What were the best-sellers of Bucharest’s 2017 Gaudeamus book fair?

Translations of international fiction titles, history books and lifestyle titles were among the best-selling books at this year’s edition of Gaudeamus book fair, which closed in Bucharest on November 26. The Humanitas publishing group listed among its best-sold titles at this edition of the Gaudeamus book fair a book about the 1918 union by Romanian historian Lucian Boia - În Jurul Marii Uniri de la 1918. Națiuni, frontiere, minorități/ On the Great Union of 1918. Nations, frontiers, minorities, and the collective volume Cum să fii fericit în România/ How to Be Happy in Romania. Romanian physician Simona Tivadar’s book Medicină, nutriție și bună dispoziție/ Medicine, Nutrition and Good Humor and The Atlas of Beauty by Romanian Mihaela Noroc also ranked among the most demanded titles. Humanitas Fiction, part of the group, counted among its best sold titles at this edition of the fair the Romanian translations of Jessie Burton’s The Muse, Jeanette Winterson’s Christmas Days, Eric Emmanuel Schmitt’s Adolf H. Two Lives, Carmen Domingo’s Gala-Dali, and Pulizer prize winner Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. For Curtea Veche Publishing, the list of best sellers at the fair includes Jamila Cuisine by Janina Staicu Avram, The Christmas Wish by Lori Evert, the album Storytelling Objects by Ștefan Câlția, Five Ingredients by Jamie Oliver, and Omon Ra by Viktor Pelevin. The Romanian-language translations of Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, The Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak, and T he Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 winner of the Nobel prize for literature, topped the fair’s best sellers for Polirom publishing house. The Testament of Abraham, the second novel of best-selling Romanian author Igor Bergler was one of the best-selling titles for Litera publishing house, alongside The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking, The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, and Stasiland. True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall