8 best-selling roman books like Line by Axel Jensen

Cover of Line by Axel Jensen

Line

By: Axel Jensen

3.54

Format: 251 pages, Hardback

Jacob er en ung eventyrlysten, rastløs mann som har vært ute i verden. Han føler seg både over- og …

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Cover of Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4) by Karl Ove Knausgård

1. Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn … read more

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  • fiction
"Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they sa…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"All the drinking reinforced my unease, and since nothing of what I did gave me anything back, I became more and more worn down, it was as though I was being drained, I became emptier and emptier, and…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"Why didn't they drink? Why didn't everyone drink? Alcohol makes everything big, it is a wind blowing through your consciousness, it is crashing waves and swaying forests, and the light it transmits g…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"[I]n music there is no meaning, there is no explanation, there are no people, only voices, each with its own special distinctive quality, as though this is its essential quality, its essence, unadult…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

Cover of The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan

2. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

Cover of A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3) by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum

3. A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

3.94

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taki… read more

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  • fiction
"I’m forever realizing things too late."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

"The light of morning decomposes everything."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

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4. Beatles

By: Lars Saabye Christensen

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Beatleser en munter og vemodig roman om fire Beatles-frelste Oslogutter av argang 1951, fra de som … read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Robert A. Maguire

5. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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  • fiction
"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

Cover of Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel, Elizabeth Rokkan

6. Alberta and Jacob

By: Cora Sandel , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.23

Format: 403 pages,

Imaginative and intelligent, Alberta is a misfit trapped in a stiflingly provincial town in the far… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel Hahn

7. A General Theory of Oblivion

By: José Eduardo Agualusa , Daniel Hahn

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On the eve of Angolan independence an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her apartmen… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe, Tor Ketil Solberg

8. Naïve. Super

By: Erlend Loe , Tor Ketil Solberg

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

The narrator of this funny and poignant novel is searching for meaning, going back to his childhood… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hærværk by Tom  Kristensen

9. Hærværk

By: Tom Kristensen

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Denemarken, eind jaren twintig. Ole Jastrau walgt van zijn burgerlijk bestaan als getrouwd man, zij… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Victoria by Knut Hamsun

10. Victoria

By: Knut Hamsun

3.75

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Victoria A Love Story read more

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  • fiction
"Åh, kjærligheten den er en sommernatt med stjerner på himmelen"

-Knut Hamsun, Victoria

"Yes," he answered, "it's a strain being witty at my age. I'm giving it up."

-Knut Hamsun, Victoria

"О, любовта превръща човешкото сърце в градина, едновременно разкошна и безсрамна, в която избуяват и цветя, и бурени!"

-Knut Hamsun, Victoria

"Love was God's first word, the first thought that sailed across his mind. He said, Let there be light, and there was love."

-Knut Hamsun, Victoria

11. Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more

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12. Hvor der er fugle

By: Maren Uthaug

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

En skaebnefortaelling om ensomhed, skam og uforlost kaerligheden. "Hvor der er fugle" handler om en… read more

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13. The Birds

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more

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14. Fakta Om Finland

By: Erlend Loe

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Fakta om Finland" handler om en brosjyreskaper som frykter vann og flyt, og som hele tiden selv fl… read more

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15. Min kamp 5 (Min kamp #5)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Femte bind av den selvbiografiske romanen Min kamp er skrevet med voldsom kraft og oppriktighet. Ka… read more

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16. Hvite Niggere

By: Ingvar Ambjørnsen

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hvite niggere er en brei, generos og brutal fortelling om outsiderne, i oppror mot et skinnhellig o… read more

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17. 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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18. Shyness and Dignity

By: Sverre Lyngstad , Dag Solstad

3.96

Format: 433 pages,

An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society--publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th annive… read more

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19. Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more

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20. Half of a Yellow Sun

By: None

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more

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21. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

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"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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22. Mañana y tarde

By: Jon Fosse

3.88

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

Cover of Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

23. Tollak til Ingeborg

By: Tore Renberg

4.24

Format: 167 pages, Hardcover

Dei kallar han Tollak til Ingeborg. Den gamle stabukken som bur oppe ved sagplassen. Alle veit at h… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
Cover of Da vi var yngre by Oliver Lovrenski

24. 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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  • roman
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Naustet by Jon Fosse

25. Naustet

By: Jon Fosse

3.83

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Tre dagar ein sommar utspeler det seg ei trekanthistorie mellom eg-personen, barndomskameraten Knut… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
"Eg går ikke ut lenger, ei uro er kommen over meg, og eg går ikkje ut."

-Jon Fosse, Naustet

Cover of Ekko: Et essay om algoritmer og begjær by Lena Lindgren

26. Ekko: Et essay om algoritmer og begjær

By: Lena Lindgren

4.31

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ekko var nymfen som snakket for mye. For dette ble hun dømt til en skjebne hvor hun bare kunne gjen… read more

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27. Dyrene i Afrika

By: Erlend Loe

3.62

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Dyrene i Afrika er en historie om avmakt, aktivisme, avvik og tøylesløst begjær. Fem enkeltpersoner… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
Cover of Jente, 1983 by Linn Ullmann

28. Jente, 1983

By: Linn Ullmann

3.70

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

«Gjennom å skrive det som skjedde, gjennom å fortelle historien så sannferdig som jeg kan, forsøker… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
Cover of Palestina. Israels ran, vårt svik by Odd Karsten Tveit

29. Palestina. Israels ran, vårt svik

By: Odd Karsten Tveit

4.54

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

Palestina. Israels ran, vårt svik er den store historien om årene fra 1948, da Israel kom på kartet… read more

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Cover of Line by Axel Jensen

30. Line

By: Axel Jensen

3.54

Format: 251 pages, Hardback

Jacob er en ung eventyrlysten, rastløs mann som har vært ute i verden. Han føler seg både over- og … read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
Cover of Innerst i hjertet har jeg min forstand. Biografien om Georg Johannesen. by Alfred Fidjestøl

31. Innerst i hjertet har jeg min forstand. Biografien om Georg Johannesen.

By: Alfred Fidjestøl

4.29

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Ein mann på tvers av si samtid. Lyrikar Georg Johannesen kunne vere ein nådelaus polemikar som g… read more

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17 must-read fiction books like Line by Axel Jensen

Transform Your Habits

Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

Karl Ove Knausgård

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Beatles

Lars Saabye Christensen

2.67

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17 Best fiction books like Victoria by Knut Hamsun

Transform Your Habits

Volvo Lastvagnar (Doppler, #2)

Erlend Loe , Lotta Eklund

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Beatles

Lars Saabye Christensen

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Gift (Løvdahl #1)

Alexander L. Kielland

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Naïve. Super

Erlend Loe , Tor Ketil Solberg

3.60

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