As of: February 29, 2024, 2:45 p.m
By: Sven Trautwein
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The newly published novel “The Serpent and the Wings of Night” is conquering the sales charts.
But he's not the only newcomer attracting attention.
In the bookstores - we have put together the most beautiful bookstores in Germany for you - you can hardly escape the shelves or tables with the current bestsellers.
Whether top 5 or top 10, often piled up into pyramids, they arouse the desire to browse.
There was a lot of movement in the area of novels in February, so the new entries should still be in the top 10 in March.
There was a rapid rise in the first five titles and there was a lot of other things going on too.
Spiegel bestseller list in March – 1st place: Carissa Broadbent “The Serpent and the Wings of Night”
There is movement in the Spiegel bestseller list in March 2024. A novel rises from position to number 1. © Maria Wendel/Dalle-E (AI-generated)
The newcomer to the romance title “The Serpent and the Wings of Night” immediately landed at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in the last week of February.
As the start of the book series, the novel promises “dramatic action (...) and a strong heroine with big feelings,” as it says on the publisher's website.
The beautifully designed cover and the color cut are striking.
Another volume is already being planned.
In order for Oraya to have even a chance, she must form an alliance with her greatest enemy: Raihn.
Everything about him is dangerous.
Born to kill, he is ruthless and also an enemy of her father.
But what scares Oraya most is not the Kejari or the possible defeat or death, but that she feels strangely drawn to Raihn.
As if that weren't enough, like a foreboding, a storm is brewing and shaking everything Oraya thought she knew about her homeland.
Blurb/Carlsen
Carissa Broadbent “The Serpent and the Wings of Night”
Translated by Heike Holtsch and Kristina Flemm
2024 Carlsen, ISBN-13 978-3-551-58551-6
Price: €18, 539 pages
2nd place: Haruki Murakami “The City and its Uncertain Wall”
The latest novel by Haruki Murakami is in the top 5 for the sixth week.
Murakami, a key figure in modern Japanese literature, also enjoys cult status in the West.
On his 75th birthday, the latest novel by the renowned Japanese writer Haruki Murakami was published in German.
Characteristically for Murakami, his characters move in a world in which dream and reality, fantasy and fiction, blur.
In his latest story he plays with supernatural elements and on different levels.
A mysterious city, hidden behind an insurmountable wall, always attracts attention.
More about Murakami's new novel in our “Book of the Week” section.
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Under mysterious circumstances, the narrator finds himself back in the world beyond the wall.
He moves to Tokyo, works in a bookstore, and has a variety of girlfriends.
The memory of the girl and the walled city haunts him.
Eventually he quits and takes a job in an old library in Fukushima Prefecture.
Reality begins to falter - and the narrator has to ask himself what binds him to this world.
Blurb/Dumont
Haruki Murakami “The City and its Uncertain Wall”
Translated by Ursula Gräfe
2024 Dumont, ISBN-13 978-3-8321-6839-1
Price: Hardcover €34, e-book €27.99, 640 pages (different format)
3rd place: Elizabeth Strout “By the Sea”
Another newcomer has immediately made it into the top 5.
Elizabeth Strout continues the story of Lucy Barton, a sensitive protagonist often hit hard by life.
During the lockdown, she and her ex-husband William seek refuge in an old house by the sea in Maine.
It is an unforgettable story that explores themes of family and friendship, illuminating the fragility of our lives and emphasizing the hope that keeps us alive despite a world out of balance.
A Corona novel with its very own atmosphere that is worth enjoying.
She didn't see it coming any more than most people.
Lucy Barton, successful writer and mother of two adult daughters, receives a call from her ex-husband - and still best friend - William in March 2020.
He asks her to pack her suitcase and leave New York with him.
In Maine, he rented a coastal house for the two of them, on a remote headland, far from everything.
They initially only want to be there for a few weeks.
But weeks turn into months when Lucy and William and their complicated past are together in the lonely house by the sea.
Blurb/Luchterhand
Elizabeth Strout “By the Sea”
Translated from the American language by Sabine Roth
2024 Luchterhand, ISBN-13 978-3-630-87748-8
Price: Hardcover €24, 288 pages
4th place: Ursula Poznanski “The Castle”
For the third week on the Spiegel bestseller list, the AI thriller “The Castle” has moved up to fourth place.
The author is known to many readers through her children's books (“Pauline Pechfee”) or her Vienna crime novels (“Silence bleeds”).
“The Castle” is about a deadly escape game that the best-selling author captures with a medieval atmosphere and combines it with AI elements.
The mixture ensures high tension until the last page.
Imagine having an AI control your fate – in an unpredictable way.
Ursula Poznanski's AI thriller is full of surprising twists and gripping tension and plays with scenarios that hit the nerve of the times.
It literally cost him enormous amounts of money - but billionaire Nevio didn't just have the half-ruined Greiffenau Castle repaired: the underground secret passages, crypts and dungeons were expanded into a unique escape world using the latest technology.
Artificial intelligence ensures that the game is individually tailored to each group of visitors.
Whether it’s a medieval fortress, a vampire castle or a fantasy world – Greiffenau Castle can be anything the players want it to be.
Blurb/Droemer
Ursula Poznanski “The Castle”
2024 Droemer, ISBN-13 978-3-426-44837-3
Price: Hardcover €24, e-book €20.99, 400 pages (different format)
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5th place: Sebastian Fitzek “The Invitation”
Having already been there for 17 weeks, Sebastian Fitzek, the master of the German psychological thriller, can still hold his own among the top ten titles on the Spiegel bestseller list in the hardcover category, rising to number 5.
More about “The Invitation” here.
Marla Lindberg's memories are crystal clear: of the strange news that lured her to a disused maternity hospital.
Of the figure who tried to kill her.
The strange whistling cough of the psychopath during the fight to the death.
(...) When Marla receives the invitation to the class reunion in the Alps, she hopes to be able to reminisce about beautiful and real memories with her former classmates.
When you arrive at the snow-covered mountain hotel, all rooms are already occupied.
Used dishes are on the dining table, the fireplace is flickering, but no one is there.
Marla starts looking for the others.
And then she hears it again.
Someone coughing, whistling, outside, in the icy darkness...
Blurb/Fitzek
Sebastian Fitzek “The Invitation”
2023 Droemer, ISBN-13 978-3-426-28158-1
Price: hardcover €24, e-book €14.99, 384 pages (different format)
Places 6-10 on the Spiegel bestseller list
Karsten Dusse “Mindful murder through conscious nutrition”, 6th week there
Iris Wolff “Lichtungen”, 5th week there
Bonnie Garmus “A Question of Chemistry”, week 97 included
Bernhard Schlink “Late Life”, week 10 included
Nele Neuhaus “Monster”, 14th week included – The best-selling author in an interview with Ippen.Media
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