Books set in Europe

The heart of the library: Paris, London and Rome, the Mediterranean islands, the Nordic north, and the Atlantic coast around La Rochelle.

327 places, 1,498 books,

Paris

All 126 books in Paris

Provence

All 23 books in Provence

Normandy

All 17 books in Normandy

Brittany

All 14 books in Brittany

Marseille

All 14 books in Marseille

Rome

All 44 books in Rome

Venice

All 35 books in Venice

Naples

All 26 books in Naples

Sicily

All 20 books in Sicily

Florence

All 16 books in Florence

London

All 54 books in London

Yorkshire

All 12 books in Yorkshire

Oxford

All 12 books in Oxford

Dorset

All 10 books in Dorset

Cornwall

All 9 books in Cornwall

Madrid

All 24 books in Madrid

Barcelona

All 19 books in Barcelona

Mallorca

All 11 books in Mallorca

Seville

All 10 books in Seville

Andalusia

All 9 books in Andalusia

Athens

All 24 books in Athens

Crete

All 14 books in Crete

Corfu

All 13 books in Corfu

Thessaloniki

All 4 books in Thessaloniki

Epirus

All 4 books in Epirus

Moscow

All 23 books in Moscow

Saint Petersburg

All 19 books in Saint Petersburg

North Caucasus

All 5 books in North Caucasus

Volgograd

Nizhny Novgorod

Berlin

All 34 books in Berlin

Dresden

All 5 books in Dresden

Hamburg

All 3 books in Hamburg

Weimar

Hiddensee

  • 2014
    2014 · Lutz Seiler · novel

    1989: on Hiddensee, a Baltic island at the GDR’s edge, dropouts dream of reaching Denmark.

Dublin

All 22 books in Dublin

County Wexford

All 6 books in County Wexford

County Mayo

All 4 books in County Mayo

Sligo

County Kerry

Edinburgh

All 12 books in Edinburgh

Glasgow

All 10 books in Glasgow

Scottish Highlands

All 6 books in Scottish Highlands

Shetland

All 5 books in Shetland

The Hebrides

All 5 books in The Hebrides

Oslo

All 17 books in Oslo

Nordland

All 8 books in Nordland

Lofoten

Bergen

Svalbard

Istanbul

All 34 books in Istanbul

Gallipoli

Stockholm

All 18 books in Stockholm

Skåne

All 4 books in Skåne

Ystad

All 4 books in Ystad

Värmland

Bohuslän

Helsinki

All 17 books in Helsinki

Häme

Kainuu

Vienna

All 24 books in Vienna

The Austrian Alps

Warsaw

All 14 books in Warsaw

Gdańsk

All 6 books in Gdańsk

Lower Silesia

All 5 books in Lower Silesia

Wrocław

Kraków

Reykjavik

All 15 books in Reykjavik

North Iceland

All 4 books in North Iceland

South Iceland

East Iceland

Snæfellsnes

Lisbon

All 19 books in Lisbon

Porto

Leiria

Copenhagen

All 17 books in Copenhagen

Faroe Islands

Bornholm

Marstal

Prague

All 16 books in Prague

Brno

Lapland

All 15 books in Lapland

Tirana

All 6 books in Tirana

Albanian Alps

All 4 books in Albanian Alps

Gjirokastër

Durrës

  • 2021
    2021 · Lea Ypi · memoir

    1990: a girl in Durrës learns that everything she was taught about Albania was false.

Amsterdam

All 10 books in Amsterdam

Delft

Haarlem

Brussels

All 5 books in Brussels

Flanders

All 5 books in Flanders

Bruges

Antwerp

Ghent

Budapest

All 11 books in Budapest

Great Hungarian Plain

All 3 books in Great Hungarian Plain

Bucharest

All 6 books in Bucharest

Transylvania

All 7 books in Transylvania

Kyiv

All 8 books in Kyiv

Odesa

Lake Geneva

All 10 books in Lake Geneva

Sarajevo

All 7 books in Sarajevo

Višegrad

Travnik

Belfast

All 8 books in Belfast

Derry

Bern

All 3 books in Bern

Graubünden

Zurich

Belgrade

All 5 books in Belgrade

Novi Sad

Zagreb

All 4 books in Zagreb

Dalmatia

Karelia

All 4 books in Karelia

Tallinn

Western Estonia

  • 2008
    2008 · Sofi Oksanen · novel

    1992: a girl fleeing traffickers reaches an old woman’s farm in western Estonia.

Danube

All 4 books in Danube

Vatican City

All 4 books in Vatican City

Nicosia

Famagusta

Riga

Vilnius

South Wales Valleys

Swansea

Caerleon

Guernsey

Chișinău

Pristina

Skopje

All 3 books in Skopje

Valletta

Minsk

Luxembourg

Bratislava

Vaduz

Ljubljana

Monaco

Sofia

Andorra la Vella

  • 1997
    1997 · Peter Cameron · novel

    An imaginary Andorra, complete with a sea: an American hides out in its grand hotel.

  • 1961
    1961 · Max Frisch · play

    Not the real Andorra: a parable town turns on a boy it believes is Jewish.

Jersey

San Marino

Podgorica

Lake Ohrid