COMPLETED
This is my personal wrap up post for the 2018 European Reading Challenge.
If you have completed the 2018 challenge, please got to the official wrap up page and add a link to your wrap up post. To post a review for a 2018 book, please go to the review page.
The 2019 challenge will be posted ASAP.
BOOKS I READ
The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt (UK)
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (Russia)
Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon by M. F. K. Fisher (France)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (Sweden)
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (Germany; National Book Critics Circle Award winner)
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride (Ireland; James Tate Black Memorial Prize winner)
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (Norway)
Exodus by Leon Uris (Belgium)
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd (Austria)
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Turkey; Edgar Award winner)
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (Italy)
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike (Denmark)
Outline by Rachel Cusk (Greece)
I visited a total of 13 different countries for this challenge, which is pretty good for me. What is better, for me, is that four of the books were translated to English from the authors' native languages. I read a lot of books set in other countries, but not usually by authors from other countries.
