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 Summer Book
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Norse Mythology
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Hunger
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
A Doll's House
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
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)
82 books — 4 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Snow Queen by Hans Christian AndersenPuhdistus by Sofi Oksanen
Best Nordic Fiction
321 books — 117 voters

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
109 books — 5 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Snowman by Jo NesbøThe Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries
341 books — 700 voters
The Carer by Scott  L. NelsonLucky by Scott NelsonAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie LeeNew Europe by Michael PalinHeidi's Alp by Christina Hardyment
Armchair travel: Europe
70 books — 15 voters

Michael Booth
Now is probably a good time to make my confession about Finland, our next destination in this Nordic odyssey: I think the Finns are fantastic. I can't get enough of them. I would be perfectly happy for the Finns to rule the world. They get my vote, they've won my heart. If you ask me, they should just change the word 'fantastic' to 'Finntastic.' Helsinki? Heavensinki, more like. ...more
Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Knut Hamsun
I flera hundra år hade hans förfäder sått säd. Det var en handling av andakt en tyst och mild, vindlös kväll, helst i ett litet beskedligt duggregn, helst så snart som möjligt efter det grågässen sträckt. Potatisen, det var en ny rotfrukt, det var inget mystiskt med den, inget religiöst, kvinnfolk och barn kunde vara med och sätta dessa jordpäron som kom från främmande land liksom kaffet, det var stor och präktig mat, men släkt med rovan. Säden, det var brödet. Säd eller icke säd, det var liv el ...more
Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil

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