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
- 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)
- 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)
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- 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)
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- March 11: Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbø, translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson (meeting details)
- April 8: Shyness and Dignity by Dag Solstad, translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad (meeting details)
Nordiska’s Book Club
- March 26: The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham (meeting details)
Swedish American Museum
- March 28: Punished by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (meeting details)
- April 25: The Last Light Over Oslo by Alix Rickloff (meeting details)