Author Spotlight
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman writes about ordinary people in small towns carrying extraordinary amounts of feeling. His books are about community, grief, the ways we fail each other, and the stubborn hope that we might do better.
Fredrik Backman
Anxious People
A failed bank robbery turns into an apartment-viewing hostage situation, and eight strangers end up revealing far more about their lives than any of them planned. Funny, strange, and quietly about grief.
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
A small town pins its entire identity on its junior hockey team, until an act of violence forces everyone to decide what they’re actually willing to protect. Devastating and unflinching.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
A grieving, curmudgeonly widower with a strict routine and no patience for his neighbors slowly gets pulled back into life by the family that moves in next door. Backman’s breakout, and still beloved for a reason.
Fredrik Backman
My Friends
A painting of four friends on a pier becomes the thread connecting a struggling teenage artist to the story of the people who made it, decades apart but bound by the same longing to be understood.
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
After her eccentric grandmother dies, a seven-year-old is sent on a scavenger hunt of apology letters that unravels the secret lives of everyone in their apartment building. Whimsical, then unexpectedly heartbreaking.
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
A rigid, overlooked woman leaves her marriage at sixty-three and lands in a run-down town where, against her own expectations, she ends up coaching a ragtag kids’ soccer team back to life.
Fredrik Backman
Us Against You
The Beartown sequel picks up as the town’s hockey club faces being disbanded entirely, and old rivalries with the neighboring town turn dangerous all over again.
Fredrik Backman
The Winners
The final book in the Beartown trilogy returns years later, as a storm and an old tragedy force the town to reckon with everything it never fully healed from.
Fredrik Backman
The Deal of a Lifetime
A short, quiet novella about a father confronting a lifetime of choices on Christmas Eve, and the one chance he’s given to make a different one. Slim, but it hits hard.
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Marin Robinson 