
FINDS – stands for Finland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, the five Nordic countries. For me, reading Nordic literature really began in the 1990s, when a few modern novels began to appear in translation in English and became bestsellers. In the first #NordicFINDS I spent one week per country, revisiting those gateway books that led me into Nordic lit, and as many others from each country as I had time for (concentrating on Nordic Noir and contemporary lit).

The list below contains all the books I and other contributors read during the five weeks of #NordicFINDS, plus all the Nordic books I’ve previously reviewed on my blog, as a resource for inspiration.
#NordicFINDS will return in 2023 – but just for a fortnight this time in January!
#NordicFINDS – The Reading List
Unless specified, reviews by Annabel/AnnaBookBel
DENMARK
- Havoc by Tom Kristensen – Thoughts on Papyrus
- Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen – Lizzy’s Literary Life
- Minna Needs Rehearsal Space by Dorthe Nors
- Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – by Peter Høeg
- Mirror Shoulder Signal by Dorthe Nors
- The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tuve Ditlevsen – You Might as Well Read
- Childhood (#1) – Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
- The Employees by Olga Ravn
- The Last Good Man by AJ Kazinski – The Content Reader
- The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
FINLAND
- Dark as My Heart by Antti Tuomainen – You May As Well Read
- Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson – Calmgrove
- Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila – Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
- The Healer by Antti Tuomainen
- The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo – Lizzy’s LIterary Life
- The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
- The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen – Lizzy’s LIterary Life, AnnaBookBel
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Mr Darwin’s Gardener by Kristina Carlson
ICELAND
- Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
- Land of Love and Ruins by Oddný Ur – You Might as Well Read
- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón – Calmgrove
- On the Cold Coasts by Vilborg Davidsdottir
- Red Milk by Sjón – Lizzy’s Literary LIfe
- The Blue Fox by Sjón (a lost blog post from 2009)
- The Book of Reykjavik by various authors – Lizzy’s Literary Life, Liz Dexter
- The Heaven and Hell Trilogy by Jón Kalman Stefánsson – Liz Dexter
- The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A Kendra Greene (NF) – Liz Dexter
- The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
- The Promise of Iceland by Kari Gislason (NF) – Liz Dexter
- Under the Glacier by Haldor Laxness
- Winterkill (Dark Iceland 6) by Ragnar Jónasson
NORWAY
- 1222 by Anne Holt
- A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter (NF) – Liz Dexter
- Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? by Johan Harstad
- Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
- The Ice Palace by Targei Vesaas – AnnaBookBel, Winston’s Dad
- Lazy Days by Erlend Loe
- Love by Hanna Ørestavik – Reading and Watching the World
- Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad – You MIght as Well Read
- One Last Time by Helga Flatland
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad – Madame Bibi Ophile Recommends, AnnaBookBel
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder – The Content Reader, AnnaBookBel, Bookish Beck
- The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl
- The Birds by Targei Vesaas – Lizzy’s Literary Life
- The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti A Skomsvold – Cathy at 746 Books
- The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm
- The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
- The World According to Anna by Jostein Gaarder – Calmgrove
SWEDEN
- A moth to a flame by Stig Dagerman – Imogen at Reading and Watching the World
- An Elderly Lady is Up to Nno Good & An Elderly Lady Must not be Pressed by Helene Tursten – You Might as Well Read
- Benny and Shrimp by Katerina Mazetti
- Döstädning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson – Bookish Beck
- Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist – Cathy at 746 Books
- Lagom by Lola A. Åkerström
- Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, plus Films vs Book
- Ronning & Stilton by Cilla & Rolf Börjlind
- Spring Tide (#1)
- Third Voice (#2)
- Some Kind of Company by Nan Östman
- The Carrier by Mattias Berg
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (a lost blog post from 2009)
- The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules by Catharine Ingelman-Sundberg
- The Martin Beck books by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö –
- Roseanna (#1)Cathy at 746 Books, AnnaBookBel
- The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (#2) – Lizzy’s Literary LIfe
- The Man on the Balcony (#3) – Lizzy’s LIterary Life
- The Mind’s Eye by Håkan Nesser
- The Room by Jonas Karlsson
- The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf
- Wallander series by Henning Mankell
- Faceless Killers(#1) (Pre-blog)
- The Dogs of Riga (#2)
- When the Snow Fell by Henning Mankell (YA)
MULTIPLE COUNTRIES
- Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler (NF) – LIz Dexter
- River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Kat Jarman – Liz Dexter