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Read Around the World
I'm traveling the world one book at a time, reading stories told by the people who call each country home. Follow along, read with me, and tell me where we should go next.
COUNTRIES READ: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Colombia, Sweden
NOW READING: Germany
UP NEXT: Poland, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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Now Reading · Germany
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods
Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize-winning classic: a young man's short visit to an Alpine sanatorium stretches into seven years of ideas, romance and philosophy on the eve of World War I. Slow, rich and completely immersive.
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