Eurotrash

book by Christian Kracht

Themes: family, addiction, wealth, memory, estrangement, class, Europe, decadence

Release date: 06-13-2026

Reading status: Read

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Twenty books. Zero airports. Arguably better.

Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026

Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.