Around the World in 80 Days Mini Reading Challenge: Germany and Austria

Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan.

Susanne isn’t thrilled when she’s sent to save her uncle’s stationery store from bankruptcy. Paper Love’s employee Anja instantly dislikes her temporary boss.

But thanks to a meddling cat, a stationery road trip, and an armada of origami boats, Susanne discovers how sexy stationery and certain stubborn employees can be.

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For almost a decade they were best friends. Inseparable. Then a betrayal tore them apart.

Amy Summers and Jess Daniels need to find a way to navigate their past as they are sent to Europe to handle the acquisition of a company.

Along the way, they manage to strike a fragile truce, yet emotions run high as each blames the other for wrecking their friendship.

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The woman she loves is brilliant, mercurial and in possession of secrets that could shape the course of the war.

On the eve of war, a spy falls for her target. A polymath – a genius – with secrets that could shake apart the very world finds herself ensnared and entangled by the woman tasked to steal her research. Amid the red flags of hatred, as Europe tears itself apart, how far will these two run to save their love?

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Jealousy's a terrible thing.

Europe is at war, and when Christa is persuaded by the glamorous and mysterious Lady Prince to blow up the Nazi lab where she works she is forced to flee to Britain. However, Christa is pursued by the jealous and vindictive Doctor Weiss, who remains determined to eliminate anyone who may challenge her mantle as best scientist.

For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.

As Viv unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever.

Inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime—the WWII organization founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, and authors to use books as “weapons in the war of ideas”—The Librarian of Burned Books is an unforgettable historical novel, a haunting love story, and a testament to the beauty, power, and goodness of the written word.

In the rubble of war-blasted Berlin, and facing a common enemy, victor and vanquished find each other.

When Russia blockades Berlin, hunger begins: Russian soldiers for German women, Soviet leaders for territory, the Berliners themselves for food. But the hardest hunger of all is between a Royal Air Force woman and the wife of a Luftwaffe pilot who helped set fire to half of London.

Twelve years of terror end with a world in flames.

Behind filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s stirring footage of a million joyous patriots, the horror of Nazi Germany unfolds. It engulfs Katja Sommer, a “good German” who discovers honor in treason; Frederica Brandt, active in the highest circles of power; Rudi Lamm, homosexual camp survivor and forced SS killer; and Peter Arnhelm, a half-Jewish terrorist. Under the scrutiny of the familiar monsters of the Third Reich, these four struggle for life, decency, and each other. Love does not conquer all, but it’s better than going to hell alone.

There are no coincides in Nikki's world.

If you enjoy spy thrillers, meet MI6 agent Nikki Sinclair. Nikki navigates the shadowy dystopian world of 1970s East Berlin, where informants of the secret police lurk everywhere. Nikki becomes romantically involved with an older woman who works for the secretive Stasi, but can she trust her?

This ice queen doesn't melt

Doctor Helene Zimmermann devised the sinister plot to clandestinely dope female swimmers to achieve Olympic supremacy. MI6 agent Nikki Sinclair’s mission – acquire evidence for the Committee. A seduction is Nikki’s last resort, but she quickly realises she’s a pawn in Zimmermann’s evil game.

Is Nikki the predator or the prey in this deadly game of espionage?

Simon Wallace, the British Foreign Secretary’s trusted secretary, is procuring top-secret documents for the KGB. MI6 Nikki Sinclair’s task – neutralise him before he meets his handler. Wallace befriends Nikki. A cat and mouse game begins, leaving her to wonder, who’s the hunter and who’s the prey?

"Carmilla" is the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a leading writer of ghost tales and horror fiction of the Victorian era.

His haunting and surprisingly modern “Carmilla” was one of the first works in the vampire fiction genre and was written decades before the publication of Bram Stroker’s “Dracula” in 1897. Le Fanu’s story has been widely influential and is notable for its depiction of homosexual desire between the female vampire and her beautiful, young victims.

From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a Bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a family

Through the lives of her queer characters, and against the changing backdrop of one of the greatest cities of the age, Hitchman asks what it’s like to live through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Moving across Europe and through decades, Hitchman’s sophomore novel is an intensely poignant portrait of life and love on the fringes of history.

Forbidden Desires Ignite Amidst Icy Slopes…

In the heart of the breathtaking Austrian Alps, where secrets echo through chalet hallways, two worlds collide in a blaze of forbidden passion.

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