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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Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club
- June 9: Beasts of the Sea: A Novel by Iida Turpeinen, translated by David Hackston (meeting details)
- July 14: The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love by Ethelene Whitmire (meeting details)
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Illinois
- June 9: The Colony by Annika Norlin, translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olsson (meeting details)
- July 14: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough (meeting details)
- August 11: On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnuson, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith (meeting details)
Vesterheim’s Bokprat
- June 17: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (meeting details)
- September 16: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal (meeting details)
Nordiska’s Book Club
- June 25: Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton (meeting details)
Swedish American Museum
- June 27: Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate (meeting details)
- July 25: Dept. Q: Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated from the Danish by Lisa Hartford (meeting details)