Around the World discussion

I thought whether or not I should make a new list for 2014. Last year I read 30 books but only 12 were from my "around the world" list. But given that I had a lot of fun making the list I decided to do one for this year as well and who knows, maybe this is the year when I'll stick to it. So this is my proposal for 2014:


1. Africa: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
2. Albania: The successor by Ismail Kadare
3. Argentina: Santa Evita by Tomas Elloy Martinez
4. Asia: Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thuborn
5. Australia: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
6. Australia: Theft by Peter Carey
7. Australia: Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee
8. Bosnia: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
9. Botswana: The Morality of Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
10. Brazil : Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
11. Bulgaria: Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova
12. Burma: Burmese Days by George Orwell
13. Canada: The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood
14. Canada: Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
15. China: Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
16. China: Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
17. Congo: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
18. Czech Republic: Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
19. Denmark: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
20. Egypt: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
21. England: Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
22. England: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
23. Finland: The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
24. France: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
25. Greece: The Magus by John Fowles
26. India: Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
27. India/US: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
28. Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
29. Israel: The Black Box by Amos Oz
30. Italy: Beastly Things by Donna Leon
31. Japan: IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
32. Malaysia: The Gift of Rain by by Tan Twan Eng
33. Mexico: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
34. Norway: The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
35. Norway: The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
36. Pakistan: A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
37. Peru: A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
38. Peru: The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
39. Portugal: The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
40. Portugal: Night train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
41. Romania & Greece: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
42. Romania & Germany: Traveling on One Leg by Herta Muller
43. Russia: Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin
44. Scotland: Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
45. Spain: A Heart So White – Javier Marias
46. Sweden: Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
47. Thailand: Bangkok 8 - John Burdett
48. Trinidad and Tobago: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
49. Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
50. Ukraine: Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
51. USA: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
52: USA: White Noise by Don DeLillo

Making the list is one of the best parts! I read your Finnish pick and it was a bit of a puzzle.

I read that one too. I enjoyed it, but it is a strange book.