I'm embarking on a (very slow and leisurely and unrushed) project to read a book from every country in the world! This is a thread for documenting it & reviewing the books I read.
This is not a formalised challenge or anything; if you guys want to do something similar, please do go ahead (but I'd prefer if you made your own thread for it rather than posting in this one)!This is the list I'm going off, posted in full under a spoiler below. I am defining 'from X country' as 'the author lived there for a significant period of time and preferably grew up there'.
To start with, I've filled out as many countries as I can with books I already own. I also asked friends for recommendations.
Speaking of: if you have any recs for a country that doesn't already have a book listed, please do shout! My favourite genres are horror, SFF, and literary fiction, but I'm willing to give most things a go. I'd prefer contemporary stuff over classical for the purposes of this challenge specifically. Also, since (sadly) I don't speak that many languages I will be reading English translations - if you're able to recommend a specific translation as well, that would be grand.
THE LIST
Spoiler
- Afghanistan -
- Albania -
- Algeria -
- Andorra -
- Angola -
- Antigua and Barbuda -
- Argentina - Thirst, by Marina Yuszczuk
- Armenia -
- Australia -
- Austria -
- Azerbaijan -
- The Bahamas -
- Bahrain -
- Bangladesh -
- Barbados -
- Belarus -
- Belgium - Fear and Trembling, by Amélie Nothomb
- Belize -
- Benin -
- Bhutan -
- Bolivia -
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -
- Botswana -
- Brazil - On Earth As It Is Beneath, by Ana Paula Maria
- Brunei -
- Bulgaria -
- Burkina Faso -
- Burundi -
- Cambodia -
- Cameroon -
- Canada -
- Cape Verde -
- Central African Republic -
- Chad -
- Chile - House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende
- China -
- Colombia -
- Comoros -
- Costa Rica -
- Croatia -
- Cuba - What the Forest Devours, by Elaine Vilar Madruga
- Cyprus -
- Czech Republic -
- Democratic Republic of the Congo -
- Denmark - The Employees, by Olga Ravn
- Djibouti -
- Dominica -
- Dominican Republic -
- East Timor -
- Ecuador -
- Egypt -
- El Salvador -
- Equatorial Guinea -
- Eritrea -
- Estonia -
- Eswatini -
- Ethiopia -
- Federated States of Micronesia -
- Fiji -
- Finland -
- France -
- Gabon -
- The Gambia -
- Georgia -
- Germany -
- Ghana -
- Greece -
- Grenada -
- Guatemala -
- Guinea -
- Guinea-Bissau -
- Guyana -
- Haiti -
- Honduras -
- Hungary -
- Iceland -
- India - Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
- Indonesia - Apple and Knife, by Intan Paramaditha
- Iran -
- Iraq -
- Ireland - A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing, by Eimear McBride
- Israel -
- Italy - Abécédaire of Fringes, Lorenzo Rebediani, Vera Scaccabarozzi, Luca Trevisani, and Francesca Verga
- Ivory Coast -
- Jamaica -
- Japan - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki (currently reading)
- Jordan -
- Kazakhstan -
- Kenya -
- Kiribati -
- Kuwait -
- Kyrgyzstan -
- Laos -
- Latvia -
- Lebanon -
- Lesotho -
- Liberia -
- Libya -
- Liechtenstein -
- Lithuania -
- Luxembourg -
- Madagascar -
- Malawi -
- Malaysia - How the Man in Green Saved Pahang and Possibly the World, by Joshua Kam
- Maldives -
- Mali -
- Malta -
- Marshall Islands -
- Mauritania -
- Mauritius -
- Mexico - Monstrilio, by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- Moldova -
- Monaco -
- Mongolia -
- Montenegro -
- Morocco -
- Mozambique -
- Myanmar -
- Namibia -
- Nauru -
- Nepal -
- Netherlands -
- New Zealand -
- Nicaragua -
- Niger -
- Nigeria -
- North Korea -
- North Macedonia -
- Norway -
- Oman -
- Pakistan -
- Palau -
- Palestine -
- Panama -
- Papua New Guinea -
- Paraguay -
- Peru -
- Philippines -
- Poland -
- Qatar -
- Republic of the Congo -
- Romania -
- Russia -
- Rwanda -
- Saint Kitts and Nevis -
- Saint Lucia -
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -
- Samoa -
- San Marino -
- São Tomé and Príncipe -
- Saudi Arabia -
- Senegal -
- Serbia -
- Seychelles -
- Sierra Leone -
- Singapore -
- Slovakia -
- Slovenia -
- Solomon Islands -
- Somalia -
- South Africa -
- South Korea -
- South Sudan -
- Spain - Last Day of a Prior Life, Andrés Barba
- Sri Lanka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Sudan -
- Suriname -
- Sweden -
- Switzerland -
- Syria -
- Tajikistan -
- Tanzania -
- Thailand -
- Togo -
- Tonga -
- Trinidad and Tobago -
- Tunisia -
- Turkey -
- Turkmenistan -
- Tuvalu -
- Uganda -
- Ukraine -
- United Arab Emirates -
- United Kingdom - Brainwyrms, by Alison Rumfitt
- United States - Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
- Uruguay -
- Uzbekistan -
- Vanuatu -
- Vatican City -
- Venezuela -
- Vietnam -
- Yemen -
- Zambia -
- Zimbabwe -
