Beartown Books in Order
Beartown by Fredrik Backman contains 3 books, published between 2016 and 2021. The first book is Beartown / The Scandal (2016) and the newest is The Winners (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2016–2021
- Confirmed
- 3 of 3 titles
- Total pages
- 1,315 across 3 books
- Reading time
- 22–33 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,315 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Beartown is a trilogy by Fredrik Backman, set in a declining Swedish town whose standing rests on its junior hockey team. Three books are catalogued: Beartown, also published as The Scandal (2016), Us Against You (2017) and The Winners (2021). The first book turns on an act of violence between two teenagers and on how the players, their families and the town answer for it. Hockey, small-town life and community are the subjects across the trilogy, which is complete at three titles.
How many Beartown books are there?
Beartown has 3 books, released between 2016 and 2021.
Beartown Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 3 Beartown books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Beartown / The Scandal2016 · 432 pages · confirmed 4/420164324/4
- 2Us Against You2017 · 435 pages · confirmed 3/420174353/4
- 3The Winners2021 · 448 pages · confirmed 4/420214484/4
Is there a chronological order for Beartown?
No separate chronological order is on record for Beartown, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Beartown books in order?
You should read the Beartown books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Beartown book also stands alone.
What order should you read Beartown books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with Beartown / The Scandal (2016), the earliest published title. After it come Us Against You (2017) and The Winners (2021).
What is the newest Beartown book?
The Winners (2021) is the newest Beartown book released so far.
Is there a new Beartown book coming?
No next Beartown book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Beartown at a glance
- Paused
- No new Beartown title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Beartown books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,315 pages across all 3 books with a recorded length, a median of 435 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Beartown books, 2 of 3, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 2 of the 3 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Beartown books are about
All 3 Beartown books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: sports is tagged on 3 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Sports 3 of 3 books
- Hockey stories 2 of 3 books
- Hockey teams 2 of 3 books
- Sweden 2 of 3 books
- City and town life 1 of 3 books
- Communities -- Fiction 1 of 3 books
- Hockey players -- Fiction 1 of 3 books
- Humor 1 of 3 books
- Small cities 1 of 3 books
- Small town & rural 1 of 3 books
More books by Fredrik Backman
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
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