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🇦🇱 Albania: A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare (translated by John Hodgson)
🇦🇩 Andorra: The Teacher of Cheops by Albert Salvadó
🇦🇲 Armenia: The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan (translated by Yuri Machkasov)
🇦🇹 Austria: The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler (translated by Charlotte Collins)
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya
🇧🇾 Belarus: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko (translated by Elln Vayner)
🇧🇪 Belgium: The Melting by Lize Spit (translated by Kristen Gehrman)
🇧🇦 Bosnia: Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
🇭🇷 Croatia: Baba Yaga Laid an Egg: 2 (Myths) by Dubravka Ugresic (translated by Celia Hawkesworth)
🇨🇾 Cyprus: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
🇨🇿 Czechia: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (translated by Aaron Asher)
🇩🇰 Denmark: The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen (translated by Michael Favala Goldman) / The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
🇪🇪 Estonia: Oskar and the Things by Andrew Kivirahk (translated by Adam Cullen)
🇫🇮 Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
🇫🇷 France: My Husband by Maud Ventura
🇬🇪 Georgia: Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
🇩🇪 Germany: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
🇬🇷 Greece: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (translated by Carl Wildman)
🇭🇺 Hungary: A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (translated by Ottilie Mulzet)
🇮🇸 Iceland: Independent People by Halldor Laxness (translated by J A Thompson)
🇮🇪 Ireland: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
🇮🇹 Italy: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver)
🇽🇰 Kosovo: My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci (translated by David Hackston)
🇱🇻 Latvia: Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena (translated by Margot Gailitis)
🇱🇹 Lithuania: I Must Betray You by Ruth Sepetys
🇲🇩 Moldova: The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov (translated by Ross Ufberg)
🇳🇱 Netherlands: The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
🇳🇴 Norway: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
🇵🇱 Poland: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
🇵🇹 Portugal: Pessoa by Richard Zenith
🇷🇴 Romania: Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu (translated by Julian Semilian)
🇷🇸 Serbia: Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
🇸🇮 Slovenia: Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic
🇪🇸 Spain: A Heart so White by Javier Marías (translated by Margaret Hull Costa)
🇸🇪 Sweden: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Frederik Backman
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (translated by David Horrocks)
🇹🇷 Turkey: Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (translated by David Selim Sayers)
🇺🇦 Ukraine: Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
🇬🇧 UK: You Are Here by David Nicholls
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@jack_edwards Месяц назад

a note: a handful of countries are missing as I unfortunately couldn't find any books in english (or translated into english) from these places -- for example Luxembourg, Slovakia, Malta, etc. -- if you have recommendations from these countries, please send them my way! I added a note at the end of the video but appreciate it's a long one so you may look at the comments before getting all the way to the end. i'll be doing a bonus video at the end of the series where i fill in the gaps i had to miss along the way, as it was incredibly difficult to research sometimes!! and please also send me your recs for other countries outside of europe, as I'm working on compiling these lists as we speak!

@oliviabinfield6549 Месяц назад

Uršuľa Kovalyk from Slovakia has English translations of her two books: The Night Circus and other stories & The Equestrienne

@matteopullicino Месяц назад

Recommendations from MALTA: I would suggest 'In the Name of the Father (& of the Son)' by Immanuel Mifsud or 'The Lives and Deaths of K. Penza' by Clare Azzopardi ... Trust me!

@gottmiksshoe6786 Месяц назад

I think there's an English translation of "Amok" by Tulio Forgiarini (for Luxembourg) floating around the internet somewhere

@domika26 Месяц назад

For Slovakia, the best one I would recommend is The Taste of Power (Ako chutí moc) by Ladislav Mňačko!

@barboralackova7122 Месяц назад

Slovakia: And That's The Truth poetry collection by Milan Rúfus

@Shiibai 15 дней назад

This video shows how much we can learn from different cultures. If you’re into discovering profound knowledge, Nixorus is another place where you might find life-changing ideas.

@PokhrajRoy. Месяц назад

Not even the EU can unite the continent like Jack can. Edit: Caro6367 suggested the best name: Union Jack

@ugwumiracle3549 Месяц назад

Now that just patronising. 😢

@Caro6367 Месяц назад

Union Jack 👀😂

@PokhrajRoy. Месяц назад

@@Caro6367 DAMNNNNN I SHOULD USE THAT. Thanks

@Caro6367 Месяц назад

haha you’re welcome ☺️

@FF-mr2qe Месяц назад

True 😂

@MrRenanmach Месяц назад

It’s about time a big book influencer starting something like this, I know sometimes they do a “travel over the world book search” but it’s always like Japan, Italy, India… But a complex project like this deserves a lot of credits.

@scarlettgorn4832 Месяц назад

Exactly! Not to mention this series will, hopefully, help with possibly internationalising the careers of some of the authors mentioned in these videos

@afoxasden 6 дней назад

Not a big book influencer but Emmie has been doing this for years and she now created a book club on Fable where she reads books from all over the world (truly, she has Zimbabwe, Iceland, Chile, Syria...) Definitely recommend, she's an amazing reader and has wonderful insights into the books she reads and shares!

@familyberente1407 Месяц назад

Intro 0:00 Albania 2:35 Andorra 3:36 Armenia 4:34 Austria 6:03 Azberbaijan 7:09 Belarus 8:18 Belgium 9:07 Bosnia Herzegovina 10:17 Bulgaria 11:16 Sponsor AD 12:10 Croatia 13:14 Cyprus 14:40 Czechia 15:02 Denmark 16:12 Estonia 16:43 Finland 17:54 France 18:48 Georgia 19:46 Germany 21:11 Greece 22:01 Hungary 22:46 Iceland 24:06 Ireland 25:19 Italy 26:37 Kosovo 27:41 Latvia 28:52 Lithuania 29:52 Moldova 31:00 Netherlands 32:08 Norway 33:15 Portugal 33:51 Poland 34:24 Romania 35:37 Serbia 36:46 Slovenia 37:51 Spain 39:13 Sweden 40:04 Switzerland 41:28 Turkey 42:31 Ukraine 43:09 United Kingdom 44:20 Outro 45:36

@polina4997 Месяц назад

+ Armenia 4:50

@user-tu6gu2pc8w Месяц назад

Russia?

@familyberente1407 Месяц назад

@@user-tu6gu2pc8w Russia was not in the video

@c.han.b_ Месяц назад

Legend!

@myroslavplakhotnyk8780 Месяц назад

*Ukraine

@MagicSchool-iu9ru 15 дней назад

Morlest holds the key to forbidden money books, which have truly transformed my life, it's worth exploring.

@marre3429 Месяц назад

I love this! As a translator, it feels great to be mentioned:)

@jojoinwonderland1602 Месяц назад

Your work is crucial! I did a translation certificate with my MFA, and I am in awe of brilliant translators, whose names should always appear on book covers with the authors’ names. ✨

@MarieA38 Месяц назад

Without translators millions of people around the world wouldn’t be able to discover and love so many books. You guys are so important and deserve more appreciation, I’ve read many translated books 😊

@sofiachacon9130 Месяц назад

I’m a translation and interpretation student and is so crucial the way you have to educate yourself with cultural context when doing a translation specially for context in stories!

@glisovicanja Месяц назад

hey jack, a fellow serbian reader here! i’ve read the dictionary of the khazars and i need you to follow my advice on it - do not read this book as you normally would (from back to back). it’s formated as an actual dictionary, with terms and their explanations and reading it from the beginning to the ending only makes it hard to understand. it’s also separated into three “books”, and each book represents the beliefs of 3 different religions. what i suggest you to do instead, and what my literature teacher suggested me to do, is to read about princess ateh, the khazars, the khazar polemics and the kaghan, which are the terms that appear in all 3 books! that way, you’ll be able to understand the premise of the story and how each religion looks at the khazars. then, read about anything else you want in a completely random order because it will be a lot easier, regardless of how crazy it sounds, trust me! oh and it would make it easier if you took notes while reading, because i really want you to understand and enjoy this novel in order to get a proper introduction of the serbian postmodernism, which is the period this book belongs to :) however, in case this one doesn’t work, i’d recommend “when pumpkins bloomed” by dragoslav mihailović, which is my favorite serbian novel of all times! enjoy :)

@M.Nihankin Месяц назад

Not a Serbian; but here to agree. The book welcomes you to create your own unique experience with it. Noted on the novel rec as well!

@PileceKrilce Месяц назад

Mi baš nemamo lako štivo za preporuku 😂

@glisovicanja Месяц назад

@@PileceKrilceUpravo tako, ahaahah

@purplelily7764 Месяц назад

This sounds like the most insane way to read a book but now I’m really intrigued

@danijelaostojic6182 Месяц назад

To je meni štivo za uzrast srednje škole. (Bez uvrede.) Bila sam oduševljena tada, ali sada, posle dvadeset godina, ne smatram ga tako dobrim piscem. Prosečnim, možda. Više izvikanim da je nešto posebno. Žao mi je što je odabrao njega kao predstavnika naše književnosti. Možda bi Jelena, žene koje nema bila bolja...

@deborahlee7496 Месяц назад

Hahahah the eurovision book contest😂 love this series already! The reccs by Jack and also by the comment section🤌 Can't wait for the rest!

@Remuku Месяц назад

I have NEVER seen an English book tuber talk about The gray house!!! I literally awed when I looked at the screen and saw it!

@tinybird8513 Месяц назад

same!!! i hope it'll get more recognition abroad

@juliager5702 Месяц назад

Omg, yes! I was doing some house chores while listening to this video and didn’t even know that it’s English name is the “Gray house”, but then the description hit me and I was like, wait, isn’t it? Wouldn’t compare it to the House in the cerulean sea, tho😅

@elsalydman7949 Месяц назад

Tove Jansson also created Moomin! Her Moomin books are great, my favorite is Moominvalley in November. Greetings from Finland!

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

wow i actually didn't realise this!! thank you!!

@esverker7018 Месяц назад

I was going to say, definitely a great choice to represent Finland.

@meli6875 Месяц назад

@@jack_edwards love that you chose Jansson

@damnitaintright Месяц назад

i literally thought it was common knowledge and everyone knew that but i guess not lol

@Anni-zf6zn Месяц назад

My fave from moomin books is Moominpappa at Sea it is a great book about a father who feels the toxicly masculine urge to move his entire family to a far away island just because he wants to study the sea and protect his family. The book delves themes like loneliness, homesickness, acceptance, uncertainty, ownership and family. tove the Summer Book was also really nice, just a little slice of life with old grandma and her granddaughter (Tove's mother and her niece)

@MiaAb93 Месяц назад

Amazing video! I have couple additions for Balkan region. For Montenegro, the most famous one is "Mountain Wreath" by Petar Petrović Njegoš, but I would suggest "The Ray of the Microcosm". For North Macedonia I would suggest "My Husband", a short stories book by Rumena Bužarovska. And I would recommend Ivo Andrić, who won Nobel prize for literature in '61 ("The Bridge on the Drina" is the most famous one, but I would suggest "The Damned Yard" or "The Woman from Sarajevo")

@jakipop3397 7 часов назад

I was about to write the exact same comment. It's a real, real shame to have a video about European literature and leave out all these classics.

@elenad7357 Месяц назад

you would love the brillian friend by Elena ferrante, also new York times gave it the best book of the 21st century

@anjah8249 Месяц назад

I just wanted to add that it's not a stand-alone book, but a book series consisting of 4 books. Also the first book ends right in the middle of the plot. I would still highly recommend it of course.

@ashleydolan1964 Месяц назад

@anjah8249 this is crazy I'm in the middle of reading the story of a new name and found out from your comment that it's a part of a four-book series and I feel so stupid😭😭

@Hannah_96 Месяц назад

@@ashleydolan1964 LOL

@marlyd 9 часов назад

Those books got me so frustrated that no one was communicating how they felt about each other 😂

@gretam767 Месяц назад

Hi, from Lithuania here. Ruta Sepetys is of Lithuanian descent, however, she was born in the USA. In Lithuania, she is not considered a Lithuanian author. Even though I did not read this particular book, I would recommend "A White Shroud" by Antanas Škėma or "Vilnius Poker" by Ričardas Gavelis instead. Happy reading!

@TheLoveRadio1 28 дней назад

Same thing with Ukrainian book. I don't know if there was any kind of research done. I feel like Kurkov is much more popular abroad than in Ukraine. Plus, we consider him a bit controversial. I'd recommend Jack to check out HURI Books, as they now actively translate classic and modern authors people in Ukraine actually read and enjoy, like Serhii Zhadan, Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Lesya Ukrainka, etc.

@noranavardauskaite8235 Месяц назад

Love this idea! Also, a note about Lithuanian choice: Ruta Sepetys is an american author of lithuanian decent, so reading something from an author who lived and wrote in Lithuania might provide even more interesting insights. You could pick up something like Tula by Jurgis Kuncinas or The White Shoud by Antanas Skema which I know are translated to English.

@uzstiklo7141 28 дней назад

If people prefer contemporary authors, Kristina Sabaliauskaitė could be a good choice.

@tinybird8513 Месяц назад

the Gray House is my most favorite book. Never EVER seen anybody mention it!!! It's incredible! The world building within just one house, the characters, the writing, everything is so amazing. I reread it fully about three times and every single I pick up all the hints and secrets you don't understand the first time. I haven't read it in English, so hopefully the translation is as good as the original.

@stuckinthewoodz Месяц назад

YESSSS its sooooo good🤌🤌🤌🤌

@arktikfox. Месяц назад

it's my favourite book as well, i got so hyped when he mentioned it

@user-xw6ue2fb7j Месяц назад

Best book I've ever read Every time I reread it (like 10+ times over 9 years) I always find something new for myself it's just incredible

@jessicalockwood5181 Месяц назад

It's SO good !! Read this in November and I think about it all the time

@yanaivanova8194 Месяц назад

i have a really cute story relating to "the time shelter" as a Bulgarian myself. my friend's grandmother had a birthday and her grandpa gifted her this book. the message inside read "to you, my love, for being my shelter for 50 years" it was the cutest thing i have ever heard

@ipapaveri Месяц назад

Love this project! For Ukraine, I would also recommend Metamorphosis and The Orphanage, both by Serhiy Zhadan. Zhadan is a treasured and celebrated writer and his books and poetry are incredible - harrowing, brilliant, fierce, dazzling, lyrical, and magical. He is often called the bard of Ukraine. I think you would really enjoy his work!

@evanthiahleihil8349 Месяц назад

Some recommendations: 1. The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greece) 2. The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux (France) 3. The Last Temptation Of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece) 4. Ivanov by Anton Chekhov (Russia) (this is a play) 5. Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega (Spain) (this is a play) 6. The Metamorphosis by Frantz Kafka (Kafka was Czech but he wrote in german) 7. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman (France) 8. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece) 9. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (Greece) 10. The Adventures of Pinoccio by Carlo Collodi (Italy) 11. Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevski (Russia) 12. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain) that's all i can think of right now. :)

@stefi_5314 Месяц назад

Hi! I'm from Romania and I must tell you that Ruta Sepetys's book is also about our country, the book is about Florian, a boy who lives in the communism times, in Bucharest. I really enjoyed it, but i must admit that if you want something about Lithuania, you must read Between shades of gray! Also this is such an interesting series👏🏻 ❤!

@JohhhSss Месяц назад

I love that you do this Jack! I'm from Estonia and I would definitely recommend another one for you - The Man Who Spoke Snakish, also by Andrus Kivirähk. I cannot put into words how good it is. For something a bit slower, but still a great read is Vargamäe - First volume of Truth and Justice pentalogy by A.H. Tammsaare, translated by Inna Feldbach and Alan Peter Trei. It was written in early 1900s so can be a bit slow going, but also worth a read as it is a classic in Estonia. I also loved the Summer Book by Tove Jansson, it was so sweet! If you liked that then definitely also explore her other books!

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

Thank you so so so much for the recommendation!!

@karakask5488 Месяц назад

There's also Radio by Tõnu Õnnepalu. It's about a film maker that has an obsession for a woman from his youth. It's meandering but also hypnotic. At first I thought I was going to be confused and lost and now it's stuck with me for years after I read it.

@maika0395 Месяц назад

I read "the man who spoke snakish" earlier this year and have to say I was really disappointed. There was so much sexism and violence that I didn't have a good time reading it. The themes explored were quite interesting (colonisation within Europe, disappearance of a culture, religion/ organized religion...) but the style of writing and the killing of nearly every character was too much for me. I did like the snake friend, though ;)

@somebodyx588 Месяц назад

Was also coming here to recommend books from Estonia! "Man who spoke snakish" is one of the biggest modern hits by the same author as the children's book though yeah it can be a bit of a hit or miss, I've gifted it to several of my foreign friends some of whom have liked it and others not at all, it's a sort of pseudomythology of Estonia. If you like classics and historical fiction I'd recommend something by Jaan Kross, he has several books in English, for example "The Czar's madman", if you're interested in the soviet time "Burning cities" by Kai Aareleid, and for poetry "Vivarium" by Maarja Pärtna. I'm imagining the translated fiction shelf in the book store I worked in... Tõnu Õnnepalu's "Border state" is also in English, but I don't remember it much. And I was fond of Mati Unt's "Diary of a blood donor" in high school but don't remember that much either except that it's a sort of reimagining of "Dracula"...

@motographerrr Месяц назад

@@jack_edwardsI second both, but Truth and Justice is THE book every estonian has to read (also in the school curriculum)

@misty9863 Месяц назад

Another must-read from Sweden is the devastating Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren - it is absolutely brilliant (and will emotionally wreck you) 💛💙

@marie6315 Месяц назад

I loove Astrid Lindgren, she’s such a big part of my childhood ❤️

@lottilu Месяц назад

I am not even swedish but I loved every single one of her storys. I basically grew up on her, definitely one of my fav authors of all time. I recently reread brothers lionheart, it is such an incredible book.

@rebekka9845 Месяц назад

Every scandi/nordic children bookshelf has at least one book of Astrid Lindgren. ❤ Wonderful writer.

@lyramidsummer5508 27 дней назад

Oh Pippi Longstocking. With her horse and monkey. A precious part of my childhood

@sherlock9882 Месяц назад

HES READING IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT A TRAVELER!!!! I have loved this book for years and have actually recommended it to Jack before. I had all but given up hope of ever seeing it on this channel. The excitement is unreal.

@EmiZViolet Месяц назад

I flipped out when I saw it, I was ready to be disappointed by no Calvino pick. Hopefully more people will check him out now!

@disab4649 Месяц назад

Italo Calvino and Milan Kundera are two of my all time favorite authors and I'm so glad they made the list. To be fair though my favourite Italo Calvino is The Invisible Cities.

@mkarli1362 22 дня назад

I am not from Poland but Stanislaw Lem is a famous science fiction author. I have read Return from the Stars. There's also Solaris.

@kokorospirit5006 13 дней назад

The Invincible

@jakubkosz1009 9 часов назад

Lem said about Tokarczuk's literature that her literature offended his mind, but in order to write a polemic about it, he would have to finish reading her book, so he has no intention of doing so. I world said that she is overhyped

@jeeranko3359 Месяц назад

The Gray House is... different. That's the word. It's haunting and piercing, a surreal experience, definitely not for everyone, but it sure needs to be read. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it! Oh, also! The best book from Finland I've ever read was The Forest of the Hanged Foxes by Arto Paasilinna. Just brilliant! Highly recommend.

@Bibliophilie Месяц назад

Thomas Mann is a classic German author; his book Buddenbrooks got him the Nobel Prize for Literature. If you want to read Anti-War " All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque is also a famous German book. For more Fantasy I can recommend Michael Ende's "Neverending Story" and "Momo". :)

@sternentalerswald Месяц назад

I really wanted to get through Buddenbrooks but I haven't made it yet. And I've heard The Magic Mountain would be even harder to get through. So I recommend everyone to make sure they are into that kind of books. (I really enjoyed everything I read from Michael Ende though.)

@emilyerdmann7553 Месяц назад

Death in Venice is a good place to start, a short book, pretty dark but worth it.

@TinaTissue28 Месяц назад

The Neverending Story is very much a book that deserves to be read/analysed more! I read it as a teenager because I really liked the song and finally understood why they couldn't fit everything into the movie. Really recommend people to read it for just the last arc alone

@thetimetraveller2671 Месяц назад

Also quite good by Erich Maria Remarque (even if sadly not as famous): Arc de Triomphe, Der schwarze Obelisk and Drei Kameraden. I've read nearly everything Remarque has published and if you enjoy reading about people in the 1920s - 1940s and their circumstances (later on especially circumstances of being a German refugee) then Remarque will be great for you!

@AngelWitch-nq4gs Месяц назад

I absolutely love this concept and can't wait for all the book recs and reviews from around the world! Just an addition for a great contemporary German writer: Mariana Leky, especially "What You Can See From Here" (translated by Tess Lewis) - witty, quirky, charming, down-to-earth characters that will win your heart. I personally have so far shied away from reading The Magic Mountain, as I think a lot of native German speakers have. But Jack tackling it motivates me to try as well at some point. Love Michael Ende, but who doesn't ;)

@tabitaaitonean9766 Месяц назад

Romanian here✋🏻 I just wanted to say that I love the concept of this challenge! I’ve read I Must Betray You by Rita Sepetys (Lithuanian option) and absolutely loved it, and I know you will too. However… the book is actually set in Romania 1989, just before the fall of the communist regime. It’s from the point of a 17 year old living in the capital city and it really resonated with me on multiple levels, especially since my parents were of high school age when these events happened. Anyways, I haven’t personally read another book by a Lithuanian author, but if someone else suggests one I hope you will swap it because it’s not really a representation of Lithuania.

@monwren 8 дней назад

She's also not Lithuanian, she's American of Lithuanian descent who hasn't lived in Lithuania.

@DanielaMaria1998 Месяц назад

Doing this challenge myself and it's super fun! I have to say I am a bit disappointed your not reading a Samarago book from Portugal (our only literature nobel prize winner) if your interested in reading outside of this challenge "Blindness" by Saramago is an amaziiing character study of people in extreme situations, I really believe its the type of novel you would enjoy, its truly world shifting.

@CantinhoLiterariodaRita Месяц назад

That was my immediate thought: José Saramago and Blindness. 🤍

@lmao_iris Месяц назад

omg i read it recently and it's one of the most amazing books I've read. only annoying thing was the way that the dialogue was written LOL

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

thank you for the recommendation! looking forward to reading it!!

@sofiaribeiro8688 Месяц назад

Was about to comment exactly this. Blindness is an absolute must.

@claudiamedeiros1192 Месяц назад

⁠@@jack_edwards José Saramago from Portugal is a must! He’s the only portuguese writer with a Nobel prize. The book Blindness is the most famous but I also love Death at Intervals, if you are looking for one that is at the same time clever and good sense of humor ❤

@katerynachornomaz4122 Месяц назад

if you really wanna have a taste of Ukrainian literature, I would highly recommend anything from Oksana Zabuzhko you can find, Serhiy Zhadan (he's like a modern classic, and he's currently fighting in the East of Ukraine), Sophia Andruhovych, Yuri Izdryk's poetry, Artem Chekh, Tamara Duda's Daughter, or Maria Matios. This is obviously not a complete list =) You can also try the book Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War (the title's self-explanatory)

@the_doomcliff Месяц назад

Those are some good, good suggestions!

@katerynachornomaz4122 Месяц назад

@@the_doomcliff hope it helps =)

@shiinway 24 дня назад

agree, andriy kurkov def not the best choice

@hialice123 Месяц назад

Madonna in a Fur Coat is an amazing book. Soo excited for the review video

@Hillary429 Месяц назад

Love this thumbnail!! 🗺️

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

omg thank you I spent so long making it ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@catianaplans4794 Месяц назад

Same - It is so intriguing and brings the point across excellently.

@deborahlee7496 Месяц назад

Same!

@onkabetsekwili2954 Месяц назад

When you get to Africa, specifically South Africa, I'd recommend The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena. 🇿🇦 Love your work😅

@Arawn505 Месяц назад

Yes! It's a good overview

@fernandabarbosa5015 Месяц назад

34:18 Have you ever read José Saramago? A Nobel Prize Portuguese author that I love. I read all his work already and it's marvellous.

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

noted! i will do my research into him!

@fernandabarbosa5015 Месяц назад

@jack_edwards From Saramago, my favourites are (titles in Portuguese): A Jangada de Pedra, Memorial do Convento, Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, História do Cerco de Lisboa. Another Portuguese authors: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (poet) Afonso Cruz (poet) João Tordo (fiction) Domingos Amaral (historical fiction) ... Excelent idea this one of travelling through Europe without leaving your chair!! Enjoy your readings 📚

@virginiasoares826 Месяц назад

@@fernandabarbosa5015Sophia de Mello Breyner is one of my favourites! But not sure if she is translated in english.

@elpa6206 Месяц назад

one of my favourite authors, brilliant. Please read "Blind" and then "Seeing". Just fantastic, I can't get these books out of my head.

@otaku18032005 Месяц назад

Please do! Blindness is one of my favourite book ever, you won't expect what it is until you are a couple of chapters in. Masterfully written, a suggestive premise that serves as an excuse for a social and philosophical analysis on human kind. It is gruesome as, thanks precisely to that gruesomeness, it has some of the most impactfully beautiful scenes (without spoiling, there is one very simple scene, almost at the end of the book, where Saramago compares some characters to the 3 graces, that I keep thinking about randomly years after having reading it. A super simple scene, but brings a much needed beautiful and pure moment to the story)

@adelak.8054 Месяц назад

OMG!!! I love this video! 🥹🫶🏻 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 there's a little tiny problem with Kundera, he left Czechia after 1968 and since that time he lived in France and later wrote books just in french and "forgot" about Czech (i wrote it just in a few words, it's more complicated story). we consider Milan Kundera as Czech author and he is one of the biggest, but it's complicated. 😄💛

@eveanime5675 Месяц назад

I'm so glad to see Lithuania represented here, but I feel like there are better choices for literature. As much as Rūta Šepetys is loved in Lithuania, she is a fully american author. She was born and raised there, plus continues living there. Even though she is the daughter of lithuanian immigrant parents, she herself (as far as I'm aware) has never actually lived here. On top of that, if you google Rūta Šepetys, the first thing you'll see is AMERICAN writer. I still think she is a great author, however, the book you choose is not even set in Lithuania, which is why I just felt like commenting a few extra options if you ever get the chance to dive into them. One of the most celebrated lithuanian books, by a lithuanian author, is "forest of the gods" by Balys Sruoga. This book is about the author himself and his experience being a war prisoner in a concentration camp. It's filled with dark humor and is mandatory reading here. The other book I wanted to recommend is by an jewish lithuanian writer. It's called "Stalemate" by Icchokas Meras. It has a very interesting structure, all odd chapters follow our main character and all the even ones are about his siblings (or the other way around, I can't recall exactly). On top of that, through out each chapter there is a chess game happening which will determine who lives and who dies. The one thing about this book I feel the need to add is that the lithuanian title is so much better. If I were to translate it, it would be something like "a draw only lasts a moment". This title will explain the crucial decisions made in this book. Lastly, if you still plan on reading something else by Rūta Šepetys, I recommend either "Between shades of grey" and "Salt to the sea" as those are the two books of hers that are actually popular here. I know you probably won't even see my comment or read it, but if by chance you do, I wanted to say that I truly appreciate you even helping promote literature from all around the world. You are such an amazing creator and I love your content

@valldda Месяц назад

This ^^^ I was about to comment before I saw this. I want to add The White Shroud by Antanas Škėma and Whitehorns Windmill by Kazys Boruta.

@astrida111 Месяц назад

važiojamm

@AnnaMitchell0004 Месяц назад

🇫🇷 Charlotte Salomon - David Foenkinos 🇭🇺 Embers - Sandor Marai 🇳🇴 Gunnar's Daughter - Sigrid Undset 💜 Madonna in a fur coat, Olga Tokarczuk, Marias For later on in series: 🇪🇬 Naguib Mafouz (Various) 🇦🇫 Khaled Hosseini (A thousand splendid suns) 🇲🇾 Tan Twan Eng (The house of doors) 🇮🇳 Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) 🇦🇺 Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram) 🇸🇱 Aminatta Forna (The Memory of Love) 🇻🇳 Ocean Vuong (On Earth we are briefly gorgeous) 🇷🇺 Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita 🇮🇷 Negar Djavid - Disoriental

@v1nnc Месяц назад

Mann I thought my country was going to appear in a Jack Edward’s video before and now it finally happened 😭😭

@Bncmp Месяц назад

What country?🤭

@v1nnc Месяц назад

@@Bncmp Georgia

@Bncmp Месяц назад

@@v1nnc makes sense everyone forgets about georgia😭 i was surprised he added Cyprus too

@v1nnc Месяц назад

@@Bncmp yeah 😄

@magpiewrites Месяц назад

Привет из Молдовы 🩵

@mills9488 Месяц назад

actually very surprised by your choice of the hungarian book. but anyway heres a fun fact. lászló krasznahorkai also wrote a book titled satantango, and theres a movie adaptation of it that is 7 and a half hours long. happy reading jack, or anyone that ever wants to get into hungarian lit! there are so many gems.

@svetlana7579 Месяц назад

hiii! i'm guessing you're a fellow hungarian, but for the sake of everyone else understanding us, i'll continue in english. i have a genuine question: where did you hear about krasznahorkai? i'm asking, because until i started watching english-language booktubers who are doing this challenge i had never, ever heard of the guy and i don't know if i was failed by our spectacular school system or it was just my streak of misfortune. and may i ask for a review of the 7+ hour film, pretty please?

@dorottyaantal6542 Месяц назад

@@svetlana7579 Hello fellow Hungarian! :) It is strange and sad to see that many Hungarians have never heard about him. He is among the Nobel Prize speculations for a decade now, he also won the Man Booker Prize, and his books are sold in every bookshop in Hungary. In literary podcasts, or online magazines he is mentioned almost every week, and he participates in all literary events. To be honest, I don't think that his books are for everyone, their language is VERY difficult, pacing is really slow, so I would not recommend them for a summer holiday. But once in a lifetime it worth it, my favourite is definitely Sátántangó. The film was an interesting experience, if you like the novel, it would be a great weekend program with some friends and a lot of food and drink. :)

@svetlana7579 Месяц назад

@@dorottyaantal6542 Wow, this man has amassed quite the accomplishments! I feel rather sheepish for not knowing any of this, but I will make up for it by reading some of his works once I have the time to do so. Hopefully having read Anna Karenina voluntarily means that I will enjoy Sátántangó (your description of his writing style reminded me of AK). Thank you so much for the information and the review too, both the film and the book are now on my 'to consume' list and I think with enough food I could bribe a few friends to watch the former with me!

@pursisimplueo Месяц назад

I’m not Hungarian but I would have thought The Door by Magda Szabó would be the book for Hungary.

@glimmeringshard Месяц назад

Oh I read Satantango but I felt I was missing some cultural context to the book which probably makes it so worthwhile

@janos.nicole Месяц назад

Amazing idea! I am from Slovakia and one of my all time favourites is "The Taste Of Power"-Ladislav Mňačko. It's a novel which criticises the totalitarian regime (especially in the 50s in Slovakia) but also debates power, propaganda, etc. I would say it's a bit similar to Orwell's 1984, so I definitely recommend the book since it's relevant even today. However, I've read it in Slovak so I cannot garantee the translation will be as good as the original. PS: I love your videooos 🩷💗 you're such an inspiration 😚

@ellenhellstrompersson631 21 день назад

Jack! While I'm a little late to the conversation, I really recommend checking out one of Swedens biggest children's book author Astrid Lindgren, if you haven't already. I recommend her more "darker" books such as The Brothers Lionheart, Mio, my Mio and Ronja, the Robber´s Daughter. (I've seen that other people in the comment section has mentioned her too) Fredrik Backman is also an amazing author and I think you will really love the book you picked out! All his other books are really amazing!

@vielent 23 дня назад

THE GRAY HOUSE!! its my favourite book ever. i've read it when i was 14 and listened to an audiobook when i was 18 and this book got stuck in my heart ever since. Its so good to see the gray house get recognision it deserves. Mariam's writing is amazing!! i hope to see more english speaking booklovers talk about it after your video.

@vitanismagic Месяц назад

Hello from Norway. Happy to see you reading Henrik Ibsen as he is one of our most well-known authors, but i would like to recommend Jon Fosse to you as he won the nobel price last year.

@lene.m Месяц назад

I second this!

@doreene11 Месяц назад

I think he read one of his books last year, so maybe that's why he chose a different author

@TullaRask Месяц назад

Another Norwegian here, many has put Ibsen behind Shakespear so he would have to read him sometime :) I love Peer Gynt.

@emilsalomonsen3436 Месяц назад

Also Norwegian here. I absolutely recommend “the birds” by Tarjei Vesaas, one of my favourite books ever!

@orphan_obliterator7778 Месяц назад

Olga Tokarczuk mentioned!!! I personally consider "The Books of Jacob" being her magnum opus

@BobJacobs10 Месяц назад

Agreed! One of my fabourite writers.

@krisztinahutson2588 Месяц назад

The Books of Jacob has been on my list for ages, but I'm a little intimidated by it! I must commit to it this summer.

@stellarfrosting Месяц назад

interesting fact: whenever her name appears in a public discussion, Polish people tend to speak about this author very hatefully. Not sure why, being polish myself.

@werosification Месяц назад

@@stellarfrostingshe has quite classist views about literature, especially her own, basically saying that it's not for everyone and she doesn't want stupid people reading it. considering her leftist views it's very hypocritical.

@hannazo19 Месяц назад

I really loved Flights

@starjessicafang Месяц назад

Already so excited about those series!! 😻😻😻 love how you constantly try to bring people’s attention to literatures from all over the world. It’s lovely and wonderful🩶

@snehapradhan5591 Месяц назад

I really love how invested you are in not just reading but in reading different things. This has made me really explore different genres and i plan to soon start exploring different language authors too! ❤

@bashfulnath Месяц назад

I have not read any of these but I asked some friends and some Slovak books that have been translated are - Rivers of Babylon by Peter Pistanek (the name of the book is the same in slovak so be careful to find rhetorical english version) the book was also adapted into a movie - Fleeting Snow by Peter Vilikovsky (and his other books) he sadly died in 2020 but is well renowned for his prose and he’s won a slovak literary prize - Or if you want a classic author Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav was a poet in 18th century, his books are taught in literature classes to this day and one of his collections has been translated The Bloody Sonnets or A Song of Blood I would also recommend a tiny Icelandic book The Blue Fox by Sjon I got it recommended by an employee in a bookstore when I was there last year and it was magical and strange.

@alicalica298 Месяц назад

🇦🇱 Albania 2:35 🇦🇩 Andorra 3:37 🇦🇲 Armenia 4:33 🇦🇹 Austria 6:02 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 7:09 🇧🇾 Belarus 8:18 🇧🇪 Belgium 9:07 🇧🇦 Bosnia 10:17 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 11:16 🇭🇷 Croatia 13:15 🇨🇾 Cyprus 14:37 🇨🇿 Czechia 15:03 🇩🇰 Denmark 16:14 🇪🇪 Estonia 16:42 🇫🇮 Finland 17:53 🇫🇷 France 18:47 🇬🇪 Georgia 19:46 🇩🇪 Germany 21:10 🇬🇷 Greece 22:01 🇭🇺 Hungary 22:44 🇮🇸 Iceland 24:05 🇮🇪 Ireland 25:19 🇮🇹 Italy 26:38 🇽🇰 Kosovo 27:41 🇱🇻 Latvia 28:51 🇱🇹 Lithuania 29:51 🇲🇩 Moldova 31:00 🇳🇱 Netherlands 32:07 🇳🇴 Norway 33:15 🇵🇱 Poland 34:24 🇵🇹 Portugal 33:50 🇷🇴 Romania 35:37 🇷🇸 Serbia 36:46 🇸🇮 Slovenia 37:51 🇪🇸 Spain 39:13 🇸🇪 Sweden 40:04 🇨🇭 Switzerland 41:28 🇹🇷 Turkey 42:31 🇺🇦 Ukraine 43:09 🇬🇧 UK 44:20

@ursalemii Месяц назад

So excited for this series!! Especially for Africa. Im from Eritrea which is a tiny country in East Africa that's often overlooked but I hope you include it here

@DanielaMaria1998 Месяц назад

I just finished Black Foam by Haji Jabir and it had me gripped all the way through! That ending will stay with me forever.

@emilyerdmann7553 Месяц назад

I think Eritrea will be fine, I am wondering about Djibuti... 😂

@jojoinwonderland1602 Месяц назад

@@emilyerdmann7553For Djibouti, I read Les enfants du khat by Mouna-Hodan Ahmed, so that’s an option if you read French! I’ve been reading books for many African countries in French because I can’t always find English translations, especially for women writers (I’m reading only women for the challenge). If you don’t speak French, sorry to be unhelpful. 😬

@marinastalder6556 Месяц назад

This is really amazing, thank you so much! As alternatives for Switzerland, I can recommend Max Frisch (Homo Faber, Andorra) or Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Physicists, The Visist, The Pledge - which was made into a great movie with Jack Nicholson) :)

@dominikschmalstieg2912 Месяц назад

I definitely second that, those were the first two I thought of. And Nicolas Bouvier if one wants to add travel literature.

@Maria-cb4yu Месяц назад

The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan is super good! ❤

@sannihirvikoski Месяц назад

Tove Jansson has such a wholesome way of writing, I truly hope the sentiments get trough in the translation! Another (more modern) Finnish writer I would recommend checking out (for real standout writing) is Miki Liukkonen. The Master of Silence is at least one that has been translated into English already, and it’s also one of his shorter works so not a too intense one to start with.

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

thanks for the recs!!

@somebodyx588 Месяц назад

I've read most of Tove Jansson's adult books in English and the translation is really on point and some of the books have great forewords etc as well (by Ali Smith for example! Another of my favourite writers) so nothing to worry about there! "The summer book" is a good starting point but my personal favourite is "Fair play" :D And for wild Finnish experiences I'd recommend "Summer fishing in Lapland" by Juhani Karila. It's a strange one but was my favourite book of last year - hope the English translation does it justice, I read it in Estonian myself.

@elderscrollsswimmer4833 23 дня назад

Arto Paasilinna as well. He is one of the most translated authors in Finland.

@cassandrenadler6596 Месяц назад

Hi Jack, great video, my TBR just got longer 🙈😅 While Der Steppenwolf from Herman Hesse is a great book that I recommend, I am not sure if it really counts for Switzerland. A Swiss author that I would recommend is Friedrich Dürrenmat, especially two plays, now modern classics in the German language: - The physicists - The visit

@SchoggiGurke Месяц назад

100% agree, those are my 2 favorite Dürrenmatt books and also some of my fave books ever tbh 🤓🤓

@likemonstersinlove Месяц назад

Wholeheartedly agree!

@lilyb.9789 Месяц назад

Relieved to see I am not the only one who was surprised by that Swiss choice. My quick French-speaking suggestions : - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. "Derborence" ("When the Mountain Fell") is probably is his best-known work. To get a full blast of the Alpine life... - Blaise Cendrars. I loved "L'Or" ("Sutter's Gold"), more poetry than novel.

@likemonstersinlove Месяц назад

@@lilyb.9789 yes, ramuz is a GREAT suggestion! My favourite is Farinet's gold

@cassandrenadler6596 Месяц назад

@@lilyb.9789 thank you for the suggestions 😊

@alvaaaa_ Месяц назад

Hi jack! so excited for the rest of this series!! I am from sweden and my personal favourite book from here is "Stolen" by Ann-Helen Laestadius which is about our native population Sami. i wholeheartedly recommend it as it truly changed my perspective on my own country. Such a good book.

@maika0395 Месяц назад

I read the German translation of that book and loved it! I didn't know a lot about Sami culture and reindeer and it broke my heart to read about the traumatic experience of the people!

@alvaaaa_ Месяц назад

@@maika0395 i’m glad you enjoyed it! it feels like a very important read

@isabelleakerlindhognert1076 Месяц назад

Yes yes yes Stolen is so good and important! I for some reason haven't read the sequel Straff (don't know if it's been translated to English yet?) yet, but I definitely will soon.

@alvaaaa_ Месяц назад

@@isabelleakerlindhognert1076 straff is also very good, not as good as stolen but still amazing. it’s pretty new so it might now have been translated yet but it will for sure

@StaceySeelie 7 дней назад

I have had Stolen in my TBR list for a while. I may have to bump it up and read it sooner!

@JuliaHojgaard1D Месяц назад

Hi Jack! You forgot about the Faroe Islands, my home country! I would recommened some of our classic literature: The Lost Musicians by William Heinesen or Barbara by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen. Both books are originally written in Danish as it was the colonial official language back in the days, but the authors are Faroese. You also forgot Greenland and I would recommend Blomsterdalen (The Flower Valley) by Niviaq Korneliussen, but I don’t know if it has an English translation.. Good luck!

@ffion-hafdavies724 Месяц назад

I’m gutted the UK Countries weren’t split up :( Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have such great fiction outside of the ‘English’ literature we’re always overshadowed by. Local Fires by Joshua Jones is a personal Welsh favourite but Waterstones do ‘Welsh Book of the Month’ which you can find online. I really hope to see some Welsh rep soon :)

@MaelysCha Месяц назад

I just bought Local Fires, thank you for the recommendation

@gopikaputhuparambil7635 Месяц назад

Love this new series! Excited for the Asia video. It's gonna be MASSIVE!

@lapvona Месяц назад

africa is going to be massive too and i’m excited for the rest of the videos

@gopikaputhuparambil7635 Месяц назад

@@lapvonaOMG YES!

@licoricegirl Месяц назад

it’s always so interesting to note the intersectionality of popularity in literature. i’m moldovan and have never heard of the author mentioned, so of course i wanted to recommend the english versions of some of our most famous books - only to find they haven’t been translated in english! this comes in contrast with my experience of walking into any spanish bookstore and seeing moldovan fiction on the top of current best seller lists. how interesting that some books get translated and acquire popularity in some languages only, while never making it to others. thank you for the reccs!!! jotted down a few 🤓 (and for the spanish speakers (readers??) i recommend la ciudad prometida by moldovan writer valentina scerbani 😋) p.s. cartarescu is fantastic

@victoriaprepelita Месяц назад

nu știu dacǎ ai cǎutat cartea care a recomandat-o el, dar e scrisǎ în rusǎ. niciodatǎ nu a fost tradusǎ în românǎ :((((((

@licoricegirl Месяц назад

@@victoriaprepelita o, ok! makes sense de ce nu o stiu :( chiar mi-a starnit o curiozitate subiectul asta - cum de o avem, de ex, pe tibuleac, care se gaseste in spania si in franta nu ca in librarii de specialitate, dar in supermarket-uri la sectia “carti” sau in aeroporturi (aka e de mass market), dar uite ca in engleza nu e tradusa de loc? nu neg ca si populatia rusofona are ceva de zis de experienta “moldoveneasca”, dar cum se intampla ca, in cazul strainilor care chiar ca-s interesati de literatura din MD, scriitorii “nostri” nu sunt scriitorii “lor”, iar scriitorii “lor” nu sunt scriitorii “nostri”? :(

@licoricegirl Месяц назад

dar p.s. se pare ca e mai putin problema noastra si mai mult problema industriei anglofone. stiu ca, de exemplu, noi avem multa literatura catalana tradusa in romana care nu exista de loc in engleza. macar iesim cu basmaua semi-curata din intriga asta 🥸 poate nu e ca noi nu traducem, da’ ca ei nu cumpara 🤞

@victoriaprepelita Месяц назад

@@licoricegirl daaa, nu cred că e vina noastră. uite ce fenomen e tema pentru acasă de dabija sau în 2016, când toți citeau amintiri din viitor, și niciuna din cărțile astea au fost traduse.

@licoricegirl Месяц назад

@@victoriaprepelita adeverat! tac deja de canonul literar. de fapt, daca nici el n-a fost tradus, de ce mai sper la tibuleac si scerbani? 🤓

@readrosebooktube1467 Месяц назад

That’s such a great concept jack im so excited to follow this series! Another great idea for Belgium is The Real Life by Adèle Dieudonné, a gripping thriller that’s only like 200 pages

@hesfra Месяц назад

🇮🇹 Italian subscriber here, I love that you are going to read Calvino! It feels somewhat like an unusual choice, even if he is one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century. I can’t wait for you to share your opinions. With that being said, as someone already commented, I suggest you read Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" book series. I tend to overlook very popular books because I sometimes find that they don't hold up to the hype, but I read the first book ("My Brilliant Friend") many years ago and it stuck with me. I genuinely think reading Elena Ferrante's work marked a turning point in my life; her writing shaped me both as an individual and a reader. Elena and Lila, Ferrante's most famous characters, feel like real people to me, and I still think about them in my day-to-day life, even after all these years. Off topic, I have a question about the English schooling system: don't you study other countries' literature? Not even a bit? Because in Italy, in high school, in the "Italian literature" class, alongside Italian literature, we study English, French, German and at times Spanish and Russian literature to give context and better understand Italian authors in their historical and cultural context. This is still absolutely not enough but I find it very useful and it taught me to have a very open approach to literature.

@gretatamosaityte3052 Месяц назад

As a Lithuanian, I’d recommend adding a book by a Lithuanian author that lives and writes in Lithuanian like Kristina Sabaliauskaite. Ruta Sepety’s books are brilliant, but she writes in English and lives in the USA.

@IirisL Месяц назад

My cat Yugoslavia is technically a Finnish book. The author lives in Finland and it was originally written in Finnish. He was born in Kosovo but considered to be a Finnish author.

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

unfortunately it was really hard to find any other english books from kosovo so had to work with what i could find!!

@andjela3527 Месяц назад

I was about to write the same thing lol I think the right move would've been to ask your followers for recs. It's also a shame not to have any book from Montenegro. Even if you couldn't find a recent book, there's The Mountain Wreath right there...

@meikusje Месяц назад

@@andjela3527 he's not done yet, so if you have recommendations you can always drop them

@forcekrivanjeva8880 Месяц назад

I agree with your point. However, a lot of the book is also set in Kosovo and shows an amazing point of what life for kosovar women was like during Pajtim Statovci's mother's youth.

@jwi1085 Месяц назад

@@jack_edwardsthis might be a good book for h Finland, Tove Jansson wrote in Swedish the national language in Finland

@amilahajdarevic6524 Месяц назад

Love this idea Jack. I have to say I am a little disappointed you didn't choose Meša Selimović "The Fortress" for Bosnia and Herzegovina because it is a classic and my favourite book of all time. If you can find a translation, I highly recommend it. 😊

@justhelena4761 Месяц назад

Tbh I think Jack would love Catch the Rabbit ✨

@theskydeity Месяц назад

As a huge fan of Slavic mythology who has a tattoo of Baba Jaga’s hut, I immediately added the Croatian book to my tbr! Thank you, Jack 🩶

@hanaha5489 Месяц назад

Great pick for Bosnia and Herzegovina Jack 😊 I just read it and really liked it, reminded me of the female friendship in Elena Ferrante's series. They're developing the book into a play later this year in Sarajevo!

@kamile258 Месяц назад

Ruth Sepetys is half American, half Lithuanian, born in the U.S., lives in the U.S., and as much as we Lithuanians are proud of her, not sure if you can claim her book to be "from Lithuania" (I'm pretty sure she doesn't speak Lithuanian) :-) I recommend such classics as Ričardas Gavelis "Vilnius Poker" or maybe Jurga Ivanauskaite's "Placebo". Not sure how difficult it is to get these book in English, I would be more than happy to gift "Vilnius Poker" you! :-) Ruth Sepetys' books are great though!

@alison4451 Месяц назад

For America and/or Canada it would be so special to me if you could highlight an indigenous author!

@isaleiberg4168 Месяц назад

recommending The Door by Magda Szabó from Hungary as well!!

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

ooooh thank you for the recommendation!!

@01Elvi Месяц назад

omg same! also for Hungary, i'm here to proselytize about Antal Szerb and his Journey by Moonlight!! def more accessible than Krasznahorkai and very magical/funny

@lindylouwho550 Месяц назад

The Door is nothing short of magnificent 😊❤

@jojoinwonderland1602 Месяц назад

Magda forever ❤

@juirigoyen Месяц назад

Brazilian here! I LOVE the door!!! Its incredible.

@austret4609 Месяц назад

Hi I’m from Lithuania, highly recommend to read two classics from my country: Forest of the gods (almost a documentary of a concentration camp) and especially The white shroud (about an immigrant and ones identity, heavy on language, a great one to analyse and think about)

@milda5127 Месяц назад

I agree! This chosen book is about Romania, not even represent our country 🫤

@MundusGregorius 18 дней назад

@@milda5127 and written by an American author in English. I am disappointed 😢

@kellykotlyarova181 Месяц назад

from Estonia I recommend the book “Purge” by Sofi Oksanen (it’s translated to English), the author is actually Finnish/Estonian but the story is about Estonia’s history 🇪🇪

@qquiess Месяц назад

Greetings from Czechia! If you ever feel like reading another Czech book, I highly recommend The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks. That book really spoke to me, it was the perfect balance between disturbing, strange and humorous. There is also a film from 1969 based on this book.

@muriellapropella Месяц назад

such a beautiful idea! i am from germany and one of my favoriten books is called „alte sorten“ by ewald arenz, which is getting translated now under the title „tasting sunlight“! i had to read it for an educational uni class and turns out, i absolutely loved it!

@lynnesmith2936 Месяц назад

Appreciate that you’ve condensed the UK into one book for ease maybe but would have liked to seen Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish authors included. I’ve recently read Drift translated from the original Welsh by the author Caryl Lewis, and a Wales Book of the Year Winner🥰

@maika0395 Месяц назад

You do realize that different cultures and languages exist within other countries as well, I hope? (Catalan, Basque in Spain; Wallonie, Flandres in Belgium; different languages in Italy etc.) So those would have to be included as well - but would make it way more difficult not to forget anything ;) and it's always a question of definition

@runrgrl35 Месяц назад

@lynnesmith2936 I was thinking the same thing. Thank you for your comment 🙂

@lynnesmith2936 Месяц назад

@@maika0395 Absolutely yes, but the title of the video relates to countries and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are countries so I was referring to that specifically🥰

@maika0395 Месяц назад

@@lynnesmith2936 Well, I think we all know what is meant by "country" in this context. It would sound kind of weird to say "a book from every sovereign nation state" or something like that, wouldn't it?

@SubscriptionUnboxing Месяц назад

Came here to comment that! I'd love to read a book from Wales.

@user-ph6oz8hd8l Месяц назад

As a Ukrainian, I can also recommend "The Orphanage" by Serhiy Zhadan or "The Longest Journey" by Oksana Zabuzhko

@neela-7256 Месяц назад

Momo, please read Momo by Michael Ende (author of the neverending story). I think Momo is more approachable and easier to read, especially for people that try to get into reading again and don’t know where to start, it’s technically for children, but I think it’s so much better as an adult, very philosophical for children, perfect and reflective for grown ups.

@simranramchandani1248 Месяц назад

jack always looks so damn happy talking about books and its fucking contagious i love it

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

💌💌

@TheRainbowCoach Месяц назад

@@jack_edwards And handsome and hot. 🙈☺️ (not even mentioning the post festival/cold/whisky raspy voice 👀)

@sophiealka3431 Месяц назад

OMG the Summer Book by Tove Jansson is one of my favourite books of ALL TIME SO GOOD

@jojoinwonderland1602 Месяц назад

So delightful!

@kaisalindstrom1840 Месяц назад

Much love from Finland! 🫶🏼Tove Jansson is a national treasure and I'm so glad you picked up one of her books ❤ I would also recommend a book called Purge by Sofi Oksanen. The setting is actually in Estonia but the book was originally written in Finnish and the author is Finnish-Estonian. It is such an interesting and touching book and truly a classic here in Finland! 💌📚

@MimiFilo Месяц назад

Well done!!! great initiative although I am very sad to see there was nothing from Slovakia which might be due to the lack of translations. Thats why Im so happy about an upcoming translation (Spring 2025) of an amazing debut This Room Is Impossible to Eat by Nicol H. translated by the great Julia Sherwood. I am sure you will like this book!

@niestetennajn3456 Месяц назад

'Flights' is such a peculiar book! It touches a lot of difficult topics - what I remember most is the story with the syringe... won't spoil it though. But at the same time the book seems unfinished or as it is a collection of never published before fragments of Tokarczuk's prose. Fun fact: in May in Wrocław there was a music festival on which they played concerts inspired by 'Flights', and the fragments were recited - amazing combination!

@wearetheblackparade7 Месяц назад

Not a "hungry Hungarian" joke, Jack! 😂 never heard that one before... Good luck with Krasznahorkai, I haven't read anything from him but I hear it's a challenge. Thank you for your videos, and for always championing translators! Lots of love from a Hungarian translator

@jojoinwonderland1602 Месяц назад

Your work is so necessary! 📚❤

@lostaj7287 Месяц назад

if you want to read a book written by a hungarian set in hungary, i cannot recommend the door by magda szabo enough. or any other of her books, idk how many are translated though

@lapostol Месяц назад

"Katalin street" and "Abigail" are also translated in english.

@thatss0laura Месяц назад

i have that one on my list but i recently went to budapest and picked up embers by sandor marai, do you think that’s an okay contender too or should i stick to the door? (ofc i can read both but i’ve been planning to do the same challenge jack is doing and even one per country takes so much time 🙈)

@new_heart Месяц назад

@@thatss0laura Márai is a great choice too, he is one of our most popular writers, especially Embers is well liked. If I had to describe it, I’d say Szabó Magda is more accessible as her work is more recent (think 80’s). Márai is more of a classic as he wrote Embers in the 40’s

@jojoinwonderland1602 Месяц назад

Yessss! The Door is magnificent. Szabó had an otherworldly gift for storytelling. I have two more of her books in my stacks and plan to read all of them!

@AK-gl6wm Месяц назад

LOVE her. The Door HAUNTS me.

@solita.s6896 Месяц назад

Would definitely recommend waiting for the other danish book to arrive! I haven’t read that specific Tove Ditlevsen book yet, but I do think she is a better representative and more interesting choice for the current day. No hate to my man H.C.

@TheDanishGuyReviews Месяц назад

Do I see a fellow Dane here? Godt at mødes.

@josefernandezmartinez8749 Месяц назад

I haven’t read Javier Marías’s work, but if someone asks me to recommend some literature from Spain 🇪🇸, I always say, “Choose a Carmen.” You have “Variable Cloud” by Carmen Martín Gaite, which left me speechless with how amazing and impactful it was in my life and how beautifully it was written (I even cried thinking I could never write like that). Then there’s “Nada” by Carmen Laforet, which is always a mandatory read in high school. Everyone I have talked to about this book loves it. I remember I read it at the beginning of university and again when I finished, and I found it to be a completely different book because I was a completely different person.

@tea9088 Месяц назад

I'm joining the tears of fellow comment section Slovaks. We are not Slovenia although we get mistaken for them a lot.

@dianaolesjuk1012 Месяц назад

Thank you for this video 😍 For Belarus, I'd definitely recommend King Stakh's Wild Hunt by Uladzimir Karatkievich and The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich (currently in exile)💔

@helloworld37547 Месяц назад

Great ideas! But Sasha Filipenko's books are also good, I didn't know that English translations of his books exist.

@dianaolesjuk1012 Месяц назад

Absolutely loved the symbolism of the Ex-Son by Sasha Filipenko. I wish I could recommend it to my non-Belarusian friends but I'm afraid that some of the most important details may be missed by them. Still such a beautiful yet heartbreaking story. I wish more books by Belarusian writers were translated into English. My latest Amazon discovery was the English translation of Vasil Bykau's Alpine Ballad:)

@helloworld37547 Месяц назад

@@dianaolesjuk1012 I know that "Па што ідзеш, воўча" by Eva Vieznavec was translated into German as "Was suchst du, wolf", but not into English yet, unfortunately.

@dianaolesjuk1012 Месяц назад

Khatyn by Ales Adamovich and Alhierd Bacharevič's Alindarka Children can be ordered online too. Looking forward to Eva's book's English translation. So many good books to share and only so few of them have been translated:(

@irenamcg Месяц назад

Bosnia and Herzegovina also has a Nobel prize winner author: Ivo Andrić Edit to add the info: at the time he represented his current country Yugoslavia but Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of Yugoslavia and he was born in a small city there, and when Yugoslavia fell apart B/H became independent.

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

ooooh good to know, thank you!

@ivanatesic5921 Месяц назад

Zašto onda Srbi kazu da je Andrić "naš"?

@hhah23 Месяц назад

@@ivanatesic5921 zato što se izjašnjavao kao srbin celog života i zato što je srbin

@hhah23 Месяц назад

@@irenamcg not actually he is serbian

@irenamcg Месяц назад

@@ivanatesic5921 covjek je rodjen u katolickoj porodici i imaju fotografije dokuemanata gdje se izjasnjavao kao Hrvat, tako da tehnicki Hrvati imaju vise prava, ali ne mijenja cinjenicu da se rodio u BiH u Travniku, dzaba sve xD

@oscarlacarta753 Месяц назад

Hi Jack! White Rūta Šepetys is of Lithuanian descent, I am pretty sure she has never lived in Lithuania herself, so in my opinion her work can't quite be considered as "from Lithuania". If you'd rather read something by a Lithuanian writer that has actually lived in Lithuania, I very much recommend Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis, it's an incredible book with a great English translation. I have lived in Lithuania for a while myself, and it is a very important book there.

@myld73 Месяц назад

for Lithuania, I'd also suggest White Shroud by Antanas Škėma. it's a quick read, but definitely not a simple one (although i haven't tried reading it in English, so there's no guarantee it'll hit the same haha)

@tekla_bablishvili Месяц назад

Seeing a Georgian🇬🇪 author in this video made me so incredibly happy as Georgian literature sadly doesn’t always get as much attention as it should. Thank you, Jack, for this!! I am from Georgia myself and would definitely recommend another author, whose every single work is hugely acclaimed - Jemal Karchkhadze. He is known for his thought-provoking novels, often with aspects of surrealism and focus on philosophy. Here are a few of his prose that as far as I know are translated into English: • Igi (which means Him in English) - a prehistoric story, taking readers to a period when the very first artist and thinker discovers a method to create images. In the routine life of prehistoric society comes a moment when one person, named Igi, starts to ask questions that no one has ever asked before. A feeling of wonder pervades his body and mind and he tries to discover secrets unnoticed by the rest. (Best belief, this story will never let you go!!!) • Antonio and David - this is a story of how two, at one sight, morally completely different human beings - a former priest and a chief of a group of robbers - become the turning points of each other’s lives and force the other to face the questions that they have never asked themselves before. The dialogues in this book are on another level and you’ll find yourself completely lost in them!! Hope this comment will find you and hope you’ll like the recommendations :))

@rimatheima Месяц назад

Sounds interesting. Is there anywhere online where I can read Igi?

@tekla_bablishvili Месяц назад

@@rimatheima I couldn't find anything else, but I think you can get a pdf of the English translation on this Polish site "lubimyczytać".

@tekla_bablishvili Месяц назад

@@rimatheima I couldn't find anything else, but I think you can get a pdf of the English translation on this Polish site - lubimyczytać

@tekla_bablishvili Месяц назад

@@rimatheima I couldn't find anything else, but I think you can get a pdf of the English translation on this Polish site - lubimyczytać

@tekla_bablishvili Месяц назад

@@rimatheima I couldn't find anything else, but I think you can get a pdf of the English translation on this Polish site - lubimyczytać

@konstantinam.5913 Месяц назад

I hope you enjoy Zorba the Greek. It's not what I would have picked but it's still a solid choice. Can't wait for your review!

@AK-gl6wm Месяц назад

What would you pick? Im always looking for new books from outside US/UK.

@gulceakpinar8280 Месяц назад

Jack this is such a good idea 👀 I will definitely join you with some of it. I am from Turkey 🇹🇷 and I really wonder how did you choose the books you choose from each country. I immediately thought what would I recommend to someone from Turkey and would it be Madonna In A Fur Coat. I will read Madonna In A Fur Coat again thinking of you😄

@jack_edwards Месяц назад

Yay this is the best news!!

@elizadinne5489 Месяц назад

I am not Estonian myself, however, I would heavily recommend the Estonian book The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk. It is a story with magical realism and about the struggle between the old ways and the modern world (or also between nature and the growth of modern civilization). It has won awards both in Estonia and France.

@poppycalliope Месяц назад

What a beautiful video Jack! I'm so happy to see a book from Νίκος Καζαντζάκης in your video. Much love from Greece 🇬🇷💙

@rimatheima Месяц назад

I really enjoyed reading "The last temptation of Christ" by Nikos. Truly an amazing writer.

@Carrottastic Месяц назад

This is a perfect video to come back to for recs. Not just for Jack's list, but for the comment section as well. Looking forward to the other videos as well! And respect to you, Jack, for picking Mann's Magic Mountain despite your big book fear, so far I've only dabbled in his earlier shorter work and his longer work like Magic Mountain and the Buddenbrocks intimidates me so much 😅

@levinkonstantin5025 Месяц назад

I've been hoping for you to read Madonna in a Fur Coat for over 2 years now im so happy😭

@momoni-gatito Месяц назад

Hello there! Just wanted to give a heads up that Ruta Sepetys is from the Lithuanian diaspora, so the writing style is very much North American. That being said, very few Lithuanian authors are translated into English, so I understand the difficulty (especially when others recommend The White Shroud which is available but directly speaks about the LT immigrant experience in 1950s NYC so catch-22). Could you be more clear about this when doing the reviews with all the authors? This may seem like a technicality, but it definitely changes the lens of analysis imho

@avanstarr Месяц назад

interesting choice for Lithuania, as the events in the book are set in a different country lol. hope u like it either way!

@ManuelPilotti Месяц назад

Gran bel video!!! So nice the choice of "If on a winter’s night a traveller" for Italy! Great Jack and great Calvino, you are an intenditore🤌🤌

@user-rb9qz2dc3q Месяц назад

Ítalo Calvino (accent on the first syllable).

@BeBraveBeHumble195 Месяц назад

29:52 For Lithuania, I think 'Between Shades of Gray' by the same author, Ruta Sepetys, is more suitable recommendation, since the setting of the story is started in Lithuania. The story is also poignant and heartbreaking in the best possible way. Well, this is just another recommendation, I'm a fan of Ruta Sepetys and I love all of her books, I will definitely read her grocery list if she allows me 😂😂

@googlenutzer5667 Месяц назад

Would love to see what you thought about the books once you've read them! So please make an update video afterward!

@heilistrite6345 Месяц назад

Andrus Kivirähk also writes for adults and his work "The Man Who Spoke Snakish" is a creative confluence of the history and folklore of Estonia. I can also recommend Jaan Kross' "The Czar's Madman".