EUU Online Book Club — Reading European Literature
The EUU Book Club meets online every month or so to discuss a book by a European author. We use ZOOM meeting software so we can see each other on our computers as well as hear each other.
We take turns suggesting the book. Many of us read the books in English translation, but some members read them in the original French, Spanish, German, Danish…… Some of the books are long, and it takes us two meetings to finish reading and discussing them.
We are a relaxed group of EUU members (and friends) and enjoy getting together online. Please join us – we welcome new members! Contact Caitlin McGinn for more information.
For our March meeting, we are reading
The Radetzky March —Joseph Roth
Books we’ve discussed previously:
The Emigrants —W.G. Sebald
Suite Française —Irène Némirovsky
Living’s the Strange Thing — Carmen Martin Gaite
The Plague — Albert Camus
Indiana — George Sand
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas — Machado de Assis
Purge — Sofi Oksanen
Birds without Wings — Louis de Bernieres
The Capital — Robert Menasse
The Red and the Black — Stendhal
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead — Olga Tokarczuk
Night Train to Lisbon — Pascal Mercier
A Chess Story — Stefan Zweig
War with the Newts — Karel Čapek
The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Little Red Chairs — Edna O’Brien
Stones from the River — Ursula Hegi
Juliet, Naked — Nick Hornby
The Black Notebook (L’Herbe des nuits) — Patrick Modiano
A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
Alone in Berlin (Every Man Dies Alone) — Hans Fallada
Star of the Sea — Joseph O’Connor
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared — Jonas Jonasson
A Heart of Stone — Renate Dorrestein
Judas — Amos Oz
The German Lesson (Deutschstunde) — Siegfried Lenz
Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Faust I — Goethe
Good Soldier Svejk — Jaroslav Hasek
Bridge on the Drina — Ivo Andric
The Summer Book — Tove Jansson
The Discovery of Heaven — Harry Mulisch
The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
Submission — Michel Houellebecq
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
Paradise Reclaimed — Halldor Laxness
The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
Master and Margarita — Michail Bulgakow
Nora Webster — Colm Toibin
City of Marvels — Eduardo Mendoza
Gösta Berling’s Saga — Selma Lagerlof
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies’ Paradise) — Emile Zola
Out of Africa — Karen Blixen
Blindness — Jose Saramago
Sailing against the Wind — Jaan Kross
My Name is Red— Orhan Pamuk
All Quiet on the Western Front— Erich Maria Remarque
A Room with a View — E.M. Forster