EUROPE – Reading The World

Europe
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Countries read are in bold blue

Potential books to be read are listed below each country. Books read are in red. An asterisk (*) indicates books I own but have not read yet.

1. Albania (Tirane)

• Broken April, by Ismail Kadare

2. Andorra (Andorra la Vella)

3. Armenia (Yerevan)

4. Austria (Vienna)

• The Fig Eater, by Jody Shield*
• The Terror of Ice and Darkness, by Christoph Ransmayr

5. Belarus (Minsk)

6. Belgium (Brussels)

• Summer in Termuren, by Louis Paul Boon

7. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)

• The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway (finished 10 April 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
• People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (finished 4 July 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)

8. Bulgaria (Sofia)

9. Cape Verde (Praia)

10. Croatia (Zagreb)

• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
• Cafe Europa, by Slavenka Drakulic

11. Czech Republic (Prague)

• Giraffe, by J.M. Ledgard
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

12. Denmark (Copenhagen)

• Music and Silence, by Rose Tremain (finished 09 October 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Leeway Cottage, by Beth Gutcheon*
• The Royal Physician’s Visit, by Per Olov Enquist

13. Estonia (Tallinn)

• The Czar’s Madman, by Jaan Kross

14. Finland (Helsinki)

• Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida (Lapland) (finished 30 September 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Seven Brothers, by Aleksis Kivi

15. France (Paris)

• Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky (finished 17 February 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay (finished 02 September 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
• Chocolat, by Joanne Harris (finished 26 February 2009; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery (finished 18 July 2009; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert

16. Georgia (Tbilisi)

• Ali and Nino, by Kurban Said

17. Germany (Berlin)

• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (finished 28 January 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
• The Reader, by Bernhard Sclink
• Stones From The River, by Ursula Hegi*
• Paper Kisses: A True Love Story, by Reinhard Kaiser

18. Greece (Athens)

• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis De Bernieres

19. Hungary (Budapest)

• Embers, by Sandor Marai (finished 30 March 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Fatelessness, by Kmre Kertesz

20. Iceland (Reykjavik)

• Independent People, by Halldor Laxness (finished 05 May 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• The Fish Can Sing, by Halldor Laxness

21. Ireland (Dublin)

• The Blackwater Lightship, by ColmToibin (finished 9 November 2007; rated 4/5; read my review)
• The Gathering, by Anne Enright (finished 9 March 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Silver Wedding, by Maeve Binchy*
• The Law of Dreams, by Peter Behrens

22. Italy (Rome)

• The Book of Unholy Mischief, by Elle Newmark (finished 18 August 2009; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Sacred Hearts, by Sarah Dunant (finished 21 January 2010; rated 4/5; read my review)
• A Thousand Days in Tuscany, by Marlena De Blasi*
• The Almond Picker, by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
• The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

23. Latvia (Riga)

24. Liechtenstein (Vaduz)

25. Lithuania (Vilnius)

26. Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

27. Macedonia (Skopje)

• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West

28. Malta (Valletta)

29. Moldova (Chisinau)

30. Monaco (Monaco)

• Anything Considered, by Peter Mayle

31. Montenegro (Podgorica)

32. Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague)

• The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank

33. Norway (Oslo)

• Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson (finished 6 January 2009; rated 5/5; read my review)
• Giants in the Earth, by O.E. Rolvaag*
• Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder*
• In the Wake, by Per Peterson
• Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset (finished 20 December 2009; rated 4.5/5; read my review of The Wreath, The Wife, and The Cross)

34. Poland (Warsaw)

• The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman (finished 12 May 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
• Anything by the author Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Nine, by Andrezej Stasiuk

35. Portugal (Lisbon)

• Alentejo Blue, by Monica Ali (finished 22 February 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

36. Romania (Bucharest)

• Land of Green Plums, by Herta Muller
• The Hooligan’s Return, by Norman Manea
• The Passport, by Herta Muller (finished 24 November 2009; rated 5/5; read my review)

37. Russia (Moscow)

• The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean (finished 7 May 2007; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak (finished 24 November 2007; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
• The Brothers Karmazov, by Fyodor Doestoevsky*
• A Russian Journal, by John Steinbeck*
• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy*

38. San Marino (San Marino)

39. Serbia (Belgrade)

• Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric

40. Slovakia (Bratislava)

• Zoli, by Colum McCann

41. Slovenia (Ljublijana)

• Veronika Decides To Die, by Paulo Coelho (finished 2 November 2007; rated 3.5/5; read my review)

42. Spain (Madrid)

• The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (finished 7 July 2007; rated 4.75/5; read my review)
• For Whom The Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway (finished 7 April 2007; rated 2.5/5; read my review)
• Guernia, by Dave Boling (finished 14 September 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)

43. Sweden (Stockholm)

• Hanna’s Daughters, by Marianne Fredriksson*
• April Witch, by Majqull Axelsson
• Doctor Glas, by Hjalmar Soderberg
• The Princess of Burundi, by Kjell Eriksson*

44. Switzerland (Bern)

• Hotel Du Lac, by Anita Brookner (finished 22 July 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

45. Ukraine (Kiev)

• Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer

46. United Kingdom (London)

• Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell (finished 26 March 2007; rated 5/5; set in England; read my review)
• Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes (finished 30 April 2007; rated 4/5; set in England; read my review)
• Old Filth, by Jane Gardam (finished 29 May 2007; rated 3.75/5; set in London and Wales; read my review)
• How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewelln (finished 15 August 2007; rated 5/5; set in South Wales; read my review)
• Resistance, by Owen Sheers (finished 6 March 2008; rated 4.5/5; set in Wales; read my review)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (finished 31 July 2008; rated 5/5; set on Guernsey in the Channel Islands; read my review)

47. Vatican City (na)