Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2604)
1401.
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
1402.
Nesuferitele zile de luni by Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg RO
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Cavalcada existentei tanarului Arnon incepe dupa ce renunta la liceu pentru o viata diurna petrecuta la slujbe plicticoase si una nocturna, marginala, pe strazile din Amsterdam, unde sexul e moneda de schimb. Ca sa-si omoare timpul, bate barurile si restaurantele hotelurilor la moda si pleaca fara sa-si plateasca nota, vrea sa incerce toate cocteilurile din lume, frecventeaza prostituate nu cu mult mai in varsta sau mai experimentate decat el. In periplul lui inocent si aparent fara tinta, se ascund tristetea si angoasele unui tanar caruia sensibilitatea exacerbata ii alimenteaza setea de aven... continue
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In Search of a Name : A Novel by Marjolijn van Heemstra EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle’s supposed heroism during World War II. D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot. But in my mind, it’s the other way around: a person grows into his name. Marjolijn van Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle’s heroism for as long as she can remember. As a resistance fighter, he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis, and later b... continue
1405.
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy
1406.
The Body Keeps the Score : Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades work... continue
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D : (a Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo's parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside and from her school dinners. Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures
1408.
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Jurgen Hofmeester once had it all: a beautiful wife, a nice house in an upper-class neighbourhood in Amsterdam, a respectable job as an editor, two lovely daughters named Ibi and Tirza, and a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. But during the preparations for Tirza's graduation party, we come to know what he has lost. His wife has left him; Ibi is starting a bed and breakfast in France, an idea which he opposed; the director of the publishing house has fired him; and his savings have vanished in the wake of 9/11. Tirza's new boyfriend then causes even more trouble.
1409.
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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Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
"Originally published as Hex in 2013 by Luitingh-Sijthoff in Amsterdam"--Colophon.