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.
MARCH Selections
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Nordiska’s Book Club
- March 28: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born (book club details)
Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- March 12: Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen, translated from the Danish by Megan E. Turney (book club details)
- April 9: The Other Name (Septology I-II) by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls (book club details)
Swedish American Museum
- March 30: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra (book club details)
- April: Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller by Oliver Truc, translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie
- May: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- 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
- March 12: Scattered All Over the Earth by Japanese author Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani, about a dystopian future where a climate disaster creates an interesting social situation in Scandinavia (book club details).
- April 9: The Old Man and His Sons by Faroese author Heðin Brú, translated by John F. West (book club details)
- 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)
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- March 20: Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe, translated from the Norwegian by Tor Ketil Solberg
- April 17: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- May 15: Unto A Good Land: Emigrant Novels, Book II by Vilhelm Moberg, translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock