Book reviews
In addtion to the reviews in this blog, we also have a number of reviews of high quality books on the http://www.leserglede.com/ mother site:
We have bibliographies with reviews (in English) of all the books written by authors:
Knut Hamsun
Sigrid Undset
Linn Ullmann
Jeffrey Archer
Michael Crichton
Frederick Forsyth
Karin Fossum
We also have a number of interesting lists with book reviews (in English):
Top 100 Crime of All Time.
Top 100 Fantasy
Poker books
Reviews of Scandinavian writers at ScandinavianBooks.com:
- Alvtegen, Karin: Missing
- Bjorneboe, Jens: The Sharks
- Burman, Carina: The Streets of Babylon
- Davidsen,Leif: Lime’s Photograph, The Serbian Dane,
- Edwardson, Ake: Never End
- Eriksson, Kjell: The Cruel Stars of the Night
- Fossum, Karin: Don’t Look Back, He Who Fears the Wolf, The Indian Bride (UK title: Calling Out for You), When the Devil Holds the Candle
- Frimansson, Inger: Good Night, My Darling
- Guillou, Jan: Coq Rouge
- Hamsun, Knut: Children of the Age, Growth of the Soil, Hunger, Mysteries, Pan, Segelfoss Town
- Holberg, Ludvig: The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground
- Hustvedt, Siri: What I Loved
- Høeg, Peter: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
- Jungstedt, Mari: Unseen
- Lackberg, Camilla: The Ice Princess
- Lagerlöf, Selma: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson
- Larsson, Asa: Sun Storm (published as The Savage Altar in UK)
- Larsson, Stieg: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire
- Mankell, Henning: The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, Faceless Killers,
- Marklund, Liza: The Bomber, Paradise,
- Nesbo, Jo: The Devil’s Star, The Redbreast, Nemesis
- Nesser, Hakan: The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
- Nexo, Martin Andersen: Pelle the Conqueror
- Petterson, Per: Out Stealing Horses
- Rolvaag, Ole Edvart: Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie, Peter Victorious, Their father’s God
- Roslund, Anders & Borge Hellstrom: The Beast
- Sjöwall, Maj & Per Wahlöö: Roseanna, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, The Man on the Balcony, The Laughing Policeman, The Fire Engine That Disappeared, Murder at the Savoy, The Abominable Man, The Locked Room, Cop Killer, The Terrorists.
- Tursten,Helene: Detective Inspector Huss
- Ullman, Linn: Before You Sleep
- Undset, Sigrid: The Unknown Sigrid Undset
Among our other reviews, you may want to have a look at our reviews of new books (in English). See also (reviews in English):
David Baldacci, Stone Cold
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, Firstborn
Bernard Cornwell, Sword Song
Ken Follett, World Without End
Terry Goodkind, Confessor
John Grisham, The Appeal, Playing for Pizza
Peter F. Hamilton, Misspent Youth
Robert Harris, The Ghost
Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm
Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
Colleen McCullough, Antony and Cleopatra
Steward O*Nan, Last Night at the Lobster
Ann Patchett, Run
James Patterson, Cross
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge, Beach Road
James Patterson & Howard Roughan, You’ve Been Warned
Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs
John Sandford, Dark of the Moon
Alice Sebold, The Almost Moon
Joseph Wambaugh, Hollywood Station
Libri-Ex-Gelu book blog- A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann reviewed in New York Times
- Brand, by Henrik Ibsen
- The Draining Lake, by Arnaldur Indridason
- Coq Rouge, by Jan Guillou
- Before You Sleep, by Linn Ullmann
- Bestselling Scandinavian Fiction
- Gunnar’s Daughter, by Sigrid Undset
- The Writing on the Wall, by Gunnar Staalesen
- The Fourth Man, by K O Dahl
- The Demon of Dakar, by Kjell Eriksson
