In the 2021 European Reading Challenge hosted by Rose City Reader, participants tour Europe through books. The books can be read (and reviewed) anytime between January 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022.
The idea is to read books by European authors or books set in European countries (no matter where the author comes from). The books can be anything – novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, or any other genre. Each book must be by a different author and set in a different country. A book must be reviewed in order to count towards the goal.
More detailed rules and sign ups are here.
I am joining at the FIVE STAR (DELUXE ENTOURAGE) level: Read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries.
This is the list of countries:
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Vatican City.
POSSIBLE BOOKS FOR THIS CHALLENGE:
Last year, I listed some books I could read (from my own shelves) for the challenge. Of the five books I listed, I only read one of those. Here are the four remaining from that list.
Switzerland: The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Spain: Tattoo by Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Norway: Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
Greece: Assassins of Athens by Jeffrey Siger
These are a few other books that I plan to read in 2021.
Belgium: The Dancer At The Gai-Moulin by Georges Simenon
Iceland: Blackout by Ragnar Jónasson
Russia: The Big Red Train Ride by Eric Newby OR
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express by Stuart Kaminsky
Turkey: Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel
6 comments:
Those are some really appealing choices, Tracy. And I know you've enjoyed the European reading challenge before. I'm glad you're signing up again, and I look forward to your reviews. Oh, and you've reminded me I must read more Siger than I have... Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you, Margot. I look forward to reading another book by Siger this year.
Hope you have a safe 2021 with plenty of good reading ahead of you. Some interesting choices there. Not sure I have anything for Turkey and Greece on my shelves. I must try and do better with some of my long overdue challenges. I'm sure I said that last year and the year before that!
Thanks, Col. I hope you and your family have a happy and safe 2021 also. I am cautiously optimistic although I think it will be a while before anything changes much here. I am eager to join a lot of challenges, which I may or may not successfully follow up on.
So glad to see that UK is still counted as being part of Europe even though we are no longer in the European Community :)
Good luck with the challenge - if I hadn't already signed up for another project I might have been tempted
I am glad the UK still counts, too, BookerTalk. That is my easiest country to fulfill. I just try to pick the best book that represents it (that I have read and reviewed). With all the vintage mysteries by English authors that I read, my reading from the UK probably tops my reading from the US.
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