Today is #EuropeDay . Here are our expert recommended reading lists on Europe, covering European literature, history, politics and culture.
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'It's not about evil or devil worship' Journalist, blogger and TV host La Carmina 😈 Goth travel, style, subcultures blog recommends the best books on Satanism.
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Here are the history books, hot off the presses, that we think you should be keeping an eye on: buff.ly/4bqCPXO …

Kazuo Ishiguro features on many of our lists. “I absolutely love this book. It’s extraordinary.…It’s a mistake to read historical fiction as a history lesson and I think Ishiguro absolutely does not want us to do that.' Prof Marion Turner buff.ly/4bw4FBN …

This was an honour and a pleasure. I spoke to Five Books about my favourite books on state-sponsored #assassination . Featuring Patrice McSherry, Ronen Bergman, Amy Knight, michelawrong, and Cecilia Menjivar and Néstor Rodríguez. Edinburgh University Press, Swansea University fivebooks.com/best-books/sta…

'We think of Hemingway as an American writer, but much of his writing is set outside of the United States, just as much of his life was set outside of the United States' Books by Ernest Hemingway, recommended on Five Books:
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A great choice of novels from the very brilliant Shane - Spybrary Podcast Host

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin'
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2023 was a fabulous year for spy thrillers, with some fans saying there hasn't been a year like it since the 1970s, says Shane Whaley, host of the Spybrary podcast. He are five of his favorites!

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'The first bit of Aristotle I read was book three of the Nicomachean Ethics for an undergraduate essay on how characters deliberate and make decisions in tragedy. I was completely blown away by it' @edithmayhall talks Aristotle with Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine:
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Huge congrats to I.S. Berry | THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW for winning one of the Mystery Writers of America! Her book, 'The Peacock and the Sparrow' was recommended as one of the best spy novels of 2023 by podcaster Shane - Spybrary Podcast Host:
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“There are a lot of people who sincerely believe that the unexamined life is not worth living. The contrasting sentiment is that the unlived life is not worth examining.” Venkatesh Rao ☀️ talks to Jordan Schneider about how the world works (from 2016):
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Books to read about Jerusalem: our 2020 interview with S Sebag Montefiore:
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“The monkeys, of course, are us.' 'Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love' by James Hamilton-Paterson is just one of many books on climate change recommended on Five Books:
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'When your main tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.' Books on Non-Military Solutions to Political Conflict, recommended by scholar and peace activist David Cortwright:
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“George Eliot is one of the great intellectuals of British history” David Russell on the Victorian essay:
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Which are the best books on atheism? The British philosopher Julian Baggini, author of 'Atheism: A Very Short Introduction,' talks over his top five with Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine (from 2016):
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Reading nonfiction books is an excellent way of getting a grip on the realities of the world around us. buff.ly/3y8PcJJ