Lauren's Olympic Challenge

[proserpina]

I only found out about this challenge a couple of days ago and thought it would be a nice way of reading new authors from far flung corners of the globe. I've back-dated my list so far with books I have read so far in 2007. I can't imagine how much progress I will be able to make with this in the short time frame, but if it inspires my reading then I will be happy.

* Afghanistan: The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
* Albania
* Algeria
* American Samoa
* Andorra
* Angola
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Armenia
* Aruba
* Australia: Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living – Carrie Tiffany
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Bahamas
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh: Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali
* Barbados
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Belize
* Benin
* Bermuda
* Bhutan
* Bolivia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Botswana
* Brazil: The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
* British Virgin Islands
* Brunei
* Bulgaria
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cambodia
* Cameroon
* Canada: Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
* Cape Verde
* Cayman Islands
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Chile
* China (PRC): Empress Orchid – Anchee Min
* Chinese Taipei (TPE)
* Colombia
* Comoros
* Congo DR
* Congo Republic
* Cook Islands
* Costa Rica
* Côte d'Ivoire
* Croatia
* Cuba
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic: Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
* Denmark
* Djibouti
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* El Salvador
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Estonia
* Ethiopia
* Fiji
* Finland
* France: Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
* Gabon
* The Gambia
* Georgia
* Germany: Perfume – Patrick Suskind
* Ghana
* Great Britain: The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
* Greece
* Grenada
* Guam
* Guatemala
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Hong Kong, China
* Hungary
* Iceland
* India: Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
* Indonesia
* Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
* Iraq
* Ireland: Notes from A Turkish Whorehouse – Philip O’ Ceallaigh
* Israel
* Italy: I’m Not Scared – Niccolo Ammaniti
* Jamaica
* Japan: Blind Willow, Sleeping Willow – Haruki Murakami
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kenya: Blood Sisters – Barbara & Stephanie Keating
* Kiribati
* Korea, South
* Korea, North
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Latvia
* Lebanon
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* FYROM
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Malaysia: The Harmony Silk Factory – Tash Aw
* Maldives
* Mali
* Malta
* Marshall Islands
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Mexico
* Micronesia
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Mongolia
* Montenegro
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Myanmar
* Namibia
* Nauru
* Nepal
* Netherlands:
* Netherlands Antilles
* New Zealand
* Nicaragua
* Niger
* Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
* Norway
* Oman
* Pakistan: Bitter Sweets - Roopa Farooki
* Palau
* Palestine: Does My Head Look Big in This? – Randa Abdel Fattah
* Panama
* Papua New Guinea
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Philippines
* Poland
* Portugal
* Puerto Rico
* Qatar
* Romania
* Russia: Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* Rwanda
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Samoa
* San Marino
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Serbia
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Solomon Islands
* Somalia
* South Africa: Gem Squash Tokoloshe – Rachel Zadok
* Spain: The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz - Almudena Solana
* Sri Lanka
* Sudan: The Translator - Leila Aboulela
* Suriname
* Swaziland
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Tanzania
* Thailand
* Timor-Leste
* Togo
* Tonga
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* Tuvalu
* Uganda
* Ukraine
* United Arab Emirates
* United States: The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
* Uruguay
* Uzbekistan
* Vanuatu
* Venezuela
* Vietnam
* Virgin Islands, US
* Yemen
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe: The Sunday Philosophy Club – Alexander McCall Smith

[Kell]

Welcome to the Olympic Challenge, Lauren! I hope you'll enjoy your trek around the literary globe. :)

[Adam]

This is a neat challenge. It is cool to see how the different authors from around the globe write. Enjoy it!