The annual ranking of European international bestselling authors has been released by the British magazine The Bookseller. This year, in no surprise, Steig Larsson jumped into top spot while Khaled Hosseini dropped off the list entirely after dominating last year’s list.
From the Bookseller
The ranking analysed chart data, between January and December 2009, from seven of Europe’s largest book markets, attributing points for every month that a title has stayed in the top 10 bestselling lists of Buchreport/Der Spiegel in Germany, Livres Hebdo/Ipsos in France, Informazioni Italiani in Italy, Boekblad/GfK in the Netherlands, El cultural in Spain, Svensk Bokhandel in Sweden, and The Bookseller in the UK. Compilation and analysis by Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting
Top 10 ranking of fiction writers in Europe in 2009
1 Stieg Larsson
2 Stephenie Meyer
3 Dan Brown
4 Paolo Giordano
5 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
6 Camilla Läckberg
7 Herman Koch
8 Tatiana de Rosnay
9 Henning Mankell
10 John Grisham