Read three novels from each of these continents in the course of 2011: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, South America and The Seventh Continent
Africa
Egypt The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswany
Libya In the Country of Men, by Hisham Matar
Nigeria Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Asia
Japan Hotel Iris, by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder)
Pakistan The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
China Death of a Red Heroine, by Qiu Xiaolong
Australasia
Australia Eucalyptus, by Murray Bail
New Zealand Colour Scheme, by Ngiao Marsh
Samoa They Who Do Not Grieve, by Sia Figiel
Europe
Denmark Doghead, by Morten Ramsland (trans. Tinna Nunnally)
Italy Carte Blanche, by Carlo Lucarelli (trans. Michael Reynolds);
Switzerland Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier, trans Barbara Harshav
North America
Canada Half Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
Cuba Havana Red, by Leonardo Padura (trans. Peter Bush)
Honduras The She-Devil in the Mirror, by Horacio Castellanos Moya (trans. Katherine Silver)
South America
Peru Red April, by Santiago Roncagliolo (trans. Edith Grossman)
Argentina The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)
Colombia The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (trans. Anne McLean)
Seventh Continent - Future Fictions
Cyberspace Neuromancer, by William Gibson
South Africa Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes
China The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
Challenge: 12 books in 24 months
Belarus Wave of Terror, by Theodore Ordach
Croatia The Return of Philip Latinowicz, by Miroslav Krleza
Czechoslovakia War with the Newts, by Karel Čapek
Poland The Investigation, by Stanislaw Lem
Romania The Appointment, by Hertha Muller (trans. Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm)
Ukraine Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov (trans. George Bird)
2012
Hungary Metropole Ferenc Karinthy
Ficciones Challenge (Argentina)
The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato
A Needle in a Haystack, by Ernesto Mallo (trans. Jethro Soutar)
The Book of Murder, by Guillermo Martionez (11/2012)