Stieg Larsson on the New York Times bestseller list!

January 8, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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I was delighted to open the book section of New York Times today, and find the Stieg Larsson’s excellent crime fiction book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was now number 4 on the list of paperback fiction bestsellers. I have been unable to understand why this book has not been selling better than it has in the US, as it is one of my all time favorites. Now, however, it seems the publisher is doing a little more promotion of the book, and it seems to be paying off.

Here is the top 10 list:

1. My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult. A girl sues her parents when learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.

2. The Shack, by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to a shack, apparently by God.

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A journalist travels to Guernsey.

4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress.

5. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction, by Elizabeth Strout. A math teacher is the link in 13 stories set on the Maine coast.

6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The classic retold with “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.”

7. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein. A Lab-terrier mix helps his owner, a struggling race car driver.

8. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Life with a dashing librarian who travels in time.

9. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt for treasure.

10. A Summer Affair: A Novel, by Elin Hilderbrand. A successful married artist is attracted to a billionaire on Nantucket.

For a lover of Scandinavian crime fiction, this is a good day. I hope 2009 will contine to be a good year for crime fiction and thrillers from Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland!

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Stieg Larsson wins 2008 Boeke prize in South Africa

November 5, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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Women24 writes:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Scandinavian author, Stieg Larsson, took home the prize as the winner of the 2008 Exclusive Books Boeke competition on 7 October 2008.

Larsson’s debut novel is an epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents and taking in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family.

It won Sweden’s Glass Key Award in 2005 for best crime novel of the year. … Larsson’s award marks the 10th time in the 14-year history of the Boeke Prize that a debut novel has scooped the award.

The Boeke Prize promotes the enjoyment of discovering books that compel, that are fresh, original and captivating good reads. The judges’ panel comprised 40 book critics across South Africa.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is, as the other two books in the series, a wonderful book. I think Stieg Larsson  will be getting many more prizes for it!

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Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on NYT’s bestseller list!

November 1, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
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The fantastic The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (see review), written by the deceased Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson has now, finally, entered the New York Times bestseller list. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has been one of the best selling books ever in Sweden, and in the other Nordic countries as well.

Hardcover Fiction

Published: October 3, 2008
This Week Last Week Weeks on List
1 THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father’s death. 1 16
2 HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers investigates murder cases linked by a lemon in the mouth of each victim. 1
3 THE GIVEN DAY, by Dennis Lehane. A policman, a fugitive and their families persevere in the turbulence of Boston at the end of World War I. 1
4 HOT MAHOGANY, by Stuart Woods. A Stone Barrington mystery set amid the intrigues of the world of antiques and old and new money in New England. 1
5 ONE FIFTH AVENUE, by Candace Bushnell. The worlds of gossip, theater and hedge funds have one address in common. 1
6 THE OTHER QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. The story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in captivity under Queen Elizabeth. 2 2
7 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of an octogenarian’s niece 40 years ago. 4 2
8 TSAR, by Ted Bell. The Kremlin has a brutal killer working for it in America. 1
9 THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi resisters. 5 9
10 THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender. 7 21
11 THE BOOK OF LIES, by Brad Meltzer. The murder of the father of Superman’s creator, Jerry Siegel, is linked to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. 6 4
12 AMERICAN WIFE, by Curtis Sittenfeld.A pretty librarian marries the alcoholic son of a wealthy political family who somehow becomes president. 9 4
13 FAEFEVER, by Karen Marie Moning. MacKayla is caught in the middle as the faes battle in Dublin. 3 2
14 INDIGNATION, by Philip Roth. A Newark, N.J., college student in the Korean War era breaks with his parents and goes to a school in the Midwest. 10 2
15 ANATHEM, by Neal Stephenson.An order of cloistered mathematicians and scientists must save their Earth-like planet when catastrophe threatens. 8 3
16 THE COMFORTS OF A MUDDY SATURDAY, by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel Dalhousie investigates drug fraud charges. 1

It is a wonderful crime novel. In my opinion, perhaps one of the best written after year 2000. I will be surprised if The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo does not end up on the top of the bestseller lists in the US!

You can read my review of Stieg Larsson’s high powered book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo at ScandinavianBooks.com!

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