Who are France's top selling authors for 2017?

 

And the winner is.... Guillaume Musso.

According to GFK-LE FIGARO,  the ten bestselling novelists in France are:

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   France's top novelists by sales 2017
   Guillaume Musso
2.  Raphaëlle Giordano
3. Michel Bussi
4. Marc Levy
5. Aurélie Valognes
6. Fred Vargas
7. Françoise Bourdin
8. Gilles Legardinier
9. Agnès Martin-Lugan
10. Franck Thilliez

 

The list, based on real sales and including paperback and pocket editions, signal tumultuous times, says Le Figaro. Overall sales are down and the list is topsy turvy, with newcomer Raphaëlle Giordano catapulted to second place for her Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une which sold over a million copies - a phenomenal number in France.

How many of the books by  these novelists are known to English-language readers?

In general French authors tend to be undertranslated and underdistributed abroad. Enterprising publishers take note....