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The Sisters

by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Three sisters, one curse: love anything, lose everything. Three decades of running.

4.04

9k+

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Saga 🪢 Family Curse 👭 Three Sisters 🧳 Immigrant Life

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The Sisters

Three sisters, one curse: love anything, lose everything. Three decades of running.

by Jonas Hassen Khemiri 2023 656 pages

4.04

9k+ ratings

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Saga 🪢 Family Curse 👭 Three Sisters 🧳 Immigrant Life

The Real Happy Pill

by Anders Hansen • 2016

Your brain evolved to move all day. Here's what happens when you give it that.

3.97

7k+

🧠 Exercise And Brain Health 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🧓 Dementia Prevention ⚡ Stress Biology

The Real Happy Pill

Your brain evolved to move all day. Here's what happens when you give it that.

by Anders Hansen 2016 233 pages

3.97

7k+ ratings

🧠 Exercise And Brain Health 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🧓 Dementia Prevention ⚡ Stress Biology

Jag är Zlatan

by Zlatan Ibrahimović • 2011

How the West thought: ten ideas from Plato to Rawls that still shape everything we believe.

3.86

19k+

🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer ⚖️ Political Philosophy 🧠 Epistemology 🎯 Virtue Ethics

Jag är Zlatan

How the West thought: ten ideas from Plato to Rawls that still shape everything we believe.

by Zlatan Ibrahimović 2011 432 pages

3.86

19k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer ⚖️ Political Philosophy 🧠 Epistemology 🎯 Virtue Ethics

The Road to Jerusalem

by Jan Guillou • 1998

A warrior-monk loves the wrong woman. The church exiles him to the Crusades for twenty years.

4.02

9k+

🗡️ Warrior Monk 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Family Saga 🛡️ Medieval Scandinavia ✝️ Crusader Epic

The Road to Jerusalem

A warrior-monk loves the wrong woman. The church exiles him to the Crusades for twenty years.

by Jan Guillou 1998 320 pages

4.02

9k+ ratings

🗡️ Warrior Monk 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Family Saga 🛡️ Medieval Scandinavia ✝️ Crusader Epic

Live More Think Less

by Pia Callesen • 2017

Endlessly analyzing your moods fuels depression. The mental move that stops the loop can be learned.

3.52

1k+

🧠 Metacognitive Therapy 🔄 Rumination 🏃 Behavioral Activation 🧘 Cognitive Defusion 🟢 Mood Management

Live More Think Less

Endlessly analyzing your moods fuels depression. The mental move that stops the loop can be learned.

by Pia Callesen 2017 168 pages

3.52

1k+ ratings

🧠 Metacognitive Therapy 🔄 Rumination 🏃 Behavioral Activation 🧘 Cognitive Defusion 🟢 Mood Management

I Am Behind You

by John Ajvide Lindqvist • 2014

Campers wake to a world erased: no sun, no roads, only grass stretching forever.

3.36

5k+

🚪 Liminal Space 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👧 Inhuman Child 🩸 Body Horror

I Am Behind You

Campers wake to a world erased: no sun, no roads, only grass stretching forever.

by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2014 410 pages

3.36

5k+ ratings

🚪 Liminal Space 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👧 Inhuman Child 🩸 Body Horror

Pluses and Minuses

by Stefan Buijsman • 2018

Three mathematical discoveries run your digital life; understanding them is simpler than you think.

3.41

290

🧮 Applied Mathematics 📜 History Of Mathematics 🔢 Mathematical Literacy 🖥️ Mathematical Modeling 🕸️ Network Theory

Pluses and Minuses

Three mathematical discoveries run your digital life; understanding them is simpler than you think.

by Stefan Buijsman 2018 209 pages

3.41

290 ratings

🧮 Applied Mathematics 📜 History Of Mathematics 🔢 Mathematical Literacy 🖥️ Mathematical Modeling 🕸️ Network Theory

We Know You Remember

by Tove Alsterdal • 2021

A dead father forces a cop to reopen the murder confession that silenced her Swedish valley.

3.64

7k+

❄️ Scandinavian Noir 🏘️ Small-Town Crime ⚖️ Coerced Confession 🏠 Return To Hometown 📱 Social Media Outrage

We Know You Remember

A dead father forces a cop to reopen the murder confession that silenced her Swedish valley.

by Tove Alsterdal 2021 356 pages

3.64

7k+ ratings

❄️ Scandinavian Noir 🏘️ Small-Town Crime ⚖️ Coerced Confession 🏠 Return To Hometown 📱 Social Media Outrage

Doctor Glas

by Hjalmar Söderberg • 1905

His diary holds a Stockholm summer, a woman's despair, and the murder he prescribed as mercy.

3.67

17k+

📖 Diary Novel 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Classic 🔪 Justified Murder 💔 Unattainable Love ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Doctor Glas

His diary holds a Stockholm summer, a woman's despair, and the murder he prescribed as mercy.

by Hjalmar Söderberg 1905 160 pages

3.67

17k+ ratings

📖 Diary Novel 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Classic 🔪 Justified Murder 💔 Unattainable Love ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

La Antártida del amor

by Sara Stridsberg • 2018

Murdered, she lingers, watching her children inherit the addiction and loss she could not outrun.

3.96

4k+

👻 Dead Narrator 💉 Addiction And Family 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 Dark And Lyrical 💔 Destructive Love

La Antártida del amor

Murdered, she lingers, watching her children inherit the addiction and loss she could not outrun.

by Sara Stridsberg 2018 263 pages

3.96

4k+ ratings

👻 Dead Narrator 💉 Addiction And Family 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 Dark And Lyrical 💔 Destructive Love

1794

by Niklas Natt och Dag • 2019

Wolves are blamed for a bride's savage death. A broken one-armed ex-soldier doubts the story.

3.81

7k+

🕯️ Historical Noir 🔍 Damaged Investigators 😈 Sociopathic Villain 📖 Diary Confession 🏚️ Gothic Dread

1794

Wolves are blamed for a bride's savage death. A broken one-armed ex-soldier doubts the story.

by Niklas Natt och Dag 2019 503 pages

3.81

7k+ ratings

🕯️ Historical Noir 🔍 Damaged Investigators 😈 Sociopathic Villain 📖 Diary Confession 🏚️ Gothic Dread

1795

by Niklas Natt och Dag • 2021

1795. One woman's secret could topple Stockholm's rulers, if she lives long enough to use it.

3.46

4k+

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🏃‍♀️ Hunted Woman ⚖️ Systemic Corruption 🕵️ Damaged Investigator 🎭 Moral Ambiguity

1795

1795. One woman's secret could topple Stockholm's rulers, if she lives long enough to use it.

by Niklas Natt och Dag 2021 459 pages

3.46

4k+ ratings

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🏃‍♀️ Hunted Woman ⚖️ Systemic Corruption 🕵️ Damaged Investigator 🎭 Moral Ambiguity

Bloody Awful in Different Ways

by Andrev Walden • 2023

A Swedish boy drifts through his mother's dangerous men, each a lesson in what love is not.

4.04

22k+

🖋️ Autofiction 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Childhood 💔 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Domestic Violence 🎨 Bohemian Upbringing

Bloody Awful in Different Ways

A Swedish boy drifts through his mother's dangerous men, each a lesson in what love is not.

by Andrev Walden 2023 333 pages

4.04

22k+ ratings

🖋️ Autofiction 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Childhood 💔 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Domestic Violence 🎨 Bohemian Upbringing

The True Deceiver

by Tove Jansson • 1982

A calculating woman enters a painter's snowbound life; every kindness comes at a cost.

3.81

8k+

🪞 Mirroring Rivals 🎨 Artist In Crisis 🐺 Scheming Outsider ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity ✍️ Spare Prose

The True Deceiver

A calculating woman enters a painter's snowbound life; every kindness comes at a cost.

by Tove Jansson 1982 181 pages

3.81

8k+ ratings

🪞 Mirroring Rivals 🎨 Artist In Crisis 🐺 Scheming Outsider ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity ✍️ Spare Prose

Italian Shoes

by Henning Mankell • 2006

Self-exiled on a frozen Swedish island, a disgraced surgeon is found by his dying former lover.

3.78

10k+

🏔️ Scandinavian Fiction 💔 Family Estrangement 🤝 Found Family 🩺 Terminal Illness 🖤 Melancholy Redemption

Italian Shoes

Self-exiled on a frozen Swedish island, a disgraced surgeon is found by his dying former lover.

by Henning Mankell 2006 247 pages

3.78

10k+ ratings

🏔️ Scandinavian Fiction 💔 Family Estrangement 🤝 Found Family 🩺 Terminal Illness 🖤 Melancholy Redemption

Linda, como en el asesinato de Linda

by Leif G.W. Persson • 2005

A police student murdered. A cynical detective. Too many clues, not enough answers.

3.23

2k+

🚔 Police Procedural 🌨️ Nordic Noir 🕵️ Flawed Detective 📺 Media Frenzy 🏘️ Small Town Sweden

Linda, como en el asesinato de Linda

A police student murdered. A cynical detective. Too many clues, not enough answers.

by Leif G.W. Persson 2005 560 pages

3.23

2k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 🌨️ Nordic Noir 🕵️ Flawed Detective 📺 Media Frenzy 🏘️ Small Town Sweden

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