Around the World discussion

Hi. My name is Andreea and I'm new to this group, having joined about a week ago. I never average more than 30 or so books a year but I'll give it my best and who knows, maybe this year will be the exception. This is what I'd like to read for 2013

Africa: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Argentina: Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Argentina: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Australia: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Australia: Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Bosnia: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić
Botswana: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Brazil: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
Burma: Burmese Days by George Orwell
Canada: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
China: Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
Congo: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Congo: A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Cuba: The Island of Eternal Love by Daina Chaviano
Czech Republic: Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Denmark: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Egypt: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
England: Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
England: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
France & US: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Germany: The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Greece: The Magus by John Fowles
Iceland: My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
India: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
India: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Israel: To Know A Woman by Amos Oz
Italy: Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
Japan: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Mexico: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Norway: The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
Pakistan: A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Peru: The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
Portugal: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
Portugal: Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Romania & Germany: Traveling on One Leg by Herta Müller
Romania & Greece: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Russia: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Scotland: Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
South America: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
South Africa: Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee
Spain: The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sweden: The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
Thailand: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Trinidad and Tobago: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Ukraine: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
USA: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
USA: Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
USA: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
USA: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Multiple locations: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Any input is welcomed.

Oooh, I like your list, I've read some of those, but most I haven't. I'm going to have to borrow some of your ideas.

Sure, feel free to borrow. I've also browsed some of the personal lists posted here. Two of the books are rereads: The Idiot which I've read 20 years ago when I was back in college and Midnight's Children which I've read a few years ago but would like to read it again.

That's what they are there for! Nice to have you join us :)