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Recommended books (45)
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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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 4     16 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.
Recommended: 06 Mar 2022

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A Nearly Normal Family

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
Recommended: 29 May 2023

3.

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten EN

Rating: 4     2 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from t... continue
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Recommended: 10 Jun 2022

4.
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

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

Rating: 3     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.
Recommended: 16 Apr 2023

5.

Anxious People by Frederik Backman EN

Rating: 4     8 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
Recommended: 24 Apr 2022

6.
The Scandal

Beartown by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 4     3 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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Recommended: 19 Dec 2022

7.

Beowulf by Unknown EN

Rating: 3     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences?biographical, historical, and literary?to enrich each reader's understanding of thes... continue
Recommended: 16 Sep 2022

8.
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.
Recommended: 04 May 2023

9.
Britt-Marie Was Here

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 4     2 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
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Recommended: 20 Apr 2023

10.
Complete Maus

Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman EN

Rating: 4.5     3543 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.
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Recommended: 26 May 2023


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