Summer reading for all ages

Our Best Book Tips!

Here you will find recommendations for novels, crime novels, young adult books, and children’s books perfect for every summer moment.

Romaner

• Truth, Lies and Consequences - Maria Adolfsson
  Astrid has always been careful not to stand out, always trying to be just right. Until the day she becomes truly furious, and years of suppressed feelings need to find an outlet.
  
• Funny Story - Emily Henry
  Life doesn’t always turn out as planned; sometimes unexpected events make it even better.
  
• Return to Ithaca - Eyvind Johnson
  Here, the events surrounding Odysseus are given a different form. Odysseus is weary of war. On his home island of Ithaca, Penelope keeps unravelling her woven shroud to avoid remarrying. This is a tale of human powerlessness and hope.
  
• I’m Leaving Now. I Think. - Inger Lernevall
  A quiet novel about finding oneself again after years of systematic breakdown.
  
• Beckomberga: Ode to My Family - Sara Stridsberg
  A beautiful and ambivalent portrait of the light and darkness that characterised mental hospitals – and the lost souls wandering within.
  

Crime Novels

• Marked by Shadows - Marianne Cedervall
  Anki looks forward to life with Icelandic horses on Gotland, but a series of mysterious events turns suspicion toward her. Together with retired detective Tryggve, she begins to uncover what is really happening in the otherwise peaceful community she has moved to. Part 1 of 7 in the series. The entire series is available on the Biblio app, as well as Cedervall’s other cosy crime novels about Mirjam and Hervor, and the series about the priest-detective Samuel.
  

Young adults (12+)

• It Happened One Summer - Tessa Bailey (BookTok)
  Two sisters and city girls arrive in a picturesque coastal town. The idea is to gain perspective and a reality check, but the townspeople give them so much more. Perhaps they have found home?
  
• Sunrise on the reaping - Suzanne Collins
  Summer is perfect for reading the Hunger Games series. In this fifth book, we learn how Katniss and Peeta’s mentor Haymitch survived his own games, 24 years before their time. The next film in the series, based on this book, will be released in 2026.
  
• The Pin of Happiness - Hisae Iwaoka
  Yuka runs a café in the same building where Kei has his interior design shop. She often shops there, mainly because she likes him. Those who enjoy cosy and supernatural manga in Swedish can also read Aomanjuskogen and Drömmarnas djup by the same author. For older readers in English, Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi is recommended.
  

Children (9–12 years)

• Strangeworlds Travel Agency – L. D. Lapinski
  Twelve-year-old Flick Hudson discovers that there are hundreds of amazing worlds beyond our own. She becomes a member of the Strangeworlds Society to explore them, but something isn’t right in the city at the centre of everything. Part 1 of 3 in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency series.
  
• An Undying Friendship - Cecilia Lidbeck
  An unreal story exploring real themes. Jojo is a human android assigned to keep a flesh-and-blood human company. At first, their relationship is strained, but something real grows that will come to save them both.
  

Picture Book

• I Think There’s a Monster Under the Bed - Per Gustavsson (Bibblo.se)
  When Bosse wakes up in the middle of the night, he thinks there’s a monster under his bed. Instead of calming him down, his parents become even more frightened, and eventually the neighbour, the fire brigade, and the police get involved!