Read Around Europe Challenge

Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.

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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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A collection of the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-43) who lived in Amsterdam that were composed in the shadow of the Holocaust, but their interest lies in the light-filled mind that pervades them and in the internal journey they chart.

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Until You by Catharina Maura EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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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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The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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The residents of a small town in Holland try to bring storks to nest in their village.

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Tirza by Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg NL

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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Op de avond van het eindexamenfeestje van zijn lievelingsdochter Tirza verliest de wat saaie Jörgen Hofmeester definitief de controle over zijn leven.

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The Tree and the Vine by Dola De Jong EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
A lesbian love story set during the Nazi occupation in Holland.

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The Rider by Tim Krabb, Tim Krabbe EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
The classic bicycle road racing book first published in 1978 chronicles a 150-kilometer European road race and its competitors in vivid, realistic detail. Reprint.
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The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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Neil Gaiman meets Hans Christian Andersen in this delicious fairy tale full of mysterious spirits, daring escapes, and a beautiful message about the power of found families. In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although th... continue

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Undying : A Love Story by Michel Faber EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic, candid and true, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye. All I can do, in what remains of my brief time, is mention, to whoever cares to listen, that a woman once existed, who was kind and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget how the world was altered, beyond recognition, when we met.
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