Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4406)
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Guarding Temptation by Talia Hibbert EN
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Protective. Obsessive. And rough around the edges. James Foster knows the rules: you don't fall for your best friend's little sister. Nina is too young, too reckless, and too busy saving the world to be tied down by the commitment he craves. If he was smart, he'd stop wanting her. But she's the one thing on earth James just can't quit. Fierce. Principled. And impossible to resist. Political campaigner Nina Chapman is sick of one-time things. She wants forever, and she wants it with her brother's best friend-but James still sees her as a child to be coddled. So when a controversial article land... continue
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Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear EN
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In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I. A first novel. Reprint.
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf EN
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Woolf's celebrated essay based on the thesis that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers EN
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The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of amour -- staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. "Here the modern detective story begins to come to its own; and all the historical importance aside, it remains an absorbing and charming story today."
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The Man who Broke Into Auschwitz by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby EN
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'The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz' is the extraordinary.
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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Nesbit, Edith EN
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Short adaptations of twenty of Shakespeare's plays, including familiar quotations and a brief biography of Shakespeare.
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Mythos : The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry EN
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The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry's hands the stories of the titans and gods become a brilliantly entertaining account of ribaldry and revelry, warfare and worship, debauchery, love affairs and life lessons, slayings and suicides, triumphs and tragedies. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on... continue
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The King's Speech : How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue, Peter Conradi EN
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One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicat... continue