5 Best poetry books like Härdarna by Karin Boye

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Härdarna

By: Karin Boye

4.03

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Härdarna är en diktsamling av Karin Boye utgiven 1927. Det var författarens tredje diktsamling e…

"Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd, men det är vägen som är mödan värd."

-Karin Boye, Härdarna

"Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd, men det är vägen som är mödan värd."

-Karin Boye, Härdarna

"Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd, men det är vägen som är mödan värd."

-Karin Boye, Härdarna

"Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast, där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast. På ställen, där man sover blott en gång, blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång."

-Karin Boye, Härdarna

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1. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more

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"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

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2. Hemsöborna

By: August Strindberg

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Hemsoborna ar en roman av August Strindberg som utgavs 1887, ett ar efter Tjanstekvinnans son. Stri… read more

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3. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • poetry
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4. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • poetry
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5. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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6. Second April

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

3.65

Format: 36 pages,

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  • poetry

7. Maken: En förhållanderoman

By: Gun-Britt Sundström

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Vad ar det att vara ett par? Vilket ansvar innebar det, vad kan man krava av varandra? Tid? Sex? Tr… read more

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8. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

By: Leigh Bardugo , Sara Kipin

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlig… read more

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9. Din tjänare hör (Jernbanan, #1)

By: Sara Lidman

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

Sara Lidmans stora epos Jernbanan (som rymmer sju delar) handlar om hur Vasterbottens inland befolk… read more

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10. Jerusalem: I Dalarne (Jerusalem, #1)

By: Selma Lagerlöf

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

En berattelse om en vackelserorelse som gar fram over bygden och far manga av dess bebyggare att ut… read more

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11. Det går an

By: Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidkoping sergeant Albert falls in love with the glaz… read more

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12. Den allvarsamma leken

By: Hjalmar Söderberg

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Arhundradets karlekssaga >>Mig far du alska pa ett hedniskt vis!<< sager Lydia Stille till Arvid St… read more

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13. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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14. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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15. The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)

By: Maja Lunde

3.81

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut fol… read more

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"We are nothing without passion."

-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)

"You do know he loves to write. He always has."

-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)

"Without knowledge we are nothing.without knowledge we are animals."

-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)

"لم تستطع أن تبقي أصابعها بعيدة عنه؛ بعد أن تراكمت أشهرٌ من الحنين -إليه- في يديها."

-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)

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16. Stacken

By: Annika Norlin

4.16

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden förr skogen och ser plötsligt en g… read more

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17. Jävla karlar

By: Andrev Walden

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more

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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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18. Räkna hjärtslag

By: Katarina Widholm

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Året är 1937 och den 17-åriga Betty lämnar Hudiksvall för att bli hembiträde hos doktorsfamiljen Mo… read more

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19. Löpa varg

By: Kerstin Ekman

3.97

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Då kom han ut. Han gjorde det med en självklarhet som var lätt att begripa; den här världen var ju … read more

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20. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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21. Min bokvärld

By: Kerstin Ekman

3.72

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Är det dumt att ge sig på tjocka och bra böcker så tidigt i livet att man inte riktigt kan begripa … read more

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22. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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23. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.94

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more

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"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

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24. Girig-Sverige: så blev folkhemmet ett paradis för de superrika

By: Andreas Cervenka

3.99

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Bostadspriser som rusar mest i västvärlden. Hundratusentals svenskar som kastar sig in på börsen. E… read more

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25. The End of the Ocean (Climate Quartet, #2)

By: Maja Lunde

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the #1 international bestseller and Indie Next Pick The History of Bees, a capti… read more

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"Muistatko sateen äänen?" kysyin. "Muistan", hän sanoin. Sitten hän mietti. "En."

-Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean (Climate Quartet, #2)

"It is strange—no, surreal, surreal is the word—that I’m one of them, the old people, when I am still so completely myself through and through, the same person I have always been. Whether I am fifteen…"

-Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean (Climate Quartet, #2)

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26. My Men

By: Victoria Kielland

3.12

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the true story of Norwegian maid Belle Gunness, 19th-century America’s most notorious seri… read more

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27. Inte alls dåligt: Efterlämnade dikter

By: Kristina Lugn

3.69

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

”En av de sista gångerna Kristina Lugn och jag sågs över te och scones berättade hon om en pärm med… read more

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28. En liten bok om konsten att dö

By: Ulf Nilsson

4.08

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

I juli förra året kallades författaren Ulf Nilsson tillsammans med sin fru till ett avskilt rum på … read more

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29. Härdarna

By: Karin Boye

4.03

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Härdarna är en diktsamling av Karin Boye utgiven 1927. Det var författarens tredje diktsamling e… read more

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  • poetry
"Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd, men det är vägen som är mödan värd."

-Karin Boye, Härdarna

"Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast, där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast. På ställen, där man sover blott en gång, blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång."

-Karin Boye, Härdarna

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30. Brightly Shining

By: Ingvild Rishøi

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Brightly Shining is a 'heartbreaking, funny and philosophical tale about the reality of addiction, … read more

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31. Rödgula vägar

By: Kerstin Söderholm

3.72

Format: 79 pages, None

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Spådomen

Agneta Pleijel

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Stormberget (Stenträsktrilogin, #3)

Liza Marklund

3.56

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Tranorna flyger söderut

Lisa Ridzén

4.26

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Annika Norlin

4.16

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