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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

145 reviews

filippaf's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Stalking, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

kanorve's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

Wow. This was such an amazing read, I couldn't help the tears in the end. I loved it from beginning to end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Infidelity, Grief, Suicide, Addiction, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders

caitielovebug's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Grief

acorn192k's review

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

beatle426's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

joynayakate's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

It’s an emotional rollercoaster. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

Discusses anxiety and depression

mathildaleakim's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

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

stephs_cozycorner's review against another edition

5.0

“𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚝𝚜."

It’s not often I can say I was completely and utterly hooked after the first chapter, but this book had me hooked from the get go. 

I had no clue what this book was about and what I was getting into.  I laughed (𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍), I cried (𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍) and I had every emotion in between.  

Fredrik Backman has such a unique writing style.   I fell in love with literally every single character in this book.   They were an eclectic bunch of people.  Each had something different to bring the pages, and following along with each of them as they went on this journey was both heart wrenching and beautiful.    I loved how so many characters had connections they didn’t even know about.  

The police interviews had me laughing out loud. The satire and comedy was just utter perfection. 

𝘼𝙣𝙭𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 will be, without a doubt, in my top reads lists this year.    I have not stopped thinking about this book and these characters. 

Please do yourself a favour and pick this book up if you haven’t read it yet, you won’t be disappointed.  

And note, I’ve purposely left you in the blind as I think going into this book blind is the way to go!   You can read the synopsis if you must 🤣.



Also, please make note of trigger warnings as this book does deal with some sensitive topics.  
⚠️  Suicide. Attempted suicide. Mental illness.  Panic attacks. Death.  Grief.  Alcoholism. Addiction.  Death of a parent.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Grief, and Death of parent