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MonkeyCatcher
10th July 2006, 23:38
red = book intended to be read for this country
green = book read for this country

Afghanistan - Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
Albania - Broken April by Ismal Kadare
Algeria - The Stranger by Albert Camus
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia - Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada - Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile - The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
China - Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
Colombia - 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Comoros
Congo DR
Congo Republic
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic - In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Gabon
The Gambia
Georgia
Germany - A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
Ghana
Great Britain - Saturday by Ian McEwan
Greece (host)
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti - The Comedians by Graham Greene
Honduras
Hong Kong, China
Hungary
Iceland - The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness
India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Indonesia
Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Iraq
Ireland - The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Israel
Italy - Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Jamaica - Small Island by Andrea Levy
Japan - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya - The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Kiribati
Korea, South
Korea, North
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon - I, the Divine by Rabih Alamedinne
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
FYRO Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia - The Rice Mother by Rani Manecka
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands - The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand - The God Boy by Ian Cross
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Norway - Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Oman
Pakistan - Broken Verses by Kamilla Shamsie
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
São Tomé and Príncipe
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia-Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa - Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Spain - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
United Arab Emirates
United States - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands, US
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe - The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

abecedarian
10th July 2006, 23:44
Good choices so far MC! I wish I'd chosen Midnight's Children instead of Shalimar the Clown..Oh well, there's always next time :reading:

MonkeyCatcher
10th July 2006, 23:54
Good choices so far MC! I wish I'd chosen Midnight's Children instead of Shalimar the Clown..Oh well, there's always next time :reading:
I thieved quite a few off your list (the ones with the * next to them) - hope you don't mind :angel:

abecedarian
11th July 2006, 00:04
Good choices so far MC! I wish I'd chosen Midnight's Children instead of Shalimar the Clown..Oh well, there's always next time :reading:
I thieved quite a few off your list (the ones with the * next to them) - hope you don't mind :angel:

Mind??? Are you crazy? I'm thrilled! Hope you enjoy them MC!