Lyotard
Raspoutine Henri Troyat
Impromptus Andre Comte-Sponville
Les Francais vus pareux-memes: le XVIIIeme siecle Arnaud de Maurepas
Stefan Zweig: Le Voyageur et ses Mondes Serge Niemetz
Le Vieil Homme et La Mort Franz-Olivier Giesbart

Please don't ask me to explain myself, but I find it both hilarious and gratifying to learn that Brigitte Bardot is a bestselling author. In a way, she's the sole survivor from that triumvirate of "blonde bombshells" who dominated the fifties and early sixties (-thinking that Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield were the other legs of that triangle).

I've read Troyat's biography of Chekhov. I never realized he'd written one about Rasputin. Interesting!

Had the curiosity to go through and check on those, though many titles that didn't make it very far beyond France don't show very impressive numbers on LT as one might expect ^^

Fiction

Joyeux Noel Mary Higgins Clark 831
Le Chasseur Zero Pascale Roze 25
Truismes Marie Darrieussecq 291
Desolation Stephen King 5471
Le Monde de Sophie Jostein Gaarder 11975
Les Honneurs Perdus Calixthe Beyala 13
La Dame d'Abou Simbel Christian Jacq 500
Le Messie Marek Halter 26
Instruments des tenebres Nancy Huston 94
Rhapsodie Cubaine Eduardo Manet 5
Les Deux Fins d'Orimita Karabegovic Janine Matillon 3

Non Fiction

Entre Nous Alain Juppe 0
Initiales B.B. Brigitte Bardot 18
L'Horreur Economique Viviane Forrester 81
Cosima la Sublime Francoise Giroud 9
Ma Vocation, don et Mystere Pope John Paul II 232
Nicolas II Helene Carrere d'Encausse 29
La Plus Belle Histoire du Monde Hubert Reeves 76
Le Defi de L'argent George Soros 128
Signe Malraux Jean-Francois Lyotard 11
Raspoutine Henri Troyat 30
Impromptus Andre Comte-Sponville 8
Les Francais vus par eux-memes: le XVIIIeme siecle Arnaud de Maurepas 1
Stefan Zweig: Le Voyageur et ses Mondes Serge Niemetz 2
Le Vieil Homme et La Mort Franz-Olivier Giesbert 11

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