Heading into another year of reading around the world in 2021, I decided to turn my focus on Europe. I had a few goals with the focus:
1. To get to the countries I hadn't read yet. And Europe has a lot of random countries!
2. To clear out some of the books I've been collecting since 2012.
I did get to 11 locations (mostly countries, some places that are separate from the countries they "belong to") I hadn't yet read, so that felt pretty great. I read 44 overall, which was 16% of my reading for 2021, so I did really devote a considerable amount of time to doing this.
I did also clear out a hefty chunk of my backlog of print books, but of course the siren song of new books is always strong. Did I get to all of the print books I wanted to? Well no. I haven't decided yet if I'll keep those that I have left or not. I'll probably decide that title by title.
I did have a few favorites - A Spare Life for fiction and Mud Sweeter than Honey for non-fiction.
Here's the full list! Keep in mind that I've been reading around the world for 10 years, so I have previously read quite a bit of Europe. You can view my extensive location shelves in Goodreads.
Albania
The Doll by Ismail Kadare
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
Andorra
32 Yolks by Eric Ripert
Armenia
Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian
Azerbaijan
Days in the Caucasus by Banine
Belarus
Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko
Bosnia
Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović, translated by Celia Hawkesworth
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
Bulgaria
Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov
Croatia
The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugrešic
We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day by Ivana Bodroźić
Cyprus
The Women’s Coffee Shop by Andriana Ierodiaconou
The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop
France
The Paris Connection by Lorraine Brown
Germany
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
Love in Case of Emergency by Daniela Krien
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Hungary
Embers by Sándor Márai
Ireland
Milkman by Anna Burns
Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Italy
Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jersey, Isle of
The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
Latvia
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
Luxembourg
The Expats by Chris Pavone
Monaco
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene
Montenegro
Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic
North Macedonia
A Spare Life by Lidja Dimkovska
Norway
The Pastor by Hanne Ørstavik; translated by Martin Aitken
The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein (Knight)
Poland
Maybe Esther: A Family Story by Katja Petrowskaja
Romania
If You Kept a Record of Sins by Andrea Bajani
Serbia
Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavić
Slovakia
Embers by Sándor Márai
Slovenia
Panorama by Dušan Sarotar
Spain
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar
UK
Iona: Poems by Kenneth Steven (Hebrides Islands)
The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (Shetland Islands)
Ukraine
Maybe Esther: A Family Story by Katja Petrowskaja
Vatican City
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
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