Scandinavia


The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
A Man Called Ove
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
The Summer Book
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Norse Mythology
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Hunger
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
A Doll's House
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew    FoxA Faraway Island by Annika ThorThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma LagerlöfPancakes for Findus by Sven NordqvistLucia Morning in Sweden by Ewa Rydåker
Sweden in Juvenile Fiction
108 books — 4 voters
The Neverending Story by Michael EndeLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTintenherz by Cornelia FunkeThe Last Wish by Andrzej SapkowskiThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Fantasy - Beyond the English Language
402 books — 142 voters

The Reckless Kind by Carly HeathWild Geese by Soula EmmanuelFire from the Sky by Moa Backe ÅstotNorth is the Night by Emily RathLast Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen
Queer Books Set in the Nordics
25 books — 3 voters
Derfor må du vite at jeg er same by Ella Marie Hætta IsaksenThe Sun, My Father by Nils-Aslak ValkeapääTrekways of the Wind by Nils-Aslak ValkeapääGreetings from Lappland by Nils-Aslak ValkeapääJorda, min mor by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Sami Literature
98 books — 4 voters

Kannas by Hanneriina MoisseinenIsä = Father by Hanneriina MoisseinenNikki by Malin Skogberg NordHundedagar by Anja Dahle ØverbyeGå med mig till hörnet by Anneli Furmark
Nordic Style in Comics
24 books — 2 voters
A Frog in the Fjord by Lorelou DesjardinsThe 100 Unwritten Norwegian Social Laws by Egil Aslak Aursand HagerupNorway in Pictures by Eric BraunIsland Summers by Tilly Culme-SeymourNorway - Culture Smart! by Linda March
Life in Modern Norway (Non-Fiction)
93 books — 4 voters

Robert Barnard
He idled, noting the decorations for Christmas in the shops and the Christmas trees oddly decorated with the Norwegian flag, as if Christ had been born in a stable near Oslo.
Robert Barnard, Death in a Cold Climate

Michael Booth
To achieve authentic, sustained happiness, above all else you need to be in charge of your life, to be in control of who you want to be, and be able to make the appropriate changes if you are not. This cannot merely be a perception, a slogan like the American Dream (the United States came way down on the LSE's social mobility scale, incidentally). In Scandinavia it is a reality. These are the real lands of opportunity. There is far greater social mobility in the Nordic countries than in the Unit ...more
Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

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