Books about Europe
general books on Europe
Non-Fiction
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
bulgaria
Fiction
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
czech republic
Fiction
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Trial by Franz Kafka
england
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germany
Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Non-Fiction
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 by Suzanne Fonay Wemple
greece
Fiction
Antigone a play by Sophocles
Oedipus Rex a play by Sophocles
Non-Fiction
Politics by Aristotle
The Republic by Plato
The Symposium by Plato
The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
Poetry
Iceland
Read all our posts about Iceland here
Fiction
Njal's Saga by Unknown
Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Read our book review here
Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Read our book review here
Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Read our book review here
The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - Read our book review here
Non-Fiction
Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland by Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson
ireland
Read all our posts about Ireland here
Fiction
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Waiting for Godot a play by Samuel Beckett
Milkman by Anna Burns - read our review here
Dubliners by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Himself by Jess Kidd - read our review here
Normal People by Sally Rooney - read our review here
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
israel
Fiction
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
italy
Fiction
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Non-Fiction
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
malta
Read all our posts on Malta here
Fiction
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Non-Fiction
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin - read our review here
Empire's of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley - read our review here
Return to Malta by Anne Fiorentino Pflug - read our review here
Netherlands
Fiction
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Non-Fiction
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
romania
Fiction
Dracula by Bram Stoker
russia
Fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Poetry
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
scotland
Read all our posts on Scotland here
Fiction
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Non-Fiction
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman - read our review here
Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson - read our review here
The Cairngorms: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy - read our review here
Edinburgh: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy - read our review here
Set in Stone: The Geology and Landscapes of Scotland by Alan McKirdy - read our review here
Skye: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy - read our review here
spain
Fiction
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
sweden
Fiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
switzerland
Non-Fiction
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
turkey
Fiction
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
Improvement by Joan Silber