World Languages, Biblio File
November 2016 International Fiction Bestsellers
What are people reading around the world? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Girl on the Train are still high on the bestseller lists in many countries, and on the nonfiction front we noticed that Bruce Springsteen's new memoir Born to Run is doing very well in Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as here in the U.S. This month we took a close look at the bestseller lists in Canada, Dominican Republic, Israel, Portugal, and Turkey to see what fiction titles are popular with readers there. In most cases, we found a mix of local authors and international bestsellers like Paolo Coelho's latest, The Spy.
Canada
When we checked The Globe and Mail’s Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list early last week, John Grisham’s latest, The Whistler, was at the top, followed by Night School by Lee Child, and the final installment in Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles, This Was a Man was number three. Canadian authors were in the fourth and fifth slots: Man Booker Prize nominee Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien and The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. All these titles are available in English at NYPL. Many other books by John Grisham are available in Spanish, Russian, and Polish, as well as a one or two in otgher languages, including Italian, Korean, Hebrew, Japanese.
Dominican Republic
When we checked the bestseller lists on the Cuesta Libros website last week, The Spy / La espia, the latest novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho was at the top of the fiction list. NYPL currently has copies of to borrow in English and Spanish. Other books by Paulo Coelho are available to borrow in the original Portuguese, English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Polish, Korean, Italian, and one or two in French, Hebrew, Hungarian, German, and Albanian.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child /Harry Potter y el legado maldito was next on the list followed by Los herederos de la tierra [Heirs of the Earth] by Ildefonso Falcones, a sequel to the bestselling historical novel La catedral del mar / Cathedral of the Sea. This book has not been translated into English yet. Other novels by Falcones are currently available to borrow or download from NYPL in Spanish, English, Italian, and Hebrew.
Israel
Portugal
Turkey
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Which one?
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
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Madonna in a Fur Coat - US edition coming in fall 2017
Submitted by Elizabeth Waters on December 7, 2016 - 7:38pm
I love the quote that nobody
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