Svalbard The Shelf
Every book about Svalbard that two catalogues confirm, oldest first: 796 works, checked 8 November 2026.
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I polarnattens favn: roman fra Spitsbergen
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free everywhere
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
I Spitsbergens vold
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free everywhere
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
Jens Sørskar: roman
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free everywhere
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
Orions belte: en roman fra Svalbard
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Orions belte is a novel from Svalbard by Jon Michelet, published in 1977. Three men aboard the cargo vessel Sandy Hook sail to Kvitøya to shoot polar bears, where one of the superpowers has placed a secret weapon. The crew then comes into a fight for their lives with a Soviet helicopter, and the book was filmed in 1985. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
North of danger
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Where to find it
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Bookshop.org US
- Bookshop.org UK
Brennpunkt Svalbard
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Nordlys: morild gjennom himmelhav
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
Isens og mørkets redsler: roman
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Gullunger, kullunger: en fortelling fra Svalbard
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Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Zona frigida: roman
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Zona frigida is a 1995 novel by Anne Birkefeldt Ragde. Bea leaves her flat in Trondheim and travels to Svalbard, wanting a change and the chance to study nature and wildlife. She ends up on a boat in the ice with a small group of passengers, several of whom carry secrets, and the story is also about love. (Longyearbyen library)
Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Iguana våkner
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A work by Mette Newth, published in 1998, about a female Iguanodon dinosaur that wakes after a long sleep in what is now Svalbard. It is set in the Cretaceous period, about 100 million years ago, when the climate was far warmer than today and forests covered the land. The text names Iguanodon bernissartensis among the reptiles of that time and notes that Iguanodon footprints are preserved on a rock face at Festningsodden, at the mouth of Isfjorden. (Longyearbyen library)
Where to find it
- nb.no, free in Norway
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Hollendergraven
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Kyoto och fjärilarna
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Where to find it
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
Der alt er klart
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Isbjørnliv
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Isbjørnliv is a 2008 book by Kjell Reidar Hovelsrud in which the thoughts and feelings of animals are in focus and animals and people live close to each other. It follows the polar bear cubs Sol and Måne, a trapper and his lead dogs, and a woman who changes the trapper's life as a bachelor. The author has spent many winters in the field in Svalbard and knows the polar bear through research and trapping. (Longyearbyen library)
Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Operasjon Isbjørn: thriller
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Operasjon Isbjørn is a 2009 thriller by Eirik Wekre, a work of fiction. Hege Tønnesen, on leave from PST, takes charge of an investigation after a mother and daughter are killed in Rendalen and their house is burned down. The suspect is her husband, a special forces soldier in the Army's Jegerkommando who has disappeared, and the search leads her to Svalbard and a plot against Norway's security. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Operasjon Fritham
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Operasjon Høye nord: thriller
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Dark matter: a ghost story
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Dark Matter is a ghost story, a work of fiction set in January 1937 that follows Jack, a 28-year-old Londoner who takes a post as wireless operator on an Arctic expedition. Four men and a team of dogs leave Tromsø for Gruhuken, a place said to be haunted. When the polar night arrives and mishaps strike the expedition, the others leave Jack behind alone at the site. (Longyearbyen library)
Where to find it
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Bookshop.org US
- Bookshop.org UK
Den døde i Barentsburg
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
In the Record
Svalbard poesi
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
Ekspedisjonen
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Dødsrytteren
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Storebjørn: thriller
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Longyearbyen: roman
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This is a 2020 novel by Heidi Sævareid, set in Longyearbyen on Svalbard in the 1950s, when coal mines marked the landscape and the settlement had no ships, flights or supplies from November to May. It follows Eivor, who moves there with her husband and two small children. During the darkest and coldest part of the winter a close friend of the family is hospitalised against their will, and Eivor's own desperation grows in a flat in a building affected by permafrost. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Svalbardnotatene: roman
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Svalbardnotatene is a 2021 novel by Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg. The main character, Birgitte, spent the year she turned thirteen in Longyearbyen with her parents, and now works as an artist. She accepts, with doubts, an invitation to Svalbard to make an exhibition, and the story follows her as she confronts the past while Svalbard is going through large changes. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Ultima Thule
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Where to find it
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Drømmen om et tre: roman
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A 2022 novel by Maja Lunde, set in Longyearbyen in 2110, where a seed vault inside a mountain is kept by a grandmother and her grandsons after a catastrophe strikes the town. A second strand follows Tao, who lives far away in a depleted natural world where many species have disappeared and is asked to lead an expedition north to Svalbard and the seeds. The book deals with parents and children and with people's relationship to nature. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Provokasjonen: thriller
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Snøleoparden
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Snøleoparden is a 2023 novel by Grethe Bøe, a sequel to her debut novel Mayday, in which the fighter pilot Ylva Nordahl returns. The plot concerns a planned terrorist attack on a nuclear-powered NATO submarine at Svalbard, organised by an alliance of the weapons and defence industry, Islamist fundamentalists and Chinese intelligence. Ylva Nordahl is the only person who can stop the attack. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Nødutgang til dagen
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A novel by Morten Langeland, published in 2024, about Mariane, a trend analyst for international lifestyle companies. After a failed pitch for Nike she takes a self-imposed break in Athens, and a telephone call then unsettles her further. The story moves from business negotiations on the 27th floor in Tokyo to physical work in Gruve 3 on Svalbard, and follows a search for a new understanding of her own identity across generations. (nb.no)
Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Adventfjorden
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli
Operatørene: thriller
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Where to find it
- nb.no, nb.no premises only
- In the Longyearbyen catalogue
- Norli