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Night-owl May 2020 10:06am, 23 May 2020 33,839 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl rf technically I'm not into fantasy. But last year I tried to get rid of the genre tag. And will have a go at anyone or anything. Shall look at that. Daz I set no rules you read, you set your own rules
DazTheSlug May 2020 10:13pm, 23 May 2020 2,160 posts	Quote Pin DazTheSlug Russia - Eugene Onegin - Pushkin, Alexander Ireland - The Dead - Joyce, James Trinidad and Tobago - A House For Mr Biswas - Naipaul, V.S. Ukraine - Death and the Penguin - Kurkov, Andrey Belgium - Cheese - Elsschot, Willem Australia - The Tree of Man - White, Patrick Poland - Solaris - Lem, Stanislaw Italy - The Leopard - Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Nigeria - Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua Germany - Siddhartha - Hesse, Hermann Colombia - One Hundred Years of Solitude - García Márquez, Gabriel Brazil - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Guimarães Rosa, João Netherlands - All Souls Day - Nooteboom, Cees Hungary - They Were Counted - Bánffy, Miklós France - The Red and the Black - Stendhal Canada - Microserfs - Coupland, Douglas Spain - A Heart So White - Marías, Javier Denmark - Kristin Lavransdatter - Undset, Sigrid Vietnam - The Sorrow of War - Ninh, Bao China - The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu Switzerland - Jakob von Gunten - Walser, Robert Czech Republic - War with the Newts - Capek, Karel Chile - The Savage Detectives - Bolaño, Roberto Japan - Beauty and Sadness - Kawabata, Yasunari Finland - Unknown Soldiers - Linna, Väinö India - The Home and the World - Tagore, Rabindranath Norway - Alberta & Jacob - Sandel, Cora Armenia - The Gray House - Petrosyan, Mariam Iran - Persepolis - Satrapi, Marjane Austria - Extinction - Bernhard, Thomas South Africa - Disgrace - Coetzee, J.M. Lebanon - Samarkand - Maalouf, Amin Peru - The Feast of the Goat - Vargas Llosa, Mario Portugal - Blindness - Saramago, José New Zealand - Once Were Warriors - Duff, Alan Romania - For Two Thousand Years - Sebastian, Mihail Turkey - My Name Is Red - Pamuk, Orhan Argentina - Hopscotch - Cortázar, Julio Saudi Arabia - Cities of Salt - Munif, Abdul Rahman
becca7 May 2020 10:16pm, 23 May 2020 8,055 posts	Quote Pin becca7 Nice list Daz. A couple on there that I’ve read and forgot for my list.
Night-owl May 2020 10:21am, 24 May 2020 33,843 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl Good List Daz Knew I could rely on you
mrs shanksi May 2020 10:24am, 24 May 2020 10,638 posts	Quote Pin mrs shanksi That's a fantastic list Daz. I've only read two, the Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Douglas Coupland. I loved the latter and read all his books back in the day.
mrs shanksi May 2020 2:28pm, 27 May 2020 10,664 posts	Quote Pin mrs shanksi Interesting list here: readinggroups.org
mrs shanksi May 2020 2:28pm, 27 May 2020 10,665 posts	Quote Pin mrs shanksi It is the 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist announcement.
Night-owl May 2020 2:40pm, 27 May 2020 33,863 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl Great link there. Thanks
mrs shanksi Jun 2020 3:53pm, 7 Jun 2020 10,706 posts	Quote Pin mrs shanksi I've been sorting out some books stored in our basement for years and came across this one which I can't remember much about, except I enjoyed it at the time. I read it in 1997: Brazil Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis
Night-owl Aug 2023 12:11pm, 13 Aug 2023 43,318 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl Even though this is my thread I've not added into it in the last 3 and a bit years. Since then what have I read not much But an update 2021 South Africa Disgrace - J M Coetzee France HHhH - Laurent Binet Netherlands Rituals - Cees Nooteboom Apologies can you advise I'm never sure if it's Holland or Netherlands googled not much help Ghana Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi Nothing in 2022 but I was in a reading slump only 9 books in total Currently reading Argentina Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro It's hard sometimes whether to assign someone's country of birth or where they moved to in later life. I read Milan Kundera but he said he saw himself as a French writer so sticking with that Also naming the first book I've read from a particular country even though I've read others from there So that's another 5 countries only another 185 or so to go 😂