2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Books / Authors from each country of the world


AFRICA (54)

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan - The Translator by Leila Aboulela
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

ASIA (44)

Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
China
East Timor
India - Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers by Sarnath Banerjee
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel - Löwen wecken by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Japan - Die Ladenhüterin by Sayaka Murata
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon- An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
Oman
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Russian Federation - Der Meister und Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey- Die vierzig Geheimnisse der Liebe by Elif Shafak
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

EUROPE (47)

Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria - Der Trafikant by Robert Seethaler
(Azerbaijan - Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt by Olga Grjasnowa)
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Herkunft by Saša Stanišić
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic - Im Schrank by Tereza Semotamová
Denmark - The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Estonia
Finland
France - Der Gott des Gemetzels: Schauspiel by Yasmina Reza
Georgia
Germany - 180 Grad Meer by Sarah Kuttner
Greece - Antigone by Sophocles
Hungary
Iceland - Jenseits des Meeres liegt die ganze Welt: Roman by Auður Jónsdóttir
Ireland - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Italy - Die Einsamkeit der Primzahlen by Paolo Giordano
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway - Die Geschichte der Bienen by Maja Lunde
Poland - Gesang der Fledermäuse by Olga Tokarczuk
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Serbia - Durch Mauern gehen: Autobiografie by Marina Abramović
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden - Kleine Stadt der großen Träume by Fredrik Backman
Switzerland - Die Geschichte der Baltimores by Joël Dicker
Ukraine
United Kingdom - Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
Vatican City

N. AMERICA (23)

Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada - Translation Is a Love Affair by Jacques Poulin
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico - Saison der Wirbelstürme by Fernanda Melchor
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

OCEANIA (14)

Australia - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

S. AMERICA (12)

Argentina - Das Tal der Hundertjährigen: Eine Reise zum Ort der ewigen Jugend by Ricardo Coler
Bolivia
Brazil - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru - Der Hauptmann und sein Frauenbataillon by Mario Vargas Llosa
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

One of the most popular books published in each year that I've been alive...

based on: https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...

1986 [1] It or [9] The Complete Maus or [42] An Artist of the Floating World
1987 Nicht ohne meine Tochter by Betty Mahmoody (47)
1988 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1)
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (7)
1990 [2] V for Vendetta or [42] Hocus Pocus or [116] Vineland or [176] Like Life
1991 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1)
1992 Das Maß der Schuld by Richard North Patterson (157)
1993 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (4)
1994 [5] Snow Falling on Cedars or [11] Long Walk to Freedom or [17] Corelli's Mandolin or [25] In the Time of the Butterflies
1995 Rendezvous mit einem Mörder by J.D. Robb (10)
1996 Schokolade zum Frühstück by Helen Fielding (4)
1997 Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen by J.K. Rowling (1)
1998 Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens by J.K. Rowling (1)
1999 Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban by J.K. Rowling (1)
2000 Illuminati by Dan Brown (1)
2001 Meteor by Dan Brown (3)
2002 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (3)
2003 Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix by J.K. Rowling (1)
2004 Für immer vielleicht by Cecelia Ahern (21)
2005 Verblendung by Stieg Larsson (2)
2006 Verdammnis by Stieg Larsson (4)
2007 Tote Mädchen lügen nicht - Filmausgabe by Jay Asher (4)
2008 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (1)
2009 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (1)
2010 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (1)
2011 Geheimes Verlangen by E.L. James (2)
2012 Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter by John Green (1)
2013 Inferno by Dan Brown (7)
2014 Der Rosie-Effekt by Simsion Graeme (70)
2015 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (1)
2016 Scythe by Neal Shusterman (36)
2017 Ich, Eleanor Oliphant by Gail Honeyman (2)
2018 There There by Tommy Orange (12)
2019 The Toll by Neal Shusterman (59)
2020 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (25)

50 books to read before you die...
...based on my bookmark :)

1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
2 1984 by George Orwell
3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
15 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
18 The Bible by Various
19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 Ulysses by James Joyce
21 The Quiet American by Graham Greene
22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
23 Money by Martin Amis
24 Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. Rowling
25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34 The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
35 The Outsider by Albert Camus
36 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40 Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway
41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
45 One flew over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

BBC Top 100 List

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. , Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
25. The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie