Per Petterson on the NYT Bestseller list

Per Petterson is placed on the 16th place on the New York Times bestseller list for paperbacks this week! Very nice for Per Petterson!
Paperback Trade Fiction, Published: August 10, 2008
1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.
2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by [...]

This Night’s Foul Work, by Fred Vargas

This Night’s Foul Work is the fourth novel in the Adamsberg series translated into English. It is a playful, interesting and somewhat implausible crime books, but the writing is so great the implausible part doesn’t really matter much.
Two drug dealers have had their throats cut in the Paris flea market. Normally this would [...]

The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans

The Horse Whisperer (made famous by the movie with the same name, starring Robert Redford) is a quiet, beautiful book.
The author, Nicholas Evans was born and grew up in Worcestershire and [...]

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth

The Day of the Jackal is a novel about whose main character is the Jackal, a highly feared and infamous terrorist at the time when this novel was written. The plot of the book is a (fictional) account of an attempt by this terrorist to assassinate president de Gaulle.
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No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 2005. In 2007 it was released as a film, directed by the Cohen-brothers. The film has, so far, been winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The action in the book is set along the United States–Mexico [...]

The Appeal, by John Grisham

From The Appeal, Chapter 1: “The courtroom was in a state of high alert, as if bombs were coming and the sirens were wailing. Dozens of people milled about, or looked for seats, or chatted nervously with their eyes darting around. When Jared Kurtin and the defense army entered [...]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first book in a trilogy written by Stieg Larsson, often referred to as the Millennium trilogy (see also our book review of The Girl Who Played With Fire at ScandinavianBooks.. The books in this trilogy have sold extremely well in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and been [...]

Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson

Cowboys in the Wild West stole horses. In Norway nobody steals horses, not today, not ever. I think. And I am Norwegian and definitely not a cowboy from the Wild West. Therefore, I never really liked the title of Per Petterson’s book. So I did the right thing. The only option open to me, really. [...]