Jo Nesbø's seven favorite books

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

One of his seven favorite books, as shared with The Week magazine:Hunger by Knut Hamsun

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