Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4439)
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The Passenger : A Novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz EN
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Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flig... continue
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Dschinns : Roman by Fatma Aydemir DE
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Fatma Aydemirs großer Familienroman – Auf der Shortlist für den Deutschen Buchpreis 2022
Dreißig Jahre hat Hüseyin in Deutschland gearbeitet, nun erfüllt er sich endlich seinen Traum: eine Eigentumswohnung in Istanbul. Nur um am Tag des Einzugs an einem Herzinfarkt zu sterben. Zur Beerdigung reist ihm seine Familie aus Deutschland nach. Fatma Aydemirs großer Gesellschaftsroman erzählt von sechs grundverschiedenen Menschen, die zufällig miteinander verwandt sind. Alle haben sie ihr eigenes Gepäck dabei: Geheimnisse, Wünsche, Wunden. Wa... continue
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The Lazarus Effect by H. J. Golokai EN
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The Lazarus Effect is a gripping new addition to the African crime genre from a talented debut author.
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The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020 The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020 Thrillist's Best Books of the Year Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. After Tyll flees with the baker’s daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. As a juggler and a jes... continue
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Madame Curie und die Kraft zu träumen by Susanna Leonard DE
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Träume dir dein Leben schön, und mach aus diesen Träumen eine Realität.“ Marie Curie
Paris, 1891. Schon als Kind träumte Marie davon, eines Tages der Enge ihrer von Russland besetzten polnischen Heimat zu entfliehen. Nun, 20 Jahre später, erfüllt sich dieser Traum: Marie darf an der Sorbonne studieren. Dafür musste sie hart kämpfen, denn eine Frau ist in der Welt der Wissenschaft nicht gern gesehen. Doch Marie weiß, was sie will. Trotz aller Anfeindungen stürzt sie sich in die Forschung – und ins Leben. Als sie dem charmant... continue
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Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque EN
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From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front comes Three Comrades, a harrowing novel that follows a group of friends as they cope with upheaval in Germany between World Wars I and II. The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a c... continue
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Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald EN
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Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner companion, stale apple cake, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?
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The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations by Max Weber EN
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Max Weber is widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe or the analysis of modernity, Weber also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East. The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations—Weber's neglected masterpiece which first appeared in German in 1987 and was reissued in 1909—represents a fascinating and rigorous exercise to bring the newly-forged concepts of sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia and Egypt, Heb... continue
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You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann EN
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A thrilling exploration of psychological disturbance and fear from the bestselling and prize-winning author of Measuring the World. On retreat in the wintry Alps with his family, a writer is optimistic about completing the sequel to his breakthrough film. Nothing to disturb him except the wind whispering around their glassy house. The perfect place to focus. Intruding on that peace of mind, the demands of his four-year-old daughter splinter open long-simmering arguments with his wife. I love her, he writes in the notebook intended for his script. Why do we fight all the time? Guilt and expecta... continue