Books set in Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden — Stockholm

2015
Everything I Don’t Remember
Jonas Hassen Khemiri · novel · 2015
Friends and lovers piece together the life of a young Stockholm man after his death.
2009
The Hypnotist
Lars Kepler · crime · 2009
A Stockholm hypnotist is drawn back to his craft to question a massacre’s survivor.
2006
Easy Money
Jens Lapidus · crime · 2006
A student leads a double life dealing cocaine to Stockholm’s rich.
2005
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · crime · 2005
A Stockholm journalist and a hacker dig into a rich family’s dark past.
2004
Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist · novel · 2004
1981: in Blackeberg, a bullied boy befriends the strange girl next door.
1968
The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö · crime · 1968
Nine people shot dead on a Stockholm bus on a rainy November night.
1905
Doctor Glas
Hjalmar Söderberg · novel · 1905
A Stockholm doctor’s summer diary, as he plans to free a patient from her husband.
1879
The Red Room
August Strindberg · novel · 1879
A young idealist quits the civil service for Stockholm’s bohemians.