Fredrik Backman
2
Books Reviewed
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
4.5/5
reader rating · 9,442 ratingsAnd Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a novella by Fredrik Backman — translated into English by Alice Menzies — about an elderly man losing his grip on memory, and the three generations of men, including his son and grandson Noah, who must learn to say goodbye to him. At under 100 pages, it is compact in form but wide in emotional reach, earning the publisher's description of it as "profoundly moving."
Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
My Friends
4.5/5
reader rating · 89,997 ratingsMy Friends is Fredrik Backman's dual-timeline novel about four teenage friends whose fierce bond — and the art it inspires — reaches across twenty-five years to change a stranger's life. Published by Atria Books in May 2025, it became a #1 New York Times bestseller, won the 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction, and earned starred critical praise for its empathy and emotional range.
Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Ask LuvemBooks about Fredrik Backman
- Where should I start?
- Start with My Friends: A Novel — it's the fuller introduction to what Fredrik Backman does, a dual-timeline story about four teenage friends whose bond reaches across twenty-five years, and it earned starred praise for its empathy and emotional range. If you'd rather sample them in one sitting, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is under 100 pages. Both carry a 4.5/5 reader rating on Amazon.
- What's their writing style?
- Across the 2 books we've reviewed, Fredrik Backman writes with an emphasis on empathy and emotional range — My Friends earned starred critical praise on exactly those grounds. They're comfortable shifting form: a dual-timeline novel that spans twenty-five years in one book, and a sub-100-page novella about memory loss in the other. The recurring preoccupation is connection, whether between teenage friends or three generations of one family.
- Books we've reviewed
- We've reviewed 2 Fredrik Backman books. My Friends: A Novel (4.5/5 reader rating from 89,997 Amazon ratings) is a dual-timeline novel about four teenage friends and the stranger their art touches twenty-five years later. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (4.5/5 from 9,442 Amazon ratings) is a novella about an elderly man losing his memory and the son and grandson learning to say goodbye.
- How do their books compare?
- Both reviewed books hold the same 4.5/5 reader rating, but they differ sharply in scale. My Friends is a full-length, dual-timeline novel covering twenty-five years of friendship, while And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer tells its story of a family farewell in under 100 pages. Both center on relationships under pressure — teenage friends in one, three generations of men in the other.
- Why is My Friends trending?
- My Friends arrived with unusual momentum: published by Atria Books in May 2025, it became a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction. Its dual-timeline premise — four teenage friends whose art changes a stranger's life twenty-five years later — has earned starred critical praise and a 4.5/5 reader rating from nearly 90,000 Amazon ratings.
- What genre do they write?
- Both Fredrik Backman books we've reviewed fall under Literary Fiction. Rather than plot-driven genre fare, their work centers on interior lives and relationships — a family's grief in the novella, a decades-long friendship in My Friends. The Swedish author's fiction has been translated into English, with Alice Menzies translating the novella.
- What should I read after My Friends?
- Within our coverage, the natural next step is And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer — it trades the novel's twenty-five-year sweep for a compressed, three-generation farewell that shows the same empathy in miniature. At under 100 pages, it works well as a palate cleanser between longer reads. It holds the same 4.5/5 reader rating on Amazon.
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