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 CC: also to the local writers' list SKRIVA. -- ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx / ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Gå med i SKRIVA - för författande, sf, fantasy, kultur (skriva-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, subj: subscribe) YXSKAFTBUD, GE VÅR WCZONMÖ IQ-HJÄLP! _________________________________________________________________ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/----- SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistan grundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravewriting.com eller skriva- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe).