Read MN 2023: Fiction

New and classic fiction, including the first English translations of the Godzilla novels, the latest from Linda LeGarde Grover, and the final installment of Sigrid Undset's Olav Audunssøn tetralogy.

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The Ski Jumpers A Novel Peter Geye 2023 Fall: Now in paperback: a writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soaring flights and broken family bonds
A Song over Miskwaa Rapids A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2023 Fall: A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history
Olav Audunssøn IV IV. Winter Sigrid Undset 2023 Fall: The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of one man’s fateful life in medieval Norway
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall: The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2023 Fall: Now in paperback, in this ninth Minnesota mystery Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
The Big Sugar A Brigid Reardon Mystery Mary Logue 2023 Spring: A grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881
Olav Audunssøn III III. Crossroads Sigrid Undset 2022 Fall: The third volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century
By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends Emilie Demant Hatt 2022 Fall: The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century
Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring: A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2022 Spring: The ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
American Gospel A Novel Lin Enger 2021 Fall: Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision
Olav Audunssøn II II. Providence Sigrid Undset 2021 Fall: The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century
The Streel A Deadwood Mystery Mary Logue 2021 Fall: From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood
Olav Audunssøn I. Vows Sigrid Undset 2020 Fall: The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century
Undiscovered Country A Novel Lin Enger 2020 Fall: Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness
Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2020 Fall: A riveting family saga immersed in the gritty, dark side of Swedish immigrant life in America in the early twentieth century
The Journal of Otto Peltonen A Finnish Immigrant Story William Durbin 2020 Fall: A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback
Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall: A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world
In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall: Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation
Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall: A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town
Laurentian Divide A Novel Sarah Stonich 2019 Fall: Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country—now in paper
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall: A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
The Road Back to Sweetgrass A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2016 Spring: A powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and family bonds on an American Indian reservation—from the author of the award-winning short story collection The Dance Boots
The Bohemian Flats A Novel Mary Relindes Ellis 2014 Spring: The story of a man caught up in the immigrant culture of a river village in Minnesota, and in the throes of World War I
Blackwater Ben William Durbin 2014 Spring: A young boy discovers harsh realities, secrets, and adventure at a northern Minnesota logging camp in 1898
A Slave’s Tale Erik Christian Haugaard 2013 Fall: The dynamic sequel to Hakon of Rogen’s Saga
Hakon of Rogen’s Saga Erik Christian Haugaard 2013 Fall: A widely acclaimed work of historical fiction—back in print
The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg 2012 Fall: A moving, controversial novel that captured both the dazzling spirit and the bitter disenchantment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age
Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery Larry Millett 2012 Spring: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to Minnesota, on the trail of the famous Kensington Rune Stone
The Fall of the King Johannes V. Jensen 2011 Fall: The masterpiece of one of Scandinavia’s preeminent literary figures and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Styrbiorn the Strong E. R. Eddison 2011 Fall: E. R. Eddison’s classic saga novel now in paperback—includes for the first time Eddison’s remarkable letter of introduction and his unabridged closing note
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders Larry Millett 2011 Spring: When one of St. Paul’s wealthiest scions loses his head—literally—it’s up to Holmes and Watson to track a cold-blooded killer
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon Larry Millett 2011 Spring: The first novel in the series that brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John D. Watson to turn-of-the-century Minnesota
Legends of Paul Bunyan Harold W. Felton, Editor 2008 Fall: The collected lore of Minnesota’s favorite lumberjack hero
Swedish Folktales and Legends Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher, Editors 2004 Fall: A unique collection of Sweden’s most charming folktales