It is a bit surprising that so many people still buy "real" reading material despite increasing digitization. On the other hand, it is also a good sign that so many readers still appreciate a good book. For this reason, you can now find the stern orderers for the print editions, which are published every Thursday, online. Here are the fiction and nonfiction bestsellers of December 2022.
When it comes to manslaughter and murder, the Bible can only be beaten by Jo Nesbø. What his investigator Harry Hole (pronounced Hule) has experienced and done to the horror since 1997 does not fit into any Old Testament. That's probably why he wants to drink himself to death once and for all at the beginning of his 13th case, but then the brutal murders of two women in Oslo revive his spirits. In the novel, old friends of Harry's puzzle what drives him and they find the answer in Bob Dylan's explanation of his "Never Ending Tour" life: "It's what I do." The same goes for Nesbø, of course. PS: If you are reading this text and live in Russia – bad luck! In the spring, the 62-year-old Norwegian decided to no longer sell his books in Vladimir Putin's country. Here is the book.
Oops, has this relationship drama gotten lost? What makes the correspondence between two long-dead intellectuals in the list of the most read books? Especially since it comprises more than 1000 pages, including a lavish commentary that explains how this correspondence influenced the respective literary work. Is it possible that the writers, who failed as a couple after five years, are so up-to-date because, among other things, working from home became a trap for them? Max Frisch: "that due to the fact [...] that we both work at home, we have an additional difficulty that hardly any couple can cope with." Here is the book.
A perennial favorite in this honorable list for a year now: Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen with the ninth case for the bizarre characters of "Sonderdezernats Q". At the beginning of his international career, he revealed to stern how the Dane became a writer: because in the autumn of 1964 he stayed with a friend on a raised hide on the outskirts of Brøndbyøster for a week, with provisions, a layer of hay as a bed and the promise not to descend once for emergencies. "After three days we were bored to death. We told each other endless scary stories, caught autumn leaves out of the air to roll cigarettes with - and got diarrhea, I can't even describe it." When the 14-year-old climbed down from the tower, he knew: "I can tell really good stories." Here is the book.
It's a good thing that the Frankfurt pediatrician came up with the idea of putting videos online during the Corona lockdown that explain to parents what the difference between ailments and problems or even illnesses is. The "KidsDoc" now has hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram. How good that he wrote his bestseller before the next plague made the little ones gasp, the respiratory virus RSV. In view of the overburdened hospitals and practices, he would have neither the time nor the leisure to do so. If we could still wish for something from Vitor Gatinho, then it would be a front-page report on a health system that cuts back on the weakest and their doctors, of all people. Here is the book.
"Where the fun ends for others, it just begins for me." Those who live their lives according to this motto shouldn't be surprised if they weren't well liked at school ("the purest horror for me"). Yes, we remember the pranksters from the back seat, the class clowns with the super glue they smeared on the teachers' chairs - what would our life be without them? In later years, Tommy Jaud trained his inner joker and wrote jokes for Harald Schmidt and for the "Heute-Show" as an author, had great successes with "Vollidiot" and "Hummeldumm" and now this one, full of short stories about his crazy everyday life. So at this point an appeal: close the class clowns in your hearts, bombard them with your love! Here is the book.
On Christmas Eve it will be exactly ten months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Also present: Pawel Filatev, 34, and a parachutist in the unit that invaded southern Ukraine. The soldier from a soldier's family was shocked by the state of the Russian army and the poor organization. After being injured, he returned home in April, deserted, fled for weeks and now lives in an undisclosed location in France. Filatev wants to wake up his compatriots by reporting on his experiences at the front. That's why "ZOV", which means something like reputation, is also available free of charge on the Internet - so far only in Russian. Here is the book.
The long-term damage caused by the corona pandemic is gradually having an impact. Here for example. The 63-year-old Swede, known for the ZDF film adaptation of her archipelago crime novels "Midsummer Murder", was skiing in Åre, in distant Jämtland, in 2020 when Covid-19 struck. Flights were cancelled, white mountains and deep snow fired the author's imagination. Yes, it was time to think of a new investigator anyway. She is a policewoman from Stockholm and is visiting her sister where? Exactly, in Are. Filming for the new series is scheduled to begin next spring. But now, if you please, read it first. The right reading to forget all the kilowatt hours, price caps and one-off payments under eight woolen blankets and the cold district heating system. Here is the book.
For years, readers have been arming themselves with Stefanie Stahl for the small and large dramas that life and especially Christmas bring them. If, while preparing for this beautiful, challenging time, you suspect that part of the child in you might still be homeless, you can now switch to plan B with Stahl's basic psychology course "Who we are". It could help you relax during various holiday feasts and walks and instead categorize a little to yourself what kind of tits your loved ones might belong to. Only - before we break up families here: You shouldn't say it then. Here is the book.
We keep what we promised and at the end of the year after the alcohol and drug addiction we finally devote ourselves to the sex addiction of great authors. So who doesn't have their carnal desires under control here, is a slave to their libido? Fitzek? Hansen? Unlikely, but who really knows their fellow human beings. So by Schirach? Or Jussi? Before we risk a defamation trial, let's look at Leo Tolstoy. He had a number of extramarital relationships, loved peasant women as much as noblewomen and was a frequent victim of venereal diseases. In 1853 he confided in his diary: "I have to sleep with women. Otherwise, lust doesn't give me a single free minute!" With these piquant words, we let you, dear reader, into a wet and happy New Year's Eve. Here is the book.
This book, it says unctuously in the blurb, has the answer "regardless of whether you are struggling with relationships, your own attitude to life or communicating with your loved ones". That sounds great. But it also says: Brianna Wiest reveals "what you have to hear but don't want. What you already know but suppress." That doesn't sound so great anymore. At least not right now. What absolutely has to be said: We've accomplished a hell of a lot in this crazy year. And it can't do any harm to retreat under a warm blanket with this certainty. The change with life comes anyway. But next year then. Here is the book.
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