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Recommended English books written by authors from Denmark (37)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you speak English here are some English books from Denmark for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".

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Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
After 18 years of marriage, an art historian wakes up to find his wife standing in the doorway with her bags packed, leaving him with no explanation. Exploring with great subtlety the secret, unpredictable connections between men and women, "Silence in October" is a psychological novel of immense acuity and masterful storytelling.

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Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue

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Termush (Faber Editions) : Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer by Sven Holm EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia ...

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Terrorist : Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin who Ignited World War I by Henrik Rehr EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
"Fictional account of the life of the young Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princep, who touched off World War I in 1914 by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand"--

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The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
Detective Carl M©ırck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.

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The Chestnut Man : A Novel by Soren Sveistrup EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
“A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson, drenched in atmosphere and charged with adrenaline. Buckle up. You’ll gulp down every word. I loved this book.”—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The heart-pounding debut from the creator of the hit Scandinavian television show The Killing. If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics m... continue

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The Chestnut Man : The Chilling and Suspenseful Thriller Soon to Be a Major Netflix Series by Søren Sveistrup EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Ambitious young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner, Mark Hess, is a burned-out investigator who's just been kicked out of Europol

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The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
For fans of Katrine Engberg and Lars Kepler, the second chilling novel in Anne Mette Hancock’s #1 bestselling Danish crime series is a psychological whirlwind that explores the nature of truth and what it means when we can no longer trust what we know to be real. When 10-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school, police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidolia—a phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A photo on his phone posted just hours before his disappearance shows an old barn door that resembles a face. Journalist Heloise Kalda... continue

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The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen EN

Rating: 5 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
More than 156 of the great Dane's best-loved fairy tales.

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The Copenhagen Trilogy : Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
Called "a masterpiece" by The Guardian, this courageous and honest trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing, explores themes of family, sex, motherhood, abortion, addiction, and being an artist. This single-volume hardcover contains all three volumes of her memoirs Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Y... continue