Latvia


Soviet Milk
The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows
High Tide
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
Jelgava 94
Kailums
The Cage
Flesh-Coloured Dominoes
A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
Pieci pirksti
Natasha and Other Stories
The Book of Riga: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMemoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite YourcenarBonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Europe Minus Men and English
855 books — 231 voters
Epifānijas by Imants ZiedonisDvēseļu putenis by Aleksandrs GrīnsNoveles by Rūdolfs BlaumanisBille by Vizma BelševicaLāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs
Best Latvian Literature
110 books — 54 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,100 books — 1,023 voters
Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Orphanage by Serhiy ZhadanThe Palace of Dreams by Ismail KadareThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eurovision Book Contest
38 books — 9 voters

Kārlis Skalbe
Latvija ir kā šampanieša pudele, kura ilgi – ko domājat? – septiņi simti gadu – gulējusi tumšā pagrabā un kuru piepeši attaisījis neuzmanīgais Laiks. Daudz ir izgājis griestos un daudz uz grīdas, bet traukā vēl pietiek, lai mēs noreibtu, jo vīns ir vecs un labs.Kārlis Skalbe
Kārlis Skalbe

Timothy Snyder
Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans and elements of the local non-Jewish populations closer together. Anger was directed, as the Germans wished, toward the Jews, rather than against collaborators with the Soviet regime as such. People who reacted to the Germans' urging knew that they were pleasing their new masters, whether or not they believed that the Jews were responsible for th ...more
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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