Detective Agency No. 2’s seasonal booklet for 2020, The Search for the Gingerbread Man, sails to No. 2 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for children’s fiction. However, it isn’t the only title from the series that’s featured: Operation Red Ribbon appears at No. 4.
The pace is picking up in Iceland, where the official monthly lists are now divided into weekly ones. On the latest list for November 23-29, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir claims the No. 3 spot with The Prey, her latest stand-alone title.
Sofia Lundberg’s irresistible debut novel, The Red Address Book, has reached a milestone age on the official German bestseller list. This month, the novel has featured on Der Spiegel’s list for one full year.
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman has been selected as a Voters’ Favorite of 2020 on the annual LibraryReads list in the US. The novel thereby nabs a spot in the top 10 of 2020, as voted by librarians across the nation.
Each month, LibraryReads publishes a list of the best books and in September this year, Anxious People was one of their choices. The “Voters’ Favorites” list features titles from the previously published LibraryReads lists of 2020.
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Literary critic Marilyn Stasio has selected Lars Kepler’s The Rabbit Hunter as one of the 10 Best Crime Novels of 2020 on the New York Times Book Review’s yearly list.
Lars Kepler continues their No. 1 streak on the Swedish bestseller lists, The Mirror Man once again grabbing the top spots in hardcover and ebooks.
The editors of The New York Times Book Review have chosen The Kingdom as one of their recommendations in the “Editor’s Choice” column of the December 6 issue. The Kingdom is Jo Nesbø’s latest stand-alone title.
Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man doesn’t budge from its place at the top, coming in at No. 1 on the official Dutch bestseller list for thrillers and crime fiction this week as well.
Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man is No. 1 in e-books on the list covering week 48 in Norway. Jørn Lier Horst features at No. 4 on the same list, with A Question of Guilt.
Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People has been chosen as an NPR Book Concierge title. The Book Concierge is an interactive reading guide published each fall by the National Public Radio – a non-profit public service organization in the US – containing a handpicked selection of the best books of 2020. The staff at NPR as well as critics are asked to nominate their favorite titles, which the editors and producers at NPR Books then go through to make the final selection.
The choice of Anxious People was accompanied by the following quote:
“A surprisingly sweet tale. It’s the perfect balance of heartwarming and heart-wrenching, and Fredrik Backman […] has a way of simply yet elegantly describing relationships. We can all be idiots, but we’re still all human beings worthy of connection and love.”
Brazil, Callis Editora
Two-book deal closed by Tassy Barham Associates on behalf of Linda Andersson
Türkiye, Dogan Egmont
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Rahva Raamat
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
France, Verso/Seuil
Three-book deal closed by Federico Ambrosini
Azerbaijan, Alatoran
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Estonia, Eesti Raamat
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
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