Nordic Book Club, December 2026

Join us in December as we read Selma Lagerlöf's debut novel, The Saga of Gösta Berling.

This work has been published several times since it first appeared in 1891, and has been translated into English at least four times, so please feel free to read whichever you like! The book cover pictured is the 2009 translation by Paul Norlen for Penguin Random House, which can also be found at Amazon. There are several other editions available at Bookshop.org. The title is also in public domain in the United States, so digital versions can be found at Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenburg.

From Penguin Random House:

In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo into stardom. A defrocked minister,…