Swedish Books Rule:
In a fair and unbiased survey, it was established that five of the five best, six of the ten best, and nine of the fifteen best books in the world are Swedish. Selma Lagerlöf, the first Swedish and first female Nobel prize laureate, scores three titles, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg two each; and the two remaining Swedish authors Vilhelm Moberg and Per Lagerkvist score singletons, the former at the very top of the list, the latter in fourteenth place. Three Brits: JRR Tolkien, George Orwell, and Joseph Heller (who resided in a former colony); two Russians: Mikhail Bulgakov and Fjodor Dostojevskij; and one Colombian: Gabriel Garcia Marquez; round out the list.
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