Sam Sacks listed My Struggle: Book Two  among the best books of 2013 in a roundup for The Wall Street Journal: 

But that was only the surface—if you did a little digging, you were likely to tap into wellsprings of brilliance and vitality. No book possessed a more sublime architecture or deeper spiritual fervor than László Krasznahorkai’s “Seiobo There Below,” and the mazy, mesmerizing sentences of the Hungarian visionary spotlights the wonders that can be found in the flourishing, if resolutely unprofitable, world of books in translation. From here came the gamesome Icelandic myths in Sjón’s “The Whispering Muse” and the creepily gripping second volume of “My Struggle,” the seemingly unfiltered autobiographical novel by Swedish phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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