Karl Ove Knausgaard

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2008
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

My Struggle

1 - My Struggle (May-2012)
2 - A Man in Love (May-2013)
3 - Boyhood (Jun-2014)
4 - My Struggle: Book Four (May-2015)
5 - My Struggle: Book Five (Apr-2016)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven

    It's the 1560s and Antinous Bellori, a boy of 11, is exploring the woods above his home in the mountains in the north of Italy. Done fishing, he happens upon an anthill and begins, systematically and sinfully, to torture the ants and destroy their ho...

  • A Time for Everything

    A spellbinding pursuit of divine mysteries from the celebrated author of My Struggle“The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now, and loving observations of landscapes and objects . . . an extraordinary novel, and completely ori...

  • My Struggle

    My Struggle - 1

    My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already b...

  • A Man in Love

    My Struggle - 2

    Book Two of the six-volume literary masterwork My Struggle flows with the same raw energy and candor that ignited the series’ unprecedented bestselling run in Scandinavia, a virulent controversy, and an avalanche of literary awards. Knausgaard brea...

  • Dancing in the Dark

    This is an exclusive signed edition. 18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other...

  • Boyhood

    My Struggle - 3

    A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-...

  • Boyhood Island

    An autobiographical story of childhood and family from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
         Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic...

  • My Struggle: Book Four

    My Struggle - 4

    At eighteen years old, Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the Arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time ...

  • My Struggle: Book Five

    My Struggle - 5

    The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants ...



  • Fatherhood

    Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

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  • Spring

    You don’t know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don’t know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don’t know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don’t know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day...

  • Inadvertent

    The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard

    “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausg...

  • My Struggle: Book 6

    The full scope and achievement of Knausgaard’s monumental work is evident in this final installment of his My Struggle series. Grappling directly with the consequences of Knausgaard’s transgressive blurring of public and private, Book 6 is a trou...

  • My Struggle: Book Six

    The final installment in the long awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series.

    The full scope and achievement of Knausgaard's monumental work is evident in this final installment of his My Struggle series. Grappling directly with th...

  • The End

    The extraordinary final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental ‘My Struggle’ series. In ‘My Struggle’, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines with ruthless, unsparing rigour his life, his ambitions and frailties, his uncertainties ...

  • Out of the World

    Out of the World imagines the life, history, and strange future of a young teacher who becomes infatuated with one of his students. Karl Ove Knausgaard's formally innovative and philosophically-driven debut novel won the Norwegian Critics Prize for L...

  • The Morning Star

    A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.”  -- Dwight Garner, New York TimesA major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an asto...

  • The Wolves of Eternity

    An NPR Best Book of 2023“Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel.”  -- The Washington Post“The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel, wrestles with the great contraries: the materialist view and the re...

  • The Third Realm

    From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change -- and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of usFor several days, a strange and bright new star in the sky a...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karl Ove Knausgaard has published 19 books.

Karl Ove Knausgaard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Third Realm, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was published in October 2008.

Yes. Karl Ove Knausgaard has 1 series.
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