EUU Online Book Club — Reading European Literature
The EUU Book Club meets online on Zoom every month or so to discuss a book by a European author.
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……
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 September 24 meeting, we are reading
Time Shelter –Georgi Gospodinov
Books we’ve discussed previously:
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Cold People – Tom Rob Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Three Apples Fell from the Sky – Narine Abgaryan
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Les Années (The Years) – Annie Ernaux
Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
Flawed – Cecelia Ahern
Grey Bees – Andrey Kurkov
Good Citizens Need Not Fear – Maria Reva
Embers – Sándor Márai
The Fall of the King – Johannes V. Jensen
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old – Hendrik Groen
Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
Ninety-Three – Victor Hugo
On Tangled Paths – Theodore Fontaine
When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
Life Begins on Friday – Ioana Pârvulescu
Never Mind – Edward St Aubyn
The Radetzky March —Joseph Roth
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