Our top reads from Europe so far - in alphabetical order

World Book Group Edinburgh, first UNESCO World City of Literature Country – Author - Title Norway Per Petterson Out stealing horses 8.5 Albania Ismail Kadare Broken April 8.4 Spain Bernardo Atxaga The accordionists son 8.33 Sweden Marianne Fredriksson Hanna’s daughters 8.25 France Marcel Pagnol Jean de Florette 8.17 Germany Patrick Susskind Perfume 8.0 Roma people Louise Doughty Stone Cradle 7.91 Czech Republic Bohumil Hrabal Closely observed trains 7.8 Portugal Jose Saramago All the names 7.75 Ukraine Nikolai Gogol Diary of a madman 7.7 Italy Tomasi di Lampedusa The leopard 7.67 Hungary Sandor Marai Embers 7.6 Greece Apostolis Doxiadis Uncle Petros / Goldbach conjecture 7.5