Books by Karl Ove Knausgård
The Morning Star
by Karl Ove Knausgård
A traditional novel about strange celestial happenings, which has received critical acclaim in his native Norway —Cal Flyn, notable novels of Fall 2021.
Cal Flyn, Deputy editor
“This is something as rare as a well-composed, sometimes brilliantly written, and organised stream of consciousness which lasts for 3,000 pages” Read more...
Roy Jacobsen, Novelist
Interviews where books by Karl Ove Knausgård were recommended
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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo -
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Homeland (Patria)
by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred MacAdam (translator) -
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
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In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust -
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The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu & translated by Edward G. Seidensticker -
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Clarissa
by Samuel Richardson
Long Novels
Long Novels
Shorter is better is the mantra of the digital age, but for some of us, there is no greater pleasure than reading a really long novel. Here we’ve listed some of the novels recommended on Five Books that are 400,000 words or more long, from literary classics to potboilers.
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Gisli Sursson’s Saga
by Various -
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Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) -
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Shyness and Dignity
by Dag Solstad and Sverre Lyngstad (translator) -
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Beatles
by Don Bartlett (translator) & Lars Saabye Christensen -
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My Struggle
by Don Bartlett (translator) & Karl Ove Knausgård
Essential Norwegian Fiction, recommended by Roy Jacobsen
Essential Norwegian Fiction, recommended by Roy Jacobsen
Sagas old and new, from Gisli Sursson’s trials to Knausgård’s struggle, form the backbone of Roy Jacobsen’s selection of essential fiction from Norway, a country that is like ‘a black and not very polished diamond’, and where writers and readers seek out the human, ‘no matter how awkward, grandiose, sentimental, nostalgic, embarrassing, hyperbolic, stupid, hilarious or dangerous it may be’
Notable Novels of Fall 2023 recommended by Cal Flyn