17 must-read finnish literature books like Iris rukka by Anni Swan

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Iris rukka

By: Anni Swan

3.61

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

Iris Klewe, suomalaisen lastenkirjallisuuden tunnetuin orpotyttö on lahjakas taiteilijan alku. Iris…

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Cover of Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson

1. Sculptor's Daughter

By: Tove Jansson

4.00

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Tove Jansson's first book for adults was a memoir, capturing afresh the enchantments and fears of h… read more

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  • classics
  • finnish literature
"Life is an isle of sorrow, you live today and die tomorrow!"

-Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

"Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful."

-Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

"She put on a white dress and went around all day with roses in her hair and sang hymns."

-Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

Cover of Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4) by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton

2. Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before he had a family, before he met Moominmamma, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • finnish literature
Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

3. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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4. Mielensäpahoittaja

By: Tuomas Kyrö

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Kylla mina niin mieleni pahoitin, kun aurinko paistoi." Nain alkoi eras kesan 2009 radiohelmeksi n… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
Cover of The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson, Sophie Hannah

5. The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My

By: Tove Jansson , Sophie Hannah

3.42

Format: None pages,

In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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6. Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.02

Format: 288 pages, School & Library Binding

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"…hate's got to be a disease with me."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)

"We always hate people who surprise our secrets…"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)

"A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing..."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)

"Today has been a day dropped out of June into April."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)

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7. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

8. Memory of Water

By: Emmi Itäranta

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and C… read more

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9. The True Deceiver

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal

4.36

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original The lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others--is the sub… read more

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10. Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.12

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart,… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"Oh, I am—I am lonely—with the loneliness of unshared thought."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

Cover of Winter (Seasonal, #2) by Ali Smith

11. Winter (Seasonal, #2)

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet—from the Baileys Prize-winning,… read more

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  • fiction
"Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?"

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

"You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth."

-Ali Smith, Winter (Seasonal, #2)

Cover of Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi

12. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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13. Pienen hauen pyydystys

By: Juhani Karila

4.35

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Elina Ylijaako palaa kotiseudulleen Itä-Lappiin saattamaan loppuun sen, mikä on pantu alulle vuosia… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
"- Tiiäkkö sinä että sulla on peijooni takapenkillä. - Tiedän. - Ei sitte mittään."

-Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys

"Néha úgy tűnik nekem, hogy a világ nem süllyed bele a tengerbe, nem is sivatagosodik el, csak egyszerűen elmocsarasodik. A mezőket elnyelik a mocsarak. Az útjelzőket, a körforgalmakat, a felhőkarcoló…"

-Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys

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14. Suomaa

By: Maria Turtschaninoff

4.35

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Ihmisen ja metsän juuret yhtä syvällä. Suomaa on lumoava episodiromaani metsän voimasta ja suoma… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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15. Korvapuustikesä (Kahvila Koivu, #1)

By: Maija Kajanto

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Pellillinen rakkautta, kiitos! Kristiina Kivimaa saa tarpeekseen ravintola-alan pyörityksestä, n… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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16. Ihana

By: Dess Terentjeva

3.60

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Miten elää jatkuvien olettamusten ja ennakkoluulojen maailmassa – ja mitä tehdä, kun itsekin tulee … read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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17. Skymning 41 : roman från en krigstid

By: Kjell Westö

3.64

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Kjell Westös nya roman börjar i slutet av januari 1940. Då har kriget som ska kallas vinterkriget p… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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18. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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  • fiction
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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19. Syyskirja

By: Johanna Venho

3.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Tarkkanäköinen taiteilijaromaani Ensimmäisen naisen tekijältä. Romaani Tove Janssonista. Saar… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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20. Liv!

By: Helmi Kekkonen

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Kaksikymmentäkaksivuotias Liv viettää perheensä kesäpaikassa viimeistä lomaviikkoaan, hän on raukea… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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21. A Season for Second Chances

By: Jenny Bayliss

3.78

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A charmingly quirky seaside town offers a recently separated restauranteur a fresh start and possib… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Virtahevot by Emmi-Liia Sjöholm

22. Virtahevot

By: Emmi-Liia Sjöholm

3.97

Format: 4 pages, Audiobook

Menestyskirjailijan uusi taidonnäyte on kirja eksyneistä ihmisistä kesäyössä. Touko ja Eevis ist… read more

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  • fiction
  • finnish literature
Cover of Inne i spegelsalen by Liv Strömquist

23. Inne i spegelsalen

By: Liv Strömquist

4.24

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Vi lever i en tid besatt av fysisk skönhet. Fotografier - hur vi ser ut på bild - har blivit allt v… read more

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Cover of Sen for jag hem (Jana Kippo, #3) by Karin Smirnoff

24. Sen for jag hem (Jana Kippo, #3)

By: Karin Smirnoff

4.08

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Jana Kippo lämnar Smalånger för att delta i en utställning i Stockholm. Där kommer hennes förflutna… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Every Living Thing  (All Creatures Great and Small, #8) by James Herriot

25. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)

By: James Herriot

4.49

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton

26. Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Kirahvin sydän on tavattoman suuri by Sofia Chanfreau

27. Kirahvin sydän on tavattoman suuri

By: Sofia Chanfreau

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Vega on kymmenvuotias ja asuu isänsä kanssa Kirahvisaarella. Vegan elämässä kaikki sujuu tavallisee… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • finnish literature
Cover of Palavan kaupungin lapset (Turun palo, #1) by Roope Lipasti

28. Palavan kaupungin lapset (Turun palo, #1)

By: Roope Lipasti

3.70

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Pelastustehtävä palavassa kaupungissa Palkitun Viikinkisolmu-sarjan tekijältä historiallinen las… read more

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  • childrens
  • finnish literature
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29. Rauniokaupungin lapset

By: Roope Lipasti

3.56

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

Historiallinen lastenromaani Turun palosta saa jatkoa Rauniokaupungin lapset seuraa lasten selvi… read more

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  • childrens
  • finnish literature
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30. Iris rukka

By: Anni Swan

3.61

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

Iris Klewe, suomalaisen lastenkirjallisuuden tunnetuin orpotyttö on lahjakas taiteilijan alku. Iris… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • finnish literature
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31. Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Pour Rilla, dernière-née d’Anne Shirley et Gilbert Blythe, pas question d’études comme ses frères e… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"If I can't love you I mean to be proud of you."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

"Ah yes, you're young enough not to be afraid of perfect things."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

"Dream after dream comes true—or rather is made true by persevering effort."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

"After all it was not a hard thing to fight for a land that bore daughters like this."

-L.M. Montgomery, Rilla, ma Rilla (Anne #8)

23 must-read fiction books like Iris rukka by Anni Swan

Transform Your Habits

Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)

Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Summer Book

Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Mielensäpahoittaja

Tuomas Kyrö

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My

Tove Jansson , Sophie Hannah

3.42

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17 Top fiction books like Winter (Seasonal, #2) by Ali Smith

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

3.94

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Winter (Seasonal, #2)

Ali Smith

3.82

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