The twelve most purchased books thanks to the Culture Pass - which offers 300 euros to spend on young people reaching 18 - are all manga, according to figures revealed Thursday by the magazine
Livres Hebdo
. Japanese comics overwhelmingly dominate the ranking sent to the magazine by the company that manages this device, SAS Passe culture. The podium is made up of the
One Piece
series
(308,743 copies, all volumes combined),
Demon Slayer
(196,114 copies) and
Attack on the titans
(186,578 copies). Follow
My Hero Academia
(152.729),
Jujutsu Kaisen
(115.892),
Berserk
(109.189) and
Naruto
(105.571), before four other series with less than 100,000 copies.
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Apart from manga, the most purchased book with the Culture Pass interests law students:
The Annotated Civil Code
of Dalloz editions (18,804 copies, thirteenth in the ranking).
For the novels, it is the saga
The Chronicle of Bridgertons
by the American Julia Quinn, adapted in series by Netflix, which comes first (11,071 copies, seventeenth).
It is
365 days
ahead
of the Polish Blanka Lipinska (9,414 copies, twentieth), also adapted on Netflix, in film.
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Very popular best-sellers on social networks are also in this ranking:
Burn after writing
(13,428 copies, fifteenth), a kind of giant Proust questionnaire that appeals to adolescents and young adults, and
Always more + = +
by the youtubeuse Léna Situations (11,634 copies, sixteenth).
The Culture Pass allows you to reserve almost all possible books online, with the exception of school or extracurricular books, for purchase in bookstores.
SAS Passe culture specified that nearly 165,000 different works had been reserved.
This device intended to promote
"knowledge of and access to cultural offers"
will be extended to adolescents aged 15 and over from January 1.