THE 2022 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE
MY SIGN UP POST
To sign up yourself (and I hope you do), go to the main challenge page here.
2022 is the 10th anniversary of the European Reading Challenge! This is my sign up post. I'm signing up for the "FIVE STAR (DELUXE ENTOURAGE)" level to read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries. But because it is the 10th anniversary, I actually plan to read books from ten different countries.MY CHALLENGE BOOKS
You do not have to pick your books ahead of time, but I picked a few because I like to play with my books. I may or may not get to the books in the picture above. I took that picture for some Instagram inspiration for a post I did about the European Reading Challenge. The books I'm planning to read for this challenge are:
UK: These Ruins are Inhabited by Margaret Beadle, a memoir by an American living in England in the 1950s.
The European Reading Challenge has been around since 2012 so 2022 is the ten year anniversary! The idea is to tour Europe in books by reading books written by authors from different European countries or set in different European countries. You pick the books, the countries, and how many books you want to read. You can complete the challenge by reading 1 to 5 books, depending on what level of participation you chose.
If you want to read more, you can compete for the Jet Setter Prize. The prize goes to the person who reads and reviews the greatest number of books from DIFFERENT countries. Only one book from each country counts towards the prize, so the greatest number of books that could be read is 50, because there are 50 official sovereign states in Europe:
You do not have to pick your books ahead of time, but I picked a few because I like to play with my books. I may or may not get to the books in the picture above. I took that picture for some Instagram inspiration for a post I did about the European Reading Challenge. The books I'm planning to read for this challenge are:
UK: These Ruins are Inhabited by Margaret Beadle, a memoir by an American living in England in the 1950s.
RUSSIA: The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakow, on my Classics Club list.
FRANCE: French Women Don't get Fat by Mireille Guiliano.
GERMANY: The Wall by John Hersey, on my Classics Club list.
CZECH REPUBLIC: The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
ITALY: The Spring by Megan Weiler
I hope to visit more countries in Scandinavia, the Baltics, and the Balkans. Perhaps I will get to Zorba the Greek for Greece and Olivia Manning's Balkans Trilogy for Rumania.
THE 2022 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE
JANUARY 1, 2022 TO DECEMBER 31, 2022
(new deadline!)
The European Reading Challenge has been around since 2012 so 2022 is the ten year anniversary! The idea is to tour Europe in books by reading books written by authors from different European countries or set in different European countries. You pick the books, the countries, and how many books you want to read. You can complete the challenge by reading 1 to 5 books, depending on what level of participation you chose.
If you want to read more, you can compete for the Jet Setter Prize. The prize goes to the person who reads and reviews the greatest number of books from DIFFERENT countries. Only one book from each country counts towards the prize, so the greatest number of books that could be read is 50, because there are 50 official sovereign states in Europe:
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.
PLEASE JOIN US ON THE GRAND TOUR IN BOOKS!
I really liked French Women Don't Get Fat. Your UK book sounds like one I'd love. This challenge is brand new to me (Or I've forgotten it!) but I'm signing up!
ReplyDeleteI loved the Balkan Trilogy! And I don't know that book by Hersey but will look for it. I have read his book A Bell For Adano which I loved, wonderful book if you're looking for one set in Italy.
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