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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 245 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,404,893 ratings — published 2005
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 173 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.26 — 977,210 ratings — published 2006
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 155 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.24 — 769,980 ratings — published 2007
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,182,779 ratings — published 2012
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 107 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.02 — 149,306 ratings — published 2007
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.73 — 51,575 ratings — published 1992
The Summer Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,193 ratings — published 1972
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.10 — 340,165 ratings — published 2017
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,939 ratings — published 2014
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.04 — 63,391 ratings — published 1890
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.77 — 160,736 ratings — published 1879
Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,352 ratings — published 1991
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.29 — 564,668 ratings — published 2016
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
by (shelved 84 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.95 — 108,121 ratings — published 2000
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.01 — 90,520 ratings — published 2007
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.82 — 299,548 ratings — published 2009
Kristin Lavransdatter (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.31 — 14,118 ratings — published 1920
Out Stealing Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,380 ratings — published 2003
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,508 ratings — published 1220
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.76 — 87,350 ratings — published 2003
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.17 — 773,035 ratings — published 2019
The Ice Palace (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,043 ratings — published 1963
The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
by (shelved 63 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,217 ratings — published 2003
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.15 — 207,842 ratings — published 1945
Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
by (shelved 61 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.98 — 79,291 ratings — published 2002
Independent People (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.12 — 14,004 ratings — published 1934
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.77 — 112,866 ratings — published 2016
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.55 — 128,746 ratings — published 1997
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.97 — 277,898 ratings — published 1991
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.07 — 280,943 ratings — published 2013
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,799 ratings — published 1270
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,285 ratings — published 2013
Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,997 ratings — published 2009
The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.72 — 30,219 ratings — published 1992
Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.81 — 32,007 ratings — published 2000
The Mercies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,736 ratings — published 2020
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.50 — 341,114 ratings — published 1000
The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8)
by (shelved 50 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.10 — 63,265 ratings — published 2009
The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,660 ratings — published 1920
The Redeemer (Harry Hole, #6)
by (shelved 49 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,289 ratings — published 2005
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,073 ratings — published 2015
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.04 — 119,179 ratings — published 2004
The Long Ships (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.27 — 12,372 ratings — published 1941
The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.80 — 167,453 ratings — published 2015
Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.96 — 21,326 ratings — published 2001
Britt-Marie Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.09 — 193,242 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.62 — 35,705 ratings — published 2008
Police (Harry Hole, #10)
by (shelved 41 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.24 — 48,517 ratings — published 2013
The Absent One (Department Q, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,218 ratings — published 2008
We, the Drowned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as scandinavia)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,050 ratings — published 2006
“It is seven months since a thirty-two-year-old Oslo man, the racist extremist Anders Behring Breivik, single-handedly doubled Norway's average annual homicide rate in one afternoon, killing a total of seventy-seven people ... From my seat in the bus nothing appears to have changed. What did I expect? That the Norwegians would have put up razor wire and enforced constant police patrols? Hardly likely in a land where the then prime minister, at the memorial service to the dead of Utoya and the Oslo bomb, gave one of the most courageous speeches in defense of public freedom I have ever heard. Jens Stoltenberg had called for 'more openness, more democracy,' at a time when most politicians elsewhere in the world would have used an attack of that nature to pledge revenge, exploit the anxieties of the electorate, garner greater authority and power, and then compromise civil liberties. His speech was a reminder that the political leaders of the north have often served as the moral compass of the world.”
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“Sitting next to a woman at a dinner party recently, she had explained how stifling she found the attitude in her hometown. 'On the [Danish] west coast, anyone who even slightly broke with convention, or or showed that they had any ambition, was frowned upon,' she told me. 'People really didn't like it. Everyone knew your business, everyone had an opinion about what you should be doing. I had to get away. I came to Copenhagen as soon as I could, and don't often go back.' It is common to have such feelings about one's hometown, I suppose, but they do often seem to be particularly keenly felt by people from Jutland.”
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
― The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
