European Top Bestsellers January to November, 2012

Rank 2012

Rank 2011

Author information (title with most points) E. L. James (UK) Fifty Shades of Grey

Markets listed

Points 1108 895 847 426 148 3424

NL ES IT SE FR

Total Suzanne Collins (US) 2 The Hunger Games DE NL IT Total Jonas Jonasson (SE) 3 10 Hundraringen som klev ut genom fnstret och frsvann Total J. K. Rowling (UK) The Casual Vacancy UK FR NL 4 DE ES SE IT Total Jussi Adler-Olsen (DK) 5 1 Alfabethuset DE SE NL Total Ken Follett (UK) Winter of the World DE FR ES 6 IT UK SE Total Carlos Ruiz Zafn (ES) El prisionero del cielo 7 8 ES DE NL IT UK Total Andrea Camilleri (IT) 8 12 Una lama di luce Total Massimo Gramellini (IT) 9 Fai bei sogni Total Grgoire Delacourt (FR) 9 La liste de mes envies Total James Patterson (US) 11 11 Merry Christmas, Alex Cross Total Lars Kepler (SE) 12 Sandmannen Total sa Larsson (SE) 13 Till offer t Molok Total Camilla Lckberg (SE) Sjjungfrun 14 3 Total George R. R. Martin (US) A Dance with Dragons 15 17 ES DE SE IT FR ES NL SE SE ES SE NL UK FR IT IT ES DE ES NL

903 405 86 1394 398 374 43 815 200 189 131 131 48 47 44 790 673 45 43 761 195 139 132 93 45 42 646 231 138 129 89 48 635 469 83 552 418 418 418 418 412

412 290 94 384 233 136 369 146 92 44 43 325 186 47 42 41

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European Top Bestsellers January to November, 2012

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Total John Grisham (US) 16 23 The Racketeer UK NL FR Total Dora Heldt (DE) 17 20 Bei Hitze ist es wenigstens nicht kalt Total Hilary Mantel (UK) 18 Bring Up the Bodies Total Kate Morton (AU) 19 The Distant Hours Total Kathryn Stockett (US) 20 5 The Help Total Jan Guillou (SE) 20 Dandy Total Haruki Murakami (JP) 22 7 1Q84. Book 3 FR ES IT Total Geert Mak (NL) 23 Reizen zonder John Total Guillaume Musso (FR) 24 7 ans aprs Total Mara Dueas (ES) 25 9 Misin olvido Total
Overview Total authors/ total points

316 132 129 43 304 DE 299

299 UK 287

287 ES 276

276 FR NL 141 134 275 SE 275

275 139 88 41 268 NL 267

267 FR 241

241 ES 239

239 25/14390 15/6266 10/8124

Original language other than English (authors / points) English as original language (authors / points) of this analysis by ruediger@wischenbart.com 2013

A note on the methodology

The goal of this list is to develop a sense of how domestic titles, translations from English and translations from other languages develop in a set of European key book markets, and to track author's talent as it is recognized by readers across languages and cultural boundaries. This analysis is a computation from author's performances over the past 12 months, between January and December, 2012, based on monthly compilations of the top 10 bestselling lists (fiction) of The Bookseller, buchreport/Spiegel Bestsellerliste, El Cultural, Livres Hebdo/Ipsos, Svensk Bokhandel, and a combined top 20 fiction and non fiction list for Italy provided by Informazioni Editoriali, and of the Netherlands by CPNB De Bestseller. We based this analysis primarily on authors (and not titles or publishers), as we consider the authors as carrying more strongly the brand of a work than the individual title, or the publisher. In order to assess and compare the impact of an authors books, we attributed points for each month that a book stays in a given market in the top 10 (with 50 points for a #1 rank, 49 for a #2, etc.). This system allows having larger and smaller countries and book markets across Europe in a realistic calibration. We started these compilations in 2008, and will continue to release this list & analysis on a quarterly basis. Contact: ruediger (at) wischenbart (dot) com

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