2024 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE
THIS IS THE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT POST FOR 2024
TO FIND THE 2024 REVIEWS, GO TO THIS PAGE
TO FIND THE 2024 WRAP UP POSTS, GO TO THIS PAGE
THE 2025 EUROPEAN READING CHALLENGE SIGN UP IS AT THIS PAGE
2024 was the 12th year of the European Reading Challenge! The challenge involves reading books set in different European countries or written by authors from different European countries.
My big thanks go to all the participants who joined me for the Grand Tour last year!
JET SETTER GRAND PRIZE WINNER
The 2024 Jet Setter prize goes to Sabine at sabines.literary.world who participated on Instagram. 2024 is the fourth year in a row that this intrepid armchair traveler won the challenge. In 2021, Sabine visited all 50 European states -- TWICE! In 2022, she hit another grand slam, but only one time around the continent. In 2023, she slowed down and "only" visited 35 of the 50 European states. In 2024, she hit her stride again, visited all 50 European states, and reviewed the books she read. Her wrap up post discusses her reading journey.
Honorary Mention (but no prizes) go to the other nine participants who completed the challenge and posted wrap up posts about the countries they visited and the books they read. Here they are, with the number of different countries visited in parenthesis:
My own wrap-up post is here. I read books from 14 different European countries, and four were translations. I didn't even try to review the books I read, which is more than I can handle as long as I am running my own law firm.
Congratulations to all the readers who completed the 2024 challenge!
There is still plenty of time to join us in 2025.
JOIN THE 2025 CHALLENGE! SIGN UP HERE!
The gist: The idea is to read books by European authors or books set in European countries (no matter where the author comes from). The books can be anything – novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, or any other genre. You can participate at different levels, but each book must be by a different author and set in a different country – it's supposed to be a tour.
Sign up HERE for the 2025 Challenge.
Congratulations to all the readers who completed the 2024 challenge!
There is still plenty of time to join us in 2025.
JOIN THE 2025 CHALLENGE! SIGN UP HERE!
The gist: The idea is to read books by European authors or books set in European countries (no matter where the author comes from). The books can be anything – novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, or any other genre. You can participate at different levels, but each book must be by a different author and set in a different country – it's supposed to be a tour.
Sign up HERE for the 2025 Challenge.
