25 must-read fiction books like Polarsommar by Anne Swärd

Cover of Polarsommar by Anne Swärd

Polarsommar

By: Anne Swärd

3.40

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Efter två års bortovaro återvänder Kristian till sitt barndomshem för att ta hand om systern Kaj. U…

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Cover of Doctor Glas by Margaret Atwood, Hjalmar Söderberg, Paul Britten Austin

1. Doctor Glas

By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of enduring power,  Doctor Glas  confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

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2. Din stund på jorden

By: Vilhelm Moberg

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

Affarsmannen och svenskamerikanen Albert Carlson sitter i borjan av sextiotalet pa ett hotellrum i … read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
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3. You & You & You

By: Per Nilsson

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Anon is so lost in his dual fantasies of befriending Sara, the owner of the library… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction

4. Allt jag inte minns

By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Folk sager att Samuel och Laide var sjalsfrander, att deras karlekshistoria var helt javla magisk,… read more

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5. No One Writes Back

By: Jung Yewon , None

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Communication--or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. read more

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6. Piercing

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more

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7. Om udregning af rumfang I

By: Solvej Balle

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang I'' er første del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i genr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Vi er ikke her for å ha det morsomt

By: Nina Lykke

3.55

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Knut er en middelaldrende forfatter som aldri har kommet tilbake på nivå med suksessromanen han skr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. 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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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Själens telegraf

By: Amanda Svensson

3.67

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

”Som de efteråt skulle lära mig på ungdomsvårdsanstalten fanns det antagligen många anledningar til… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. 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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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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12. 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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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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13. Confidenza

By: Domenico Starnone

3.49

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Pietro vive con Teresa un amore tempestoso. Dopo l’ennesimo litigio, a lei viene un’idea: raccontam… read more

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's Confidenza book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • drama
"Far chiarezza all'interno della vita di coppia, mah, forse è un dovere, ma anche un lusso che è rischioso permettersi."

-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza

"- Aveva per modello qualcuno dei suoi insegnanti? - I miei insegnanti? No, assolutamente no. Anzi, il mio unico imperativo era: non fare ai tuoi allievi il male che i tuoi insegnanti hanno fatto a te."

-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza

"Pensai: ci innamoriamo di persone che sembrano vere ma non esistono, sono una nostra invenzione; questa donna così ferma, dalle frasi così scandite, questa donna senza timidezze, sferzante, non la co…"

-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza

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14. Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "

-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen

Cover of Trick by Domenico Starnone

15. Trick

By: Domenico Starnone

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, chan…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"I have enormous affection that grows rather than diminishes with time, for the I that I painfully cose from the many, my I. How we love—all of us—our chatty little imp. The toil begins when we toss h…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"Sexual pleasure, uncoupled once and for all from reproduction, which was its original purpose, continuously leaked fluids all over the planet, in every season. And there was no controlling it, whatev…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

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16. Full spredning

By: Nina Lykke

3.69

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Ingen kjenner understrømmene i befolkningen så godt som en fastlege. Jeg har vært gjennom alt samme… read more

Similar categories in Nina Lykke's Full spredning book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • drama
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17. Djävulsgreppet

By: Lina Wolff

3.40

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

”Vid vilken tidpunkt spårar allt ur? Några veckor senare ska hon försöka kartlägga händelseförloppe… read more

Similar categories in Lina Wolff's Djävulsgreppet book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. How to Love Your Daughter

By: Hila Blum

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Babetta

By: Nina Wähä

3.23

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

En het sommar. En plötslig mistral. Vad är egentligen vänskap? Och vad är egentligen sant? Katja… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The White Book

By: Han Kang

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"

-Han Kang, The White Book

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21. Em

By: Kim Thúy

4.11

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Em, c'est le fil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de m… read more

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  • fiction
"När soldaterna återvänder till basen ordnar armén med läkemedel åt alla som fått med sig oönskade souvenirer mellan benen. Några åtgärder för att utrota de frön som såtts i somliga kvinnors kroppar h…"

-Kim Thúy, Em

"Tâm can describe in detail how the soldiers slipped the ace of spades into their helmet straps, sleeves rolled up above their elbows, the cuffs of their pant legs tucked into their boots. On the othe…"

-Kim Thúy, Em

"Operation Ranch Hand skulle sannolikt ha varit en hyllad militär strategi om det inte varit för alla amerikanska soldater som också de drabbades av växtgifterna. Meningen var att gravitationskraften …"

-Kim Thúy, Em

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22. Andromeda

By: Therese Bohman

3.63

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

”Förlagshuset ligger som ett fartyg som ankrat mitt i stan, en stor ljus byggnad som kröns av en ta… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Jeśli ro­zu­mie się ludzi, wszy­scy stają się in­te­re­su­ją­cy."

-Therese Bohman, Andromeda

"Pamiętasz jak raz powiedziałaś, że masz wrażenie jakbyś przez całe życie biegła? Dokładnie wiedziałem co masz na myśli, ze mną było tak samo. Biegłem sam, tak jak Ty. Ale przez te kilka lat miałem wr…"

-Therese Bohman, Andromeda

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23. Sockerormen

By: Karin Smirnoff

3.87

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover for this edition can be found here. Agnes, Kristian och Miika växer upp i Söde… read more

Similar categories in Karin Smirnoff's Sockerormen book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • swedish literature
  • fiction
Cover of Ovanjorden by Mikael Berglund

24. Ovanjorden

By: Mikael Berglund

3.69

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

En av de sista dagarna av sommarjobbet på förskolan i Ammarnäs träffar Oskar renskötaren Eija, stor… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Far inte till havet by Elin Anna Labba

25. Far inte till havet

By: Elin Anna Labba

3.89

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

När Igá och Rávdná kommer hem till sommarlandet ligger byn redan under vatten. Utan att förvarna de… read more

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26. Polarsommar

By: Anne Swärd

3.40

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Efter två års bortovaro återvänder Kristian till sitt barndomshem för att ta hand om systern Kaj. U… read more

Similar categories in Anne Swärd's Polarsommar book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • contemporary
  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Jag skriver över ditt ansikte by Anna-Karin Palm

27. Jag skriver över ditt ansikte

By: Anna-Karin Palm

4.01

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Du säger: "Vad heter din mor nu igen?" Jag svarar: "Det är ju du. Du är min mor." I "Jag skri… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Karin Palm's Jag skriver över ditt ansikte book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • swedish literature
Cover of The Divorce by Moa Herngren

28. The Divorce

By: Moa Herngren

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A decades-long, seemingly rock-solid marriage suddenly falls apart during one hot Stockholm summer … read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Älskade Betty (Böckerna om Betty, #4) by Katarina Widholm

29. Älskade Betty (Böckerna om Betty, #4)

By: Katarina Widholm

3.65

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

Året är 1955 och det har gått fyra år sedan Bettys make Olof avled. Betty kämpar med känslor av oti… read more

Similar categories in Katarina Widholm's Älskade Betty (Böckerna om Betty, #4) book and Anne Swärd's Polarsommar

  • fiction
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30. Punished

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen c… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Fru Gregorius by Åsa Nilsonne

31. Fru Gregorius

By: Åsa Nilsonne

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

En omtolkning av Hjalmar Söderbergs roman Doktor Glas sett från Helga perspektiv read more

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