Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4407)
4041.
The Line of Beauty : A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst EN
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Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by his association during the boom years of the 1980s. By the author of The Swimming-Pool Library. Reprint.
4042.
El americano impasible by Graham Greene ES
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En el tormentoso ambiente político de la Indochina de los años cincuenta —una Indochina que reivindica su independencia contra el ejército francés—, tres personajes forman un frágil triángulo amoroso: Thomas Fowler, un corresponsal de guerra que ha llevado una vida llena de fracasos sentimentales y que repasa sus experiencias con distancia y escepticismo; Alden Pyle, el americano impasible, un agente secreto estadounidense de carácter extraordinariamente ingenuo, y Fuong, una joven anamita de la que están enamorados los dos ho... continue
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors EN
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For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive m... continue
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The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst EN
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In 1940, Evert Dax and David Sparsholt, two young men from very different backgrounds, meet at Oxford University. Dax is a second year student reading English, coming from a rackety upper middle class background; Sparsholt is from a humbler Midlands community and is reading engineering, a young man whose good looks and fine figure have proved highly attractive to his peers. This time is a unique one in the history of the university: with military call-up at twenty, soon brought forward to nineteen, almost all students come up to Oxford knowing that they will only have a year or so of study. A ... continue
4045.
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley EN
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The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridle... continue
4046.
The Vampire by John William Polidori EN
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A young Englishman traveling on the Continent with the mysterious Lord Rutven comes to realize that his companion is an evil and murderous vampire.
4047.
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers EN
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In his first murder case, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the bizarre case of a corpse in the bathtub.
4048.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith EN
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A novel of an eccentric and impoverished English family whose home is a ruined 14th century castle. The story is presented in the form of a diary by the family's teen daughter.
4049.
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo EN
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Barrington Jedidiah Walker.
Barry to his friends.
Trouble to his wife.
Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits.
He is a husband, father and grandfather.
And for the past sixty years, he has been in a relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris.
Wife Carmel knows Barry has been cheating on her, but little does she know what is really going on. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington has big choices to make.
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A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr EN
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A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself ha... continue