This or That Reading Challenge discussion

This: A book translated from a Scandinavian country (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) into English.
That: A book translated from an Asian country (Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Chinese) into English.

Would anyone have any suggestions on some good books for these topics

Hi Mandy. For topic suggestions like these I typically start with GoodReads lists, which you can find under Browse-->Lists, and search there. So for example if you searched "Sweden" in Lists, it has results that include "Genre: Cultural > Sweden", which lists books that have been tagged as "Sweden", as well as a list "Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature". A search for Asian provides a link to GoodReads' Asian Literature page (https://www.goodreads.com/genres/asia...) with lots to review.

If you're looking for specific recommendations, I can throw out a few I've read in these categories that I liked:
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Sweden)
- The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul (Denmark)
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
- Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương (Vietnamese)
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Japanese)
- The Naked Tree by Park Wan-so (Korean)
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Chinese)

If none of those appeal to you, let me know the types of books you like and I might be able to make more tailored suggestions. Hope that helps!

Here Mandy, for the Scandinavian portion, try this
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

For this challenge I chose That: A book translated from an Asian country (Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Chinese) into English, and read Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul. This was a collection of short stories focused primarily around a young Thai boy growing up in a small, impoverished area. Some of the stories were hard-hitting and some were humorous, but overall they were very engaging and insightful into these characters' lives. I very much enjoyed it. 4 1/4 stars.

I chose This: My boyfriend is Swedish so he 100% inspired this and in all honesty, we do not read enough books from Europe and we should. Lots of excellent writers outside of North America.
I read The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg which is a psychological thriller set in a municipality in Sweden, super, super north of where he lives. I very much enjoyed it, even though I kind of had the mystery figured out pretty early on.

thanks you.