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.
SPRING & SUMMER Selections
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Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- April 7: Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland, edited by Helen Mitsios (meeting details)
- May 12: The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken (meeting details)
- June 9: Beasts of the Sea: A Novel by Iida Turpeinen, translated by David Hackston (meeting details)
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- April 8: Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad, translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad (meeting details)
- May 13: How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason (meeting details)
- June 17: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (meeting details)
- September 16: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal (meeting details)
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- 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)
Swedish American Museum
- April 25: The Last Light Over Oslo by Alix Rickloff (meeting details)
- May 30: LoveStar by Andri Snær Magnason, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb (meeting details)
- June 27: Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate (meeting details)
- July 25: Dept. Q: Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated from the Danish by Lisa Hartford (meeting details)
Nordiska’s Book Club
- April 30: The Shortest History of Scandinavia: From Vikings to the Cold War and the New Nordic Movement by Mart Kuldkepp (meeting details)