European Book Club

• October 14 2009: Catalan literature. "The last patriarch" by Najat El Hachmi.
• November 11 2009: German literature. "Measuring the world" by Daniel Kehlmann.
• December 9 2009: Italian literature. "The Goodbye Kiss" by Massimo Carlotto.
• January 13 2010: Portuguese literature. "The year of the death of Ricardo Reis" by José Saramago.
• February 10 2010: Dutch literature. "Oeroeg" by Hella S. Haasse.*
• March 10 2010: Spanish literature. "Canciones de amor en Lolita's club" by Juan Marsé.*
• May 12 2010: German literature. "Silence" by Jan Costin Wagner.
• June 9 2010: Catalan literature. "A not so perfect crime" by Teresa Solana.

• October 13 2010: Swiss literature. "Julius le Nomade de Schaffhouse" by Claire Oechslin.*
• November 10 2010: Spanish literature. "The fencing master" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
• December 8 2010: German literature. "The taste of apple seeds" by Katharina Hagena.
• January 12 2011: Italian literature. "The killer in my eyes" by Giorgio Faletti.
• February 8 2011: Catalan literature. "L'últim home que parlava català" by Carles Casajuana.*
• March 9 2011: Polish literature. "Travels with Herodotus" by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
• April 13 2011: French literature. "Terre des affranchis" by Liliana Lazar.*

• October 12 2011: Dutch literature. "The assault" by Harry Mulisch.
• November 9 2011: Swiss literature. "Fremdschläfer" by Verena Stefan.*
• December 14 2011: Spanish literature. "Plenilunio" by Antonio Munoz Molina.*
• January 11 2012: Italian literature. "In the sea there are crocodiles" by Fabio Geda.
• February 21 2012: Catalan literature. "Paco" by Jacques Folch-Ribas.*
• March 14 2012: Portuguese literature. "The murmuring coast" by Lidia Jorge.
• May 9 2012: French literature. "Les insurrections singulières" by Jeanne Benameur.*
• June 13 2012: German literature. “Crimes” by Ferdinand von Schirac.

• October 14 2012: Spanish literature. "Dafne desvanecida" by José Carlos Somoza.*
• December 12 2012 (cancelled bookclub): Swiss literature. "Across many mountains" by Yangzom Brauen.
• January 9 2013: Italian literature. "Stabat Mater" by Tiziano Scarpa.
• March 12 2013: Catalan literature. "Tigres" by Gabriel Janer Manila.*
• June 12 2013: German literature. "In times of fading light" by Eugen Ruge.

• October 16 2013: Spanish literature. "El lector de Julio Verne" by Almudena Grandes.*
• November 20 2013: Austrian literature. "The Radetzky March" by Joseph Roth.
• December 11 2013: Portuguese literature. "O apocalipse dos trabalhadores" by Valter Hugo Mae.*
• January 15 2014: Italian literature. "L'incontro" by Michela Murgia.*
• March 11 2014: Catalan literature. "Victus" by Albert Sanchez-Pinol.
• May 15 2014: German literature. "The giraffe's neck" by Judith Schalansky.
• July 9 2014: French literature. "Le liseur du 6h27", by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent.*

• November 12 2014: Austrian literature. "Roppongi. Requiem pour un père", by Josef Winkler.*
• December 10 2014: Spanish literature. "The infatuations", by Javier Marias.
• January 14 2015: Italian literature. "Accabadora", by Michela Murgia.
• February 11 2015: Norwegian literature. "Berlin poplars" by Anne B. Ragde.
• March 17 2015: Catalan literature. "La femme pressée" by Imma Monso.*
• April 22 2015: French literature. "L'empreinte à Crusoé" by Patrick Chamoiseau.*
• May 14 2015: German literature. "All Russians Love Birch Trees" by Olga Grjasnowa.
• July 9 2015: Walloon literature. "La nuit sans fin" by Thierry Horguelin.*

• October 5 2015: Portuguese literature. "Lisbonne mélodies" by Joao Tordo.*
• October 28 2015: Catalan literature. "Russian stories" by Francesc Serés.
• November 11 2015: Austrian literature. "Le tabac Tresniek" by Robert Seethaler.*
• November 25 2015: Walloon literature. "Patsy" by Éditions Trames.*
• December 9 2015: Spanish literature. "Crematorio" by Rafael Chirbes.*
• February 22 2016: German literature. "Vielleicht Esther" by Katja Petrowskaja.*
• March 15 2016: Catalan literature. "Les yeux fardés" by Lluis Llach.*
• May 12 2016: French literature. "Celle que vous croyez" by Camille Laurens.*
• June 9 2016: Spanish literature. "The Impostor" by Javier Cercas.

• September 26 2016: Portuguese literature. "Les Mémorables" by Lídia Jorge.*
• October 19 2016: Italian literature. "The Prague Cemetery" by Umberto Eco.
• November 17 2016: Austrian literature. "Angel of oblivion" by Maja Haderlap.
• February 7 2017: German literature. "The hottest dishes of the Tartar cuisine" by Alina Bronsky.
• March 14 2017: Catalan literature. "Confessions" by Jaume Cabré.
• May 19 2017: Spanish literature. "The heart has its reasons" by Maria Dueñas.

• October 18 2017: Italian literature. "One, no one, and one hundred thousand" by Luigi Pirandello.
• November 22 2017: Austrian literature. "Cox, oder die Lauf der Zeit", by Christoph Ransmayr.*
• February 13 2018: German literature. "Memoirs of a polar bear", by Yoko Tawada.
• March 13 2018: Catalan literature. "War, so much war", by Merce Rodoreda.
• April 19 2018: French literature. "Le tigre bleu de l'Euphrate" by Laurent Gaudé.*
• June 12 2018 : Spanish literature. "La carne" by Rosa Montero.*

• September 17 2018: Portuguese literature. "Rebellion" by Cristina Carvalho.
• October 10 2018: Italian literature. "Lehman Trilogy" (in Italian - English translation coming in 2020) by Stefano Massini.
• October 16 2018: French literature. "Marx et la poupée" by Maryam Madjidi.*
• November 22 2018: Austrian literature. "Two Gentlemen on the Beach" by Michael Köhlmeier.
• February 19 2019: German literature. "Babylon Berlin" by Volker Kutscher.
• March 12 2019: Catalan literature. "L'Altra" by Marta Rojals.*
• May 3 2019: French literature. "Là où les chiens aboient par la queue", by Estelle-Sarah Bulle.*
• June 6 2019: Spanish literature. "Hombres buenos", by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.*

• November 19 2019: Austrian literature. "Die Rückkehr", by Ernst Lothar.*
• December 3 2019: Italian literature. "La teologia del cinghiale", by Gesuino Némus.*
• February 12 2020: German* literature. "The capital", by Robert Menasse (*Austrian writer, laureate of the German book prize in 2017).
• March 17 2020: Catalan literature. "L'île de Maians", by Quim Monzo.
• April 7 2020: Greek literature. "Rien ne va plus", by Margarita Karapanou.
• Maz 13 2020: French literature. "L'école des soignantes", by Martin Winckler.*

• November 5 2020: Italian literature. "La profezia dell‘armadillo", by Zerocalcare.*
• November 25 2020: Austrian literature. "The Wall", by Marlen Haushofer.
• February 10 2021: German literature. "What you can see from here", by Mariana Leky.
• March 10 2021: Catalan literature. "Brother in Ice", by Alicia Kopf.
• May 5 2021: French literature. "Rosa dolorosa", by Caroline Dorka-Fenech.*

• October 20 2021: Italian literature. "L'espion inattendu", by Ottavia Casagrande.*
• November 17 2021: German literature. "Daughters", by Lucy Fricke.
• February 9 2022: Austrian literature. "Unter der Drachenwand", by Arno Geiger.*
• March 23 2022: Catalan literature. "Learning to talk to plants", by Marta Orriols.
• May 5 2022: French literature. "La porte du voyage sans retour", by David Diop.*
• May 11 2022: Swiss literature. "Les vies de Chevrolet", by Michel Layaz.*
• June 9 2022: Walloon literature. "Mahmoud ou la montée des eaux", by Antoine Wauters.*
• June 22 2022: Italian literature. "Isole minori", by Lorenza Pieri.*

• October 19 2022: Italian literature. "Après la pluie", by Chiara Mezzalama.*
• November 23 2022: Austrian literature. "Héritages", by Monika Helfer.*
• January 12 2023: Swiss literature. "Dans la ville provisoire", by Bruno Pellegrino.*
• February 7 2023: German literature. "The end of loneliness", by Benedict Wells.
• March 15 2023: Catalan literature. "Napalm dans le coeur", by Pol Guasch.*
• April 30 2023: French literature. "Le Ghetto intérieur", by Santiago H. Amigorena.*
• June 10 2023: Ukrainian Literature. "Grey Bees", by Andrey Kurkov.

• September 28 2023: Franco-Belgian literarure. "Rouge Western" by Isabelle Wéry.*
• October 26 2023: Italian literature. "Marcovaldo: or The Seasons in the City" by Italo Calvino.
• November 22 2023: Austrian literature. "The sealed train" by Stefan Zweig (found in Triumph and Disaster: Five Historical Miniatures).
• November 26 2023: Ukrainian literature. "L'Oreille de Kyiv" by Andrey Kurkov.*
• February 8 2024: German literature. "Archipel" by Inger-Maria Mahlke.
• March 12 2024: Catalan literature. "Boulder" by Eva Baltasar.
• April 24 2024: Swiss literature. "Le vieil incendie" by Elisa Shua Dusapin.*

• October 15 2024 : Italian literature . "L'île des âmes" by Piergiorgio Pulixi.*
• November 17 2024: Ukrainian literature. "Les gens ordinaires ne portent pas de mitraillettes" by Artem Chapeye.*
• December 5 2024: Austrian literature. "Superhéroïnes" by Barbi Markovic.*
• March 11 2025: Catalan literatur. "Le temps des cerises", Montserrat Roig.*
• March 31 2025: Italian literatur. "Wasteocene: Chronicles from the Global Dump” by Marco Armiero. (Essay)
• May 21 2025: Belgian-French literature. "L'orangeraie", Larry Tremblay & Pierre Lecrenier (Comic).*
• June 5 2025: German literature. "Where you come from" by Saša Stanišic.

• October 14 2025: Italian literature. "Whereabouts" by Jhumpa Lahiri.
• December 3rd 2025: Swiss literature. "Le secret de Thyrcée" by Aline Desarzens.*
• January 17 2026: Ukrainian literature. "Looking at women looking at war: A war and justice diary” by Victoria Amelina.
• February 10 2026: German literature. "The Director” by Daniel Kehlmann.
• March 24 2026, 6:30 pm: Catalan literature. "A casa teniem un himne" by Maria Climent Huguet.*
  
  Note: book titles which are * are not yet translated into English.

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