Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Broadening my Horizons With Books

Here's the list of countries of the world and the books I remember to have read from these countries. (Of course I don't remember all I've ever read.)
Looks quite pathetic... so many gaps - nothing from Africa...!!!!

AFRICA (53)

Algeria

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Congo

Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Djibouti

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa
J.M. Coetzee "Boyhood"

Sudan

Swaziland

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

ASIA (44)

Afghanistan
Nadeem Aslam "The Wasted Vigil" (Pakistani author, set in Afghanistan)
Khaled Hosseini "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
Robert Fisk "The Great War of Civilisations: The Conquest of the Middle East"

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Brunei

Burma (Myanmar)

Cambodia

China
Gao Xingjian "Soul Mountain"

East Timor

India
Salman Rushdie "The Moor's last Sigh"

Indonesia

Iran
Marjane Satrapi "Persepolis", "Persepolis II"

Iraq

Israel
Sandy Tolan "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East"
Amos Oz "A Tale of Love and Darkness. A Memoir", "The Hill of Evil Counsel", "In the Land of Israel"
Aharon Appelfeld "The Story of a Life", "All Whom I Have Loved"

Japan
Shohei Ooka "Fires on the Plain"

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Korea (north)

Korea (south)

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan
Chingis Aitmatov "The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years", " The Scaffold"

Laos

Lebanon
Elias Khoury "Gate of the Sun"

Malaysia

Maldives

Mongolia

Nepal

Oman

Pakistan
Saadat Hasan Mantos "Toba Tek Singh" (short story)

Philippines

Qatar

Russian Federation
Lev Tolstoy "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot"
Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita", "The White Guard", "The Heart of a Dog", "The Theatrical Novel", "The Diary of Master and Margarita" (diaries of Bulgakov and his wife)
Aleksandr Pushkin "Eugene Onegin"
Yuri Trifonov "House on the Embankment", "Another Life", "Old Man", "Time and Place", "Disappearance"
Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matyora"
Yuri Bondarev "The Shore", "Quiet", "The Choice"
Anatoly Pristavkin "The Inseparable Twins"
Anton Chekhov "Three Sisters", "Uncle Vanya", "Cherry Orchard"
Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago"
Fyodor Abramov "Brothers and Sisters"

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Syria

Tajikistan

Thailand

Turkey

Turkmenistan

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Yemen

EUROPE (47)

Albania

Andorra

Armenia

Austria
Stefan Zwig "Day of Yesterday"

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic
Franz Kafka "The Trial"
Zdenek Pluhar "At Six A'Clock in the Evening in Astoria"

Denmark

Estonia
a lot

Finland
Aleksis Kivi "Seven Brothers"
Antti Tuuri "Novembri lõpp", "Kuidas ma kirjutasin romaani"
Arto Paasilinna "The Year of the Hare"

France
Albert Camus "Stranger", "Plague"
Marguerite Yourcenar "L'Oeuvre au Noir"
Emil Zola "Le Père Goriot"
Romain Rolland "Jean-Christophe"
Alain Robbe-Grillet "Djinn"
Pierre Michon "Small Lives"

Georgia
Tshabua Amiredzhibi "Datha Thuthashia"

Germany
Thomas Mann "Doctor Faustus", short stories ("Tonio Kröger" - favourite)
Hermann Hesse "The Glass Bead Game", "Siddhartha", "Steppenwolfe"
Lion Feuchtwanger "The Spanish Ballad", "Josephus" (trilogy)
Erich Maria Remarque "Arch of Triumph"
G.W. Sebald "The Emigrants"
Anonymous "A Woman in Berlin"

Greece
Dido Sotiriu "Tierras de Sangre"

Hungary

Iceland
Guðbergur Bergsson "The Swan"

Ireland
James Joyce "The Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man", "Dubliners" (short stories)
Colm Toibin "Brooklyn"

Italy
Umberto Eco "Baudolino", "The Name of the Rose"
Dino Buzzati "The Tartar Steppe"
Italo Calvino "If On a Winter's Nights a Traveler"

Latvia
Vilis Lacis "The Fisherman's Son"

Liechtenstein

Lithuania
Mykolas Sluckis "Päeva veerengul"

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Malta

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

Netherlands

Norway
Sigrid Undset "Kristin Lavransdatter 1-3"
Trygve Gulbranssen "The Wind From the Mountains", "Beyond Sing the Woods"
Per Petterson "In the Wake", "Out Stealing Horses"
Knut Hamsun "On Overgrown Paths"

Poland
Czeslaw Milosz "Native Realm. Search for Self-Definition"

Portugal

Romania

San Marino

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden
Vilhelm Moberg "The Emigrants", "The Settlers"
Ingmar Bergman "Laterna Magica"
Astrid Lindgren "Bullerby lapsed", "Väike Tjorven, Pootsman ja Mooses"
Pär Lagerkvist "The Death of Ahasuerus", "Barabbas"

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom
William Shakespeare "Hamlet"
Henry Fielding "Tom Jones"
John Galworthy "The Forsyte Saga"
John Fowles "Daniel Martin"
Grham Swift "Waterland"
Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited"
Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre"
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"
William Golding "Lord of the Flies"
Peter Ho Davies "The Welsh Girl"
William Boyd "Any Human Heart"
Zadie Smith "On Beauty"
Margaret Drabble "The Needle's Eye"

Vatican City

N. AMERICA (23)

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Canada
Joseph Boyden "Through Black Spruce"

Costa Rica

Cuba
Alejo Carpentier "The Lost Steps"

Dominica

Dominican Rep

El Salvador

Grenada

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Mexico
Juan Rulfo "Pedro Paramo"
Carlos Fuentes "Death of Artemio Cruz"

Nicaragua

Panama

St. Kitts & Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Trinidad & Tobago

United States
Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms", "Old Man and the Sea", "The Sun Also Rises"
Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird"
J.D. Salinger "Catcher in the Rye"
William Faulkner "The Sound and the Fury"
Jack Kerouac "On the Road"
Margaret Mitchell "Gone With the Wind"
Mark Twain "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
John Steinbeck "Travels With Charley in Search of America"
Bill Bryson "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid"
Art Spiegelmann "Maus I-II"
W.S. Merwin "The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwestern France"
Isaac.B. Singer "The Little Shoemakers" (Yiddish short story)
William Maxwell "The Gardens of Mont-Saint Michel", "Pilgrimage" (short stories)


OCEANIA (14)

Australia

Fiji

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Nauru

New Zealand

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu


S. AMERICA (12)

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil
Paulo Coelho "Alchemist", "Veronica Decides to Die"

Chile
Pablo Neruda "Memoirs"

Colombia
Garcia Marques "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Love in the Time of Cholera", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"

Ecuador

Guyana

Paraguay

Peru

Carlos Castaneda "Journey to Ixtland"

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Romulo Gallegos "Dona Barbara"

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