02 April 2018

Reading All Around the World Challenge

One more book challenge has called my name, and I think I can fit it in, as it's another long-term one: Reading All Around the World. This is hosted by Jean of Howling Frog Books and Esther of Chapter Adventures. The goal is to read one book, fiction or nonfiction, from each of 50+ countries, in whatever time frame you choose. Very loose rules! I'm aiming for 100 books in 5 years, but because it can be hard to find good translated books from so many places, I am listing all 197 countries listed on the challenge page. As I find interesting titles, I'll add or subtract from this list. My reviews will be linked here, as well.

My List:

Books I have finished are listed and as I review them, they will have links. Proposed titles or authors are enclosed in [].

Afghanistan    [The Bookseller of Kabul,  Åsne Seierstad]
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola    [A General Theory of Oblivion, Jose Eduardo Agualusa]
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina    [Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Manuel Puig]
Armenia
Australia    [The Ladies of Missalonghi, Colleen McCullough]
Austria  [A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler]
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium    [War & Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans]
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia    [Our Dead World, Liliana Colanzi]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil    [The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector, trans. by Ben Moser]  [Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado]
Brunei
Bulgaria    [The Physics of Sorrow, Georgi Gospodinov,]
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon    [It shall be of Jasper and Coral ; and, Love-Across-A-Hundred-Lives: Two Novels, Werewere Liking]
Canada - The Long Way Home, Louise Penny
Central African Republic (CAR)
Chad
Chile
China    [Notes of a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie]
Colombia    [Gabriel García Márquez]
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo        [Blue White Red, Alain Mabanckou] [Black Moses, Alain Mabanckou]
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia    [The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Dubravka Ugresic]
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic - Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal
Denmark    [The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen]
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt    [The Queue, Basma Abdel Aziz] [An Oriental Dance, Khalid Al-Bari]
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands     [Windswept Dawn, William Heinesen; trans. by W. Glyn Jones]
Fiji
Finland
France    [The Kites, Romain Gary]
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany - Mr. Summer's Story, Patrick Süskind
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary    [The Last Wolf & Herman, László Krasznahorkai]
Iceland    [Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, Guðbergur Bergsson; trans. by Lytton Smith]
India
Indonesia
Iran        [The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat, trans. by Naveed Noori]
Iraq
Ireland
Israel    [All the Rivers, Dorit Rabinyan]
Italy      [Baudolino, Umberto Eco]  [Ties, Domenico Starnone]
Jamaica
Japan    [Tale of Genji, Ladi Murasaki]  [Memoirs of a Polar Bear, Yoko Tawada]
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia        [A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska]
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico    [Carlos Fuentes]
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco    [A Life Full of Holes, Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, recorded and translated by Paul Bowles]
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Norway  -  Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru    [Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa]
Philippines
Poland    [Stone Upon Stone, Wieslaw Mysliwski] [Enemies, A Love Story Isaac Bashevis Singer] [Flights, Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by Jennifer Croft]
Portugal  [The Cave, José Saramago]
Qatar
Romania     [The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, Matei Calinescu]
Russia    [Novels, Tales, Journeys,  Alexander Pushkin, trans. by Pevear & Volokonsky]
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal    [Doomi Golo, Boubacar Boris Diop]
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea    [Please Look after Mom, Kyung-sook Shin]
South Sudan
Spain -  Celestina, Fernando de Rojas
Sri Lanka
Sudan    [Hunter of the Chrysalises, Amir Tag Elsir] [French Perfume, Amir Tag Elsir]
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Fredrik Backman
Switzerland     [To the Back of Beyond, Peter Stamm]
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey    [The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk]  [Snow, Orhan Pamuk]
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Kingdom - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place, Alan Bradley
United States of America - Stone Quarry, S. J. Rozan
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe - Adore: a Novella, Doris Lessing


Let the adventure begin!



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