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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,105 books — 1,031 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greatest Eastern European Classics
446 books — 266 voters

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarBonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Europe Minus Men and English
858 books — 233 voters
The Door by Magda SzabóVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófThe Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Women Writers from Central & Eastern Europe in English Translation
242 books — 182 voters

Notes from a Small Island by Bill BrysonWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia FurstenbergPaul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy by Paul StuartExpats Spain by Mark ShearmanAegean Dream by Dario Ciriello
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Europe
129 books — 109 voters
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Little Mermaid by Hans Christian AndersenSalt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysPuhdistus by Sofi Oksanen
The Baltics
161 books — 100 voters

Epifānijas by Imants ZiedonisDvēseļu putenis by Aleksandrs GrīnsNoveles by Rūdolfs BlaumanisBille by Vizma BelševicaLāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs
Best Latvian Literature
110 books — 54 voters
When Secrets Bloom by Patricia FurstenbergLes Miserables by Victor HugoThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Read Around Europe
72 books — 20 voters

When Secrets Bloom by Patricia FurstenbergA History of Eastern Europe by Vejas Gabriel LiuleviciusThe Troika of Osip Teitelbaum by Grant PattersonCome to This Court and Cry by Linda KinstlerMen As Friends by Irwin Epstein
A History of Eastern Europe Suggested Readings
58 books — 15 voters
Beneath the Gray by Rduane AssinkЛето в пионерском галстуке by Katerina SilvanovaUnder House Arrest by Yevgeny KharitonovТот самый by Юлия ВерескО чём молчит ласточка by Elena Malisova
Post-Soviet Countries' LGBT Books
56 books — 12 voters

Girl from Mars by Tamara BachFair Play by Tove JanssonCirkeln by Mats StrandbergTörvényen kívül és belül – két kisregény by Erzsébet GalgócziBlue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh
Non-English European lesbian fiction
16 books — 10 voters
Mamushka by Olia HerculesSummer Kitchens by Olia HerculesTava by Irina GeorgescuCarpathia by Irina GeorgescuThe New Ukrainian Cookbook by Annette Ogrodnik Corona
Best Central & Eastern European Cookbooks
31 books — 10 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovTimeline by Michael Crichton
SF & F Atlas - Europe
89 books — 10 voters
Het slot by Franz KafkaHet proces by Franz KafkaDe lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog by Jaroslav HašekDe lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ... by Jaroslav HašekDe lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ... by Jaroslav Hašek
Literature translated into Dutch, by authors whose birthplace was (or became part of) the former Eastern Bloc, excluding the former USSR
107 books — 9 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Orphanage by Serhiy ZhadanThe Palace of Dreams by Ismail KadareThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eurovision Book Contest
38 books — 9 voters
God's Playground by Norman DaviesTeutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior by Mark GaleottiThe Other Prussia by Karin FriedrichKing Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther by Natalia NowakowskaBetween Lipany and White Mountain by James R. Palmitessa
Early Modern Eastern Europe
26 books — 7 voters

The Dogs of Riga by Henning MankellThe Baltic by Michael NorthThe Brave Soldier and a Dozen Devils by Marguerita RudolphA Woman in Amber by Agate NesauleWith Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows by Sandra Kalniete
Latvia
33 books — 7 voters
The Cattle Express by Tom CrosshillSoviet Milk by Nora IkstenaThe Cage by Alberts BelsDoom 94 by Jānis JoņevsLife Stories by Nora Ikstena
Contemporary Latvian Novels in English
22 books — 4 voters

Cinderella Goes to Market by Barbara EinhornPost-Soviet Women Encountering Transition by Kathleen KuehnastDaughters of Revolution by Barbara Evans ClementsWomen without Men by Jennifer UtrataWomen and Socialism - Socialism and Women by Helmut Gruber
Women in (post)socialist Europe
18 books — 3 voters
Amber & Rye by Zuza ZakBaltic by Simon BajadaLithuanian Traditional Foods by B. ImbrasieneThe Food and Cooking of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Silvena Johan LautaThe Best of Lithuanian Cooking by Milda Brighton
Best Lithuanian (and other Baltic states) Cookbooks in English
24 books — 2 voters

Cilvēks no Mēness by Anšlavs EglītisČetras dienas jūnijā un citas lugas by Raimonds StapransParadīzes putni by Māra ZālītePelēkā akmens stāsti by Ernests Birznieks-Upītis18 by Pauls Bankovskis
LITERATŪRE 2020
20 books — 1 voter
Come tessere di un domino (Gli Iperborei Vol. 283) by Zigmunds SkujiņšIl latte della madre by Nora IkstenaIl pozzo by Regīna EzeraReturn to Latvia by Marina JarreIl Mago di Riga by Giorgio Fontana
Libri Ambientati a Riga, Lettonia
12 books — 1 voter

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