Swedish Literature

Sweden ranks third in the list of countries with most Nobel Prize laureates in literature. Famous Swedish writers include Astrid Lindgren, Gustaf Fröding, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Vilhelm Moberg, and August Strindberg.

When the Cranes Fly South
The Sisters
The Colony
Jävla karlar
Liken vi begravde
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders #3)
The Distinctly Competent District Councillor
The Couples Trip
The Details
El mentalista (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #1)
Vitön.
The Mountain King (The Asker, #1)
Spindeln (Joona Linna, #9)
The Divorce
Kult (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #2)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
A Man Called Ove
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Let the Right One In
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
Doctor Glas
Anxious People
The Brothers Lionheart
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Kallocain
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Translated Literature
1,046 books — 504 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,220 books — 1,246 voters
Tystheten by Emma RendelIce by V.C. AndrewsOm ett missfoster by Pauline WågströmScener ur hjärtat by Malena ErnmanPersona Medusa by D.J. Sharry
Selektiv mutism
7 books — 2 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 Ice Princess by Camilla LäckbergThe Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
Best Swedish Crime
190 books — 70 voters
Låt den rätte komma in by John Ajvide LindqvistWolf Winter by Cecilia EkbäckThe Swimmer by Joakim ZanderThe Bachelorette Party by Camilla StenWe Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal
Authors Born in Sweden
14 books — 5 voters


Benjamin Franklin
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded — such as the fall of our first parents by eating an apple, the coming of Christ to repair the mischief, his miracles and suffering, etc. When he had finished an Indian orator stood up to thank him. ‘What you have told us,’ says he, ‘is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all i ...more
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Marc Levy
- I verkligheten har vi bara ett val, ta chansen eller missa den.
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