The essay is about the Nobel Library's investments in fiction, the change of certain linguistic areas since 1904 and the purchase policy of the Library. The paper contains an introductory historical chapter, where I describe the history of the Swedish Academy, the life and will of Alfred Nobel and in conclusion a description of the Nobel library of the Swedish Academy. When writing this essay I have used a combined qualitative and quantitative method, meaning that I have interviewed the librarians of the Nobel Library, studied the purchase catalogues, and kept statistics over the books.in different linguistic areas purchased since 1904 onward with an emphasize on years ending with "4". The outcome of this survey is that the purchase of books within the different speech areas doesn't vary as much as first expected, and that there rises and falls within all the linguistic areas which could be further explored.