The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Norway
Click to learn how this list is calculated.
This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 209 | Hunger | Knut Hamsun | 1890 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 299 | Kristin Lavransdatter | Sigrid Undset | 1920 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 424 | A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | 1879 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 594 | Growth of the Soil | Knut Hamsun | 1917 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 898 | My Struggle | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2009 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1516 | The Alberta Trilogy | Cora Sandel | 1926 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1607 | Pan | Knut Hamsun | 1894 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1786 | Farthest North | Fridtjof Nansen | 1897 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1835 | Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | 1991 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1840 | Mysteries | Knut Hamsun | 1892 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1931 | The Witches | Roald Dahl | 1983 | British | English | |
| 1977 | House with the Blind Glass Windows | Herbjørg Wassmo | 1981 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1988 | Seven Gothic Tales | Isak Dinesen | 1934 | Danish | English | |
| 2047 | The Ice Palace | Tarjei Vesaas | 1963 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 2274 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | 1890 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 2391 | Beyond Sleep | W.F. Hermans | 1966 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 2684 | Selected Plays of Henrick Ibsen | Henrik Ibsen | 1900 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 2698 | Cod | Mark Kurlansky | 1997 | American | English | |
| 2881 | Septology | Jon Fosse | 2019 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 2932 | On Overgrown Paths | Knut Hamsun | 1949 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 3409 | The Birds | Tarjei Vesaas | 1957 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 4175 | Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | 1867 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 4309 | Alberta And Jacob | Cora Sandel | 1926 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 4788 | The Master Builder | Henrik Ibsen | 1892 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 4801 | Brand | Henrik Ibsen | 1866 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 5300 | The Swarm | Frank Schatzing | 2004 | German | German | |
| 5406 | Melancholy | Jon Fosse | 1995 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 5738 | One Of Us | Asne Seierstad | 2013 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 5935 | The Turning Point | Fritjof Capra | 1982 | American | English | |
| 6263 | Pan In Oslo | Knut Faldbakken | 1985 | Norwegian | German | |
| 6437 | The Snowman | Jo Nesbø | 2007 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 6448 | The Half Brother | Lars Saabye Christensen | 2001 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 6996 | Dina's Book | Herbjørg Wassmo | 1989 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 7127 | The Redbreast | Jo Nesbø | 2000 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 7215 | The Lady From The Sea | Henrik Ibsen | 1888 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 7215 | When We Dead Awaken | Henrik Ibsen | 1899 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 7831 | Elling | Ingvar Ambjørnsen | 1996 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 8105 | Constance Ring | Amalie Skram | 1885 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 8105 | The District Governor's Daughters | Camilla Collett | 1854 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 8579 | The Last Of The Vikings | Johan Bojer | 1921 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 8634 | Unformed Landscape | Peter Stamm | 2001 | Swiss | German | |
| 9017 | Love | Hanne Ørstavik | 1997 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 9283 | A Leg To Stand On | Oliver Sacks | 1984 | British | English | |
| 10086 | The Ends Of The World | Peter Brannen | 2017 | American | English | |
| 10536 | My Struggle: Book 6 | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2011 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 10927 | Trilogy | Jon Fosse | 2014 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 11339 | Best Loved Folktales Of The World | Joanna Cole | 1982 | Unknown | English | |
| 11434 | Field Notes From A Catastrophe | Elizabeth Kolbert | 2006 | American | English | |
| 11610 | The Next Christendom | Philip Jenkins | 2002 | American | English | |
| 11634 | The Means Of Reproduction | Michelle Goldberg | 2009 | American | English | |
| 11811 | Ecology, Community And Lifestyle | Arne Naess | 1989 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 11863 | Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube | Blair Braverman | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12182 | The Place Of Tides | James Rebanks | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 12655 | Thunder & Lightning | Lauren Redniss | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 12655 | Eager | Ben Goldfarb | 2018 | American | English | |
| 13266 | Selected Short Stories Of Cora Sandel | Cora Sandel | 1993 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 13359 | An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen | 1882 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 14070 | Erste Erde Epos | Raoul Schrott | 2016 | Austrian | German | |
| 14822 | The Wild Duck | Henrik Ibsen | 1884 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 14827 | The Great Hunger | Johan Bojer | 1918 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 14896 | We Die Alone | David Howarth | 1955 | British | English | |
| 14983 | Lab Girl | Hope Jahren | 2016 | American | English | |
| 14983 | The Woman In Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware | 2016 | British | English | |
| 14983 | Boy | Roald Dahl | 1984 | British | English | |
| 14983 | Europe | Norman Davies | 1996 | British | English | |
| 15897 | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | 1948 | British | English | |
| 15896 | The Complete Stories | Edgar Allan Poe | 1832 | American | English | |
| 16726 | My Life As an Explorer (Amundsen) | Roald Amundsen | 1927 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Arvet Efter Arn | Jan Guillou | 2001 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17117 | The Ship Of The Dead | Rick Riordan | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17117 | The Whale | Philip Hoare | 2008 | British | English | |
| 17117 | The Third Reich | Michael Burleigh | 2000 | British | English | |
| 17117 | Atlas Of An Anxious Man | Christoph Ransmayr | 2016 | Austrian | German | |
| 17117 | Doppler | Erlend Loe | 2004 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Drawdown | Paul Hawken | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17117 | The Morning Star | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2020 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Diplomacy | Henry A. Kissinger | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17117 | The Lexus And The Olive Tree | Thomas L. Friedman | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17024 | The Bridal Wreath | Sigrid Undset | 1920 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17117 | The Last Place On Earth | Roland Huntford | 1979 | British | English | |
| 17117 | The Nix | Nathan Hill | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17117 | Paradise Rot | Jenny Hval | 2009 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | The Doomsday Key | James Rollins | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17117 | The Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17117 | The Sports Gene | David Epstein | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17117 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Ray Monk | 1990 | British | English | |
| 17117 | Simone De Beauvoir | Toril Moi | 2008 | Unknown | English | |
| 17117 | The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow | Elin Anna Labba, Fiona Graham | 2020 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17117 | The Wages Of Destruction | Adam Tooze | 2006 | British | English | |
| 17117 | Flight Of The Eagle | Per Olof Sundman | 1967 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17117 | Dalen Portland | Kjartan Fløgstad | 1977 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Hudløs Himmel | Herbjørg Wassmo | 1986 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | For The Living And The Dead | Tomas Tranströmer | 1989 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17117 | The Sun, My Father | Nils-Aslak Valkeapää | 1988 | Unknown | Sami | |
| 17117 | The Discoverer | Jan Kjærstad | 1999 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | I Curse The River Of Time | Per Petterson | 2008 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Andvake, Olavs Draumar And Kveldsvævd | Jon Fosse | 2007 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Ankomst | Gøhril Gabrielsen | 2017 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | The Bird Tribunal | Agnes Ravatn | 2013 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Will And Testament | Vigdis Hjorth | 2016 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | A Modern Family | Helga Flatland | 2017 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 16975 | Under The Autumn Star | Knut Hamsun | 1906 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17023 | The Wanderer | Knut Hamsun | 1917 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17064 | Victoria | Knut Hamsun | 1898 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído | Erling Kagge | 2016 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories | H. P. Lovecraft | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17117 | The Seducer | Jan Kjærstad | 1993 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | Katherine Carlyle | Rupert Thomson | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17117 | Addicted | Tony Adams | 1998 | British | English | |
| 17117 | True Believer | Jack Carr | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17117 | Eight Bears | Gloria Dickie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17117 | Eight Bears | Gloria Dickie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17117 | Spare | Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17117 | 9 From The Nine Worlds | Rick Riordan | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17117 | T. Singer | Dag Solstad | 1999 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17117 | The Holocaust | Martin Gilbert | 1978 | British | English | |
| 17117 | Zero Zero Zero | Roberto Saviano | 2013 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17014 | The Saga Of The Volsungs | Anonymous | 1270 | Unknown | Old norse | |
| 17117 | Girls Against God | Jenny Hval | 2018 | Norwegian | English |