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:
Nov 19, 2018 – Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti – Why is it so impossible to get a relationship between two middle-aged misfits to work? The answer lies in the story of Shrimp, a young widowed librarian with a sharp intellect and a home so tidy her jam jars are in alphabetical order; Benny, a gentle, overworked milk farmer who fears becoming the village’s Old Bachelor in northern Sweden; and an unlikely love that should not be as complicated as it seems.
Jan 21, 2019 – The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson – A reluctant centenarian ends up in a nursing home. Still in good health he decides to escape and embarks on a hilarious journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but he has a larger-than-life backstory. Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the 20th century, he has actually played a key role in them.
Books read in the past include:
- 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
