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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Eastern Europe

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  • Lauren Grodstein
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by ...
  • Elana K. Arnold
    Paperback: 10/22/2024
     
    From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a ...
  • The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
    Olga Tokarczuk
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie ...
  • Foul Days: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1
    Genoveva Dimova
    Paperback: 06/25/2024
     
    The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured new voice ...
  • Melissa Pritchard
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing ...
  • Jennifer Croft
    Hardcover: 03/05/2024
     
    From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel ...
  • Aleksandar Hemon
    Paperback: 01/30/2024
     
    The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―...

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