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.
FALL Selections
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Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- September 8: When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies (meeting details)
- October 13: A Thousand Threads: A Memoir by Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry (meeting details)
- November 10: A Woman in the Polar Night by Austrian adventurer Christiane Ritter, translated by Jane Degras (meeting details)
Vesterheim’s Bokprat (Must preregister)
- September 16: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal (meeting details)
- October 28: The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (meeting details)
- November 11: Lady From the Sea by Henrik Ibsen (meeting details)
- December 16: The Bell in the Lake (The Sister Bells #1) by Lars Mytting (meeting details)
- January 20: The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter #2) by Sigrid Undset (meeting details)
- February 17: The Reindeer Hunters (The Sister Bells #2) by Lars Mytting (meeting details)
- March 10: Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (meeting details)
Nordiska’s Book Club
- September 24: The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna Labba, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel (meeting details)
Swedish American Museum
- September 26: The Secret of Snow by Tina Harnesk, translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies (meeting details)
- October 31: Strega by Johonne Lykke Holm
- November 28: The Colony by Annika Norlin
- December 26: The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- October 13: On the Other Side Is March by Faroese author Sólrún Michelsen, translated by Marita Thomsen (meeting details)
- November 3: Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated from the Swedish by by Saskia Vogel (meeting details)
- December 8: The Strongest Woman in the World by Steinunn G. Helgadóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Larissa Kyze (meeting details)
- January 12: After the North Pole by Erling Kagge, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson (meeting details)