What to read right now in bookstores? Yesterday, Tuesday, May 16, while Le Renaudot met at Drouant's to elect its new member Mohammed Aïssaoui, author and journalist at Le Figaro littéraire, he took the opportunity to establish his traditional "spring selection". It includes four first novels.
The jury is composed of: Patrick Besson, Mohammed Aïssaoui, Frédéric Beigbeder, Dominique Bona, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Stéphanie Janicot, Cécile Guilbert, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Jean-Noël Pancrazi. Here are their eleven favorite novels and nine essays.
Novels:
- Antoine Catel: Incendie blanc, Ed. Calmann-Lévy
- Jean-Paul Delfino: Guianas. Ed. Héloïse d'Ormesson
- Raphël Haroche: Avalanche, Ed. Gallimard
- Philippe Lacoche: Les Ombres des Mohicans, Ed. du Rocher
- Jean-Pierre Montal: Their chamade, Ed. Séguier
- Jessica Nelson: L'Orageuse, Ed. Albin Michel
- Matthieu Peck: déjà les mouches, Ed. Gallimard
- Perrine Tripier: The Precious Wars, Ed. Gallimard
- Violette d'Urso: Even the noise of the night has changed, Ed. Flammarion
- Patrick Roegiers: Nouvelle vague, Ed. Grasset
- Laurent Seksik - Franz Kafka does not want to die, Ed. Gallimard
Tests:
- Jean Azarel, "Vous direz que je est tombé", lives and deaths of Jack-Alain Léger, Ed. Séguier
- Christophe Boltanski: King Kasai, Et. Stock
- Florence Bergeaud-Blacker: Le frérisme et ses réseaux: L'enquête. Ed. Odile Jacob
- Régis Jauffret: Dictionnaire amoureux de Gustave Flaubert, Ed. Plon
- Christophe Grembert: Eloge de l'alouette, Ed. Arléa
- Frédéric Pajak: Dans le calme du soir, Ed. Black on white
- Paul Pawlovitch: All Immortals, Ed. Black on White
- Françoise-Marie Santucci: A la recherche des Odors perdus, Ed. Grasset
- Gilles Sebhan: Bacon, July 64, Ed. du Rouergue.
