17 must-read fiction books like Lucca by Jens Christian Grøndahl

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Lucca

By: Jens Christian Grøndahl

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

On a lovely evening in April, Lucca Montale is rushed to the hospital after the car she was driving…

If you liked the fiction plot in Lucca by Jens Christian Grøndahl , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Joe Speedboot

By: Tommy Wieringa

3.70

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Joe Speedboot is een roman over liefde en rivaliteit, over een verlosser zonder belofte en een hero… read more

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  • fiction
"De absolute prijsbok van het schoolplein."

-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot

"In tijden van droogte sterven de bloemen als eerste."

-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot

"Het was groot machtsvertoon, de alfadieren op hun best."

-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot

"Angst en overmoed, dat is de motor van de geschiedenis."

-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot

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2. Britt-Marie Was Here

By: Fredrik Backman , Henning Koch

4.09

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable … read more

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  • fiction
"If you can be heard then you exist."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"They forgot what made them successful."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"It takes years to know a human being. An entire lifetime. It's what makes a home a home."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

"A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that."

-Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

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3. The Darkest Room (The Öland Quartet, #2)

By: Johan Theorin

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it.' It is bitte… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Gösta Berling's Saga

By: Selma Lagerlöf , Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau , Lillie Tudeer

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlof assured her place in Swedish le… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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  • fiction
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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6. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

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7. Life & Times of Michael K

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more

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  • fiction
"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

8. The Forgotten Girls

By: Sara Blaedel , None

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a forest in Denmark, a ranger discovers the fresh corpse of an unidentified woman. A large scar … read more

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9. De zonnewende

By: Cilla Börjlind

3.27

Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition

In het diepst weggestopte deel van een baai aan de westkust van Zweden ligt het dorpje Skuggsidan (… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Nøjsomheden

By: Stine Askov

4.31

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Nøjsomheden er en rå og kærlighedsfuld roman om Mona, der bor i ghettoen Nøjsomheden og skal finde … read more

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  • fiction
  • danish
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11. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Open

By: Philip Huff

3.14

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Op een veel te warme septembermiddag in 2020 trekt de verteller van Open de deur van het huis van z… read more

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"Ik wilde geen kinderen, want ik wilde geen verlenging van al het verdriet, geen goedkeuring van al het geweld. Zoals ik geen kinderen had, kon ik zeggen: 'Maar ik ben het fundamenteel oneens met deze…"

-Philip Huff, Open

"Ik wilde geen kinderen, want ik wilde geen verlenging van al het verdriet, geen goedkeuring van al het geweld. Zolang ik geen kinderen had, kon ik zeggen: 'Maar ik ben het fundamenteel oneens met dez…"

-Philip Huff, Open

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13. Moord op de moestuin

By: Nicolien Mizee

3.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Thijs en Judith zijn amper getrouwd wanneer Thijs een hartaanval krijgt. Op de dag dat hij thuiskom… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Faces

By: Tove Ditlevsen

3.92

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more

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  • danish
  • fiction
  • denmark
"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."

-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces

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15. Jag kan ha fel och andra visdomar från mitt liv som buddhistmunk

By: Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Jag kan ha fel är Björn Natthiko Lindeblads självbiografiska berättelse om hur han lämnar en löftes… read more

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"Någon som försökte lugna mig efteråt menade att anledningen till att ormen var så långsam och inte hann hugga efter mig var att detta var en av de giftigaste ormarna och de behövde inte vara så snabb…"

-Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Jag kan ha fel och andra visdomar från mitt liv som buddhistmunk

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16. Citronbjerget

By: Eva Tind

3.58

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Sui forlader sin mand uden helt at kunne forklare hvorfor. Da hun modtager et brev om, at hendes uk… read more

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  • fiction
  • danish
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17. Gebied 19

By: Esther Gerritsen

3.35

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

De dag na zijn bruiloft wordt Tomas alleen wakker. Zijn vrouw is nergens te bekennen, terwijl haar … read more

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  • fiction
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18. Kriger uden maske

By: Hanne-Vibeke Holst

4.08

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

KØBENHAVN, 1930. Byen summer af jazz og dæmpede samtaler om den urolige verdenssituation, da 18-åri… read more

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19. Lucca

By: Jens Christian Grøndahl

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

On a lovely evening in April, Lucca Montale is rushed to the hospital after the car she was driving… read more

Similar categories in Jens Christian Grøndahl's Lucca book and Jens Christian Grøndahl's Lucca

  • cultural
  • denmark
  • fiction
  • family
  • danish
Cover of Skraplotter (Vargskinnet, #3) by Kerstin Ekman

20. Skraplotter (Vargskinnet, #3)

By: Kerstin Ekman

4.01

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Det är ingen lätt sak att få barn när man är över nittio. Skammen och hemligheterna finns ju, och b… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sista rompan (Vargskinnet, #2) by Kerstin Ekman

21. Sista rompan (Vargskinnet, #2)

By: Kerstin Ekman

4.07

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Kriget gestaltar om livet för människorna i Svartvattnet. I den här berättelsen, som är den andra d… read more

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  • fiction

17 best-selling fiction books like Skraplotter (Vargskinnet, #3) by Kerstin Ekman

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Korparna

Tomas Bannerhed

2.43

Transform Your Habits

Kaarna

Tommi Kinnunen

4.24

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Annika Norlin

4.16

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