• The General Army of the Dead by Ismail Kadare, translated by Derek Coltman (February 2021)

• Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (May 2023)

• Andorra Revealed: An Anthology by Clare Allcard, et al. (August 2021)

Andora is a small European country with a population of about 77,000 people. It's no surprise then that there are not many books written or translated into English. Other participants of this challenge have run into the same issue and the only writer that seems to fit my parameters is Albert Salvadó. I thought about reading his books, but they don't seem to take place in Andorra, which is really what I want to learn about.

So, for now, I've read and included an anthology of stories about Andorra. The authors come from all over the world, but they live in Andorra. This doesn't fit nicely into my self-imposed criteria that the author is from the country they are writing about, but it will have to do for now until an Andorran author comes along.

• Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson (September 2021) This book starts and ends in Austria, but the author spends a lot of time in Italy.

• Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, translated by Jenia Graman (December 2021)

• Paranoia by Victor Martinovich, translated by Diane Nemec Ignashev (May 2022)

• War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans, translated by David McKay (May 2022)

• The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura Sullivan (March 2022)

• Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova (March 2022)

• When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem (September 2023)

• Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (February 2022)

• Youth by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (February 2022)

• Dependency Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (February 2022)

• The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally (August 2022)

• The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Michael Favala Goldman (August 2023)

• The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen (August 2016)

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery I've read this a lot through the years. For an excellent companion book, try The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.

• I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda, translated by Karen L. Marker (October 2012)

• The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby,  translated by Jeremy Leggatt (August 2011)

• The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury, translated by Ros Schwartz (August 2021)

• Gigi and The Cat by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse and Antonia White (August 2022)

• The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated by Elizabeth Heighway (March 2024)

• The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (January 2024)

• A Martian's Guide to Budapest by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix (September 2019)

• Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, translated by Philip Roughton (June 2022)

• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (August 2021)

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (December 2023)

• Foster by Claire Keegan (December 2023)

• Antarctica by Claire Keegan (December 2023)

• Grown Ups by Marian Keyes (December 2023)

• Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, translated by Ann Goldstein (May 2023)

• A Death in Malta by Paul Caruana Galizia (November 2023)

• What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey (September 2024)

See Also

• The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser (November 2024)

• Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly (March 2023)

• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (September 2023)

See Also

• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (September 2024)

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (December 2024)

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves (2008)

• The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves (2009)

• All That Followed by Gabriel Urza (June 2015)

• Her Mother's Hands by Karmele Jaio, translated by Kristin Addis (August 2022)

• Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur, translated by Claire Wadie (November 2022)

• When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem (September 2023)

• Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti, translated by Sarah Death (October 2021)

• Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles (August 2023)

• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Alma Lapinskienė (January 2016)

A large majority of what I read comes from the United Kingdom. I have included a small list of books I found especially relevant to UK history and culture. In the future I plan to spend more time reading about Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

• A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama (October 2020)

• Brit-ish: On Race, Identity, and Belonging by Afua Hirsch (March 2022)