Nordic Challenge: Resources List

Here is the Resource List for the Nordic Challenge 2011. This list is just a start, there are many many other books out there. I will keep adding to the list. Thank you to everyone who has made suggestions so far!

Children’s books

Bergström, Gunilla  (Sweden): Very Tricky, Alfie Atkins; Good Night, Alfie Atkins; Is that a Monster, Alfie Atkins?; Who’s Scaring Alfie Atkins;

Beskow, Elsa  (Sweden): The Land of Long ago; The Sun Egg; The Children of the Forrest; Around the Year: A Picture Book; The Curious Fish; Pelle’s New Suit; Emily and Daisy; Woody, Hazel and Little Pip; Ollie’s Ski Trip; Peter in Blueberry Land; Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender; Christopher’s Harvest Time; Petter and Lotta’s Christmas (and many more)

Björk, Christina (Sweden): Linnea in Monet’s Garden; Linnea’s Windowsill Garden; The Other Alice: The Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland;

Jansson, Tove  (Finland): Comet in Moominland; Who Will Comfort Toffle?; The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My; Tales from Moominvalley; Moominsummer Madness (and many more)

Lindgren, Astrid  (Sweden): The Children of Noisy Village; Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter; Karlsson on the Roof; Emil and the Great Escape; Pippi Longstocking; Mio My Son; Lotta on Troublemaker Street; The Brothers Lionheart (and many more)

Nordqvist, Sven  (Sweden): The Fox Hunt; The Hat Hunt; When Findus was Little and Disappeared; Pancakes for Findus; Findus Goes Camping; A Rumpus in the Garden

Bauer, John  (Sweden): Swedish Folk Tales (this is an anthology illustrated by John Bauer that I wanted to include)

Classics

H.C. Andersen (Denmark): Fairy Tales

Frans G. Bengtsson (Sweden): The Long Ships

Fredriksson, Marianne (Sweden): Hanna's Daughters; Simon's Family

Ibsen, Henrik (Norway): A Doll’s House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder; The Wild Duck

Kivi, Aleksis (Finland): Seven Brothers

Lagerlöf, Selma (Sweden): The Saga of Gosta Berling, The Wonderful Adventure of Nils (Children’s book); The Treasure; Jerusalem

Laxness, Halldor  (Iceland): Independent People

Linna, Väinö (Finland): Under the North Star; The Unknown Soldier

Strindberg, August (Sweden): Miss Julie; The Red Room; The Father; Married

Söderberg, Hjalmar (Sweden): Doctor Glas; Martin Birck’s Youth

Undset, Sigrid (Norway): Kristin Lavransdatter, Jenny

Waltari, Mika (Finland): The Egyptian; The Roman; The Etruscan; The Dark Angel

Kalevala

Sagas of the Icelanders

Crime/Mystery

Holt, Anne (Norway): Blind Goddess; Blessed Are Those Who Thirst; Death of the Demon; The Lion’s Den; Dead Joker; No Echo; Beyond the Truth; 1222

Indridason, Arnaldur  (Iceland): Silence of the Grave; The Draining Lake; Voices; Tainted Blood; Jar City; Arctic Chill, Hypothermia; Operation Napoleon

Larsson, Stieg (Sweden): The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Läckberg, Camilla  (Sweden): Ice Princess; The Preacher; The Stone Cutter;

Mankell, Henning (Sweden): The Fifth Woman; Faceless Killers; The Man Who Smiled; The Eye of the Leopard; The Return of the Dancing Master; Chronicler of the Winds; Before the Frost; The White Lioness; Depths; The Pyramid; The Man from Beijing (not crime); Firewall (and many more)

Marklund, Liza  (Sweden): The Postcard Killer (with James Patterson); Red Wolf; The Bomber; Studio Sex; Prime Time; Paradise

Nesbo, Jo  (Norway): The Devil’s Star; The Red Brest; Nemesis; The Redeemer; The Snowman

Nykanen, Harri (Finland): Raid and the Blackest Sheep

Sigurdardóttir, Yrsa (Iceland): Last Rituals

Sipila, Jarkko (Finland): Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance; Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall

Fiction

Fagerholm, Monika (Finland): Wonderful Women by the Water;
The American Girl

FaldBakken, Knut  (Norway): Twilight Country, Sweetwater 

Hamsun, Knut  (Norway): Victoria, Pan, Hunger

Helgason, Hallgrimur  (Iceland): 101 Reykjavik

Hoeg, Peter  (Denmark): Smilla's Sense of Snow/Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

Jansson, Tove  (Finland): Fair Play (Due out March 22, 2011), The True Deceiver, The Summer Book

Lindgren, Torgny (Sweden): Light

Hirvonen, Elina (Finland): When I Forgot

Holmqvist, Ninni (Sweden): The Unit

Malmsten, Bodil (Sweden): The Price Of Water In Finistère

Niemi, Michael  (Finland): Popular Music/Popular Music from Vittula

Oksanen, Sofi (Finland): Purge

Olafsson, Bragi (Iceland): Pets;  The Ambassador

Paasillina, Arto  (Finland): The Howling Miller

Petterson, Per  (Norway): Out Stealing Horses; In the Wake; To Siberia; I Curse the River of Time

Sinisalo, Johanna (Finland): Troll: A Love Story; Birdbrain

Sjon (Iceland): The Blue Fox

Solstad, Dag (Norway): Novel 11, Book 18; Shyness and Dignity

Non-fiction

Bergman, Ingmar (Sweden): The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

Himanen, Pekka (Finland): The Hacker Ethic

Nilsson, Lennart (Sweden): Life, A Child is Born

Novels Set in Nordic Countries

Vida, Vendela (set in Lapland): Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name

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