All right I'm gonna go the patriotic way and recommend a few Danish authors....

Everything by Hans Christian Andersen, not just his fairytales are good, several of his novels are just mindblowing!

Miss Smillas Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg

Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen (actually a pseudonym for Karen Blixen)

Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinesen

On a wider scope I also enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

A Tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is another all time favorite.

Alexander Kent and C.S Forester both writes historical naval fiction and I absolutely love their books!!!

The list is of course much longer....

Duetta