<P> Larsson planned the series as having ten installments , but due to his sudden death in 2004 , only three were completed and published . All of them were published posthumously : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005 , The Girl Who Played with Fire in 2006 , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets ' Nest in 2007 . Larsson 's novels were originally printed in Swedish by Norstedts förlag , with English editions by Quercus in the United Kingdom and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States . The books have since been translated and published by many publishers in over fifty countries . By March 2015 , 80 million copies of the first three books had been sold worldwide . </P>
books in the girl with the dragon tattoo series
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets ' Nest