The country challenge
Submitted by kasenka on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 04:36
- I try to read a book from every country of the world. The book has to be set in that country or it is the author's home country.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua & Deps
- Argentina / Guillermo Martínez: Oxfordin murhat (Crímenes imperceptibles)
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium / Georges Simenon: Maigret ja hänen lapsuuden ystävänsä (L’ami d’enfance de Maigret)
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia Herzegovina / Zlata Filipovic: Zlatan päiväkirja
- Botswana / Alexander McCall Smith: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Brazil / Eugênio Giovenardi: Kielletty mies (Os Filhos do Cardeal)
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada / Robert Franklin Leslie: Ystäväni Nahani (In the shadow of a rainbow)
- Cape Verde
- Central African Rep
- Chad
- Chile / Isabel Allende: Henkien talo (La casa de los espíritus)
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo {Democratic Rep}
- Costa Rica
- Croatia / Slavenka Drakulić: Aivan kuin minua ei olisi (Kao da me nema)
- Cuba / Himilce Novas: Mangot, banaanit ja kookospähkinät (Mangos, bananas and coconuts)
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic / Milan Kundera: Naurun ja unohduksen kirja (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění)
- Denmark / Peter Høeg: Lumen taju, (Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia / Kaur Kender: Itsenäisyyspäivä (Iseseisvuspäev)
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland / Väinö Linna: Tuntematon sotilas
- France / Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt: Oscar ja Mamma Roosa (Oscar et la dame rose)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany / Hermann Hesse: Gertrud
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary / István Örkény: Minuuttinovelleja
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia / Putu Oka Sukanta: The sweat of pearls
- Iran / Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
- Iraq
- Ireland / Eoin Colfer: Supernaturalisti (The Supernaturalist)
- Israel / Leon Uris: Exodus
- Italy / Primo Levi: Tällainenko on ihminen (Se questo è un uomo)
- Itä-Timor / Timor
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Japan / Banana Yoshimoto: N. P.
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea North
- Korea South
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico / Laura Esquivel: Pöytään ja vuoteeseen (Como aqua para chocolate)
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar, {Burma}
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria / Ken Saro-Wiwa: Vankilapäiväkirja
- Norway / Jostein Gaarder: Sofian maailma (Sofies verden)
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea / Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland / Zbigniew Herbert: Kyynelten teknologiasta
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia / Viktor Pelevin: Omon Ra
- Rwanda
- St Kitts & Nevis
- St Lucia
- Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
- Samoa / Erich Scheurmann: Papalagit: Samoalaispäällikkö Tuiavii valkoisen miehen maailmassa. (Der Papalagi)
- San Marino
- Sao Tome & Principe
- Saudi Arabia / Jean Sasson: Prinsessa (Princess)
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia / Maja Novak: Murha aluevesillä
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa / André Brink: Tuokio tuulessa
- Spain / Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Tuulen varjo (La sombra del viento)
- Sri Lanka / Michael Ondaatje: Anilin varjo (Anil's Ghost)
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden / Astrid Lindgren: Peppi Pitkätossu (Pippi Långstrump)
- Switzerland / Johanna Spyri: Pikku Heidi
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey / Orhan Pamuk: Nimeni on Punainen (Benim Adım Kırmızı)
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom / Ben Elton: Eedenistä vikaan (This Other Eden)
- United States / David Baldacci: The Christmas Train
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe / Yvonne Vera: Palava perhonen (Butterfly Burning)








I like, I also made that kind of list. (One Country/One Reading)