Around the World discussion

I'll be adding to the list as I go, but here's what I have so far!

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Afghanistan

2. The Plague -- Algeria

3. The Worst Journey in the World -- Antarctica

4. Collected Fictions -- Argentina

5. The Piano Teacher -- Austria

6. Zlata's Diary -- Bosnia

7. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- Botswana

8. The Alchemist -- Brazil

9. Life of Pi -- Canada

10. Paula -- Chile

11. Of Love and Other Demons -- Colombia

12. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -- Czech Republic

13. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Dominican Republic

14. Miramar -- Egypt

14. Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel -- Ethiopia

16. The Tin Drum -- Germany

17. The Piano Teacher -- Hong Kong

18. Midnight's Children -- India

19. Memoirs of a Geisha -- Japan

20. Like Water for Chocolate -- Mexico

21. Half of a Yellow Sun -- Nigeria

22. Hunger -- Norway

23. Schindler's List -- Poland

24. Trainspotting -- Scotland

25. Don Quixote -- Spain

26. Anil's Ghost -- Sri Lanka

27. What is the What -- Sudan

28. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- Sweden

29. The Glass Bead Game -- Switzerland

30. Everything is Illuminated -- Ukraine

31. The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- France

32. The Kitchen God's Wife -- China

33. The King Must Die -- Greece

34. The Death of Ivan Ilych -- Russia

35. Agaat -- South Africa

36. A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman -- Congo

37. Love, Rosie -- Ireland

38. Out of Africa -- Kenya/Denmark

39. Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Iran

40. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families -- Rwanda

41. Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali -- Mali

42. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced -- Yemen

43. The Farming of Bones -- Haiti

44. The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiography -- Tanzania

45. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation -- American Samoa

46. The Glass Palace -- Burma

47. Oroonoko -- Surinam

48. The Proof of the Honey -- Syria

49. The War of the End of the World -- Peru/Brazil

50. Wife of the Gods -- Ghana

Midnight's Children The Elegance of the Hedgehog are among my all-time faves.

Woohoo, another person reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog!

You've picked Trainspotting. Good choice for something that will be a marked contrast to your others, both in terms of structure and language. It's worth finding somewhere to read it aloud, as the narrative jumps between English, Scottish English (as different from standard English as American English is) and Scots (all rendered phonetically) depending on the character. Plus, one of the characters has imaginary conversations with Sean Connery, so worth practicing your accent!

Thank you all for the comments! :) Guess I'll be reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog first.