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66 popular norwegian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Norway. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
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Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence. **NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM** In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 br... continue
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Paradise Rot : A Novel by Jenny Hval EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
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A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portray... continue

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Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin EN

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Karen Havelin's Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a life told in reverse and a subversion of what we expect from stories of illness. Having been diagnosed with endometriosis in her twenties, we follow Laura Fjellstad in her struggle to live a normal life across New York, Paris and Oslo, fuelled by her belief that to survive her chronic illness ......
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Present Tense Machine : A Novel by Gunnhild Øyehaug EN

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"A playful and transcendent novel about language, family, and parallel universes"--

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Scheißrentiere by Magne Hovden DE

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Die Nordnorweger Leif und Roy träumen davon, das schnelle Geld zu machen. Da hat Leif eine geniale Idee: ein Erlebniscamp, in dem gestresste Urlauber wie Samen leben und im Kontakt mit der Natur wieder zu sich finden können. Braucht ja niemand zu wissen, dass Leif und Roy in Wirklichkeit wenig Ahnung von den Traditionen der Samen haben. Doch manche Touristen stellen echt viele Fragen ...
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Serpent

Serpent by Silje Ulstein NL

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway

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Sneeuwwit by Samuel Bjørk (pseud. van Frode Sander Øien.) NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Als in een buitenwijk van Oslo de lijken van twee 11-jarige jongens worden aangetroffen, onderzoekt het team van Holger Munch de zaak.

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Sophie's World : A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
The protagonists are Sophie Amundsen, a 14-year-old girl, and Alberto Knox, her philosophy teacher. The novel chronicles their metaphysical relationship as they study Western philosophy from its beginnings to the present. A bestseller in Norway.


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