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If you have read at least half of these, you should become an honorary Swede. 

The list is made up of a variety of genres, new and old, and from young adult and up.

 

1. Vilhelm Moberg - The emigrants (or the whole Emigrants series of 4 novels)

2. Karin Boye - Kallocain

3. Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas

4. Per Olov Enquist - Captain Nemo's library

5. Stieg Larsson - The Lisbeth Salander series

6. Hjalmar Bergman - The Markurells in Wadköping

7. Moa Martinson - Women and apple trees

8. Harry Martinson - Aniara

9. Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking - or better yet, everything she ever published

10. Marianne Fredriksson - Simon and the oaks

11. Jonas Gardell - Don't ever wipe tears without gloves (series of 3 novels)

12. Eyvind Johnson - The days of his grace

13. Selma Lagerlöf - The emperor of Portugallia (or The wonderful adventures of Nils)

14. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The abominable man (or the whole Martin Beck series of 10 novels)

15. August Strindberg - The father

16. Henning Mankell - Kurt Wallander series

17. John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the right one in

18. Kerstin Ekman - Blackwater

19. Roslund & Hellström - Three seconds

20. Gösta Knutsson - Pelle Svanslös

21. Anders de la Motte - Game

22. Mons Kallentoft - Midwinder sacrifice

23. Carin Gerhardsen - The gingerbread house

24. Leif G.W. Persson - Between summer's longing and winter's cold (triology) or any of the Evert Bäckström novels

25. Majgull Axelsson - April witch

26. August Strindberg - The red room

27. Mikael Niemi - Popular music from Vittula

28. Stig Dagerman - A burnt child

29. Elsie Johansson - The spring pasque flower

30. Frans G. Bengtsson - The long ships

31. Elsa Beskow - Aunt Green, Aunt Brown & Aunt Lavender

32. Åke Edwardson - Sun and shadow

33. P.C. Jersild - Children's island

34. Anders Jacobsson & Sören Olsson - The Sune series or the Bert series

35. Jan Guillou - The evil

36. Pär Lagerkvist - The dwarf

37. Jens Lapidus - Easy money

38. Camilla Läckberg - The stonecutter

39. Göran Tunström - The christmas oratorio

40. Liza Marklund - The bomber

41. Gellert Tamas - The laser man 

42. Ulf Lundell - Jack

43. Karin Alvtegen - Missing

44. Åsa Larsson - Sun storm

45. Fritiof Nilsson Piraten - The book-dealer who ceased bathing

46. Jonas Jonasson - The hundre-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

47. Kristina Ohlsson - Unwanted

48. Håkan Nesser - Carambole (Hour of the wolf)

49. Klas Östergren - Gentlemen

50. Maria Gripe - Agnes Cecilia

 

 

Extra points for poems by:
Nils Ferlin

Gustav Fröding

Verner von Heidenstam

Dan Andersson

Carl Michael Bellman

Karin Boye

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Bodil Malmsten

Viktor Rydberg

Edith Södergran

Tomas Tranströmer

Gunnar Ekelöf

Esaias Tegnér

 

And further extra points if you've read these illustrated children's works:

Elsa Beskow - Children of the forest

Sven Nordkvist - The Pettson and Findus series

Barbro Lindgren - Loranga, Masarin and Dartanjang

Lennart Hellsing - Krakel Spektakel

 

 

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So far................

I own a copy of most of the novels already. :)

 

1. Vilhelm Moberg - The emigrants (or the whole Emigrants series of 4 novels)
2. Karin Boye - Kallocain
3. Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas
4. Per Olov Enquist - Captain Nemo's library
5. Stieg Larsson - The Lisbeth Salander series
6. Hjalmar Bergman - The Markurells in Wadköping
7. Moa Martinson - Women and apple trees
8. Harry Martinson - Aniara
9. Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking - or better yet, everything she ever published
10. Marianne Fredriksson - Simon and the oaks
11. Jonas Gardell - Don't ever wipe tears without gloves (series of 3 novels)
12. Eyvind Johnson - The days of his grace
13. Selma Lagerlöf - The emperor of Portugallia (or The wonderful adventures of Nils)
14. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The abominable man (or the whole Martin Beck series of 10 novels)
15. August Strindberg - The father
16. Henning Mankell - Kurt Wallander series
17. John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the right one in
18. Kerstin Ekman - Blackwater
19. Roslund & Hellström - Three seconds
20. Gösta Knutsson - Pelle Svanslös
21. Anders de la Motte - Game
22. Mons Kallentoft - Midwinder sacrifice
23. Carin Gerhardsen - The gingerbread house
24. Leif G.W. Persson - Between summer's longing and winter's cold (triology) or any of the Evert Bäckström novels
25. Majgull Axelsson - April witch
26. August Strindberg - The red room
27. Mikael Niemi - Popular music from Vittula
28. Stig Dagerman - A burnt child
29. Elsie Johansson - The spring pasque flower
30. Frans G. Bengtsson - The long ships
31. Elsa Beskow - Aunt Green, Aunt Brown & Aunt Lavender
32. Åke Edwardson - Sun and shadow
33. P.C. Jersild - Children's island
34. Anders Jacobsson & Sören Olsson - The Sune series or the Bert series
35. Jan Guillou - The evil
36. Pär Lagerkvist - The dwarf
37. Jens Lapidus - Easy money
38. Camilla Läckberg - The stonecutter
39. Göran Tunström - The christmas oratorio
40. Liza Marklund - The bomber
41. Gellert Tamas - The laser man
42. Ulf Lundell - Jack
43. Karin Alvtegen - Missing
44. Åsa Larsson - Sun storm
45. Fritiof Nilsson Piraten - The book-dealer who ceased bathing
46. Jonas Jonasson - The hundre-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
47. Kristina Ohlsson - Unwanted
48. Håkan Nesser - Carambole (Hour of the wolf)
49. Klas Östergren - Gentlemen
50. Maria Gripe - Agnes Cecilia


Extra points for poems by:
Nils Ferlin
Gustav Fröding
Verner von Heidenstam
Dan Andersson
Carl Michael Bellman
Karin Boye
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Bodil Malmsten
Viktor Rydberg
Edith Södergran
Tomas Tranströmer
Gunnar Ekelöf
Esaias Tegnér

And further extra points if you've read these illustrated children's works:
Elsa Beskow - Children of the forest
Sven Nordkvist - The Pettson and Findus series
Barbro Lindgren - Loranga, Masarin and Dartanjang
Lennart Hellsing - Krakel Spektakel

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