Books from Belgium
82 popular belgian books
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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The Other Jerusalem by Michel Kichka EN
Description:
Michel Kichka's newest autobiography tells how a comics-obsessed kid from industrial Belgium became an author and militant media illustrator from Israel. As he shows in the book, the Covid pandemic and resulting lockdown were fertile breeding ground for the creative energy Kichka needed for this intimate and funny traipse around Jerusalem -- and down memory lane.
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The Venice Train by Georges Simenon EN
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'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those times, feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.' When an unusually inquisitive stranger strikes up conversation with Justin Calmar on the train home from a family holiday, his sun-drenched memories are overshadowed by an event that will change his life forever. As he travels alone through northern Italy and Switzerland, his carefully constructed life as an upright citizen begins to unravel, ... continue
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Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke EN
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A novel about goodness and compassion, the book finds the perfect balance between sensitivity and humor, hopefulness and criticism, cheer and despair.
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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot EN
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Documents the lives of missionaries who sought to convert the Huao Indians of Ecuador.
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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé EN
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Tintin is a reporter sent to the Soviet Union to give a weekly report of his adventures.
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Una forma de vida by Amélie Nothomb ES
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Presentación del editor: Todo empieza cuando una novelista llamada Amélie Nothomb recibe una carta de uno de sus lectores, un soldado norteamericano, Melvin Mapple, que le escribe desde Irak. Mapple contrae una enfermedad, común entre los soldados. Y es la existencia de este padecimiento lo que deja al lector en estado de shock, lo hechiza y lo sume en un relato alucinante en el que, como en otras novelas de Nothomb, el protagonista absoluto es el cuerpo. Un cuerpo distinto, repudiado, que, para sobrevivir, alumbrará una nueva identidad, Scherezade, con la que el yo desdoblado de Mapple inicia... continue
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Nadat Vanilla en haar vriend een grote diamant hebben gestolen en weer zijn kwijtgeraakt, begint een doldwaze en spannende zoektocht. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
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War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans EN
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Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he'd heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn’t dare to open them. When he finally did, he discovered unexpected secrets. His grandfather’s life was marked by years of childhood poverty in late-nineteenth-century Belgium, by horrific experiences on the frontlines during the First World War and by the loss of the young love of his life. He sublimated his grief in the silence of painting. Drawing on these diary entri... continue