Books from Sweden
103 popular swedish 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 Sweden.
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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Marked for Life by Emelie Schepp EN
Description:
When a high-ranking head of the migration board is found shot to death in his living room, there is no shortage of suspects, including his wife. But no one expects to find mysterious, child-size fingerprints in this childless home. Public prosecutor Jana Berzelius steps in to lead the investigation. Young and brilliant but emotionally cold, Berzelius, like her famous prosecutor father, won't be swayed by the hysterical widow or intimidated by the threatening letters the victim had tried to hide. She is steely, aloof, impenetrable. That is, until the boy... A few days later on a nearby deserted... continue
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman EN
Description:
Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Characterising the Nazis as cats and the Jews as mice, this book recounts, through a complex and sustained allegory the experiences of the author's father in Auschwitz during WWII.
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Miss Julie by August Strindberg EN
Description:
One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.
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Mörder ohne Gesicht by Henning Mankell DE
Description:
Auf einem abgelegenen Bauernhof ist ein altes Ehepaar überfallen und getötet worden. 'Ausländer, Ausländer!' waren die letzten Worte der sterbenden Frau. Als die Öffentlichkeit davon erfährt, wird Schonen von einer Welle ausländerfeindlicher Gewalt überrollt. Doch plötzlich führen die Ermittlungen in eine ganz andere Richtung ... Kommissar Wallanders erster Fall, mit dem Henning Mankell den Grundstein zu seiner Karriere als Erfolgsschriftsteller gelegt hat.
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Muerte de un apicultor by Lars Gustafsson ES
Description:
Este libro recorre, a través de los apuntes recogidos en diferentes cuadernos, los últimos momentos de la vida de un enfermo de cáncer. Esta es la excusa para hacer balance de una vida y de un modelo de sociedad: la socialdemocracia nórdica de los años 70.
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry : A Novel by Fredrik Backman EN
Description:
Seven-year-old Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending the girl on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales. By the internationally best-selling author ofA Man Called Ove. Illustrations.
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O hipnotista by Lars Kepler PT
Description:
Erik Maria Bark é o mais famoso hipnotista da Suécia. Acusado de falta de ética, e com o casamento à beira do colapso, jurou publicamente nunca mais praticar a hipnose nos seus pacientes e há dez anos que se mantém fiel à sua promessa. Em Estocolmo, uma família é brutalmente assassinada e a única testemunha está internada no hospital em estado de choque; Josef Ek, de apenas 15 anos, presenciou o massacre dos seus pais e irmã mais nova, sendo ele próprio encontrado numa poça de sangue, vivo por milagre. Nessa mesma noite, Erik Maria Bark recebe um telefonema do comissário Joona Linna solicitand... continue
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Olor a lana by Lars Gustafsson ES
Description:
Lars Herding ha muerto, atropellado por un camión en Tunnenberg; eso sabemos en las primeras páginas de la novela a través de un primer narrador que recibe la visita de un familiar. Y así nos adentramos, en la página 32 a la narración del propio Herding (Gustaffson, al igual que en Muerte de un apicultor, hace un rodeo antes de llegar a la historia central).
Lars Herding ha planificado y postergado su propio suicidio sabemos de su boca en las primeras páginas de su narración, agobiado por una vida estéril, en medio de un paí... continue
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Pippi Langstrumpf by Astrid Lindgren DE
Description:
Grotesk-komische Erlebnisse und phantastische Einfälle eines unmöglichen kleinen Mädchens.