Reading Challenge May 2017
Here at For Reading Addicts we wanted to create another reading challenge for ourselves and our followers, something a little different, something that perhaps takes us all out of our reading comfort zone and so we have decided that the For Reading Addicts reading challenge for 2017 will feature authors from around the world.
Each month we will select five books written by authors who hail from a specific country and will then share that list on our Social Media pages and groups. We will then set up a discussion event for those who are taking part to chat about the books they read and to share their experiences of reading books from authors they may not ever have come across otherwise. We will also create a poll question asking for suggestions of authors for the next month’s country.
For our May challenge we asked our Cwts Book Club members for suggestions of authors from Scandinavia. These are the five books we have chosen for our For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2017 May edition.
Jo Nesbo – Blood On Snow
Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She’s his boss’s wife. And Olav’s just been hired to kill her
Fredrik Backman – My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry (US title)
Some might call Elsa’s granny ‘eccentric’, or even ‘crazy’. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny’s stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don’t always exist in imaginary kingdoms; they could live just down the hallway.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry US
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises UK
Stieg Larsson – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo US
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo UK
Camilla Lackberg – The Ice Princess
Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life.
Henning Mankell – The Return of The Dancing Master
Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted, constantly pursued by ‘demons’. He has no close friends, no close neighbours, and by the time his body is eventually found, Molin is almost unrecognisable.
The Return of the Dancing Master US
The Return of the Dancing Master UK
Hopefully our reading challenge for 2017 will introduce you to authors you’ve never heard of and writing styles you’ve never encountered previously. We have kept the challenge as simple as possible and hopefully, each month you will be able find at least one book that you will enjoy reading.
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I would also like to recommend “Out Stealing Horses” by Per Petterson.
Regards
Judith