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 instructions:
Here are the books and dates for our upcoming meetings:
Monday, Jan 2021, date to be determined – Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & PerWahlöö – This is the fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series and finds Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer. With its wonderfully observed lawmen, its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, it is a classic of the police procedural.
Monday, Feb 2021, date to be determined – Eva’s Eyes by Karin Fossum – This is Fossum’s first novel featuring the iconic Inspector Sejer. While Eva steals the center stage from Sejer, her increasingly fraught decisions give this dark police procedural warmth despite the frigid environs. The unveiling of the story through the voices of everyone touched by the murder illuminates the crime’s tragedies and ensures a steady flow of story-twisting revelations.
Books read in the past include:
- 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
