Fredrik Backman best books, ranked
Fredrik Backman — 4 titles in the rankings, first published between 2019 and 2025. They average 8.2, above the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages. One series has a reading order worth keeping to.
Editor’s note Warm, funny and sad Swedish novels about ordinary people, which became bestsellers worldwide after A Man Called Ove. Anxious People, in which a failed bank robber takes hostages at an apartment viewing, is his most read and best rated book here. My Friends, from 2025, rates nearly as highly. The Beartown books are darker, about a small hockey town.
- Ranked titles
- 4 books
- Average score
- 8.2
- Total ratings
- 1.7K
- First published
- 2019–2025
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Books by Fredrik Backman
Series by Fredrik Backman
Reading order of Fredrik Backman's series
1 series with a set order — each one opens on the volume to read first.
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Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 2012A Man Called Ove
- 2013My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
- 2014Britt-Marie Was Here
- 2016Beartown
- 2017Us Against You
- 2021The Winners
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Spanish Edition)
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
- The Deal of a Lifetime
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