2022 European Reading Challenge -- My Wrap-Up Post!

 

THE 2022 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE

MY WRAP-UP POST

COMPLETED

There's another week or so to go before the end of the year and the end of the 2022 European Reading Challenge. But I don't foresee finishing any additional books for this challenge before the new year.

I read 58 books set in European countries or written by European authors in 2022. Under the rules of the challenge, only one book per country counts. I read books set in, or by authors from, nine different European countries. 

My list of books and countries is below, in the order I read them. See any of your own favorites?

BOOKS I READ

• Kathrine by Anya Seton (UK)

• French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano (France)

• Island of Gold by Amy Maroney (Greece)

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Czech Republic)

• Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir Of Science, Faith, And Love by Dava Sobel (Italy)

• The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)

• Holy Orders by Benjamin Black (Ireland)

• Windfall: The End of the Affair by William F. Buckley, Jr. (Portugal)

• The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (Switzerland)

THE CHALLENGE

The European Reading Challenge has been around since 2012 so 2022 is the ten year anniversary! Every year, 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 IN 2023 FOR THE NEXT GRAND TOUR IN BOOKS!