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I loved the idea of this challenge and got so much into it that by the time I was done, I realised I had a total of 104 books :)

So I spent the last few weeks bringing down the list to 52�� have been able to only get it down to 62�� as I start reading I think I will be able to omit some more��

I choose the book, where both author and setting are unique to the country, and also picked an author that I have not read before��

Wish me Luck�� and Happy Reading to All!

1. Afghanistan: The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
2. Algeria: The Plague by Albert Camus
3. Angola: The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
4. Australia: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
5. Austria: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
6. Bangladesh: A Golden Age by Tahmina Anam
7. Belgium: The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs
8. Burma: From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
9. Brazil: The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
10. Canada: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
11. Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
12. China: Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
13. Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
14. Cuba: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
15. Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
16. Denmark: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
17. Egypt: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
18. Finland: The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
19. France: Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac
20. Germany: The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
21. Ghana: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
22. Guyana: The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
23. Haiti: The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
24. Hungary: Embers by Sándor Márai
25. India: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
26. Iran: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
27. Israel: To the End of the Land by David Grossman
28. Italy: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
29. Jamaica: The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
30. Japan: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
31. Jordan: Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir
32. Lebanon: The Story of Zahra: A Novel by Hanan Al-Shaykh
33. Libya: The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni
34. Mauritius: The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
35. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival
36. Nepal: Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
37. Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie
38. Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
39. Palestine: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
40. Pakistan: Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
41. Peru: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
42. Poland: Night by Elie Wiesel
43. Portugal: All the Names by Jose Saramago
44. Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
45. Somalia: Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie
46. South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
47. Spain: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
48. Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
49. Sudan: Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salah
50. Sweden: Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall
51. Syria: Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami
52. Tahiti: Frangipani: A Novel by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
53. Tanzania: Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
54. Thailand: Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
55. Tibet: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
56. Trinidad and Tobago: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
57. Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
58. Ukraine: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59. United States: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
60. Uruguay: A Brief Life by Juan Carlos Onetti
61. Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương, Nina McPherson, Thu Hng Dng
62. Zimbabwe: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin

Below are the books which I have postponed to 2013 and after :)

1. Albania: The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
2. Antigua: Antigua and My Life Before: A Novel by Marcela Serrano
3. Argentina: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
4. Barbados: The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
5. Bhutan: The Circle of Karma by Kunzang Choden
6. Belarus: Alpine ballad ; Hold out till dawn by Vasil Bykov
7. Belize: Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell
8. Bosnia: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
9. Cameroon: Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
10. Colombia: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
11. Croatia: The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža
12. Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
13. England: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
14. Estonia: The Czar's Madman by Jaan Kross
15. Greenland: This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich
16. Guatemala: Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias
17. Guinea: The Dark Child by Camara Laye
18. Honduras: Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
19. Iceland: The Swan by Guðbergur Bergsson
20. Indonesia: The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût
21. Iraq: The Long Way Back: A Modern Arabic Novel by Fu’ad Takarli
22. Ireland: The Sea by John Banville
23. Kenya: The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
24. Kyrgyzstan: The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov
25. Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
26. Mongolia: Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
27. Netherlands: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
28. New Zealand: Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
29. North Korea: This is Paradise! by Hyok Kang
30. Papua New Guinea: Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
31. Phillippines: Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar
32. Qatar: My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality by Rachel Hajar
33. Russia: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
34. Saudi Arabia: Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson
35. Scotland: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
36. Serbia: Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
37. Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
38. Switzerland: On a Day Like This by Peter Stamm
39. Tunisia: The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
40. Uzbekistan: The Railway by Hamid Ismailov
41. Virgin Islands: How To Escape From a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
42. Yemen: The Hostage: A Novel by Zayd Mutee Dammaj

Hi Judy... Yes, I did get caught up a bit in making the List :)...

I will look into the Group Reads folder and join in.. Thanks for letting me know!

Thank You Don!

Looks awesome! Let me know if you want to borrow Year of the Hare, I have a copy and I'm pretty flexible about when to read it. :)

If you are a quick reader, you might as well read more than 52. :P

I have added your selections to the master list! You actually reminded me a few times of books I intended to read, that were on my personal list but not the master.

Also, I recently finished 1Q84 and really enjoyed it.

Faith wrote: "Looks awesome! Let me know if you want to borrow Year of the Hare, I have a copy and I'm pretty flexible about when to read it. :)"

Faith.. sure, I will borrow the copy...also i have a copy of Unaccustomed Earth which i saw on your list, in case you want it...

Jenny wrote: "If you are a quick reader, you might as well read more than 52. :P

I have added your selections to the master list! You actually reminded me a few times of books I intended to read, that were on..."


Hi Jenny, I am a quick reader but with my talent of getting distracted pretty quickly, 52 can become challenging...hoping being part of a group will help keeping me motivated :)

I am really looking forward to 1Q84... have heard good things...

hmm.

Thank You Faith for introducing me to this challenge!

You're welcome! I couldn't go it alone. :) I will definitely borrow Unaccustomed Earth, thanks.

Btw I'm also reading Oscar and Lucinda and The Seamstress, let me know when you're going to read them and we can read them at the same time.

I am thinking about reading 1Q84 but still on the fence.

Hi Faith.. I don't have any planned schedule as well... lets decide when we meet next :) and i will get the copy of Unaccustomed Earth for you.