[SKRIVA] Larsson, Mankell among global bestsellers

The wellknown book trade magazines The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly and 
France's Livres Hebdo have compiled a list of the 20 top global bestsellers of 
2008. Among the ten first are two Swedish writers:
 
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/74749-hosseini-and-follett-are-global-hits.html
 
The list goes:
 
1 Khaled Hosseini 
2 Stieg Larsson
3 Ken Follett
4 Stephenie Meyer
5 Muriel Barbery
6 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7 Anna Gavalda
8 John Grisham 
9 J K Rowling
10 Henning Mankell 
11 Alan Bennett
12 Jodi Picoult
13 Christopher Paolini 
14 David Baldacci
15 Nicholas Sparks
16 Elizabeth George
17 Lauren Weisberger 
18 Michael Connelly
19 Patricia D. Cornwell
20 Paulo Coelho
 
I've written about Stieg Larsson here before (and as you know he was also 
active in sf fandom) - landing on second place must be considered as very 
strong! Henning Mankell is known for his crime novels about Kurt Wallander, 
which has recently been filmed by the BBC (and getting good reviews).
 
--Ahrvid

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