Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People is a nominee in the running for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for “Best Fiction.”

The Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major US book awards decided by readers. In the coming months, readers will get to participate in three rounds of voting in each of the twenty categories. The opening round will take place between October 27 and November 8.

Fans are encouraged to spread the word on social platforms using the tags #GoodreadsChoice and @goodreads, and by sharing the link in “Read more” below.

Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man claims two spots on the Slovakian book retailer Martinus’s bestseller lists, coming in at No. 3 in hardcover and e-book. Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Smoke Screen features on the e-book list as well, where it takes the No. 4 spot.

Jørn Lier Horst’s The Cabin – the second installment in the Cold Case Quartet – has sailed to No. 1 on Rahva Raamat’s bestseller list for e-books. Rahva Raamat is the largest retail and wholesale bookseller in Estonia.

Johan and Anna, a pair of lovers in their mid-thirties, check into a small-town hotel in western Sweden. Johan has just left his wife for Anna and is now looking forward to a night of celebrating. But Anna has something different in mind: she has decided to call it quits. Her family is more important than her longing for happiness.

The weekend doesn’t turn out as either of them expected. A deadly mistake forces the pair to make a fateful decision then and there, and soon they are traveling down a nightmarish road that will change their lives – forever.

In Capable People, Klas Ekman weaves a lean, tight and incredibly gripping psychological thriller about ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and how a fatal decision can lead to the downfall of one’s morals.

The author distinguishes himself by skillfully pulling the story through the darkest corners of the human psyche, displaying an expert touch for dialogue and multi-layered characters that together form a Hitchcockian page-turner that will stay with you long after reading.

Hans Rosenfeldt’s When Crying Wolf is No. 2 in hardcover on the latest Swedish bestseller list, claiming the No. 4 spot on the audio list as well. Simona Ahrnstedt debuts on the lists with her just published Hearts on the Line, which is No. 2 in e-book and No. 4 in hardcover. Finally, Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1794 comes in at No. 5 in paperback.

Published in Finland on Wednesday, Lars Kepler’s eighth installment in the Joona Linna series, The Mirror Man, has gone straight to No. 1 on the Finnish bestseller list and tops the general list across all genres and formats, as well as the hardcover fiction list.

The official bestseller lists of week 42 see Jørn Lier Horst’s A Question of Guilt claim the No. 1 spot on the e-book list and No. 5 placement on the hardcover one. Kristina Ohlsson meanwhile claims the No. 5 spot on the paperback list with the third Martin Benner book, To Him Who Knocks.