Topping the list to start the month of July: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also by Stieg Larsson, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, by Tony Hsieh, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen Reinhart, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, by Stephanie Meyer, The Overton Window, by Glenn Beck, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern, Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
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The short answer is – he is currently the best-selling author in the US. On the Amazon list, his titles hold four of the top five spots. Where has he been, and why haven’t we heard more about him?
The Stephanie Myers Twilight series was a similar selling phenomenon, occupying several of the top spots at a single time. Maybe the movie tie-ins made her story a little more up front. Stieg Larsson?
If the name sounds Viking-esque, it should. Larsson was a Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack a couple of years ago. He had a stash of completed and uncompleted manuscripts at the time of his death, all part of a series. They’ve proven to be popular, as the sales indicate.
Read more about Stieg Larsson on Wikipedia by clicking on the link. When you want the book, come on in!
Newly arrived at McHuston Booksellers! Classic literature from some of the great writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries… For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence; Homer’s The Odyssey; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – all in nicely kept used condition. Published a little more recently – Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally, and Dead and Gone by Andrew Vachss. Certainly not rare or hard to find books, but these and others are especially well-kept and priced to read! Need rare books? We have those, too…plus – our everyday special on mass-market fiction (the smaller paperbacks): Buy three, and the fourth one is free!