✍️ Fredrik Backman
11 titles · Fiction, Literary, Comedy, Contemporary
A Man Called Ove
Clean · 337p
Ove is the grumpiest man alive. His neighbors keep bothering him. He keeps accidentally saving their lives. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll want to hug every grumpy old person you meet.
Anxious People
Clean · 341p
A failed bank robber takes hostages during an apartment viewing. None of the hostages want to leave. A hilarious, deeply human story about how connected we all are despite thinking we're alone.
Anxious People
Clean · 352p
A failed bank robber takes hostages during an open house. The hostages are all wonderful messes. Somehow it becomes group therapy. Backman is a genius at making you laugh and cry on the same page.
Anxious People
Clean · 341p
A failed bank robber takes hostages during an apartment viewing. The hostages are all ridiculous. The cops investigating are a father-son duo. Backman makes you laugh and cry simultaneously.
Anxious People
Clean · 341p
A failed bank robber takes an apartment viewing hostage. Each hostage has their own crisis. The detective can't figure out how everyone escaped. Backman at his quirkiest and most tender.
Anxious People
Clean · 341p
A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing. The hostages are all deeply weird. The cops investigating are a father-son duo. Backman turns absurdity into pure love.
Anxious People
Clean · 352p
A failed bank robber takes hostages during an apartment viewing. But the hostages are all so wonderfully messed up that by the end, they're helping each other. Backman at his most human.
Anxious People
Clean · 352p
A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing. Everyone is a mess. Everyone is connected. Backman makes you laugh and cry on the same page.
Anxious People
Clean · 337p
A failed bank robber takes a group of apartment viewers hostage. Everyone in the room is a mess. Backman turns a ridiculous premise into something deeply human and surprisingly moving.
Anxious People
Clean · 352p
A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing. Everyone inside is a mess. The police outside are also a mess. Somehow it's the most heartwarming hostage situation ever written.
Anxious People
Clean · 352p
A failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing. Everyone in the room has problems. What follows is the most wholesome hostage situation in literary history.