Books

Swedish Cakes and Cookies has become a modern classic since it was first published in 1945.

The Marquis de Sade is alive and well and living in Sweden—or perhaps author Nikanor Teratologen is the devil himself.

A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert) decides it's not too late to start over

The celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.

A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.

A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin.

John Ajvide Lindqvist’s international bestseller Let the Right One In is “a brilliant take on the vampire myth, and a roaring good story”

They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears is the groundbreaking, award-winning work from the bestselling Swedish-Ugandan author Johannes Anyuru.

Barabbas is a profound novel that explores faith, doubt, and the human search for meaning through the story of the man freed instead of Jesus.

Based on real events, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning novel Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution.

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America.

In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.

"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller." —The Washington Post

Fredrik Backman’s beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others.

"A rollicking story of Pippi who lives without any grownups in a little house at the edge of the village. The matter-of-fact way in which her absurd adventures are related is one of the chief charms of this story."

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a work of fiction by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature