The recommendations of Poitiers booksellers

Classic or fantasy, pocket books or large formats … Furthermore, This summer, there is something for everyone and all desires. Moreover, According to an Ipsos survey published in July 2024, 35 % of French people read more during their summer vacation. However, So we have unearthed for you the nuggets of the moment in three bookstores in downtown Poitiers.

Polar. On the side of this kind very popular in reading enthusiasts. Therefore, it is Panorama From Lilia Hassaine whom Chloé, a bookseller apprentice at La Belle Aventure, and Pauline from the bookstore-Café to chatter. Nevertheless, This thriller praised by criticism notably received the Renaudot prize for high school students 2023. For example, The intrigue: a couple and their child disappear in 2025 in a dystopian France where private life no longer exists. Meanwhile, A ex-police commissioner must then regain service recommendations poitiers booksellers to resolve this sordid mystery …

Autobiography. If you prefer large formats, Chloé advises you rather My real name is Elisabeth. For example, This first book by researcher Adèle Yon. Furthermore, at the crossroads of the family investigation and the autobiographical story, retraces the history of her great-grandmother diagnosed schizophrenic in the 1950s. This work was awarded by the France Télévisions 2025 Prize. the Grand Prix of readers Elle, the literary prize of the Nouvel Obs but also the Régine-Deforges Prize awarded at the Festival of Montmorillon.

Fantasy. Fantasy “Not too complicated” ? This is what Pauline recommends with Wide d’Anouck Faure. More than a book of adventures, it is “A novel on the human condition”. Paria in the eyes of his own, Aatea was born at sea. He does not have the filament which allows the rest of his people to coexist with the islands recommendations poitiers booksellers on. which he lives. After losing the right to navigate. he fled in search of freedom on the oceans, in the footsteps of his explorator grandmother.

Used. For small budgets, reading is always possible. Jean-Luc Frangne, bookseller at the Bibliovore, invites you to revisit “The classics in the broad sense”. Baudelaire, Zola, Shakespeare, Maupassant… but also Agatha Christie! “It’s transgenerational and it goes well in summer”he says. Children can also taste the classics that have rocked the youth of their elders. Timeless as Harry Potter or Tara Duncan still have the side of the youngest audiences in the second -hand bookstore. Even more surprising, the series of Club of five East “Always as popular”.

The favorites of your booksellers. At the beautiful adventure, Chloé has “A little weak” pour The belly of the forest of Marie-Hélène Poitras. In Noirax. men have been in power for decades, like Father Berthoumieux who plans to recommendations poitiers booksellers become mayor of the village and gradually pass the relay to his son. Until the arrival of Aliénor, a young woman free and determined to shed light on her origins …

The Eden Bellwether complexthis is the “Favorite of summer” that Pauline “Recommend all the time” to clients from chatter. This first novel by the English writer Benjamin Wood explores the boundaries between genius. madness, manipulation and his perverse games which can lead to the most extravagant fabrications, dementia or murder.

For more reading ideas for this summer, go to the catalog of independent bookstores in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.