In 2021, 273 million books were sold in Germany, spread over more than one million titles. That announced the market research company Media Control, which also the ten best-selling Title reported has.
The best-selling novel, with around 700,000 copies, was the novel, which was published in German translation in 2019 “The song of the crayfish” by the American author and zoologist Delia Owens. In the year of publication this book was a surprise success for the publishing division Hanserblau of the Hanser Verlag. The paperback edition published by Random House Verlag Heyne in January also sold extremely well.
The is found twice on the list Success strategist Sebastian Fitzek: in fourth place his multimedia thriller “Playlist”. And in seventh place the book “The First Last Day” with the subtitle “No Thriller” – more of a love story.
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In second place on the annual bestseller list is July Zehs Brandenburg novel “About people”, on the third Hape Kerkeling’s cat book “Paws from the table”. In penultimate place in the top ten is with Rita Falks “Rehragout-Rendezvous” is the only title from an independent publisher. The book was published by dtv. The last Asterix band just made it onto the list “Asterix and the Griffin”.
Also there: David Safier’s “Miss Merkel: Murder in the Uckermark”, who has ideas about what the Chancellor will do as a “pensioner”. “The Missing Sister”, the last novel by the Northern Irish author Lucinda Riley, who died in June 2021. And the crime thriller “Mindful Murder” by the television comedy writer Karsten Dusse – the first part of a series that began in 2019, which has since been continued by “The child in me wants to mindfully morden” (2020) and “Mindful murder on the edge of the world” (2021).