Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2888)
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Anxious People by Frederik Backman EN
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more! “[A] quirky, big-hearted novel…Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have mor... continue
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The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell EN
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Every morning Håkan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Håkan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Håkan was eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Håkan's wife also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth but the investigation will force him to look back over his own past, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most c... continue
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Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe." Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair
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A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alien... continue
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Älä koskaan pyyhi kyyneleitä paljain käsin : Rakkaus by Jonas Gardell FI
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”Tämän tarinan asiat ovat tapahtuneet. Kaikki on totta. Minä olen yksi selvinneistä. Tämä on minun ja ystävieni tarina.”
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The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell EN
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In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of 19 people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the 19th-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers. By the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
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The Deal of a Lifetime by Frederik Backman EN
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It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son before he makes the deal of a lifetime.
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Mentalisten by Camilla Läckberg NO
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I en kjempesatsing fra Sverige skapes en ny etterforskerduo utenom det vanlige: politietterforskeren Mina Dabiri og mentalisten Vincent Walder fra Stockholm. Mentalisten er den første i en trilogi av selveste Camilla Läckberg, skrevet sammen med den kjente mentalisten Henrik Fexeus. Mordet som setter det hele i gang er brutalt - en ung kvinne blir funnet i et sverdskap, gjennomboret fra alle kanter av sverdene lik en makaber parodi på det magiske trikset. Mina oppsøker mentalisten Vincent i et forsøk på å forstå morderens tenkemåte. Vincent lar seg fascinere av både Mina og saken hun etterfors... continue