Tip pen
The top nib is a book prize that has been awarded by Media Control since 2016 on the basis of the sales figures it has determined for the best-selling book in Germany in the respective period. Up until April 2018, the top nib was awarded monthly and since then once every quarter.
Award winners
Previous winners were:
- 2016
- September: JK Rowling : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- October: Eckart von Hirschhausen : Miracles work miracles: How medicine and magic heal us
- November: Horst Lichter : No time for assholes!
- December: Rita Falk : Dumpling blues: Grandma Eberhofer's Bavarian provincial cookbook
- 2017
- January: Sophia Thiel : Simply slim and fit: with 120 recipes for a dream figure
- February: Cameron Bloom: Penguin Bloom: The Little Bird That Saved Our Family
- March: Markus Heitz : The Devil's Prayer Book
- 1st quarter: Jojo Moyes : In the shadow the light
- April: Andreas Michalsen: Healing with the power of nature
- May: Maja Lunde : The story of the bees
- June: Eric Stehfest , Michael J. Stephan: 9 days awake
- July: Viktoria Sarina: Jump into a puddle! : colorful ideas for every day
- August: Ursula Poznanski : Aquila
- September: Peter Wohlleben : Nature's secret network: How trees make clouds and earthworms control wild boars
- October: Jean-Yves Ferri , Didier Conrad : Asterix 37: Asterix in Italy
- November: Jeff Kinney : Greg's Diary 12 - And bye!
- December: ConCrafter : Hello, my name is Luca
- 2018
- January: Matthias Riedl, Anne Fleck, Jörn Klasen: The Nutrition Docs - Strong Joints: The best nutritional strategies for rheumatism, osteoarthritis, gout & Co.
- February: Michael Wolff : Fire and Wrath: In Donald Trump's White House
- March: Petra Bracht: Intermittent fasting
- April: Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt : Seeing with your hands: My life and my medicine
- 2nd quarter: Jan Becker: You can do anything relaxed!
- III. Quarter: Hape Kerkeling : Freshly hung / intermittent fasting
- IV quarter: Michelle Obama : Becoming
- 2019
- 1st quarter: Senna Gammour : Lovesickness is an asshole
- Second quarter: Sebastian Fitzek , fish that climb trees
- Book summer hit 2019: Pamela Reif , You Deserve This
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top spring award for "Lovesickness is an Asshole" by Senna Gammour , accessed on April 28, 2019.
- ↑ Lars Niederée: Germany's best-known influencer writes the book summer hit 2019. Media Control, September 12, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 (German).