Best books...chosen by Jo Nesbo

Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo is the author of the best-selling Harry Hole series.

Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo is the author of the best-selling Harry Hole series. In Police, the series’s 10th novel, the hard-bitten Oslo detective is forced to sit on the sidelines as a killer begins cutting down Oslo’s police officers.

Hunger by Knut Hamsun (Dover, $8). This is the first real Oslo novel, from back when Oslo was called Christiania. The narrator, in the first line, describes it as “that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him.” Hamsun filled the pages that follow with powerful writing, anxiety, and insatiable love.

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