The EUU Book Club meets online on Zoom every month or so to discuss a book by a European author. We usually meet on the last Sunday of the month,

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.

On September 27, we will discuss The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, suggested by Susan.

For our October meeting, Oct 18 (a week early to avoid conflicting with the EUU Fall Retreat), Gevene has chosen Lázár by Nelio Biedermann.

Books we’ve discussed previously:

The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes

Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson

House of Day, House of Night – Olga Tokarczuk

Niels Lyhne (1880) – Jens Peter Jacobsen

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

1984 – George Orwell

Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

The Bacchae – Euripides

The Fig Tree – Goran Vojnović.

I’ Anomolie / The Anomoly – Hervé Le Tellier

The Other Name (Septology I-II) – Jon Fosse

Normal People – Sally Rooney.

The City of Woven Streets – Emmi Itäranta

Bread and Wine – Ignazio Silone

Anecdotes of Destiny – Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen, five short stories including Babette’s Feast, The Diver, Tempests, The Immortal Story, and The Ring.

Don’t Tell Alfred – Nancy Mitford

The Doll – Bolesław Prus

Candide – Voltaire

Mythos – Stephen Fry

Days without End – Sebastian Barry

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka

The Following Story – Cees Nooteboom

The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery

The Braid: A Novel – Laetitia Colombani

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting –  Milan Kundera

Crabwalk – Günter Grass

Penguin Island – Anatole France

Malacqua – Nicola Puglieses

Time Shelter – Georgi Gospodinov

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