As of: February 5, 2024, 1:34 p.m
By: Sven Trautwein
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When it comes to bestsellers in the paperback category, crime novels and novels lead the way.
We'll show you which titles are in the first five places.
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Paperbacks are easy to take with you and are not as heavy or expensive as hardcovers.
While a certain category used to only be in the corner of the station bookstore, the editions between the thin book covers have become an integral part of book sales in stores.
In addition to the newcomers in hardcovers, the paperback category also has something interesting to offer.
We present the top 5 paperback bestsellers to you here.
Top 5 bestsellers in the paperback category: crime novels and novels dominate in February 2024. © monti/YAY Images/Imago
1st place in paperbacks: “Ostfriesenhass” by Klaus-Peter Wolf
In the first week after publication, Klaus-Peter Wolf's new crime novel went straight to number 1 on the paperback bestseller list.
What a birthday present: The new East Frisian crime thriller “Ostfriesenhass” is being released for Klaus-Peter Wolf’s 70th birthday.
For everyone who likes to read regional crime stories from East Frisia: Klaus-Peter Wolf's books are cult.
He had to do it.
Only he had the gift of a chosen one.
Others didn't see what he saw.
They had long been in the north, disguised as harmless vacationers, as normal people who wanted to spend their vacation on the coast.
But he knew better.
He had to save humanity.
Today he only caught one.
He actually wanted to kill both of them.
He had to get better and couldn't make any more mistakes.
Here, under the starry sky on the dike, he drew new energy.
Because he still had a big task ahead of him...
S. Fischer Publishers
Klaus-Peter Wolf “East Frisian hatred”
2024 S. Fischer, ISBN-13 978-3-596-70863-5
Price: can be pre-ordered, paperback €13, e-book €9.99, 608 pages (different format)
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2nd place paperback bestseller: “Mimik” by Sebastian Fitzek
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The paperback edition of “Mimik” has been at the top of the bestseller list for the fifth week now.
Fitzek, the master of the psychological thriller, knows how to build suspense.
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A tiny twitch in the corner of the mouth, the smallest change in the pupil is enough for her to “read” a person's true self: Hannah Herbst is Germany's most experienced facial resonance expert, specializing in the secret signals of the human body.
As a police consultant, she has already caught a number of violent criminals.
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Sebastian Fitzek “Facial Expressions”
2024 Droemer, ISBN-13 978-3-426-51948-6
Price: Paperback €11.99, 384 pages
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3rd place bestseller paperback: Susanne Abel “Stay away from Gretchen”
Susanne Abel's debut novel has been in the top 10 bestseller list for almost a year.
It is a profound and moving novel about love, war and one's own history.
A novel that will stay in your head for a long time and make you think.
The well-known Cologne news presenter Tom Monderath is worried about his 84-year-old mother Greta, who is forgetting more and more.
When the diagnosis of dementia comes up, Tom is horrified.
Until his mother's illness becomes a gift: Greta tells us about her life for the first time - about her childhood in East Prussia, her beloved grandparents, the escape from the Russian soldiers in the icy winter and her time in occupied Heidelberg.
However, when Tom comes across a photo of a little girl with dark skin, Greta falls silent.
For the first time, Tom begins to delve deeper into his mother's past.
Not just to finally understand her sadness.
It's also about your own happiness.
Blurb/dtv
Susanne Abel “Stay away from Gretchen – An impossible love”
2023 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-22014-9
Price: Paperback €13, 544 pages
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4th place paperback highlight: “Afternoon” by Ferdinand von Schirach
It is his most personal book to date.
26 anecdotes that bring us closer to everyday life and life from the narrator's perspective.
A dive into the flawless and banal, which is very good every now and then.
Ferdinand von Schirach's new book “She says.
He says” will be released at the end of February.
Ferdinand von Schirach tells of mild early summer mornings, rainy afternoons and black nights.
His stories take place in Berlin, Pamplona, Oslo, Tokyo, Zurich, New York, Marrakech, Taipei and Vienna.
They are short stories about the things that change our lives, about coincidences, wrong decisions and the fleeting nature of happiness.
Schirach talks about people's loneliness, about art, literature, film and always about love.
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Ferdinand von Schirach “Afternoon”
2023 btb, ISBN-13 978-3-442-77373-2
Price: Paperback €13, 174 pages
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5th place paperback bestseller: “Mindfully murdering in the here and now” by Karsten Dusse
The fourth volume by Karsten Dusse jumped into the top 5 bestsellers in February shortly after the paperback edition was published.
As a screenwriter and lawyer, the author is no stranger to elements of suspense.
Karsten Dusse knows how to cleverly structure the plot so that readers devour it from beginning to end.
In his fifth “Achtsam-morden” novel, Karsten Dusse takes you into the world of healthy eating.
“Mindful murder through conscious nutrition” is as exciting as a crime novel.
Björn Diemel wants to talk: both about his daughter starting school and about the tantra seminar he accidentally attended with his ex-wife.
Unfortunately, an unknown person beat Björn's mindfulness trainer, Joschka Breitner, to the point of hospitalization - while trying to get his diary.
Björn quickly steals his therapist's notes and sets out to find the perpetrator.
Blurb/Heyne
Karsten Dusse “Murder Mindfully in the Here and Now”
2024 Heyne, ISBN-13 978-3-453-42764-8
Price: Paperback €13, 493 pages
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