Books set in Sweden (44)


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1.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 4 (26 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
When a new, chatty, young couple and their two daughters move in next door, Ove's well-ordered, solitary world turns upside down.

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A Nearly Normal Family : A Novel by M.T. Edvardsson EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
"...A compulsively readable tour de force." —The Wall Street Journal New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue) When the teenage daughter of responsible, upstanding parents is accused of murder, a family realizes that it isn’t love that will keep them together: it’s lies. Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fiftee... continue

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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer : A Novella by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Paints the portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.


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Anxious People by Frederik Backman EN

Rating: 4 (11 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more! “[A] quirky, big-hearted novel…Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have mor... continue

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Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
"Readers of Anne Tyler and Jodi Picoult will appreciate the lyrical prose and expert rendering of the themes of heartbreakk and loss."—Booklist An unforgettable novel about friendship, love and loss. With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson’s stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive nei... continue

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Beartown by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 5 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
A town this small can't afford to take sides. But when the worst happens, whose side would you take? Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each pass... continue

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Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Why is it so impossible to get a relationship to work between two mature single people, driven by an enormous longing and loudly ticking biological clocks? Especially when they are struck by a totally unexpected passion when they first meet.

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Berouw

Berouw by Sofie Sarenbrant NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Rechercheur Emma Sköld onderzoekt een moordzaak waarbij haar zus zijdelings betrokken is.

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De 100-jarige man die uit het raam klom en verdween by Jonas Jonasson NL

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Op zijn honderdste verjaardag ontvlucht een man het door hem zo gehate bejaardencentrum en ontvreemdt bij het busstation een zware koffer die gevuld blijkt te zijn met zwart geld.