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"
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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