Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2679)
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he... continue
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Midnight Blue : A Novel by Simone van der Vlugt EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
From Simone Van Der Vlugt comes her European bestselling novel of a young woman's rise as a painter in Holland's Golden Age—perfect for readers of The Miniaturist, Tulip Fever, and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five-year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Go... continue
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Da waren's nur noch zwei by Mel Wallis de Vries DE
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Kurz vor Weihnachten: Die vier Freundinnen Kim, Feline, Abby und Pippa möchten zusammen ein paar Tage Urlaub machen. Doch kaum sind sie in dem einsam gelegenen Ferienhaus angekommen, fängt es an zu schneien - und hört nicht mehr auf. Die vier sitzen fest, das nächste Ferienhaus ist kilometerweit entfernt und das Mobilfunknetz funktioniert nicht mehr. Auf engstem Raum werden die Spannungen zwischen den Mädchen immer deutlicher, denn jede von ihnen hat etwas zu verbergen. Als sie Spuren im Schnee entdecken, kommt die Angst auf, dass jemand sie beobachten könnte.
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Utopia for Realists : How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. "A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." --New York Times After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way-and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being se... continue
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Until You by Catharina Maura EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Left without a job and evicted from the house she so carefully turned into a home, Aria is offered two choices: move back in with her brother... or take the job her brother's best friend offers her. Their lives weren't meant to collide - but everything changes when Grayson realizes that Aria is the mysterious woman behind a wildly popular vigilante platform. She's the woman he's been falling for online, the one whose coding skills outdo his, the one he's been trying to track down. It's her. And she's off-limits.
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What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, vie... continue
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Lichter dan ik by Dido Michielsen NL
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Ontroerende, historische roman over eigenwaarde, identiteit en moederschap