A Book by a Nordic Author

Updated January 13, 2026
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A man called Ove : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life." --People The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that's an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life...
Anxious people : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!...
Out stealing horses
Petterson, Per
Ebook
HARBOR
ENGBERG, KATRINE
Paper Book
"Reading Engberg feels like reading early Jo Nesbo, getting in on the ground of a major crime-writing career." --The New York Times Book Review This third novel in the "thrilling, nerve-wracking" (Shelf Awareness) Korner and Werner series follows the two...
The chestnut man
Sveistrup, Søren
Paper Book
The police make a terrible discovery in a suburb of Copenhagen. A young woman has been killed and dumped at a playground. One of her hands has been cut off, and above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner is Mark Hess, a burned...
The Witch Hunter
Seeck, Max
Paper Book
Pacey and intelligent Scandi crime, perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Stieg Larsson and Samuel Bjork.
Blood on snow
Nesbø, Jo
Paper Book
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav:...
The kingdom
Nesbø, Jo
Paper Book
"I read The Kingdom and couldn't put it down ... Suspenseful ... Original ... This one is special in every way." --Stephen King Two brothers. One small town. A lifetime of dark secrets. A tense and atmospheric standalone thriller from best-selling author Jo Nesbø. ...
I'm travelling alone
Bjørk, Samuel
Paper Book
A six year old girl is found hanging from a tree. Around her neck is an airline tag which says 'I'm travelling alone'. A special homicide unit in Oslo is re-opened with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. He must convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Kr3ger, an extremely...
The angel of Grozny
Seierstad, Åsne
Paper Book
The conflict in Chechnya was the first war journalist Asne Seierstad covered. Now 10 years later, she returns to Chechnya and discovers that though the world's attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, killing 10 to 15 per cent of the population and leaving a brutalised society - with a...
River kings : a new history of Vikings from Scandinavia to the silk roads
Jarman, Cat
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021 'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell 'This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely performed' THE TIMES Books of the Year Follow bioarchaeologist Cat...
The hundred-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jonasson, Jonas
Paper Book
On his 100th birthday Allan Karlsson makes his escape from the old people's home and embarks on an unlikely and momentous adventure.
Let the Northern Lights erase your name : a novel
Vida, Vendela.
Paper Book
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and now Clarissa is alone and adrift. The one person she feels she can trust, her fiancé, Pankaj, has just revealed a...

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