Usually the 3rd Monday of the Month (See dates listed below)
- 7-8 pm
- at Viking Hall
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 attend our meetings. Read the book – then come and join in the discussion. Books are selected by our members.
Here are the books and dates for our upcoming meetings:
June, July, August, and December 2019 – No meetings
September 16, 2019, 7 pm – A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Janssen – A book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths.
October 21, 2019, 5 pm – Potluck dinner in private home and viewing of Scandinavian movie (email scscandi@scscandi.com for more information)
Books read in the past include:
- 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
