9 must-read swedish literature books like Pool by Per Hagman

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Pool

By: Per Hagman

3.02

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the swedish literature plot in Pool by Per Hagman , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • fiction
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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3. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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Paul Hammond

4. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • fiction
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

5. The Dwarf

By: Pär Lagerkvist , None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think i… read more

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6. Dispatches

By: Michael Herr

4.22

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more

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"for years now there had been no country here but the war."

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."

-Michael Herr, Dispatches

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7. Glamorama

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.54

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more

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  • fiction
"How is your father?"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The better you look, the more you see."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"

-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

8. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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9. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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10. 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
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11. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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13. Häng city

By: Mikael Yvesand

3.65

Format: 272 pages, ebook

"För några år sen öppnade en snabbmatsrestaurang vid systembolaget. De valde det oambitiösa namnet … read more

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  • fiction
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14. Systrarna

By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri

4.19

Format: 722 pages, Hardcover

"Första gången jag hörde talas om Mikkolasystrarna var jag fem eller sex år gammal, jag satt på var… read more

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  • fiction
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15. 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
"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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16. Gruppen

By: Sigge Eklund

3.29

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Hanna kommer till Madrid för att arbeta på Pradomuseet och allt i staden är inbjudande och förföris… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

17. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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  • fiction
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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18. Ghost Music

By: An Yu

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more

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  • fiction
"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"

-An Yu, Ghost Music

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19. 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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  • fiction
"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

Cover of Tredje Stenen Från Solen by Claes Holmström

20. Tredje Stenen Från Solen

By: Claes Holmström

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

TREDJE STENEN FRÅN SOLEN är en Jimi Hendrix-låt och handlar om en rymdvarelse som söker sig till Jo… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Pool

By: Per Hagman

3.02

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Franska rivieran. En ung man från Sverige bor hos och är älskare till en äldre kvinna. Boken var… read more

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  • fiction

18 Top fiction books like Pool by Per Hagman

Transform Your Habits

Doctor Glas

Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Whatever

Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

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11 Top fiction books like Tredje Stenen Från Solen by Claes Holmström

Transform Your Habits

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

Sylvain Neuvel

5.00

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

3.55

Transform Your Habits

2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

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