Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Starting out with 140:

Progress: 140/140

Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo (Rep.)
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malawi
Malaysia
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Morocco
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

1/130. Visited Nigeria with Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

2/130 Visited Laos with ແພງແມ່ Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong.

3/130 Visited Finland with Fair Play by Tove Jansson.

4/130 Visited Italy with The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino.

5/130 Visited Argentina with Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

6/130 Visited Slovenia with Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović.

7/130 Visited Australia with The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway.

8/130 Visited China with Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang.

9/130 Visited Colombia with The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis.

10/130 Visited Greece with Lysistrata by Aristophanes.

11/130 Visited Kiribati with A Pattern Of Islands by Arthur Grimble.

12/130 Visited Panama with Ilona llega con la lluvia by Álvaro Mutis

13/130 Visited Russia with The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov

14/130 Visited France with Tartuffe by Molière

15/130 Visited South Africa with A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn.

16/130 Visited the United Kingdom with Adam Bede by George Eliot.

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Update. Added:

Armenia: Poems of Yeghishe Charent by Yeghishe Charents.

Austria: The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke.

Cameroon: Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi.

Chad: Told by Starlight in Chad by Joseph Brahim Seid.

Germany: Demian by Hermann Hesse.

Israel: One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen.

Micronesia: The Book Of Luelen by Luelen Bernart.

Pakistan: The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa.

Japan: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.

Nepal: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen/

You are making fantastic progress, Diane.

Rosemarie wrote: "You are making fantastic progress, Diane."

I have a loooong way to go, though.

So far, so good!

Adding:

29. Botswana: The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head.

30. Egypt: The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz.

31. Ireland: Ormond by Maria Edgeworth.

32. Mexico: The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande.

33. Zambia: Sula and Ja by Ellen Banda-Aaku.

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34. Bosnia: As If I Am Not There by Slavenka Drakulić

35. Cote d'ivoire: Akissi: Cat Invasion by Marguerite Abouet

36. Czech Republic: The Castle by Franz Kafka

37. Ghana: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

38. Hungary: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

39. India: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

40. Iraq: The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim

41. Kenya: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

42. Netherlands: The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk

43. Solomon Islands: Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent

44. Sweden: Simon and the Oaks by Marianne Fredriksson

Adding 9 more:

45. Brazil: Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado

46. Canada: The First Garden by Anne Hébert

47. Grenada: An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof

48. Lebanon: Always Coca-Cola by Alexandra Chreiteh

49. Poland: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

50. Portugal: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa

51. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Indigo by Marina Warner

52. Switzerland: I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch

53. Turkey: My Grandmother: A Memoir by Fethiye Çetin

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54. Burundi: Small Country by Gaël Faye

55. Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

56. Guatemala: The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias

57. Namibia: Mama Namibia by Mari Serebrov

58. Ukraine: Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi

59. Zimbabwe: An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah.

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60. Belgium: War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans

61. Bolivia: Affections

62. Central African Republic: The Road Through War by Anjan Sundaram

63. Eritrea: African Titanics by Abu Bakr Khaal

64. Iceland: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

65. Kazakhstan: Captain of the Steppe by Oleg Pavlov

66. Marshall Islands: Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

67. New Zealand: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield

68. Philippines: Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes

69. Uzbekistan: The Devils' Dance by Hamid Ismailov

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70. Bahrain: Fragile Beings by Ali Al Saeed

71. Malawi: Greetings from Grandpa by Jack Mapanje

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72. Bangladesh: I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad

73. Chile: Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño

74. United Arab Emirates: The Diesel by Thani Al-Suwaidi

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75. Denmark: Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors

76. Haiti: Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

77. North Korea: A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa

78. Norway: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset

79. Seychelles: Voices: Short stories from the Seychelles Islands by Glynn Burridge

80. South Korea: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang

81. Sudan: Cities Without Palms by Tarek Eltayeb

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82. Fiji: Last Virgin in Paradise: A Serious Comedy by Vilsoni Hereniko

83. Kuwait: The Hidden Light of Objects by Mai Al-Nakib

84. Macedonia: Remnants of Another Age by Nikola Madžirov

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85. Albania: Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku

86. Croatia: The Only Witness To Beauty by Miro Gavran

87. Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

88. Iran: Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

89. Malaysia: The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

90. Mauritius: Castaway and other Tales from Mauritius by Ramesh Ramdoyal

91. Peru: Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez

92. Romania: The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter by Matei Călinescu

93. Tanzania: Three Solid Stones by Martha Mvungi

94. Thailand: The Happiness Of Kati by Jane Vejjajiva

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95. Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus by Banine

96. Bahamas: If I Had the Wings: Short Stories by Helen Klonaris

97. Saint Lucia: Prisnms by Garth St. Omer

98. Slovakia: Samko Tále's Cemetery Book by Daniela Kapitáňová

99. Yemen: A Land without Jasmine by Wajdi Al-Ahdal

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100. Ecuador: Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán

101. Luxembourg: Storms Over Luxembourg by Fausto Gardini

102. Morocco: Secret Son by Laila Lalami

103. Uganda: Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p'Bitek

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104. Latvia: Bearslayer by Andrejs Pumpurs

105. Syria: The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees

106. Nicaragua: Tropical Town and Other Poems by Salomón de la Selva

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107. Cyprus: Margarita's husband: A Fable of the Levant by Andriana Ierodiaconou

108. Honduras: Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso

109. Somalia: From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah

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110. Afghanistan: A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi.

111. Bulgaria: Party Headquarters by Georgi Tenev.

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112. Barbados: Going Home in Chains by Glenville Obrian Lovell.

113. Senegal: Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane.

114. Libya: The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar.

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115. Cambodia: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him.

116. Tunisia: Treason by Hédi Kaddour.

117. Sierra Leone: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna.

118. Montenegro: A Lullaby for No Man's Wolf by Ksenija Popović.

119. Samoa: Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt.

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120. Brunei: Written in Black by K.H. Lim.

121. Singapore: The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell.

I need to kick it into high gear if I am going to finish. Here are a few I have added:

122. Angola: Transparent City by Ondjaki

123. Niger: Stranger in the Village of the Sick: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery, and Healing by Paul Stoller

124. Uruguay: Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano

125. Togo: Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja

126. Estonia: Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf's Church by Indrek Hargla.

127. Benin: The Beautiful Debo by Béatrice Lalinon Gbado

128. Congo: Jazz and Palm Wine by Emmanuel Dongala

129. Belarus: Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort

130. Moldova: Bessarabian Stamps: Stories by Oleg Woolf

131. Papua New Guinea: Signs In The Sky by Kumalau Tawali

132. Saudi Arabia: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif

133. Trinidad and Tobago: The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

134. Vietnam: Love Like Hate by Linh Dinh

135. Guinea-Bissau: The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila.

136. Liberia: Konkai: Living Between Two Worlds by Mardia Stone

137. Monaco: Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor

138. Paraguay: Exotic Territory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Paraguayan Poetry by Ronald Haladyna

139. Tonga: A Farm in the South Pacific Sea by Jan Walker

140. Sri Lanka: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai

Finished!

wow, that's quite a random journey, congratulations.

Ruth wrote: "wow, that's quite a random journey, congratulations."

That was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I kept reading countries that weren't on the list. I won't take on so much next time.