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Recommended books (16)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Belgium. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Cosmétique de l'ennemi

Cosmétique de l'ennemi by Amélie Nothomb FR

Rating: 3.5     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
Sans le vouloir, j'avais commis le crime parfait : personne ne m'avait vu venir, à part la victime. La preuve, c'est que je suis toujours en liberté. C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout a commencé. Il savait que ce serait lui. La victime parfaite. Le coupable désigné d'avance. Il lui a suffi de parler. Et d'attendre que le piège se referme. C'est dans le hall d'un aéroport que tout s'est terminé. De toute façon, le hasard n'existe pas.
Genre Crime
Recommended: 16 Nov 2022

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De helaasheid der dingen

De helaasheid der dingen by Dimitri Verhulst NL

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Genre Humor
Recommended: 18 Nov 2022

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Débâcle

Débâcle by Lize Spit FR

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Genre
Recommended: 25 Jan 2023

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Die Beschissenheit der Dinge : Roman by Dimitri Verhulst DE

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Genre
Recommended: 10 Nov 2022

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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Recommended: 06 Mar 2023

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La cage de verre

La cage de verre by Georges Simenon FR

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
Le bruit saccadé de la machine à écrire le réveilla et il vit, comme d'habitude, les draps pâles du lit de sa femme de l'autre côté de la table de nuit. Qui avait décidé qu'il y aurait des lits jumeaux ? Après dix-huit ans, il n'aurait pu le dire avec certitude. D'ailleurs, les événements de cette époque-là étaient confus et, pour des raisons qu'il n'essayait pas de démêler, il préférait les chasser de sa mémoire. C'était probablement elle. Et il n'avait pas protesté. Il ne protestait jamais. En définitive, il ne leur était pas arrivé une seule fois de dormir ensemble.
Recommended: 06 Oct 2022

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth : The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton EN

Rating: 4     8 Votes
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of... continue
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Recommended: 10 Jun 2022

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Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon EN

Rating: 4     6 Votes
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn’t know him as well as they thought When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie h... continue
Recommended: 03 Dec 2022

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Miranda van Frituur Miranda

Miranda van Frituur Miranda by Erik Vlaminck NL

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
Het wel en wee van enkele Vlaamse kermisuitbaters. Vervolg op 'Suikerspin'.
Genre
Recommended: 30 Oct 2022

10.

Noah's Child by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Description:
From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi occupation. It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is... continue
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Recommended: 02 Mar 2018


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