Scandinavian Book Club

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:

Information on our upcoming meetings:

December – NO MEETING

Monday, Jan 17, 2022 at 7 pm  – POSTPONED to Monday, Jan 24, 7 pm – Hash by Torgny Lindgren – A blackly comic, marvelously innovative novel told with deadpan wit by one of Sweden’s most esteemed and best selling authors, based on a quest to find the ultimate hash by a fugitive Nazi traveling salesman and a schoolteacher from a small town ravaged by a tuberculosis epidemic.  Hash is renowned among peasants for its delectability and restorative powers.  As the men’s search becomes more impassioned, it becomes clear that their goal is much more than a culinary marvel – that what they’ve really been seeking is the force of life that must present itself even in dark times.

Books read in the past include:

• An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good: Stories by Helene Tursten
• The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde
• Winter Grave by Helene Tursten
• The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
• The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
• My grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry by Fredrik Backman
• 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