English books from Europe
Recommended English books (1144)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Europe for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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Swimming in the Dark : A Novel by Tomasz Jedrowski EN
PolandDescription:
"When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they sh... continue
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Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones EN
AlbaniaDescription:
Independence in the Albanian mountains means a vow to become a man--independence in America means reclaiming her womanhood.
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Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
A classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Čapek EN
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Capek mystery stories from the 1920s are among the most enjoyable and unusual ever written though only a few have previously appeared in English and then only in poor translations. This new collection - admirably translated from the Czech by Norma Comrada - should introduce a whole new legion of admirers to this leading fiction writer, playwright and columnist whose work includes 'War with the Newts'.
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Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem EN
Description:
From 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' (Guardian), the adventures of Pirx, a hapless everyman in outer space 'By now he fancied himself something of a rocket jockey, a space ace, whose real home was among the planets' In a future where space travel has become routine and unremarkable, Pirx the pilot bumbles and daydreams his way through the solar system. These endearing tales follow his progress from cadet to captain. But, whether he is wrestling with a misbehaving spacesuit, feeling uncomfortable on a luxury space cruise ship or encountering a mysterious malfunctioning robot on a... continue
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Tell me about it by Sacha Naspini EN
ItalyDescription:
Nives has recently lost her husband of fifty years. She didn't cry when she found him dead in the pig pen, she didn't cry at the funeral, but now loneliness has set in. When she decides to bring her favourite chicken inside for company, she is surprised to discover that the chicken's company is a more than adequate replacement for her dead husband.
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Termush (Faber Editions) : Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer by Sven Holm EN
DenmarkDescription:
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia ...
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Terrorist : Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin who Ignited World War I by Henrik Rehr EN
Description:
"Fictional account of the life of the young Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princep, who touched off World War I in 1914 by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand"--
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Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem EN
UkraineDescription:
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye's creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916), the "Jewish Mark Twain," who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem's heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the "Railroad S... continue
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The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen EN
Description:
Detective Carl M©ırck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.