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Books set in Romania:


Ion by Liviu Rebreanu
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
Enigma Otiliei by George Călinescu
The Appointment: A Novel by Herta Müller
The Hatchet by Mihail Sadoveanu
Forest of the Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (1st book in series)
The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein
The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
The Passport by Herta Müller
Vlad The Last Confession by C.C. Humphreys
The Dean's Decemberby Saul Bellow
Mademoiselle Christina by Mircea Eliade
Kyra Kyralina by Panait Istrati
Hotel Europa by Dumitru Tsepeneag
The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning (1st book of Balkan Trilogy)
Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Madame T. by Camil Petrescu
Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
Smuggled by Christina Shea
Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu
The White King by György Dragomán
Nadirs by Herta Müller
Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula by Enid A. Goldberg
Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula by M.J. Trow
Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
Flying Against the Arrow by Horia-Roman Patapievici
Mad Forest: A Play from Romania by Caryl Churchill
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir by Norman Manea
Key to Conflict by Talia Gryphon
Kiss of the Wolf by Morgan Hawke
Fangland: A Novel by John Marks
Chaos by Ted Dekker
Refiner's Fire by Sylvia Bambola
Coming from an Off-Key Time by Bogdan Suceava
Travesti by Mircea Cărtărescu
The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution by Andrei Codrescu
Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir by Dervla Murphy
On clowns: The dictator and the artist : essays by Norman Manea
Zenobia by Gellu Naum
Along the Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story by William Blacker
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu by Ion Mihai Pacepa
Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Samuel Behr
Laundry by Suzane Adam
The Hermit by Eugène Ionesco
Fantastic Tales by Mircea Eliade
Little Fingers by Filip Florian
Compulsory Happiness by Norman Manea
Pigeon Post by Dumitru Tsepeneag
The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania by Hannah Pakula
Vain Art of the Fugue by Dumitru Tsepeneag
Moons and Aurochs: A Romanian Journey by Alan Ogden
Romanian Furrow: Colourful Experiences of Village Life by Donald Hall
The Dance at Mociu by Peter Riley
The Black Envelope by Norman Manea
In God's Underground by Richard Wurmbrand
Black Sea Twilight by Domnica Radulescu
Everything I own I carry with me by Herta Müller
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco
On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran
The Pastor's Wife by Sabina Wurmbrand

An Imaginary Life by David Malouf (Takes place in the ancient city of Tomis, which is the present-day city of Constanta, Romania).

October, Eight O'Clock Stories by Norman Manea

Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding

Romance Language by Alan Elsner
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69...

In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires by Radu Florescu

Why We Love Women by Mircea Cărtărescu

The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco

To Romania with Love by Tessa Dunlop

A Luminous Future: Growing Up in Transylvania in the Shadow of Communism by Teodor Flonta

Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Pârvulescu

Hi I am trying to recall and find a book that I knew many years ago and can't remember the title or author. It is about a young girl and her family who live in Bucharest during the last years of Ceausescu's rule. It really depicts what is was like to live behind the Iron Curtain and not be able to trust even your best friend. I would be really grateful if anybody know this book and could let me know its title.

Hi Francesca. Is it Burying the Typewriter? https://www.amazon.com/Burying-Typewr...?

Kafka's House by Gabriela Popa

For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian

Melinda wrote: "Kafka's House by Gabriela Popa"

I second this! One of my friends from Romania says it was one of her favorites! It's really good!

This is a very good book, Diana. I read it in Romanian a while ago.

More books set in Romania:


The Accident by Mihail Sebastian
Act Veneţian by Camil Petrescu
Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
Ancuta's Inn by Mihail Sadoveanu
Angel Riding a Beast by Liliana Ursu
At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
Athanor and Other Pohems by Gellu Naum
Atrium by Norman Manea
The Băiuț Alley Lads by Filip Florian
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Barefoot by Zaharia Stancu
Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
The Book of Mirrors by E.O. Chirovici
Bread Salt & Plum Brandy by Lisa Fisher Cazacu
Breathturn by Paul Celan
Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry by Paul Celan
The Bridge by Marin Sorescu
The Bulgarian Truck: A Building Site Beneath the Open Sky by Dumitru Țepeneag
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca
But that's another story by Dan Lungu
Cantos for the Crestfallen by Pseudo-Leopardi
Captives by Norman Manea
The Carpathian Assignment by Chip Wagar
The Castle in Transylvania by Jules Verne
Censored Poems by Marin Sorescu
The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco
Circ by Simon Fairbanks
Collected Prose by Paul Celan
The Colonel's Photograph by Eugène Ionesco
The Compass by Tammy Kling
Complete Poetical Works of Lucian Blaga by Lucian Blaga
Confessions: Fact or Fiction?: A Collection of Short Stories and Memoir by Herta B. Feely
Curcubeie by Matila Ghyka
Danilo Stackpole: The Man Who Outwitted the Devil by Ion Creangă
The Days of the King by Filip Florian
Deadline by Adina Rosetti
The Death of My Brother Abel by Gregor von Rezzori
Definitions by Octavian Paler
Devil's Luck by Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade
Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania
Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times by Radu Florescu
Ebony Bones by Iulia Pana
The Encounter by Gabriela Adameșteanu
An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori
Escape from Romania by Louise Gherasim
Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays by Benjamin Fondane

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

Follow You Home by Mark Edwards(partially set in Romania).
House of the Lost by Sarah Rayne (partially set in Romania)
The Girls Are Good by Ilaria Bernardini.
No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel.
Dracula Park by Dana Grigorcea.
I'm an Old Commie! by Dan Lungu.
The Little Communist Who Never Smiled by Lola Lafon.

Looking for George by Helena Drysdale (non-fiction)
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery (non-fiction)
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder by Bruce Lincoln (non-fiction)

Rimaru - Butcher of Bucharest by Mike Phillips (non-fiction)

Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon (non-fiction)

Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania by Mike Ormsby (non-fiction)

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