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 April 2023.
In his coke and puke novel “Panikherz” he poured out liters of heart’s blood about Udo Lindenberg, later he hung out with Martin Suter in a tape of conversations. But be careful! Springer boss Mathias Döpfner was once one of his best friends. And now these passages in the new novel, which is said to have nothing to do with Springer: “The strategies for coping with his rather protracted midlife crisis took on really grotesque forms (…). nights, but only despair.” Who is this about, wink? Either way, the turn from friend to foe is: pretty ouch. Here is the book.
Does anyone here know how to castrate piglets with a pocket knife? tying brooms? Ewald Frie’s father could still do that. The mother gave birth to eleven children and raised them on a farm in Münsterland. He himself was number nine. In his childhood there were breeding bulls and plow horses, the smell “of cows, pigs and silage” that hung over everything. Later he experienced the mechanization of farm work and advancement through education. The 60-year-old historian has now asked his siblings about their lives. His book tells, sometimes soberly, sometimes movingly, how quickly our parents’ world came to an end and how social change changed our lives. Great. Here is the book.
What we know about Stella Tack: She was born in Münster in 1995 and grew up in Bad Gastein, Austria. She is a trained medical masseuse and lives in Munich with her husband and two daughters. Even her debut novel should have made church bells ring nationwide in 2016: “Lucifer – the devil’s sins” was the name of Satan’s work. Her new novel revolves around demons, exorcists, love disorders and hellhounds. What we don’t know about Stella Tack, but we’re guessing: She hates garlic and silver egg spoons. No one has survived their massages without bite wounds and blood loss. She is invisible in the mirror. And this text has 666 66 66 characters – without us having intended it. Now only a well-groomed ass bomb helps in the holy water basin. Here is the book.
There is this anecdote from a children’s birthday party. Nine-year-old Jana was cutting pieces of the birthday cake for herself and her friend Isabelle when Isabelle’s mother came running. “Better eat the strawberries,” she advises her daughter. “You don’t want to look like Jana, do you?!” It’s the moment when Jana Crämer begins to feel wrong, struggling with self-loathing for decades. Today that is over, and so she confidently shares her experiences with body shaming, bullying, life as a permanent single and massive weight loss (she lost 100 kilos) with millions of people on Tiktok and Co. Take that, nasty mother! Here is the book.
Forgery of documents has many faces: a potato stamp for the party night in the club, mum’s forged signature on the number six in physics, Uncle Heinz’s forged will. Or writing Portugal thrillers under the name Gil Ribeiro, if your real name is Holger Karsten Schmidt. We suspect that the native of Hamburg has not thought about the criminal implications of his misdeed. So it’s high time to remind him that, according to the law, anyone who produces a false document to deceive others or uses a fake one can be punished with a fine or imprisonment of up to five years. For example on a book cover. Police greetings at this point also to Jörg Bong, who sells his Brittany crime novels as Jean-Luc Bannalec. Here is the book.
In his books, health guru Anthony William gives tips on how to give your body a boost with healthy eating. Because of him, people all over the world swear by the healing powers of celery juice. His latest coup “Heal your brain” is about tackling head and mental illnesses with detox, vitamins and healing cures. A guide to finally finding out “the truth” about depression, long covid and dementia. No one else has worked on it either. So now throw blueberries regularly. If you don’t forget. Here is the book.
Tough chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott made a career as a TV chef in the ’60s thanks to her unconventional ways. Totally unrealistic? Not at all! Finally, there was Julia Child. In the TV show “The French Chef”, the US chef introduced French cuisine to her compatriots, who were rather clumsy when it came to food culture, and achieved cult status. How she courageously prepared “Boeuf Bourguignon” for six people in the first episode can still be seen on YouTube today. And if that got you fired up, there’s another film starring Meryl Streep about her life. After all the viewing, the question remains as to why female TV chefs have actually remained in the minority.. Here is the book.
Admittedly, the world atlas by the French geo-history expert is quite reminiscent of a school book. Complex cartography, factual texts. If you had sat in front of it at eight o’clock in the morning, half asleep and worried about puberty, you would have cursed all the numbers and arrows. But if you look at the book today with an alert mind, there is a lot to learn about human history. The numerous graphics represent trade routes and kingdoms, the spread of Buddhism, and the building of pyramids. But it is also about flora and fauna. Guinea pigs were kept in the Andes in the year 6000. For real! Unfortunately: rather not for cuddling. Here is the book.
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