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!