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Description: Books about Europe, as a whole and its countries, also history. Even if Europe is only described in a major part. You can add everything, let's make it a long list. Some Polish books are included because I'm in Poland.

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12,976 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: dara85, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

33,773 members

512 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: elkiedee, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

3

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,091 members

443 reviews

4.1

3 Members: elkiedee, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

4

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,610 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

18,504 members

330 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

6

4,401 members

69 reviews

3.8

3 Members: elkiedee, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena

by Anna Comnena

951 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

12,667 members

248 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Markus Zusak

52,613 members

2,244 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

10

The Magus {original}

1,659 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

15,286 members

544 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

12

by Charlotte Brontë

68,320 members

1,020 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Henrik Ibsen

6,223 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Les Misérables

30,672 members

382 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Mary Shelley

51,450 members

814 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

36,043 members

533 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark Sullivan

3,383 members

134 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

18

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

3,026 members

68 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Misanthrope

1,813 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

20

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

20,810 members

476 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,449 members

203 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

9,256 members

359 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by William Shakespeare

15,805 members

191 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,830 members

375 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

1,317 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,663 members

223 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

27

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,597 members

244 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963

28

23,228 members

344 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

17,785 members

267 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,352 members

779 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

12,914 members

175 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

33,048 members

307 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Communist Manifesto

18,095 members

164 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

34

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,091 members

135 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

by Paul Kennedy

3,324 members

23 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

36

by Henri Barbusse

898 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

37

by Gustave Flaubert

29,970 members

429 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963

38

The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy

491 members

6 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

39

Goodbye to Berlin

by Christopher Isherwood

2,479 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda

40

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

by Jacques Barzun

4,109 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

41

Memoirs of a Revolutionary

by Victor Serge

536 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee

42

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

26,573 members

223 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

by Louis De Bernières

8,559 members

159 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

44

The House on Paradise Street

by Sofka Zinovieff

63 members

2 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

45

The History of the Peloponnesian War

9,005 members

70 reviews

4

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Boris Pasternak

13,042 members

173 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

47

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

24,164 members

971 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

48

The Dream of Scipio

2,360 members

53 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

by Niall Ferguson

585 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

50

Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens

by Sofka Zinovieff

128 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

51

Reflections on the Revolution in France

by Edmund Burke

3,296 members

30 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

52

1,167 members

72 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by Martha Hall Kelly

4,729 members

205 reviews

4

Member: dara85

54

by Vasily Grossman

4,167 members

100 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee

55

by Jennifer Egan

2,156 members

98 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {unabridged - Womersley 3v.}

by Edward Gibbon

203 members

1 review

4.9

Member: Bretzky1

57

Death in Venice

6,032 members

120 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended

by Jack Matlock

116 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: Bretzky1

59

by Jan Petersen

14 members

Member: elkiedee

60

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

by Frances Mayes

7,125 members

143 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

2,680 members

52 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee

62

The Map and the Territory

by Michel Houellebecq

2,026 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

by Mikhail Gorbachev

171 members

2.9

Member: Bretzky1

64

The Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

18,968 members

198 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

6,165 members

91 reviews

4.2

Member: elkiedee

66

After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars

by G. John Ikenberry

161 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

67

Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle

760 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

68

Memoirs of the Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

965 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

69

41,656 members

686 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Colm Tóibín

1,716 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

71

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

1,550 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

72

22,209 members

266 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

73

The Greek Experience

483 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

74

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

by Norman F. Cantor

2,186 members

57 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

75

And Red is the Colour of Our Flag: Memories of Sixty Years in the Workers' Movement

7 members

5

Member: elkiedee

76

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,891 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

77

Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat

by Wesley K. Clark

267 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

78

7,621 members

85 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

7,127 members

130 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee

80

by Andrew Cockburn

64 members

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

81

by Niccolò Machiavelli

28,043 members

305 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

A Small Death in Lisbon

by Robert Wilson

1,243 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

83

Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Problems in European Civilization)

by James Cracraft

97 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

84

6,576 members

83 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

A.D. 1000: Living on the Brink of Apocalypse

by Richard Erdoes

229 members

4 reviews

3

Member: Bretzky1

86

The Third Reich at War

by Richard J. Evans

1,632 members

27 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Bretzky1

87

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found

321 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: elkiedee

88

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

16,486 members

209 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,659 members

356 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

90

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson

3,997 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

91

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

3,395 members

55 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

92

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

by Orlando Figes

1,987 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

93

Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy

by Timothy Frye

11 members

3

Member: Bretzky1

94

Death at La Fenice

3,885 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

95

The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

by J. A. Garrido Ardila

4 members

4

Member: Bretzky1

96

22,995 members

271 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

by Jason Goodwin

998 members

25 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

98

Girl with Green Eyes

by Edna O'Brien

581 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: elkiedee

99

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

3,652 members

57 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

100

The Country Girls

by Edna O'Brien

852 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

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