A Book by a Nordic Author

Updated January 13, 2026
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A man called Ove : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks! #1 New York Times bestseller--more than 3 million copies sold! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside...
Anxious People A Novel
Backman, Fredrik.
Ebook
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a "quirky, big-hearted novel....Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure" (...
Out Stealing Horses
Petterson, Per
Paper Book
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July. Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in...
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, Soren.
Paper Book
International Bestseller * A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Barry Award for Best First Mystery/Crime Novel "A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson" --A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window From Søren Sveistrup,...
Blood on snow a novel
Nesb©?, 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
Nesb©?, 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. ...
The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jonasson, Jonas
Paper Book
A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel -- perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove. The international publishing sensation -- more than six million copies...
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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