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1kleahey
I'd like to take a stab at this as well. A few friends and I are in something of a competition to see who can read a book from an author of every country as recognized by the U.N. first. Here's my current standing:
Algeria - The Stranger by Albert Camus
Argentina - Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Belgium - The Character of Rain by Amélie Nothomb
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Nowhere Man by Aleksander Hemon
Brazil - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Chile - The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
Czech Republic - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Dominica - Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
France - Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire
Germany - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Greece - Oidipous Tyrannos by Sophocles
Guyana - To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Hungary - A Little Hungarian Pornography by Péter Esterházy
India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Ireland - Dubliners by James Joyce
Italy - The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Japan - Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Lithuania - The Endless Steepe by Esther Hautzig
The Netherlands - The Diary of a Young Girl by Annelies Frank
New Zealand - To the Is-land by Janet Frame
Nigeria - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Norway - East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Perú - In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa
Poland - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Russia - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
South Africa - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Sri Lanka - Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Sudan - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Trinidad and Tobago - Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
U.K. - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
U.S. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Vietnam - Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
Algeria - The Stranger by Albert Camus
Argentina - Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Belgium - The Character of Rain by Amélie Nothomb
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Nowhere Man by Aleksander Hemon
Brazil - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Chile - The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
Czech Republic - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Dominica - Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
France - Candide, or, Optimism by Voltaire
Germany - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Greece - Oidipous Tyrannos by Sophocles
Guyana - To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Hungary - A Little Hungarian Pornography by Péter Esterházy
India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Ireland - Dubliners by James Joyce
Italy - The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Japan - Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Lithuania - The Endless Steepe by Esther Hautzig
The Netherlands - The Diary of a Young Girl by Annelies Frank
New Zealand - To the Is-land by Janet Frame
Nigeria - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Norway - East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Perú - In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa
Poland - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Russia - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
South Africa - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Sri Lanka - Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Sudan - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Trinidad and Tobago - Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
U.K. - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
U.S. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Vietnam - Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
2kleahey
Today, I'm adding a text that I had forgotten to include and two texts that I read today.
Iraq - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Antigua and Barbuda - A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Tonga - Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hau'Ofa
Iraq - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Antigua and Barbuda - A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Tonga - Tales of the Tikongs by Epeli Hau'Ofa
5kleahey
Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Antipeople by Sony Labou Tansi
6kleahey
I've finally managed to read something from Canada. That's oddly pathetic.
Canada - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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Canada - Life of Pi by Yann Martel

