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 Summer Book
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Norse Mythology
Hunger
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
A Doll's House
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Cirkeln by Mats StrandbergBeautiful Affliction by Lene FogelbergLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDoctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
Books Set in Sweden
119 books — 36 voters
The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew    FoxA Faraway Island by Annika ThorThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma LagerlöfPancakes for Findus by Sven NordqvistLucia Morning in Sweden by Ewa Rydåker
Sweden in Juvenile Fiction
108 books — 4 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Snow Queen by Hans Christian AndersenPuhdistus by Sofi Oksanen
Best Nordic Fiction
321 books — 118 voters

Treaty or Treason by Phillip  KerriganBurial Rites by Hannah KentBecoming Leidah by Michelle GriersonThe Half-Drowned King by Linnea HartsuykerZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Historical Fiction - Scandinavia
116 books — 107 voters
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

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

Robert Barnard
He idled, noting the decorations for Christmas in the shops and the Christmas trees oddly decorated with the Norwegian flag, as if Christ had been born in a stable near Oslo.
Robert Barnard, Death in a Cold Climate

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