#6 in Literary fiction
Anxious People
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 22 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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Our view
Backman’s voice is the whole experience here: a narrator who keeps telling you one thing and then quietly showing you it was another, so that jokes turn into grief and back again. The novel is funny, hopeful and concerned with loss and with friendship in a small town. It suits readers who enjoy a playful, confiding narrator more than those who want a story told straight.
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About the book
Anxious People is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman published by Forum in 2019. The novel was published in English in 2021.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 1,111 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 88% of the weight and the score stays at 8.4 — the Literary fiction average of 8.1 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 22 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 1.1K | 98% |
Frequently asked
How long is Anxious People?
It has 352 pages — shorter than 63% of the ranked books in Literary fiction.
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