Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2873)
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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
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The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
The residents of a small town in Holland try to bring storks to nest in their village.
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The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale by Gerard Reve EN
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries... continue
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La historia siguiente by Cees Nooteboom ES
Country: Europe / Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Herman Mussert, un profesor neerlandes de lenguas muertas, se acuesta en su tranquilo apartamento de Amsterdam y amanece, al dia siguiente, en la habitacion de un hotel de Lisboa. Al despertarse, su primera sensacion no es de sorpresa, sino que siente un extrano escalofrio por la posibilidad de ser otro y por la hilarante probabilidad de estar muerto. El hombre de Amsterdam tal vez este muriendo, pero el de Lisboa contara la historia de su vida y la de las dos mujeres que fueron importantes en ella.