Overview

• Weekly sales rankings by Datalib and Adelc draw on data from a panel of 364 independent bookstores covering nearly 100,000 new titles.
• Freida McFadden holds the top four positions with La Femme de ménage, La Femme de ménage se marie, La Psy and Les Secrets de la femme de ménage.
• Critics highlight Virginie Grimaldi’s Les Heures fragiles and works by Joël Dicker as among the most fitting recent beach reads.
• Marianne’s selection features five beach-themed fictions drawn from Napias’s Grand livre de la littérature de plage anthology published by Séguier.
• The chosen texts span Honoré de Balzac’s 1834 Un drame au bord de la mer to Benoît Duteurtre’s L’été 76, illustrating the genre’s evolution through Olmi, Blondel and Sagan.