Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2605)
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You Don't Know What War Is : The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska EN
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An important, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war as told through the diary entries of a young Ukrainian girl. Yeva Skalietska's story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been living with her grandmother since she was a baby. Ten days later, the only life she'd ever known was shattered. On February 24, 2022, her city was suddenly under attack as Russia launched its horrifying invasion of Ukraine. Yeva and her grandmother ran to a basement bunker, where she began writing this diary. She describes the bombings they endured while s... continue
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol EN
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One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these “souls” as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the dev... continue
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The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich EN
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers, pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familia... continue
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Vorosjylovhrad : terug naar de woeste velden van Oost-Oekraïne by Serhij Viktorovyč Žadan NL
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Wanneer een jongeman teruggaat naar zijn geboortestad in de Oekraïne om de verdwijning van zijn broer te onderzoeken, belandt hij in een chaotisch land en beleeft surrealistische avonturen.
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La leyenda del santo bebedor by Joseph Roth ES
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La leyenda del Santo Bebedor, fue publicada por primera vez en 1939, pocos meses después de la muerte de Roth, exiliado en París, y puede ser considerada, por muchos motivos, su testamento, la parábola transparente y misteriosa que encierra la cifra de su autor, hoy redescubierto como uno de los más extraordinarios narradores del siglo.
El clochard Andreas Kartak, originario como Roth de las provincias orientales del Imperio austrohúngaro, encuentra una noche, bajo los puentes del Sena, un enigmático desconocido que le ofrece doscientos francos. El cl... continue
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Carbide explores the underbelly of the Ukrainian smuggling industry in a merciless yet loving parody of Ukrainian nationalism.
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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko EN
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In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin's secret police, and unwittingly opens a door to the abandoned secrets of three disparate women.