Founded: 1953
Le Livre de Poche, in which Hachette Livre has a 60% stake and Albin Michel 40%, is the number one paperback publisher in France, with over 25,000 titles published and more than a billion books sold since it was founded in 1953.
The strongest asset of the imprint is the diversity of its catalog, which appeals to a wide variety of readers. Le Livre de Poche publishes a broad range of literature, from classics (Anne Frank, Agatha Christie, Colette, Harper Lee, Georges Simenon and Boris Vian) to contemporary bestsellers, both French (Laetitia Colombani, Mélissa Da Costa, Virginie Despentes, Laurent Gounelle, Virginie Grimaldi, Pierre Lemaitre, Guillaume Musso, Amélie Nothomb, Valérie Perrin, Aurélie Valognes, Bernard Werber) and foreign (Dan Brown, Michael Connelly, Ken Follett, Lisa Gardner, Mary Higgins Clark, Lucinda Riley, Stephen King and many others).
Le Livre de Poche also publishes practical guides, essays and reference works (including Dale Carnegie, Frédéric Saldmann, Frédéric Lenoir, Michelle Obama, Simone Veil). Nearly 1,000 titles are available as ebooks.