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.
SUMMER Selections
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JULY
AUGUST
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Nordiska’s Book Club
- August 29: Beartown by Fredrik Backman, translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith (book club details)
Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- July 16: Fishing for the Little Pike by Juhani Karila, translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers (book club details, translator will attend)
Swedish American Museum
- July 27: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (book club details)
- August 31: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (book club details)
- September 28: Independent People by Halldor Laxness (book club details)
- October 26: Nordic Visions edited by Margret Helgadottir (book club details)
- November 30: The Farm by Tom Rob Smith (book club details)
- December 28: Everything Is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Åkerström (book club details)
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- 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
- September 18: The Lazarus Solution by Kjell Oda Dahl, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (book club details)