Scandinavia


The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
A Man Called Ove
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
The Summer Book
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Norse Mythology
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Hunger
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
A Doll's House
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Herr Arnes penningar by Selma LagerlöfSingoalla by Viktor RydbergLåt den rätte komma in by John Ajvide LindqvistSeven Gothic Tales by Isak DinesenDvärgen by Pär Lagerkvist
Nordic Gothics
14 books — 6 voters
Hvem sa hva? Kvinner, menn og språk by Helene UriThe Real Valkyrie by Nancy Marie BrownFactfulness by Hans RoslingOm muser og menn by Marta BreenLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Best Scandinavian Nonfiction
6 books — 2 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Murder Most Cold
239 books — 399 voters
Chasing Pebbles by Felicia BlaedelGrindvakterskan by Elvira BergAll In by Simona AhrnstedtBetvingade by Simona AhrnstedtEn enda risk by Simona Ahrnstedt
Scandinavian and Nordic Romance Books
130 books — 19 voters

Derfor må du vite at jeg er same by Ella Marie Hætta IsaksenThe Sun, My Father by Nils-Aslak ValkeapääTrekways of the Wind by Nils-Aslak ValkeapääGreetings from Lappland by Nils-Aslak ValkeapääJorda, min mor by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Sami Literature
98 books — 4 voters

Michael Booth
The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country.
Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Michael Booth
Finnish women are dominant,' Roman Schatz enthused. 'Traditionally, on Finnish farms the woman was chief of everything under the roof, including the males, and the men were there to take care of everything outside. No Finnish man would ever decide anything without consulting his wife. Men do the dishes. We don't have housewives in Finland - no one can afford to live from one salary. Women don't stay at home and breast-feed, they have their own careers and bank accounts. It's great - my divorce o ...more
Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

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