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Please post your book suggestions for Europe here. Just comment and I will add the book to the lists I posted.

Albania
The Successor Ismail Kadare

Broken April Ismail Kadare

Andorra
The Teacher of Cheops Albert Savado

Austria
Splithead Julya Rabinowich

The Radetzky March Joseph Roth

An Ermine in Czernopol Gregor von Rezzori

The Snows of Yesteryear Gregor von Rezzori

The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil

Belarus
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster Svetlana Alexievich

Belgium
The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst

Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andric

Omer-Pascha Latas. Der Marschall des Sultans Ivo Andric

Bulgaria
A Ballad for Georg Henig Viktor Paskov

Croatia
The Albanian Donna Mazza

Czech Republic
I Served the King of England Bohumil Hrabel

The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Skvorecky

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera

Denmark
Havoc Tom Kristensen

Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg

The Keeper of Lost Causes Jussi Adler-Olsen

Estonia
Purge Sofi Oksanen

Faeroe Islands


Finland
The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna

Palm Beach Finland Antti Tuomainen

France
The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono

Suite Française Irene Nemirovsky

Germany
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass

Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin

Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family Thomas Mann

Greece
The Murderess Alexandros Papadiamantis

Holy See

Hungary
They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided Miklos Banffy

The City Builder George Konrad

Embers Sandor Marai

Iceland
Last Rituals Yrsa Siguroardattir

Independent People Halldor Laxness

Ireland
The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry

Italy
La divina comedia I Dante Alighieri

The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe

Kaputt Curzio Malaparte

Open Doors and Three Novellas Leonardo Sciascia

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda

The Late Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello

Latvia
Soviet Milk Nora Ikstena

Liechtenstein


Lithuania


Luxembourg
The Expats Chris Pavone

Malta
The Kappillan of Malta Nicholas Monsaratt

Moldova
The Good Life Elsewhere Vladimir Lorchenkov

Monaco


Montenegro
Land Without Justice Milovan Djilas

Netherlands
All Souls' Day Cees Nooteboom

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

Norway
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories Bruno Schulz

Alberta and Jacob Cora Sandel

Poland
The History of Love Nicole Krauss

Portugal
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition Fernando Pessoa

Murmuring Coast Lidia Jorge

Blindness Jose Saramago

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis Jose Saramago

Romania
The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter Matei Calinescu

The Passport Herta Muller

Russia
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov

Life and Fate Vasily Grossman

Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov

San Marino

Serbia
Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic

The Use of Man Aleksandar Tisma

The Book of Blam Aleksandar Tisma

Slovakia
Rivers of Babylon Peter Pistanek

Slovenia
You Do Understand Andrej Blatnik

Spain
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sweden
Barabbas Par Lagerkvist

Island of Wings Karin Altenberg

Switzerland
Noah: A Novel of the Boom Times Hugo Loetscher

The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann

TFYR Macedonia
Freud's Sister Goce Smilevski

Ukraine
The Family Mashber Der Nister

United Kingdom
The Vision Of Elena Silves Nicholas Shakespeare

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Angus Wilson

The Swimming-Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst

Waterland Graham Swift

Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

TERRITORIES, ETC

Crete
Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation George Psychoundakis

134. Poland: The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz, tr. Celina Wieniewska

135. Portugal: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, tr. Richard Zenith

136. Romania: The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter by Matei Călinescu, tr.Breon Mitchell & Adriana Calinescu

143. Sweden: Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist, tr. Alan Blair

111. Czech Republic: I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, tr. Paul Wilson
The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký, tr. Paul Wilson
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, tr. Aaron Asher

112. Denmark: Havoc by Tom Kristensen, tr. Carl Malmberg

146. Ukraine: The Family Mashber by Der Nister, tr. Leonard Wolf (Yiddish)

Crete
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis, tr. Patrick Leigh Fermor

Luís wrote: "123. Italy: A Divina Comédia by Dante Alighieri
147. United Kingdom: The Vision Of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
135. Portugal: [book:Era Bom que Trocássemos U..."

Is the Portugese book translated to English? Can you tell me the title?

I believe I am caught up to this point. Thanks for all the adds!

I recently added these three books to my TBR shelf. They were written by Miklós Bánffy and take place in Hungary:

They Were Counted (1934), They Were Found Wanting (1937) and They Were Divided (1940).

Shirley (stampartiste) wrote: "I recently added these three books to my TBR shelf. They were written by Miklós Bánffy and take place in Hungary:

They Were Counted (1934), They Were Found Wanting (1937) and They Were Divided (1940)."

That is such a magnificent trilogy!

Pillsonista wrote: "Shirley (stampartiste) wrote: "I recently added these three books to my TBR shelf. They were written by Miklós Bánffy and take place in Hungary:

They Were Counted (1934), They Were Found Wanting (..."

Sara I am continually impressed by how well-read you are! I wasted too many years on junk-food-for-the-brain mysteries and my legal studies!

Kelly wrote: "Sara I am continually impressed by how well-read you are! I wasted too many years on junk-food-for-the-brain mysteries and my legal studies!"

I would hardly call legal studies, of any kind, a waste Kelly! ;-)

And honestly, I truly do not believe one kind of reading is superior to another, so long as it is done for love and enjoyment. If those "junk-food-for-the-brain" mysteries, as you call them, brought you pleasure, then I don't believe that there was a difference in our reading.

But as for what I read, again, all credit has to go to my father. For him, reading was interconnected to experience. While the former is never a substitute for the latter, reading allows one to get close to experiences that we may never actually have the opportunity to enjoy in life. That's why he always encouraged my reading to be as eclectic as possible: the more eclectic the reading, the more eclectic the (potential) experiences. The imagination can never have too many avenues or outlets.

It's almost like, for my dad, a new book was like meeting a new person. And just as you can never meet too many people, so you can never read too many books!

Your dad sounds wonderful. Nobody in my family reads. They all saw/see me as a bit of an oddball. Reading is not something they encouraged. They wanted me to be more "normal". LOL. The reading paid off in law school.

I do wish that I had made the choice to expand my horizons 20 or 30 years ago though.

Portugal: Blindness Jose Saramago

Switzerland: The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann

Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

Iceland: Independent People
Halldor Kiljan Laxness

France: The Man Who Planted Trees
Jean Giono

Celia wrote: "Switzerland: The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann"

This is a great shout and it can also be listed under Germany, as well.

Pillsonista wrote: "Celia wrote: "Switzerland: The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann"

This is a great shout and it can also be listed under Germany, as well."
I spent about 3 hours this am looking for books on my TBR that are translated. Thanks, Sara, for encouraging me on this one.

thanks celia!

Japan: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
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Celia wrote: "I spent about 3 hours this am looking for books on my TBR that are translated. Thanks, Sara, for encouraging me on this one."

Those 3 hours were very productive, because you came up with a great list, Celia!

And another addition to the United Kingdom:

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson.

Austria:

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori
The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori

Germany:

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Italy:

Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte

Russia:

Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

Lisbeth wrote: "Japan: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
/book/show/2..."

I added this to Japan on the Asia thread.

Pillsonista wrote: "Celia wrote: "I spent about 3 hours this am looking for books on my TBR that are translated. Thanks, Sara, for encouraging me on this one."

Those 3 hours were very productive, because you came up ..."

The title of this one fascinates me!

Another for Portugal:

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago

A crime novel in Finland (go imagine!!)

Palm Beach, Finland Antti Tuomainen

I think any book by this author would qualify... he has written 7.
This is his most recent

Luís wrote: "Pillsonista wrote: "Another for Portugal:

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago"

A good one!!"

Have you read it, Luís? I'd love to know your opinion.

I desperately want to, but I'm afraid it might actually effect how I think about Pessoa, whom I all but worship (adoration is a small word to describe my love for Fernando Pessoa).

Have we listed this one yet? Another one for Austria:
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.

And for Germany:
Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

France:
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Italy:
Open Doors and Three Novellas by Leonardo Sciascia

Russia:
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The United Kingdom:
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Waterland by Graham Swift
Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys (Wales)

Bosnia: Omar Pascha Latas by Ivo Andrić

Hungary: The City Builder by George Konrád

Dee ~ Chillin�� Out wrote: "Could we please read this at some stage. I read it as a teen, and would love to read it again. The Diary of Anne Frank: And Related Readings by Frances Goodrich."

Holland, right?

Greece:
The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis.

Serbia:
The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tišma
The Book of Blam by Aleksandar Tišma

Dee ~ Chillin�� Out wrote: "Could we please read this at some stage. I read it as a teen, and would love to read it again. The Diary of Anne Frank: And Related Readings by Frances Goodrich."

Do you want this one by Frances Goodrich or the diary published in Anne's name?

Denmark: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
England: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Italy: That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda.
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello.