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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

145 reviews

lynds_13's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A million stars for this book. I can’t say enough good things. The plot is wonderful. The characters are lovable, challenging, flawed, so real you just can feel them coming off the page. The story is hilarious. I was crying and laughing throughout the entire book. The way the author writes is so engrossing it’s like he’s just talking to you. I couldn’t put this book down and can’t wait to add this to my collection. I don’t buy many books and feel this is one I need on my shelf forever. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infidelity, Blood, and Gun violence

acorn192k's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Grief, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Cancer, and Mental illness

scmiller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcoholism

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Racism

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Anxious People is a story about a bank robbery. No, it’s a hostage drama. No, it’s about a bridge. No, wait, a rabbit? No… No. It’s a story about idiots. 

In truth, Anxious People is about desperation, grief, mental health, greed, the housing market, purpose, loneliness, parenting, marriage, hope, connection, love, Stockholm… It’s a fascinating exploration into being human. 

It’s also part mystery that will keep you hooked until the very end! When I tell you I could not put this book down, I mean it.  HOOKED. It had me in an absolute fucking chokehold all the way through. I gasped, I screamed, at one point I closed the book and beat it against my couch because I was so mad that I missed something so obvious… lol It also has so much heart, and such endearing (and frustrating and hilarious and idiotic) characters. I wiped away lone tears, I laughed out loud, snorted, and fully broke down sobbing…. several times… just within the last 25 pages. 🥲

No one can craft a story like Fredrik Backman. No one captures the messy magic of humans like him. No one else can weave so many seemly disconnected stories together into an absolute masterpiece, and tie them all together flawlessly. 

I didn’t think it was possible, but Anxious People has unseated My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry as my favorite book. Backman remains my favorite author for a reason. The man is undefeated. 

A quote on the back from USA Today sums up Anxious People perfectly: “Hits the sweet spot between profoundly insightful and preposterously funny… I hugged this book tightly with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Classism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Alcohol, Dementia, Death of parent, and Sexism

taylorparrott99's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Terminal illness, Suicide, and Grief

marina_s's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Wow, what a lovely book. I enjoy when an author slowly ties all the loose ends together and brings the real story to light. There is just something about the way Backman writes that draws me in, makes endearing characters in challenging circumstances.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy and Suicide

fantaiil's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Fredrik Bakmann is and will always be my favourite author. And this is his best one yet (in my opinion).
I love his words, his characters and how he makes me cry while talking about humans and their inability of saying, what they want to say.

This book is about love, despair, kids, dumb choices, pizza, love, marriage, kids and their parents, money, capitalism, love and a bridge. It's about the connection between people and the irrational things we do, when we feel emotions that are to big to describe.

Backman is a magician. A magician of words and sentences and making one feel and cry and laugh and feel once again.

I wish, I could buy this book a thousand times and gift it to everyone I know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Self harm, Murder, Blood, Violence, Grief, Addiction, and Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Gun violence

windowplant's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Wow! Did not see the absurdity coming from the look of the cover or the name of the book. A really wild and hilarious story that is also dark and deeply thoughtful at the same time. It's ultimately hopeful, but takes on very heavy mental health themes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Lesbophobia

kayleejanes's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Addiction, Pregnancy, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Gun violence, and Suicide attempt

sarahbethhh's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Loved the framing of this story and the cast of characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Infidelity