7 must-read historical fiction books like The First Stone by Carsten Jensen

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The First Stone

By: Carsten Jensen

3.99

Format: 572 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of We, the Drowned comes a brutal, unflinching, and bestselling epic …

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The First Stone by Carsten Jensen , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Histoire de la violence

By: Édouard Louis

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

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2. The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

By: Jussi Adler-Olsen , Lisa Hartford

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroye… read more

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  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • denmark
"But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing."

-Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

"So, I suppose you just have a sense of where it is. And you don’t have to be precise, is that it?"

-Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

"Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar."

-Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

"She is really really so beautiful there,' said Assad. Carl glanced at him. Apparently a woman's appearance was a particularly valuable factor in his assistant's world-view. But Carl agreed with him."

-Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

3. The Absent One (Department Q, #2)

By: Jussi Adler-Olsen , K.E. Semmel

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Morck, a deeply flawed, b… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • denmark

4. Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi

By: Thomas Korsgaard

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

En staerk roman om den afstumpethed og afmagt, der opstar, nar kaerligheden forsvinder i en familie… read more

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5. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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6. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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7. Bikubesong

By: Frode Grytten

4.05

Format: 224 pages,

Noveliu romanas ,,Avilio daina", pasirodes 1999 m., sulauke kritiku pagyru, iskart buvo pripazintas… read more

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8. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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  • contemporary
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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9. Flukt

By: Carl Frode Tiller

4.24

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

Det er julaftan. Elisabet og Sakarias har vore ved grava, sett lys, børsta snø av steinen - så køyr… read more

Similar categories in Carl Frode Tiller's Flukt book and Carsten Jensen's The First Stone

  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
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10. 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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  • denmark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • scandinavian literature
  • danish
  • audiobook
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11. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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12. Når mænd forlader mig

By: Johanne Bille

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Johanne Bille har skrevet en klar og klog skildring af jagten på kærlighed, og hvad der sker, når m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • denmark
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13. De uverdige

By: Roy Jacobsen

3.73

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

I Roy Jacobsens roman De uverdige følger vi en gjeng gutter og jenter fra en bygård på østkanten i … read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. De kaller meg ulven

By: Zeshan Shakar

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

«Hvorfor hadde de ikke mer, husker jeg at jeg tenkte etter at hun døde. De var herfra, norske, nord… read more

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  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Reindeer Hunters (Hekne, #2)

By: Lars Mytting

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The second novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy, an epic, moving, and glor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Da vi var yngre

By: Oliver Lovrenski

4.27

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Ivor vokser opp for raskt og savner det han aldri har hatt. Med seg har han Marco, Arjan og Jonas. … read more

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  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"de sier brødre? dere ække brødre, dere ikke er familie engang, men om vi ikke er familie, hvorfor er vi dem vi ringer hver gang ikke vi kan ringe noen andre, hvorfor er vi dem som er der når ingen an…"

-Oliver Lovrenski, Da vi var yngre

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17. En dag vil vi grine af det

By: Thomas Korsgaard

4.00

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Hvad sker der med en familie i underskud, som pludselig kommer til penge? Som endelig får det, de h… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • scandinavian literature
  • danish
  • audiobook
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18. La Décision

By: Karine Tuil

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Mai 2016. Dans une aile ultrasécurisée du Palais de justice, la juge Alma Revel doit se prononcer s… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Om udregning af rumfang II

By: Solvej Balle

3.96

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang II'' er anden del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele. Tara Selter er ef… read more

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  • denmark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • scandinavian literature
  • danish
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20. Om udregning af rumfang III

By: Solvej Balle

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang III'' er tredje del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i ge… read more

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  • denmark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • scandinavian literature
  • danish
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21. Det blinde øje

By: Mathilde Walter Clark

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

DET ER EFTERÅRET 2020. Isoleret i sit hjem sidder Mathilde Walter Clark og ser på, da den nationale… read more

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  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • danish
  • denmark
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22. Som pesten

By: Hanne-Vibeke Holst

3.91

Format: 685 pages, ebook

Næppe er den danske læge Karoline Branner ankommet til Genève for at starte på en frisk som koordin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • danish
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. She Can Run (She Can #1)

By: Melinda Leigh

4.20

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Elizabeth was a young widow with two small children when she met Congressman Richard Baker. Handsom… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Przewalskis hest (Klimakvartetten, #3)

By: Maja Lunde

3.86

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

Publisher's Summary Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize, and … read more

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  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. 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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  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Jordisk

By: Theis Ørntoft

3.93

Format: 599 pages, Paperback

Dokumentaristen Rhea, coachen Miriam og gymnasielæreren Joel kæmper hver især med at finde retning … read more

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  • fiction
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27. Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

By: Tore Renberg

3.86

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

Sachsen, 1681: Femten år gamle Anna Voigt tiltales for å ha drept sitt nyfødte barn. Blir hun kjent… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"For å tre inn i Gleditsch' bokhandel. Hyllemeter på hyllemeter med bøker. Himmelen slik den fortoner seg på jorden."

-Tore Renberg, Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

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28. Folk som sår i snö

By: Tina Harnesk

3.86

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Ingen ska komma och berätta för Máriddja när hon ska dö och ingen kan dra ur 85-åringen sanningen o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Deep River

By: Karl Marlantes

4.21

Format: 820 pages, Kindle Edition

Three Finnish siblings head for the logging fields of nineteenth-century America in the New York Ti… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Storm på vej

By: Steffen Kretz

4.32

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

STORM PÅ VEJ er en dybdegående og personlig beretning fra DR’s mangeårige USA-korrespondent Steffen… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. The First Stone

By: Carsten Jensen

3.99

Format: 572 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of We, the Drowned comes a brutal, unflinching, and bestselling epic … read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • denmark
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • scandinavian literature
  • danish
  • audiobook

24 Best fiction books like The First Stone by Carsten Jensen

Transform Your Habits

Histoire de la violence

Édouard Louis

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

Jussi Adler-Olsen , Lisa Hartford

4.00

The Absent One (Department Q, #2)

Jussi Adler-Olsen , K.E. Semmel

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Flukt

Carl Frode Tiller

4.24

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15 best-selling fiction books like The Reindeer Hunters (Hekne, #2) by Lars Mytting

Transform Your Habits

Slåttekar i himmelen

Edvard Hoem

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Du er så lys

Tore Renberg

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Mengele Zoo (Mino-trilogien #1)

Gert Nygårdshaug

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Etterklang

Helga Flatland

3.81

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