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Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:27 pm

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BluesClues says...

@alliyah FREDRICK BACKMAN OH MAN I started with My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry and then impulse-bought Britt-Marie Was Here and A Man Called Ove at Barnes & Noble the other day because that first book was so good.

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Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:28 pm

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Mageheart says...

This looks like a fun little activity! I'd like to make my own contribution to it, though I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the country I had in mind wasn't taken already! My recommendation is Radio Silence by Alice Oseman for the United Kingdom. It's a really good book that focuses on the pressures of school, and I found myself relating to it despite the American education experience being a little different from the English one. The book is set in the UK, and the author is from there. So two for one, I guess!

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Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:17 pm

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Brigadier says...

Would like to add M*A*S*H for South Korea.
You might like this one.
Also popped the code down below for the next person with everything highlighted.

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Code: Select all: [spoiler][b]Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini[/b] Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia [b]Australia Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield[/b] Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Myanmar/Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon [b]Canada: The Summer We Saved The Bees by Robin Stevenson [/b] Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti [b]Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz[/b] Dominica Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland [b]France Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I mean I've obviously only read the translation, which you can also do if you don't speak French like I don't)[/b] French Guiana Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India: [b]Indonesia: Laskar Pelangi (the Rainbow Troops), by Andrea Hirata[/b] Iran Iraq [b]Ireland: Asking for It by Louise O'Neill[/b] Israel and the Occupied Territories Italy Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Republic of Macedonia Madagascar Malawi [b]Malaysia: Salina by A. Samad Said[/b] Maldives [b]Mali: To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story[/b] Malta Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Moldova, Republic of Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger [b]Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe[/b] Korea, Democratic Republic of (North Korea) Norway Oman Pacific Islands Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent's & Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone [b]Singapore : Gift of Rain (by Tan Twan Eng)[/b] Slovak Republic (Slovakia) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa [b]Korea, Republic of (South Korea): M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker[/b] South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka : Sudan Suriname Swaziland [b]Sweden - Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman[/b] Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom: Radio Silence by Alice Oseman [b]United States of America (USA): When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka[/b] Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (UK) Virgin Islands (US) Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe[/spoiler]

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Sun Apr 01, 2018 1:17 am

Audy says...

I was thinking of adding Junot Diaz also @Lauren2010 xD I was super surprised he was already listed!

Well, instead I've added - China. There is A LOT of great literature here, but I'm going to put down The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin which we're going to see a TV adaptation on Amazon Prime TV at some point :> Can't wait!

And also the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which is also great.

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Code: Select all: [spoiler][b]Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini[/b] Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia [b]Australia Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield[/b] Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Myanmar/Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon [b]Canada: The Summer We Saved The Bees by Robin Stevenson [/b] Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile [b]China: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [/b] [b]Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez[/b] Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti [b]Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz[/b] Dominica Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland [b]France Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I mean I've obviously only read the translation, which you can also do if you don't speak French like I don't)[/b] French Guiana Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India: [b]Indonesia: Laskar Pelangi (the Rainbow Troops), by Andrea Hirata[/b] Iran Iraq [b]Ireland: Asking for It by Louise O'Neill[/b] Israel and the Occupied Territories Italy Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Republic of Macedonia Madagascar Malawi [b]Malaysia: Salina by A. Samad Said[/b] Maldives [b]Mali: To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story[/b] Malta Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Moldova, Republic of Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger [b]Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe[/b] Korea, Democratic Republic of (North Korea) Norway Oman Pacific Islands Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent's & Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone [b]Singapore : Gift of Rain (by Tan Twan Eng)[/b] Slovak Republic (Slovakia) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa [b]Korea, Republic of (South Korea): M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker[/b] South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka : Sudan Suriname Swaziland [b]Sweden - Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman[/b] Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom: Radio Silence by Alice Oseman [b]United States of America (USA): When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka[/b] Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (UK) Virgin Islands (US) Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe[/spoiler]

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Sun Apr 01, 2018 1:35 am

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TriSARAHtops says...

Technically this one could fall under Belarus or Russia, since the author is Belarusian but the book focuses on women who fought for the then-Soviet Union in World War Two and are mostly from Russia. I've put it under Belarus because it's probably going to be more difficult to find books from there than from Russia.

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Code: Select all: [spoiler][b]Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini[/b] Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia [b]Australia Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield[/b] Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados [b]Belarus: [i]The Unwomanly Face of War[/i] by Svetlana Alexievich[/b] Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Myanmar/Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon [b]Canada: The Summer We Saved The Bees by Robin Stevenson [/b] Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile [b]China: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [/b] [b]Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez[/b] Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti [b]Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz[/b] Dominica Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland [b]France Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I mean I've obviously only read the translation, which you can also do if you don't speak French like I don't)[/b] French Guiana Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India: [b]Indonesia: Laskar Pelangi (the Rainbow Troops), by Andrea Hirata[/b] Iran Iraq [b]Ireland: Asking for It by Louise O'Neill[/b] Israel and the Occupied Territories Italy Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Republic of Macedonia Madagascar Malawi [b]Malaysia: Salina by A. Samad Said[/b] Maldives [b]Mali: To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story[/b] Malta Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Moldova, Republic of Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger [b]Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe[/b] Korea, Democratic Republic of (North Korea) Norway Oman Pacific Islands Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent's & Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone [b]Singapore : Gift of Rain (by Tan Twan Eng)[/b] Slovak Republic (Slovakia) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa [b]Korea, Republic of (South Korea): M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker[/b] South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka : Sudan Suriname Swaziland [b]Sweden - Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman[/b] Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom: Radio Silence by Alice Oseman [b]United States of America (USA): When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka[/b] Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (UK) Virgin Islands (US) Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe[/spoiler]

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Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:08 pm

StellaThomas says...

I mean so naturally I had to add Russia. It's a long one but a good one!

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Code: Select all: [spoiler][b]Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini[/b] Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia [b]Australia Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield[/b] Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados [b]Belarus: [i]The Unwomanly Face of War[/i] by Svetlana Alexievich[/b] Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Myanmar/Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon [b]Canada: The Summer We Saved The Bees by Robin Stevenson [/b] Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile [b]China: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [/b] [b]Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez[/b] Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti [b]Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz[/b] Dominica Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland [b]France Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I mean I've obviously only read the translation, which you can also do if you don't speak French like I don't)[/b] French Guiana Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India: [b]Indonesia: Laskar Pelangi (the Rainbow Troops), by Andrea Hirata[/b] Iran Iraq [b]Ireland: Asking for It by Louise O'Neill[/b] Israel and the Occupied Territories Italy Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Republic of Macedonia Madagascar Malawi [b]Malaysia: Salina by A. Samad Said[/b] Maldives [b]Mali: To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story[/b] Malta Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Moldova, Republic of Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger [b]Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe[/b] Korea, Democratic Republic of (North Korea) Norway Oman Pacific Islands Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania [B]Russian Federation - [i]Anna Karenina[/i] by Leo Tolstoy[/b] Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent's & Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone [b]Singapore : Gift of Rain (by Tan Twan Eng)[/b] Slovak Republic (Slovakia) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa [b]Korea, Republic of (South Korea): M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker[/b] South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka : Sudan Suriname Swaziland [b]Sweden - Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman[/b] Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom: Radio Silence by Alice Oseman [b]United States of America (USA): When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka[/b] Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (UK) Virgin Islands (US) Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe[/spoiler]

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Mon Apr 02, 2018 4:39 pm

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Arcticus says...

This story takes place in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey. (Not that it matters, but the writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.)

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Code: Select all: [b]Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini[/b] Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia [b]Australia Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield[/b] Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados [b]Belarus: [i]The Unwomanly Face of War[/i] by Svetlana Alexievich[/b] Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Myanmar/Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon [b]Canada: The Summer We Saved The Bees by Robin Stevenson [/b] Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile [b]China: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin [/b] [b]Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez[/b] Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti [b]Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz[/b] Dominica Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland [b]France Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I mean I've obviously only read the translation, which you can also do if you don't speak French like I don't)[/b] French Guiana Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India: [b]Indonesia: Laskar Pelangi (the Rainbow Troops), by Andrea Hirata[/b] Iran Iraq [b]Ireland: Asking for It by Louise O'Neill[/b] Israel and the Occupied Territories Italy Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Republic of Macedonia Madagascar Malawi [b]Malaysia: Salina by A. Samad Said[/b] Maldives [b]Mali: To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story[/b] Malta Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Moldova, Republic of Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger [b]Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe[/b] Korea, Democratic Republic of (North Korea) Norway Oman Pacific Islands Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania [b]Russian Federation - [i]Anna Karenina[/i] by Leo Tolstoy[/b] Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent's & Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone [b]Singapore : Gift of Rain (by Tan Twan Eng)[/b] Slovak Republic (Slovakia) Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa [b]Korea, Republic of (South Korea): M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker[/b] South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka : Sudan Suriname Swaziland [b]Sweden - Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman[/b] Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Leste Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia [b]Turkey: [i]The Museum of Innocence[/i] by Orhan Pamuk.[/b] Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom: Radio Silence by Alice Oseman [b]United States of America (USA): When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka[/b] Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (UK) Virgin Islands (US) Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

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