Jo Nesbo's Reading List

The author of “The Thirst” would invite Charles Bukowski, Jim Thompson and Ernest Hemingway to his literary dinner party: “Partly because I can’t cook and for this party, I probably wouldn’t have to.”

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By the Book: Jo Nesbo (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-05-11).

Source: www.nytimes.com

My Struggle

Karl Ove Knausgaard · Buy on Amazon

"After the first 20 pages, I concluded that this is a good novel even if the rest was not at the same level. It was pretty close."

Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson · Buy on Amazon

"I also like the contemporary writers Per Petterson ("Out Stealing Horses")."

Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Jo Nesbø, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/jo-nesbo-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov (also rec’d by Bradley Cooper , Cheryl Strayed , David Bowie, Kim Gordon , Michael Stipe , Nick Cave , Patti Smith , Phoebe Waller-Bridge & Richey Edwards ) · Buy on Amazon

"How do you make the reader sympathize, or at least tolerate reading about, a man who is lusting for a child? I don’t know. You have to be good. And it’s probably a good idea to start the novel with the potential child molester declaring his love in a passionate and honest way, so you can always retreat to that later, when you want to flee: he actually loves her."

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