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Choose 10 countries and read a book by an author from each
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United States - Sedition, by: Tom Abrahams
Erin Braddock
7 days ago
Juliet Marillier, Son of Shadows (New Zealand)
Rhiannon King
24 days ago
Jane Austen - UK
Rhiannon King
25 days ago
1. Luxemburg 2. Ierland 3. Madagaskar 4. Jordanië 5. Bolivia 6. India 7. Ghana 8. Duitsland 9. Roemenië 10. Letland
Ashjad Ackbari
one month ago
1. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (RUSSIA)
2. THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK (CZECH)
3. WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLE (JAPAN)
4. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (FRENCH)
5. THE ROBBER BRIDE (CANADA)
6. THE SATANIC VERSES (INDIA)
7. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (COMBIA)
8. ARROW OF GOD (AFRICA)
9. MOLL FLANDERS (ENGLAND)
10. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY (AMERICA)
Janessa
one month ago
Canada - Margareta Atvuda ''Iznirstot'' (Margaret Atwood ''Surfacing''.)
USA - Dž.D.Selindžers ''Uz kraujas rudzu laukā''
Russia - Dostojevskis ''Pusaudzis''
Edite
one month ago
8. PORTUGAL. ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES. MON NOM EST LEGION/O MEU NOME E LEGIAO.
Fleur CREPIN
one month ago
1/10 Estonia – Apteeker Melchior ja Oleviste mõistatus (Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf´s Church) by Indrek Hargla – DONE
2/10 The Netherlands – Het tulpenvirus , by Daniëlle Hermans – DONE
3/10 USA – Sunset Park by Paul Auster – DONE
4/10 Belgium – Vissen redden by Annelies Verbeke – DONE
5/10 Switzerland – Die Kunst des klaren Denkens. 52 Denkfehler, die Sie besser anderen überlassen ("The Art of Thinking Clearly") by Rolf Dobelli – DONE
6/10 France – L'armée furieuse by Fred Vargas – DONE
7/10 Germany – Die Dienstagsfrauen by Monika Peetz – DONE

*Australia
*Portugal
*Wales
Anne
2 months ago
Angleterre:
Irlande:
Japon:"Un ciel radieux" de Jirô Taniguchi
USA: "Fils de la liberté" de Diana Gabaldon
Espagne: "Palais de minuit" de Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Italie:
Suède: "Printemps" de Mons Kallentoft
Inde:
Russie:
Allemagne: "Balzac" de Stefan Zweig
Ireth
2 months ago
7. JAPAN. HARUKI MURAKAMI. LA BALLADE DE L'IMPOSSIBLE/NORWAY NO MORI.
Fleur CREPIN
2 months ago
(X)Brazil
(X)USA
(X)England
(X)Sweden
(X)Cuba
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1) Japan:
2) Mexico:
3) Canda: Katzentisch – Michael Ondaatje
4) France:
5) Poland:
6) China:
7) Australia:
8) South Africa:
9) Chile:
10) Turkey
Sanne
3 months ago
Inglaterra - Douglas Adams ✓
Brasil - Jô Soares
Portugal - José Saramago
Colômbia - Gabriel García Márquez
Rússia - Vladimir Nabokov
França - Alexandre Dumas
Estados Unidos - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Suécia - Stieg Larsson
Itália - Federico Moccia
Espanha - Miguel de Cervantes
Ariane Viana
4 months ago
1) Spain: The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
2) Colombia: Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3) Italy: Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
4) France: Candide - Voltaire
5) South Africa: Tsotsi - Athol Fugard
6) Philippines: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) - Jose Rizal
7) Japan: Silence - Shusaku Endo
8) India: Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya
9) Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsey
10) Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Karen M Dewey
5 months ago
Congo: Congolese Wiskunde, In Koli Jean Bofané
Iran: Lolita lezen in Teheran, Azar Nafisi
Soedan: Minaret, Leila Aboulela
Algerije: A Wife for My Son, Ali Ghalem
Chili: Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
China: A Many Splendored Thing, Han Suyin
Japan: Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murikami
Jordanië: memoires koningin Noor
Polen: The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuściński
Turkije: Sneeuw, Orhan Pamuk
Mirthe
6 months ago
1. Colombia - "100 Years of Solitude" (Gabriel García Márquez)
2. Sweden - "Dr. Glas" (Hjalmar Söderberg)
3. Estonia - "The Czar's Madman" (Jaan Kross)
4. Russia - "The Gulag Archipelago" (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
5. China - "Diary of a Madman" (Lu Xun)
6. Italy - "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (Luigi Pirandello)
7. Czech Republic - "The Joke" (Milan Kundera)
8. France - "Nadja" (Andre Breton)
9. Germany - "The Magic Mountain" (Thomas Mann)
10. Japan - "The Tale of Genji" (Murasaki)
Justine G.
7 months ago
Countries:

Brasil - De Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Spain - Paula (Isabel Allende)
Norway - Honderd Jaar (Herbjørg Wassmo)
Israel - Als er een paradijs bestaat (Ron Leshem)
Japan
New Zealand
Canada
Mali
Kazachstan
Venezuela
Rozemarijn Stegeman
7 months ago
Jules Verne, France
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia
Umberto Eco, Italy
R. K. Narayan, India
Margaret Atwood, Canada
Luis Bernardo Honwana, Mozambique
Ludwika Amber, Poland
Amos Oz, Israel
Craig Silvey, Australia
Pepetela, Angola
Beatriz
8 months ago
France:
Russia:
Italy:
India:
Canada:
Mozambique:
Poland:
Israel:
Australia:
Eritrea:
Beatriz
8 months ago
1: USA - done
Dolly
8 months ago
1.Brasil -
2. EUA -
3. Portugal -
4. Nigeria - Meio Sol Marelo
5- Irlanda
8/10

1.Norway
2.Germany
3.Latvia
4.Russia
5.UK
6.Canada
7.USA
8.France
Sabine
9 months ago
Latvia (Gundega Repše)
Japan (Haruki Murakami)
Sweden
Lithuania
Canada
France
Russia (Vladimir Nabokov/ Mikhail Bulgakov)
Finland
Denmark
Norway (Knut Hamsun)
rrrr
9 months ago
5. NORWAY. JO NESBO. LE LEOPARD/PANSERHJERTE
6. FRANCE. HENRI GOUGAUD. L'ENFANT DE LA NEIGE
Fleur CREPIN
10 months ago
1. Japan (Haruki Murakami)
2. France
3. Spain
4. Germany
5. Britain
6. China
7. Afghanistan
8. Sweden
9. Russia
10. South Africa
Michaella
11 months ago
Countries of Interest:

Argentina
Kenya
Greece (Greek Isles)
Japan
Sweden
Israel
Madagascar
Lebanon
France
Spain
Turks & Caicos
New Zealand
CHughes
11 months ago
3.SPAIN. MANUEL VASQUEZ MONTALBAN ROLDAN NI MORT NI VIF/ROLDAN NI VIVO NI MUERTO
4. UK. IAN RANKIN PORTES OUVERTES/DOORS OPEN
Fleur CREPIN
11 months ago
7/10

1.Norway
2.Germany
3.Latvia
4.Russia
5.UK
6.Canada
7.USA
Sabine
one year ago
1 USA SHERMAN ALEXIE DANSES DE GUERRE/WAR DANCES
2 INDIA CHITRA BANERJEE DIVARAKUNI LE PALAIS DES ILLUSIIONS/THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS
Fleur CREPIN
one year ago
*Australia
*Belgium
*Estonia - Apteeker Melchior ja Oleviste mõistatus (Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf´s Church) by Indrek Hargla - DONE
*France (the dreamer of Ostend by E.E. Schmitt or Variations énigmatiques, L’Hôtel des deux mondes, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, L’Évangile selon Pilate, Oscar et la dame rose, L’Enfant de Noé)
*Germany
*The Netherlands - Het tulpenvirus , by Daniëlle Hermans - DONE
*Portugal - Jose Saramago
*Switzerland - Dürrematt
*USA - Sunset Park by Paul Auster - DONE
*Wales - Mari Strachan : The world hums in b-flat.
Anne
one year ago
I decided to start with the countries to make it more challenging, so here they are:
India - done
Argentina
Switzerland
China
Canada
Lithuania
Peru
Turkey
Hungary
Poland
zane
one year ago
6/10

1.Norway
2.Germany
3.Latvia
4.Russia
5.UK
6.Canada
Sabine
one year ago
So the countries I've chosen via online randomizer are:
1. Japan
2. Cambodia
3. Iraq
4. Samoa
5. Luxembourg
6. Ghana
7. Morocco
8. Canada
9. Poland
10. Rwanda

This is gonna be tough))
Halyna R
one year ago
Italy - Invisible Cities
Victor Valles
one year ago
(0/10)
Halyna R
one year ago
March 2nd 2012; Started reading Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
LydiaAbigail
one year ago
*Estonia - Apteeker Melchior ja Oleviste mõistatus (Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf´s Church) by Indrek Hargla - DONE
*USA - Sunset Park by Paul Auster - DONE
Anne
one year ago
EUA - Jodi Picoult
Marta Vieira
one year ago
Italy
Poland
Germany
Russia
Ukraine
China
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Israel
Spain
Jennie Kolakoski
one year ago
1. Russie: LE JOUEUR, Dostoievski
christelle briand
one year ago
India - done! Book was no good, I don't even remember the author's name, but I did it anyway
zane
one year ago
1. France
2. Turkey
3. Greece
4. Finland
5. Cuba
6. Italy
7. Russia
8. Hungary
9. Denmark
10. Portugal
Sabina
one year ago
Vietnamese- Quang X. Pham
Japanese- Miyamoto Musashi
Indian- Arundhati Roy
Russian- Ayn Rand
German- Siegfried Lenz
French- Michel Houellebecq
Portuguese- Lídia Jorge
Egyptian- Penelope Lively
Australia- Peter Carey 
Nigeria- Ben Okri
Cerena
one year ago
1. Russia
2. Sweden
3. Australia
4. India
5. Brazil
6. Nigeria
7. Pakistan
8. Germany
9. Norway
10. Italy
Stephanie Eisan
one year ago
1. Russie
2. Japon (Les Belles Endormies, de Yasunari Kawabata, PL 898 K22 N436 1970 F ou Récits de la paume de la main PL 898 K22 T312 1999 F )
3. Autriche (Robert Neumann, Les Enfants de Vienne, PR 6027 N492 K51 2009 F Ou Stefan Zweig, Lettre d'une inconnue, PT 2653 Z97 B853 2009 F PT 2653 Z97 B853 2009 F )
4. Hongrie (Sandar Marai, "L'Héritage d'Esther", Peter Nadas, Minotaure (recueil de nouvelles): PH 3291 N129 A6 K19 2005 F )
5. Italie (Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabbuchi)
6. Irlande
7. Danemark
8. République Tchèque
9. Allemagne
10. Arménie
christelle briand
one year ago
Ireland - The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern
Hannah Parsons
one year ago
(0/10)
Anne
one year ago
10/19/2011: Feel pulled to read something from a Croatian author, but titles in English seem so depressing, centered around war and stress. Want to find something more lighthearted.
Anna Haight
one year ago
10/16/2011: FRANCE
Bought "The French Gardner" by Santa Montefiore on Kindle
Anna Haight
one year ago
The Arabian Nights (Saudi Arabia?)
The Quiet American (England)X
The White Tiger (India)X
Persepolis (Iran)X
The Importance of Being Earnest (Irish)
The Beautiful and the Damned (America)
Lolita (Russia) X
Sophocles' Tragedies (Greece)
Candide (France) X
Don Quijote (Spain)
Phar West
one year ago