2021 Reading Women Challenge - hosted by thereadingwomen

An Author from Eastern Europe
  • Eastern Europe is, as the name says, the eastern part of Europe. According to the United Nations Statistics Division, countries within Eastern Europe are Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Serbia, and Slovenia Croatia.
All books added
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Voices of Utopia #4

Svetlana Alexiévich

267 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark emotional sad medium-paced
Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Hédi Fried

Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust

Hédi Fried

160 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

272 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction crime literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Passport by Herta Müller

The Passport

Herta Müller

93 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

fiction literary challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Pârvulescu

Life Begins on Friday

Ioana Pârvulescu

280 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction historical mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller

The Land of Green Plums

Herta Müller

242 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A Deadly Education

The Scholomance #1

Naomi Novik

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Dubravka Ugrešić

327 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction fantasy challenging dark reflective slow-paced
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chronological Order) #1

Baroness Orczy

182 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

fiction classics historical mysterious fast-paced
Sakura - Hoe een Engelsman de Japanse kersenbloesem redde by Naoko Abe

Sakura - Hoe een Engelsman de Japanse kersenbloesem redde

Naoko Abe

448 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history nature informative slow-paced