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.
MAY Selections
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Nordiska’s Book Club
- June 27: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth (book club details)
Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- May 7: The Tower at the Edge of the World by William Heinesen, translated from the Danish by W. Glyn Jones (book club details)
- June 11: Antiquity by Hanna Johansson, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson
Swedish American Museum
- May 25: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (book club details)
- June: The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
- July: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- August: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- September: Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- October: Nordic Visions edited by Margret Helgadottir
- November: The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
- December: Everything Is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Åkerström
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- May 14: The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson, translated from the Swedish by Agnes Broomé (book club details)
- June 11: It’s Murder, Dontcha Know? A Quirky Murder Mystery with Recipes by Jeanne Cooney
- July 9: Welcome to America by Linda Böstrom Knausgård, translated from the Swedish by Martin Aitken
- August 13: Deep River: A Novel by Karl Marlantes
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- May 15: Unto A Good Land: Emigrant Novels, Book II by Vilhelm Moberg, translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock (book club details)
- September 18: The Lazarus Solution by Kjell Oda Dahl, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (book club details)