Here you will find online meeting dates and selections from Nordic book clubs across the country. Selections include children’s literature, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, crime fiction, memoirs, short stories, and nonfiction. Do you know of a Nordic-themed online book club that might be of interest to readers? Please share the details in the comments or via email.
WINTER Selections
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Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- January 13: The Sisters: A Novel by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (meeting details)
- February 10: Clearing Out by Helene Uri, translated from the Norwegian by Barbara Sjoholm (meeting details)
- March 10: What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium: Poems by Faroese author Kim Simonsen, translated by Randi Ward (meeting details)
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- January 28: The Lost Village by Camilla Sten, translated from the Swedish by Alexandra Fleming (meeting details)
- February 18: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlof (meeting details)
- March 11: Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø, translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson (meeting details)
Nordiska’s Book Club
- January 29: The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi by Barbara Sjoholm (meeting details)
Swedish American Museum
- January 31: When the Cranes Fly South by Liza Ridzén, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies (meeting details)
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- February 10: The Sisters: A Novel by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (meeting details)
- March 10: Ædnan: An Epic by Linnea Axelsson (meeting details)
- April 14: When the Yanks Came to Sweden by Gary G. Yerkey (meeting details)
- May 12: There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (meeting details)
- June 9: The Colony by Annika Norlin, translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olsson (meeting details)