Top 50 European Novels You Must Read

In this video, I journey to 50 countries in Europe to choose the best novel or novels from each country and bring them to you. Whether you want to read for pleasure, academic purposes or travel, these amazing novels can give you a deeper insight to each one of these countries.

00:00 Intro

01:10 Albania
02:12 Andorra
02:44 Armenia
03:44 Azerbaijan
04:54 Austria
06:00 Belarus
07:06 Belgium
08:38 Bosnia & Herzigovina
09:38 Bulgaria
10:36 Croatia

12:44 Europe a Tiny Continent

13:08 Cyprus
13:33 Czech Republic
14:49 Denmark
16:03 Finland
17:40 Estonia
19:23 France
20:20 Georgia
21:19 Germany
23:00 Greece
23:57 Hungary

25:04 European Languages facts

27:02 Iceland
27:57 Ireland
29:02 Italy
30:55 Kazakhstan
31:51 Latvia
33:08 Liechtenstein
33:39 Lithuania
35:12 Luxembourg
35:47 Malta
36:20 Moldova

37:26 Europe’s People facts

38:47 Monaco
39:14 Montenegro
40:26 Netherlands
41:26 North Macedonia
42:29 Norway
43:36 Poland
45:41 Portugal
47:25 Romania
48:55 Russia
50:17 San Marino

51:06 Europe’s legacy

52:28 Serbia
54:13 Slovakia
55:25 Slovenia
57:00 Spain
58:42 Sweden
01:00:17 Switzerland
01:01:42 Turkey
01:03:22 Ukraine
01:04:36 United Kingdom
01:06:17 Vatican City

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[okuryazarkitapkurdu]

As a Turkish reader, I will recommend you to read Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Buket Uzuner, Sabahattin Ali and Fakir Baykurt also🙂 And in poetry Nazım Hikmet and Edip Cansever are my favourites.

[Pathologines]

No wayyy! I was not expecting my beautiful Albania to be the first one!! I have been watching your channel for ages! Thank you for talking about the great Kadare 😊

[toomuchcandor]

The scope of your macroscopic analyses always impress me so much. Lovely to know its possible to have even read this much in one life time. What would your collective read time even be? Fiction beast really is an apt name. What kind of person does one even turn into after having read so much

[joebennet]

I love this channel, one of my all time favs

[ioanaluminitzamusceleanu]

I am profoundly grateful for your channel. Watching your videos I discovered the greatness and depth of some universal creations of literature that I ignored or couldn't perceive. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your helpful and professional endeavour. You give me the chance to understand better the world and the human's torment.
I am a little disappointed because you skipped some authors from the Romanian literature but may be I am not aware of your 'criteria'.

[Murasaki_barietto]

Please make a video about Vladimir Nabokov

[Nathan-lsxt]

Liking and commenting for the sake of the algorithm.

Also, as an English teacher, rest assured that I'm going to share your videos with my students.

Thanks for all your hard work.

[dpd]

Amazing video! Greetings from Finland ❤️

[soumiasoumia]

As always, very good job ❤ thank you for your time and effort 🙏

[Artur_M.]

_Pan Tadeusz_ is not actually set in modern-day Lithuania but in modern-day Belarus, which was part of the historical Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, and, in turn, of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Also, the main (titular) character - Tadeusz Soplica - is a young nobleman but not a count (as you said). I found this little mistake particularly weird because there is a character in _Pan Tadeusz_ who is a young count and is referred to simply as the Count (Hrabia). Speaking about Belarus, the name of the country does not mean "White Russia" but White Rus' (or "Ruthenia").

Although Mickiewicz himself was Polish-speaking and wrote in Polish, he wrote some nice things about the Belarusian language:

"The Belarusian language, which is also called Ruthenian or Lithuanian-Rusian [note the single 's' as it refers to Rus, not Russia], is spoken by about ten million people. It is a rich and pure dialect that originated a long time ago and is excellently developed. During the period of Lithuania's independence, the grand dukes used it for their correspondence. The Lithuanian Statute is written in this language, the least changed of all Slavic languages and the most harmonious."

Source: Pisma Adama Mickiewicza, Paris, 1860. Vol. 10: Cours de littérature slave, IV

As for modern Belarusian literature, I've heard good things about the works of Alhierd Bacharevič, particularly "Alindarka’s Children" which has an interesting English translation, utilising some Scottish English and Scots.

[Sachie]

May I add Bohumil Hrabal for Czech Republic? He is somewhere between Celine and Kafka. (It’s just how I feel.)

[izadjahanshahi]

You are simply the best.
Thank you so much for your hard work.

[ruygranja]

Thank You very much by mentioning Fernando Pessoa! He is in my opinion the greatest poet of all time and as Freud said: “everywhere I go, a poet was there before”.

[plauzibilnekritike]

Great and educational channel :) What is your opinion on "The Return of Filip Latinovicz" and "Cyclops"? Maybe it would be interesting if you did more videos about the literature of "smaller nations". Greetings from Croatia!

[nuno.]

for belgium author check it out Marguerite Yourcenar memoirs of hadrian, one of the greatest european novels of the XXI century, deeply psychological and poetic.

[perlefisker]

Any novel by Knut Hamsun will be rewarding to read, since there's not one novel in his authorship which isn't of the highest quality of literature.
Being master of language he has no superfluous words. This mastery may of course be lost in translation, but since he's also the master of storytelling, a reader who isn't Norwegian/Danish will see this and appreciate it, I suppose.

(By the way, I was surprised that you jumped from Gogol directly to the modern novelists without even mentioning Bulgakov, "The Heart of a Dog", or at least "The Master and Margarita".)

[ginomazzei]

“Open my heart
And you will see
Etched upon it
Italy”

[burke]

Hey FB. Great video as always.
Discussing Italy I thought you might mention The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. I read it a few years back and liked it a lot. For Italy I always think of it and Dante. And Pizza.

[blucondor]

What has Azerbaijan to do with Europe?

[leighfoulkes]

For me, the best German write is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and no other German writer comes close. Either "The Sorrows of Young Werther" or Faust part 1 and Faust part 2.