Two of the three top-selling fiction titles in France at the end of March were new to the list, with Guillaume Musso’s newest suspense novel, Brooklyn Girl, landing at #1. In second place was Olivier Bourdeaut’s debut novel, Waiting for Bojangles. Bourdeaut, a former real estate agent, has caused something of a stir with his first foray into fiction; his biography gives the novel’s publication an underdog undercurrent, with the author telling France’s L’Express magazine, “My only diploma is my birth certificate.”

E.L. James, meanwhile, has found a new foothold in Sweden, where Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian topped the fiction charts. For nonfiction, readers in the country went the nature route, with Rob Hume, the English ornithologist and former Birds magazine editor, taking the #1 slot with What Kind of Bird Is That?

In the Netherlands, the latest in Nicci French’s Frieda Klein series, Saturday Requiem, debuted at #1 at the end of March. This is the sixth Frieda Klein novel in the past five years for French—the pseudonym for English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Series are still proving popular in the market, and Santa Montefiore’s Songs of Love and War, the inaugural title in her Deverill Chronicles series, landed in the fourth spot last month in Holland. It was published in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster last August.

France

Fiction Nonfiction
1 La fille de Brooklyn
Brooklyn Girl
Guillaume Musso
XO
Vivez mieux et plus longtemps
Live Better and Longer
Michel Cymes
Stock
2 En attendant Bojangles
Waiting for Bojangles
Olivier Bourdeaut
Finitude
Le charme discret de l’intestin
The Discreet Charm of the Intestine
Giulia Enders
Actes Sud
3 Le mystère Henri Pick
The Henry Pick Mystery
David Foenkinos
Gallimard
Comédie française
French Comedy
Fabrice Luchini
Flammarion

For the week ended Apr. 3; used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo/Ipsos

Sweden

Fiction Nonfiction
1 Grey: Femtio nyanser av honom enligt Christian
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian
E.L. James
Norstedts
Vad är det för fågel?
What Kind of Bird Is That?
Rob Hume
Tukan Förlag
2 Århundradets kärlekskrig
Century Love War
Ebba Witt-Brattström
Norstedts
10 Tips : Må bättre och lev 10 år längre
10 Tips : Feel better and Live 10 Years Longer
Bertil Marklund
Bertil & Åsa Marklund
3 Det som inte dödar oss
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
David Lagercrantz
Norstedts
Vår gröna kokbok
Our Green Cookery Book
Sara Begner
Norstedts

For the week ended Apr. 3; used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel

The Netherlands

Combined Fiction and Nonfiction
1 Als het zaterdag wordt
Saturday Requiem
Nicci French
Ambo l Anthos
4 Als de rododendron bloeit
Songs of Love and War
Santa Montefiore
Boekerij
2 De verwarde cavia
Confused Guinea Pig
Paulien Cornelisse
Uitgeverij Corneliss
5 De vrijheid van de grens
The Freedom of the Border
Paul Scheffer
Lemniscaat
3 As in tas
Ashes in a Bag
Jelle Brandt Corstius
Das Mag Uitgevers
6 De waanzinnige boomhut van 65 verdieping
The 65-Story Treehouse
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Lannoo

For the week ended Mar. 27; used by arrangement with CPNB De Bestseller

United Kingdom

Cavan Scott’s Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space; The Escape made the jump to light speed in March, taking the #1 spot on the U.K. bestseller list. World Book Day 2016: The Great Mouse Plot, a Roald Dahl title specially released for the worldwide reading celebration, scampered in at #2, and Sue Hendra’s Supertato Hap-Pea Ever After landed at #3.

Combined Adult and Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction

Rank Title Author Imprint Unit Sales Format
1 Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space; The Escape Cavan Scott Egmont Books 109,336 Paperback
2 World Book Day 2016: The Great Mouse Plot Roald Dahl Puffin 104,372 Paperback
3 Supertato Hap-Pea Ever After Sue Hendra Simon & Schuster Childrens Books 89,762 Paperback
4 Kipper’s Visitor Mick Inkpen Hodder Children’s Books 87,964 Paperback
5 The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked David Baddiel HarperCollins Children’s Books 85,945 Paperback
6 Mary Berry: Foolproof Cooking Mary Berry BBC Books 81,252 Hardcover
7 Lean in 15 Joe Wicks Bluebird 78,027 Paperback
8 Daisy and the Trouble with Jack Kes Gray Red Fox 74,733 Paperback
9 Harper and the Sea of Secrets Cerrie Burnell Scholastic Press 65,265 Paperback
10 Welcome to the World of Norm Jonathan Meres Orchard Books 63,735 Paperback

Australia

The Disney Pixar Cool Coloring Book pulled into the lead in Australia, with Cassandra Clare’s Lady Midnight, the first in her new Dark Artifices series, fighting its way to #2. The title marks Clare’s first solo YA series since the six-part Mortal Instruments series wrapped in 2014.

Combined Adult and Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction

Rank Title Author Imprint Unit Sales Format
1 Disney Pixar Cool Coloring Book Parragon 32,923 Paperback
2 Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster Children’s Books 26,224 Paperback
3 The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster Australia 16,760 Paperback
4 15th Affair: Women’s Murder Club James Patterson Century 15,895 Paperback
5 The Road to Ruin Niki Savva Scribe Publications 15,187 Paperback
6 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Macmillan 12,561 Hardcover

New Zealand

Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X rose to the top of the New Zealand charts after its #2 showing in February. The success of Cassandra Clare’s Lady Midnight carried over from neighboring Australia—in the two countries combined, the title sold more than 27,000 units.

Combined Adult and Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction

Rank Title Author Imprint Unit Sales Format
1 Orphan X Gregg Hurwitz Michael Joseph 1,307 Paperback
2 Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster Children’s Books 1,161 Paperback
3 Country Calendar Homestead Baking Allyson Gofton Penguin Books (NZ) 962 Paperback
4 The Great New Zealand Baking Book PQ Blackwell 915 Hardcover
5 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Macmillan 867 Hardcover
6 The Gangster Clive Cussler Michael Joseph 860 Paperback

Source: Nielsen BookScan