Recommended reading
A Swedish literary canon? Perhaps a start.
A Swedish literary canon? Perhaps a start.
Many have written to Allmogens and asked what you should read to learn about Swedish history and culture from a popular, libertarian perspective, and what Swedish "classics" belong in every home library.
This list in no way purports to be a definitive Swedish literary canon. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But perhaps it is the end of the beginning.
Any true history must, by its human and vivid presentation, make us remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. In the light of what men once were, we can see what we are and dimly discern what we ought to be.
Standard works
Popular history
Other history works worth reading
Modern research
Just as the Nordic countries and Sweden have their own literary canon, each region has its own set of authors and classics, as well as its own history. Here we bring together the literature of the regions.