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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,530,140 ratings — published 2005
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 181 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,006,442 ratings — published 2006
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 162 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.25 — 790,162 ratings — published 2007
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,283,156 ratings — published 2012
The Summer Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.97 — 67,683 ratings — published 1972
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 111 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.03 — 156,719 ratings — published 2007
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.73 — 53,495 ratings — published 1992
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.09 — 349,096 ratings — published 2017
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,659 ratings — published 2014
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.03 — 68,686 ratings — published 1890
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,991 ratings — published 1991
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.01 — 98,476 ratings — published 2007
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.77 — 170,473 ratings — published 1879
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.28 — 658,528 ratings — published 2016
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.82 — 312,410 ratings — published 2009
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
by (shelved 84 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.95 — 112,612 ratings — published 2000
Kristin Lavransdatter (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.32 — 15,554 ratings — published 1920
Out Stealing Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,984 ratings — published 2003
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,315 ratings — published 1220
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.76 — 92,422 ratings — published 2003
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.16 — 212,525 ratings — published 1945
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.16 — 884,790 ratings — published 2019
The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
by (shelved 66 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.07 — 79,078 ratings — published 2003
The Ice Palace (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,284 ratings — published 1963
Independent People (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,264 ratings — published 1934
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.77 — 117,398 ratings — published 2016
Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.98 — 82,731 ratings — published 2002
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.06 — 306,983 ratings — published 2013
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.55 — 137,628 ratings — published 1997
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,966 ratings — published 1270
Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.10 — 52,320 ratings — published 2009
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,193 ratings — published 950
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.97 — 292,353 ratings — published 1991
The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.72 — 31,486 ratings — published 1992
The Mercies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,857 ratings — published 2020
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.04 — 129,813 ratings — published 2013
Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,183 ratings — published 2000
The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,885 ratings — published 1920
The Redeemer (Harry Hole, #6)
by (shelved 52 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.09 — 52,037 ratings — published 2005
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.03 — 124,045 ratings — published 2004
The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8)
by (shelved 52 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.10 — 66,132 ratings — published 2009
The Long Ships (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,815 ratings — published 1941
Britt-Marie Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.09 — 213,471 ratings — published 2014
The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
by (shelved 47 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.81 — 172,206 ratings — published 2015
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.97 — 33,748 ratings — published 2015
The Absent One (Department Q, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,422 ratings — published 2008
Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur, #4)
by (shelved 45 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,265 ratings — published 2001
Police (Harry Hole, #10)
by (shelved 43 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.24 — 50,962 ratings — published 2013
The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,135 ratings — published 2008
Gösta Berling's Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.63 — 7,067 ratings — published 1891
“Sitting next to a woman at a dinner party recently, she had explained how stifling she found the attitude in her hometown. 'On the [Danish] west coast, anyone who even slightly broke with convention, or or showed that they had any ambition, was frowned upon,' she told me. 'People really didn't like it. Everyone knew your business, everyone had an opinion about what you should be doing. I had to get away. I came to Copenhagen as soon as I could, and don't often go back.' It is common to have such feelings about one's hometown, I suppose, but they do often seem to be particularly keenly felt by people from Jutland.”
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“It is probable, as Anthony Faulkes suggests, that the pagan religion was never systematically understood by those who practiced it. Different areas of Scandinavia worshipped different gods at different times in the pre-Christian era; the localized nature of cults and rituals produced neither dogma nor sacred texts, as far as we know. Rather pre-Christian religion was 'a disorganized body of conflicting traditions that was probably never reduced in heathen times to a consistent orthodoxy such as Snorri attempts to present'.”
― The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
― The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
