The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge discussion

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
April 2, 2022 -- Week 14

One of the things we love about this group is that it's so international! So, share which country you're from and tell us who some of the most famous authors from your country are!

Liz and I are from Canada, we're going to go with L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro.

I'm from the USA. Some of our greats in my opinion are Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe and Maya Angelou.

I am also from the US. Some of my favorite American authors are Mark Twain and Margaret Weis.

I'm from the US, Montana more specifically. Montana doesn't have many famous authors, I would guess that Ivan Doig is the most famous. I haven't read any of his but I know that he is a local author.

I'm from Arkansas, USA. Our most famous authors are probably Maya Angelou and John Grisham.

I live in Delaware, USA. I like that people were sharing famous authors from their state... so I looked my state up. The authors listed I had never heard of...we are a tiny state. So I'll just list a few of my favorite authors, I have so many, from the US, that I am currently listening to/reading...
Davis Bunn, Karen Kingsbury, Marissa Meyer, Sarah Sundin, and Jan Karon.

I live in Illinois, and some famous authors from there are Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway and Ray Bradbury.

Greetings from Türkiye (Turkey). Some of our most famous authors are Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Sabahattin Ali, Elif Şafak, Halil İnalcık, İlber Ortaylı, Orhan Pamuk.

I live in Missouri, US.. Gillian Flynn and Jim Butcher

Hey Liz and Lindsay! I'm also from Canada. At our school, we have something called Forest of Reading that celebrates Canadian authors. Some of the students' favourites are Gordan Korman & Eric Walters.

For this week I choose prompt 19- A book that has an alternate title with the novel The people we meet on vacation.

I am from Michigan, USA and so I picked from Michigan Mitch Albom who wrote Tuesdays with Morrie
and from the USA Ernest Hemingway, Louisa May Alcott and Patricia Cornwell

I am from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and a couple of authors are Anne Rice and Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams was not born in New Orleans, but with A Streetcar Named Desire and the annual festival in his honor we claim him.

¡Hola! I'm originally from the US, but moved to Uruguay 6 years ago, then a couple years later, moved across the (narrow part of the) continent to Chile, where I'm now a resident.
Uruguay Eduardo Galeano
Chile Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, and a long list of contemporary Chilean writers.
Latinoamérica in general honors books and writers, and in literature, nonfiction, poetry and drama all mine the richness of the Spanish language.
¡Saludos!

Greetings from Mexico!
Mexican authors include Laura Esquivel and Jorge Isaacs. ❤️

I was born in New Jersey, USA, from whence comes Harlan Coben.
I'm currently residing in North Carolina, USA. Such writers as Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, Nicholas Sparks, and David Sedaris are from here.

I'm an American living in France for nearly 20 years so I'll give some of the most famous French authors. We have Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas (father & son), Emile Zola, among others.

I'm from India. Rabindranath Tagore, Arundhati Roy, R.K.Narayan, Ruskin bond are some of the famous authors.

I'm from Italy and I think the most famous authors that made it overseas is: Umberto Eco

But back home we have a lot of great authors and one of the most famous is Giorgio Faletti and also Elena Ferrante is pretty well known and loved I personally love the old classics and poets (i still remember by heart a couple of songs from the The Divine Comedy. I also Love Dino Buzzati