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May 2020
10:23am, 22 May 2020
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Lorraine
This is great idea.
Will scan my book shelves etc and see what I come up with but knowing me it will be in several weeks time and this thread will have moved on.
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May 2020
10:25am, 22 May 2020
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Night-owl
No worries Lorraine. Nice to see you here
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May 2020
12:12pm, 22 May 2020
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becca7
Here's a better list from me. Ones I've read and by no means a list of the best books from each country. I can't remember all of the Scandinoir ones - I think there was one from Iceland. Quite a few of the ones below are by people who moved to the UK or US but are originally from the countries named.
Argentina - The Oxford Murders, Guillermo Martinez
Australia - The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
Canada - All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai
Cameroon - Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
China - A Chinese Life, Li Kunwu
Dominican Republic - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
El Salvador - Three Daughters, Consuelo Saah Baehr
France - HHhH, Laurent Binet
Germany - Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
Ghana - Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
India - The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Ireland - The Gathering, Ann Enright
Italy - My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Jamaica - A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
Japan - Six Four, Hideo Yokoyama
Malaysia - The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
Netherlands - The Dinner, Herman Koch
Nigeria - Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Norway - The Bat, Jo Nesbo
Russia - Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
South Africa - Ten Days, Gillian Slovo
Spain - The House, Paco Roca
Sweden - The Man from Beijing, Henning Mankell
Switzerland - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Joel Dicker
Ukraine - Suite française, Irène Némirovsky
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May 2020
1:32pm, 22 May 2020
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Lorraine
Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest Stieg Larson
Are the first to jump out at me.
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May 2020
1:32pm, 22 May 2020
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Lorraine
And 5hanks Night- Owl
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May 2020
1:32pm, 22 May 2020
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Lorraine
Thanks even
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May 2020
1:33pm, 22 May 2020
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McGoohan
Great idea Owlsworth!
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May 2020
1:42pm, 22 May 2020
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Night-owl
Thanks Becca for your list.
My brilliant friend is on my tbr list
As is Half a yellow sun and The Bat.
I tend to like Scandinoir have read more from Sweden than others
Lorraine I want to read Steig Larsson think I have one of them
McG waves
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May 2020
1:43pm, 22 May 2020
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McGoohan
Is there some sort of scanning jobbie for smartphones I wonder that can locate stuff on your shelves and ... er... catalogue em I wonder?
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May 2020
1:51pm, 22 May 2020
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becca7
That would have been good, especially if it had a function to tell you where authors were from.
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