2014 Global Reading Challenge
Read three novels from each of these continents in the course of 2014:
Africa, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, Europe, North America, South America and the Seventh Continent.
I am interpreting 'novels from' as 'written by authors born in" and my Seventh Continent is Sweden, and 'from' as 'in Swedish'.
Africa
DR Congo: The Great Agony & Pure Laughter of the Gods, by Jamala Safari
South Africa: The Spiral House, by Claire Robertson
Asia
China: Decoded, by Mia Jia
Pakistan: The Blind Man's Garden, by Naseem Aslam
Vietnam: The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh
Australasia/ Oceana
New Zealand: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
Europe
Greece: What Lot's Wife Saw, by Ioanna Bourazopoulou
Belgium: The Misfortunates, by Dimitri Verhulst
Iceland: The Hitman's Guide to Housekeeping, by Hallgrimur Helgason
North America
Canada: Barney's Version, by Mordechai Richler
USA: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson
South America
Brazil: The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, by Lima Baretto
Peru: The Blue Hour, by Alonso Cueto
Colombia: The Sound of Things Falling, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Seventh Continent
Each of these 12 books must have been on your bookshelf or “To Be Read” list for AT LEAST one full year. This means the book cannot have a publication date of 1/1/2013 or later (any book published in the year 2012 or earlier qualifies, as long as it has been on your TBR pile ). Caveat: Two (2) alternates are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the “can’t get through” pile.
Here's my list.... all must-read novels that I snapped up on my Kindle but never quite got round to reading:
- To The End of the Land, by David Grossman *****
- Season of the Witch, by Arni Thorarinsson
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
- Blue Blood, by Sara Blaedel
- The Great Agony & Pure Laughter of the Gods, by Jamala Safari *****
- Dregs, by Jorn Lier Horst
- Amagansett, by Mark Mills
- The Dinosaur Feather, by Sissel-Jo Gazan
- Truth, by Peter Temple
- The Reinvention of Love, by Helen Humphreys
- Out Of It, by Selma Dabbagh ****
- Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad
Reserves
An Atlas of Impossible Longing, by Anuradha Roy
The Siege, by Ismail Kadare
The Blind Goddess, by Anne Holt
Bloodland, by Alan Glynn
The Double Game, by Dan Fesperman
Death of a Carpet Dealer, by Karin Wahlberg
The Blood Spilt, by Asa Larsson
Where the Devil Can't Go, by Anya Lipska
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