Author
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman writes contemporary and humor. We've read and reviewed 3 of Fredrik Backman's books, including Anxious People: A Novel and Beartown, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Anxious People: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman's Anxious People traps a failed bank robber and the world's worst hostages in a Stockholm apartment viewing, then spends the novel revealing how every stranger in the room is connected. A comic hostage drama that is really about parents, debt, and the ordinary panic of being a person.
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove follows a rigid, grieving widower whose plan to end his life keeps getting interrupted by a chaotic new family next door, in a novel that earns its laughs and its tears in equal measure.
Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman's Beartown hands a dying Swedish forest town's entire future to a junior ice hockey team, then asks what the town will sacrifice to keep it. His darkest novel and his best: a slow-building small-town drama about loyalty, class, and the price a community charges a fifteen-year-old girl for telling the truth.