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.
JUNE & JULY Selections
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National Danish Book Club & Literary Event Series
- On summer hiatus
Nordiska’s Book Club
- TBD
Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- June 6: Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (Attend a virtual book talk with the author on May 16.)
- July 11: Evil Flowers by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
Swedish American Museum
- June 24: The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
- July 29: A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, translated from the Swedish by Nichola Smalley
- August 26: For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness by Eric Dregni
- September 30: We Sinners: A Novel by Hanna Pylväinen
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- June 13: Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid
- July 11: Last Night In Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager
- August 8 : Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being by Henning Mankell, translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson with Marlaine Delargy
- September 12: The Fall of the King by Johannes V. Jensen, translated from the Danish by Alan G. Bower
- October 10: My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, translated from the Finnish by David Hackston
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- June 21: Filmprat: Narvik (watch on Netflix)
- September 20: The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec