bibliographic manifestations: Reading the EU

Reading challenges that ask you to read books set in various countries, like The European Reading Challenge or Around the World in 80 Books, inspired me to start keeping a list of books set in specific countries of the European Union to see if I can read my way through the whole thing.

This is the list of EU countries as of November 2012. If additional countries come into the Union I will have to add them. Each country name links to the information about it on the EU website and the year is when it joined the EU. My plan is to list each book I read for a country here and link to my post about it. I am going to try to stick with more-or-less contemporary settings (so classic British mystery and historical novels won't count) and will include books that are primarily set in the particular country, not ones that just have a part of the story set there.