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Books set in Eastern Europe, including Austria, Czech Republic, The Balkans, Hungary & Poland

Eastern Europe

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Endling

A Novel

by Maria Reva

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...

Palaces of the Crow

A Novel

by Ray Nayler

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.

Odessa

A Novel

by Gabrielle Sher

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave.

Porcupines

A Novel

by Fran Fabriczki

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is.

Indignity

A Life Reimagined

by Lea Ypi

Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Nov 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.

The Empusium

A Health Resort Horror Story

by Olga Tokarczuk

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.

The Extinction of Irena Rey

by Jennifer Croft

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.

The Café with No Name

by Robert Seethaler

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.

Looking at Women Looking at War

A War and Justice Diary

by Victoria Amelina

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful look at the courage of resistance.

Hard by a Great Forest

A Novel

by Leo Vardiashvili

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over

We Must Not Think of Ourselves

by Lauren Grodstein

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II

Patriot

A Memoir

by Alexei Navalny

Hardcover: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

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