Michelle Obama's upcoming memoirs sell for 10 million copies

Michelle Obama's memoirs are fast becoming the most popular autobiography to date, according to her publisher.

Its launch, first published just five months ago, has already sold over 10 million copies, Bertelsmann said.

"We believe these memories could become the most successful memories of all time," said Thomas Rabe, managing director of the German company.

The company paid $ 60 million (£ 48 million) in 2017 for book rights alongside those of former US President Barack Obama.

Mr. Obama's book has not been published yet.

Bertelsmann holds a 75% stake in the Obama publisher, Penguin Random House.

Nielsen – who tracks UK book sales – said Michelle Obama's book currently ranks 11th on its list of the top 20 biographies and memoirs, which track sales since the start of official records at the end of the year. 90s.

A child named Dave Pelzer is the best-selling autobiography in the UK. The book is sold at 1.1 million copies, compared with 618,000 in the UK up to now for Becoming.

Michelle Obama's book, which explores her experience of her childhood, work, motherhood and stay in the White House, has been hailed for its universal appeal, regardless of age and gender.

In it, she reveals difficulties in her marriage with Barack, revealing details of how the couple suffered a miscarriage and then used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive the two children, Malia and Sasha.

The 54-year-old woman also criticizes current US President Donald Trump, writing that she can "never forgive him" for having "endangering my family's safety" at the expense of her theory of "shit" that her husband was not born. the United States and therefore was not a legitimate president of the United States.