Bestsellers

Nordic Bookblog has a list of the Top 20 Bestselling Scandinavian Books at Amazon US.

As the NB post points out, the list is a somewhat idiosyncratic one, with notable and questionable omissions. There are also problems of geography (where is Scandinavia?). And there's an interesting feature:

to the extent the list can be assumed to tell anything – old Nordic sagas and writers like especially Sigrid Undset, but also Rolvaag, Hamsun and Ibsen seem to be selling quite well in the US.

Ordering Swedish books

Although it's intended for readers and translators in North America, Laura Wideburg's page of information on how to order Swedish (and other Nordic) books from abroad is a useful resource.

Who decides what Finland reads?

Apparently it's the Finnish Bookstore - Suomalainen Kirjakauppa, which according to this article in the business-oriented newspaper Taloussanomat occupies such a powerful and central position in Finland's book world that it virtually dictates Finns' reading habits to them. One concerned observer remarks that something needs to be done so that "the whole of Finland reads nothing but Stieg Larsson and Sofi Oksanen." "We sell what people buy," says Suomalainen Kirjakauppa....

(via Parnasso)