Every year, the 2000 members of the Swedish Humanities Association receive a newly written book in the Swedish humanities. For 2023, a book is planned by the author and critic Kristoffer Leandoer with the preliminary title "Den oavslutade litteraturen. An essay on everything that was not finished". In eighteen chapters, the book takes on unfinished great works of Western literature - Leandoer gives several examples from different eras, such as Geoffrey Chaucer's famous Canterbury Tales (14th century), Edmund Spenser's verse epic The Faire Queen (16th century) and Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities (20th century) - if one thinks of these works as complete and finished. Leandoer poses a number of questions that such a library might raise. Do works from different times and languages have anything in common? What do we mean by the word (or concept) "end"? Here Leandoer draws on international research in this area, such as Frank Kermode's well-known The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967). Leandoer brings up a number of interesting aspects of unfinished literature, including what it does to its authors and how it relates to nothing less than life itself, specifically how we imagine its end or, alternatively, how we dream that it will never end. It also includes interesting aspects of the reading of literature - both how it has been read and how it wants to be read.