Nordic books to read and study in 2025

I already had these books in 2024, started some of them during the year but still have some to begin yet:

• Story of Scandinavia, Stein Ringen – detailed history of Sweden, Denmark and Norway from Viking Age to Present!
• Sprog, Mikkel Wallentin – a booklet about language as a way to communicate and its peculiarities, part of the series Tænkepauser by Aarhus University.

Started (and already finished) in 2025:

• New Finnish Grammar (Nuova Grammatica Finlandese), Diego Marani – novel about a soldier found in an italian harbour without any memory of his past and believed to be Finnish, he will be brought to Finland to re-learn his language and culture.

A few novels I still have to start:

• Straff, Ann-Helen Laestadius – Sami kids taken away from their families to a Sami-hostile environment, who meet again 30 years later.
• Allting växer, Lyra Koli – dystopic novel about a Scandinavian girl set in a post- world war and climate catastrophe world.

Language books

This year I want to begin by focusing on Japanese, but also Finnish, continuing the coursebook by Hoepli (from Italian).

I am looking forward to improve my Danish a little with the German Assimil edition. Other books, as Swedish assimil and Short Stories in Icelandic, were started in the past and I might continue (for Icelandic) or review (for Swedish) them later.

That was pretty much all for now.. Let’s hope 2025 continues better than how it started, for me by being sick…