Usually the 3rd Monday of the Month (See dates listed below)
- 7-8 pm
- via ZOOM
Interested in books that depict historical and cultural aspects of Nordic life, including a few Nordic noir crime novels? If so, you are invited to participate in our meetings. Read the book – then join in the discussion. Books are selected by our members, and upcoming books are listed below the Zoom Instruction Form.
Zoom Instruction Form – Complete and click on “Submit” to request Zoom number and password:
Here are the books and dates for our upcoming meetings:
Monday, Mar 15, 2021 – My grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry by Fredrik Backman, the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove. This is a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother’s fairy tales.
Monday, Apr 19, 2021 – The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg – The hero here is a world-famous circus clown and violinist, Kaspar Krone, who possesses a mystical ability to identify an individual’s personality in terms of the sound and musical keys that emanate from them. His special talent brings him in contact with a group of children who also possess mystical powers perhaps even the ability to alter physical reality. On one level, the novel is a forward-thrusting, suspenseful thriller, but on another, it asks confounding questions about the nature of reality and the possibility of love in a world devoid of innocence.
Books read in the past include:
- Eva’s Eye by Karin Fossum
- Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
- KonTiki by Thor Heyerdahl
- Hunger by Knut Hamsen
- Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
- Woman at 1000 Degrees by Hallgrimur Helgason
- The Devil’s Wedding Ring by Vidar Sunstøl
- Inspector Detective Huss by Helene Tursten
- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
- The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
- The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberhol
- A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Janssen
- American by Day by Derek Miller
- The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
- An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
- Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
- The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg
- All In by Simona Ahrnstedt
- Nikolai’s Fortune by Solveig Torvik
- The Ship in the Hill by William Sullivan
- Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
- The Half-Drowned King: A Novel by Linnea Hartsuyker
- Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
- A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
- The Lion’s Mouth by Anne Hold
- Blackwater by Kristin Ekman
- Red Moon over White Sea by Laila Hietamies
- Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- Kristin Lavransdatter, Book 2 – The Wife by Sigrid Undset
- Kristin Lavransdatter, Book 1 – The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
- Lucifer’s Tears by James Thompson
- Snow Angels by James Thompson
- The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Miss Julie by August Strindberg
- The Shetland Bus by David Howarth
- Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by O. E. Rolvaag
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
- The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum
- Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
- Independent People by Halldór Laxness
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
- Pelle the Conqueror: Childhood by Martin Anderson Nexo
- My Mother Gets Married by Moa Martinson
- The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
- To Siberia by Per Petterson
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
- Hannah’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
- Sunpath by Michael Maryk
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg
- Unto A Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg
- The Settlers by Vilhelm Moberg
- The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
- The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
- Royal Physician’s Visit by Per Olov Enquist
- Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz
- God’s Mercy by Kerstin Ekman
- The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness
- The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
