European Literature

Picture this: you're dreaming something beautiful while balancing on tree branches. But you keep waking up every minute — can't risk falling, and besides, you want that dream to become real. That's what living feels like sometimes...

To read or not to read — that's always the question. After three heavy, intense novels, I needed something lighter. Something easier. And what's better than a story about books? Sara and Amy's friendship started with letters...

We think we're steering our lives, but really we're just blind wanderers stumbling forward, discovering our blindness over and over. When her mother cuts off her magnificent red hair in a rage, Grace's world shifts...

There's something strange inside me, Mevlut says. No matter what I do, I feel utterly alone in this world. Walking for hours is the best way to understand a city — to tame it, to claim it. Young Mevlut learns this the hard way...

Remember this: in our world, truth is whatever the powerful write down. Truth doesn't exist on its own. It took all of Nicole's enthusiasm to convince me to read this massive historical novel when I wasn't in the mood...

Some books make you feel love more intensely than you've ever felt it, courage bigger than you've ever shown. That's what art should do — push past your personal experience, make you reach unknown limits...

Live while you're alive. Tomorrow? Who knows — you might die like I almost did an hour ago. Why torture yourself thinking about our existence compared to eternity? I read War and Peace when I was sixteen or seventeen...

Some books distract you but don't shake your foundations. Then there are those that make you doubt everything, give you hope, expand your world, maybe even make you dizzy. Certain books change you...

Troubles are like rain — they'll hit you eventually, but there's no point worrying while the sun's still shining. Long ago in an imaginary Estonia, people lived in the woods and spoke the language of serpents...

The simplicity defining its essence revealed an extreme concentration of beauty. Don't let that long title or impossible-to-pronounce author name scare you — this novel is a gem. Sure, it's demanding...