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A New Year is like a blank book and the pen is in my hands. It is my chance to write a beautiful story. I will continue to participate in various challenges.
Reading1001
Booker and International Booker
Pulitzer
American Author
British Author
The European Tour Challenge
Benreadsgood challenge
Reading1001
Booker and International Booker
Pulitzer
American Author
British Author
The European Tour Challenge
Benreadsgood challenge
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Reading 1001
Year Long Read: Tale Genji
Quarterly Reads:
Botm
Others
TBRtakedown
READING1001, 2025 TBR takedown
1. The Joke - Milan Kundera (H)
2. Quicksand - Nella Larson (H)
3. Cement Garden - Ian McEwan (H)
4. The Heather Blazing - Toibin (H, B)
5. Wise Blood - O’Connor (H)
6. Tropic of Cancer - Miller (H)
7. Tropic of Capricorn - Miller (H)
8. Berlin Alexanderplatz (A)
9. Life Life - Moore (H)
10. Anagrams - Moore (H)
11. Violent bear it away - O’Connor (H)
12. Coming Up For Air - Orwell (H)
13. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Orwell (H)
14. Doctor Zhivago - (L,B)
15. Sabbath’s Theater (L)
16. Operation Shylock (L)
17. The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge (H)
18. The Moor’s Last sigh - Rushdie (H)
19. The Devil’s Pool (H)
20. London Orbital (A)
21. Viper’s Tangle (H)
22. Ben Hur (A)
23. Smiley’s People (H)
24. The Home and the World (H)
Year Long Read: Tale Genji
Quarterly Reads:
Botm
Others
TBRtakedown
READING1001, 2025 TBR takedown
1. The Joke - Milan Kundera (H)
2. Quicksand - Nella Larson (H)
3. Cement Garden - Ian McEwan (H)
4. The Heather Blazing - Toibin (H, B)
5. Wise Blood - O’Connor (H)
6. Tropic of Cancer - Miller (H)
7. Tropic of Capricorn - Miller (H)
8. Berlin Alexanderplatz (A)
9. Life Life - Moore (H)
10. Anagrams - Moore (H)
11. Violent bear it away - O’Connor (H)
12. Coming Up For Air - Orwell (H)
13. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Orwell (H)
14. Doctor Zhivago - (L,B)
15. Sabbath’s Theater (L)
16. Operation Shylock (L)
17. The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge (H)
18. The Moor’s Last sigh - Rushdie (H)
19. The Devil’s Pool (H)
20. London Orbital (A)
21. Viper’s Tangle (H)
22. Ben Hur (A)
23. Smiley’s People (H)
24. The Home and the World (H)
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Booker Unread
BOOKER Unread
1. 1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For - Own
2. 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member - OWN
3. 1972: John Berger, G. - OWN-K
4. Holiday - Stanley Middleton
5. 1976: David Storey, Saville
6. 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac - OWN
7. 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
8. Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
9. 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha OWN
10 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - OWN
11. 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang-
12. 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
14. 2021, The Promise by Damon Galgut
Booker International
15. 2018 - Flights - Olga Tokarczuk - Poland OWN
16.2019 - Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Hearth - Oman (Hoopla)
17. 2020 - The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - Netherlands
18. 2022 - Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree - India (Hoopla)
19.2024- Kairos - Jenny
BOOKER Unread
1. 1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For - Own
2. 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member - OWN
3. 1972: John Berger, G. - OWN-K
4. Holiday - Stanley Middleton
5. 1976: David Storey, Saville
6. 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac - OWN
7. 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
8. Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
9. 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha OWN
10 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - OWN
11. 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang-
12. 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
14. 2021, The Promise by Damon Galgut
Booker International
15. 2018 - Flights - Olga Tokarczuk - Poland OWN
16.2019 - Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Hearth - Oman (Hoopla)
17. 2020 - The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - Netherlands
18. 2022 - Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree - India (Hoopla)
19.2024- Kairos - Jenny
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Pulitzer
Pulitzer
1. 1918 HIS FAMILY - Ernest Poole
2. 1923 ONE OF OURS - Willa Cather
3. 1924 THE ABLE MCLAUGHLINS - Margaret Wilson
4. 1926 ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis (Declined) library
5. 1927 EARLY AUTUMN - Louis Bromfield
6. 1929 SCARLET SISTER MARY - Julia Peterkin
7. 1930 LAUGHING BOY - Oliver Lafarge Own
8. 1939 THE YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
9. 1943 DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair
10. 1945 A BELL FOR ADANO - John Hersey
11. 1947 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren
12. 1952 THE CAINE MUTINY - Herman Wouk
13. 1955 A FABLE - William Faulkner
14. 1956 ANDERSONVILLE - McKinlay Kantor
15. 1963 THE REIVERS - William Faulkner
16. 1968 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER - William Styron
17. 1970 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD - Jean Stafford (audio/Hoopla)
18. 1985 FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Alison Lurie (audible)
19. 1987 A SOMMONS TO MEMPHIS - Peter Taylor (Hoopla)
20. 1990 THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE - Oscar Hijuelos (audible
21. 1991 RABBIT AT REST - John Updike (audible)
22. 1993 A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN - Robert Olen Butler (audible)
23. 1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY - Richard Ford (hoopla)
24. 1997 MARTIN DRESSLER - Steven Millhauser (hoopla)
Pulitzer
1. 1918 HIS FAMILY - Ernest Poole
2. 1923 ONE OF OURS - Willa Cather
3. 1924 THE ABLE MCLAUGHLINS - Margaret Wilson
4. 1926 ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis (Declined) library
5. 1927 EARLY AUTUMN - Louis Bromfield
6. 1929 SCARLET SISTER MARY - Julia Peterkin
7. 1930 LAUGHING BOY - Oliver Lafarge Own
8. 1939 THE YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
9. 1943 DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair
10. 1945 A BELL FOR ADANO - John Hersey
11. 1947 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren
12. 1952 THE CAINE MUTINY - Herman Wouk
13. 1955 A FABLE - William Faulkner
14. 1956 ANDERSONVILLE - McKinlay Kantor
15. 1963 THE REIVERS - William Faulkner
16. 1968 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER - William Styron
17. 1970 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD - Jean Stafford (audio/Hoopla)
18. 1985 FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Alison Lurie (audible)
19. 1987 A SOMMONS TO MEMPHIS - Peter Taylor (Hoopla)
20. 1990 THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE - Oscar Hijuelos (audible
21. 1991 RABBIT AT REST - John Updike (audible)
22. 1993 A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN - Robert Olen Butler (audible)
23. 1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY - Richard Ford (hoopla)
24. 1997 MARTIN DRESSLER - Steven Millhauser (hoopla)
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American Author Challenge
American Author Challenge
JANUARY Pacific Northwest including Western BC and Southeastern Alaska
FEBRUARY -- MUSLIM AMERICAN AUTHORS PAUL
MARCH STEWART O’NAN KATIE
APRIL APPALACHIAN AUTHORS
MAY Pulitzer Prize Winners in HISTORY
JUNE Willy Vlautin
JULY ROMANCE LAURA
AUGUST True Crime & its Fictional Offspring
CAROLINE
SEPTEMBER Alice Hoffman
OCTOBER The Western KRISTEL https://www.servicescape.com/blog/book-genre-encyclopedia-144-genres-and-subgenr...
NOVEMBER David Treuer
DECEMBER Meg Wolitzer
WILD CARD: Select from the 2016 list
American Author Challenge
JANUARY Pacific Northwest including Western BC and Southeastern Alaska
FEBRUARY -- MUSLIM AMERICAN AUTHORS PAUL
MARCH STEWART O’NAN KATIE
APRIL APPALACHIAN AUTHORS
MAY Pulitzer Prize Winners in HISTORY
JUNE Willy Vlautin
JULY ROMANCE LAURA
AUGUST True Crime & its Fictional Offspring
CAROLINE
SEPTEMBER Alice Hoffman
OCTOBER The Western KRISTEL https://www.servicescape.com/blog/book-genre-encyclopedia-144-genres-and-subgenr...
NOVEMBER David Treuer
DECEMBER Meg Wolitzer
WILD CARD: Select from the 2016 list
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British Author Challenge
January: theater/arts
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - Audible
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault - Audible $16.48
Far to Go - Noel Streatfeild (child actress), H
February: Kia Abdullah
2019: Take It Back
2020: Truth Be Told
2021: Next of Kin
2023: Those People Next Door
& Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cage of Souls - Hoopla
Dogs of War - Hoopla
Walking to Aldebaran novella
And Put Away Childish Things (Solaris Books, 2023), ISBN 978-1786188793. Hoopla novella
Saturation Point (Solaris Books, 2023), ISBN 978-1837861743. Hoopla
Novella
March: Norah Lofts
The Lute Player (A)
Madselin (A)
The Wayside Tavern (a)
& Gerald Durrell (Hoopla)
April: PD James (Libby)
& Paul Bailey
May: Nancy Mitford
Pursuit of Love, Audible
& Paul Scott Raj Quartet
June: Tudor & Jacobean Eras (1485-1625)
July: Dodie Smith I capture the castle Hoopla
& Mervyn Peake Titus Alone (Hoopla)
August: Emily Tesh
& Alex Wheatle
September: Leone Ross & Alan Moore
October: Sarah Moss & Christopher Isherwood
November: Doctor Who and related series
December: Historical Mysteries
Wildcard: Susanna Clarke & Terry Pratchett
January: theater/arts
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - Audible
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault - Audible $16.48
Far to Go - Noel Streatfeild (child actress), H
February: Kia Abdullah
2019: Take It Back
2020: Truth Be Told
2021: Next of Kin
2023: Those People Next Door
& Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cage of Souls - Hoopla
Dogs of War - Hoopla
Walking to Aldebaran novella
And Put Away Childish Things (Solaris Books, 2023), ISBN 978-1786188793. Hoopla novella
Saturation Point (Solaris Books, 2023), ISBN 978-1837861743. Hoopla
Novella
March: Norah Lofts
The Lute Player (A)
Madselin (A)
The Wayside Tavern (a)
& Gerald Durrell (Hoopla)
April: PD James (Libby)
& Paul Bailey
May: Nancy Mitford
Pursuit of Love, Audible
& Paul Scott Raj Quartet
June: Tudor & Jacobean Eras (1485-1625)
July: Dodie Smith I capture the castle Hoopla
& Mervyn Peake Titus Alone (Hoopla)
August: Emily Tesh
& Alex Wheatle
September: Leone Ross & Alan Moore
October: Sarah Moss & Christopher Isherwood
November: Doctor Who and related series
December: Historical Mysteries
Wildcard: Susanna Clarke & Terry Pratchett
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European Challenge:
January : Prelude - Europe in the 19th Century (European Literature of the 19th Century)
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
The Return of the Native
February : The Journey Begins - A Wider Scandinavia (Books by authors from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland)
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Autumn - Karl Ove Knausgard
James Thompson crime writer, American/Finish. wrote in Finish
Jar City, Artic Chill, The Draining Lake - Arbakdur Indridason (Iceland) (h)
March : Into the Red Zone - Books from authors from Countries which were part of the Warsaw Pact)
The Successor - Ismail Kadare (Albania)
The Joke - Milan Kundera (Czech)
Reading Spring Flowers, Spring Frost in February
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
April : Scimitar and Cross - Books from authors from European Countries within the Ottoman Empire
The Last Tempation of Christ (Audible)
May : Interlude - Non National Languages - Books originally written in European languages that are not tied to a particular nation i.e. Yiddish, Regional languages such as Catalan, French, Spanish and Portuguese outside their borders including Latin America, Africa etc)
June : Caesar to Meloni - Books written originally in Latin or Italian.
July : The Germanic World - Books written by authors writing in German from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
August : Anita Fameulstee Memorial Month - Books by authors from the Benelux countries (Netherlands, Belgium. Luxembourg)
September : Interlude #2 - Books About Places in Europe (Travel, Non-fiction)
October : La Belle France - Books by Authors from France
November : The Iberian Peninsula - Books by Spanish authors
December : Welcome Back to the Future - Translated Literature in the 21st Century
January : Prelude - Europe in the 19th Century (European Literature of the 19th Century)
The Children of the New Forest - Frederick Marryat
The Return of the Native
February : The Journey Begins - A Wider Scandinavia (Books by authors from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland)
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Autumn - Karl Ove Knausgard
James Thompson crime writer, American/Finish. wrote in Finish
Jar City, Artic Chill, The Draining Lake - Arbakdur Indridason (Iceland) (h)
March : Into the Red Zone - Books from authors from Countries which were part of the Warsaw Pact)
The Successor - Ismail Kadare (Albania)
The Joke - Milan Kundera (Czech)
Reading Spring Flowers, Spring Frost in February
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
April : Scimitar and Cross - Books from authors from European Countries within the Ottoman Empire
The Last Tempation of Christ (Audible)
May : Interlude - Non National Languages - Books originally written in European languages that are not tied to a particular nation i.e. Yiddish, Regional languages such as Catalan, French, Spanish and Portuguese outside their borders including Latin America, Africa etc)
June : Caesar to Meloni - Books written originally in Latin or Italian.
July : The Germanic World - Books written by authors writing in German from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
August : Anita Fameulstee Memorial Month - Books by authors from the Benelux countries (Netherlands, Belgium. Luxembourg)
September : Interlude #2 - Books About Places in Europe (Travel, Non-fiction)
October : La Belle France - Books by Authors from France
November : The Iberian Peninsula - Books by Spanish authors
December : Welcome Back to the Future - Translated Literature in the 21st Century
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Benreadsgood challenge for 2025
1. January: Ann-uary - Read a book by an author called Ann, or with Ann in the title (115 added)
Anne, An, Annie and any other variation also count.
2. February: Flame-uary - Read a book with fire on the cover (103 added)
We're looking for an image of fire here, not just the word - but if it has both then great!
3. March: Ides of March - Read a book with 15 letters in the title (135 added)
The Ides of March was the 15th of March on the Roman calendar, and most famous for being the day Julius Caesar was betrayed and murdered.
But this prompt isn't about Caesar - we're just going with the whole '15th' thing.
Looking for a book with 15 characters in the title. Spaces and punctuation don't count, only letters.
4. April: Read a book nominated for the Women's Prize (100 added)
Read any book that has ever been nominated for the Women's Prize (fiction or non-fiction).
Full list of previous winners and shortlistees. If you want to venture into longlistees, you may need to look up each specific list.
5. May: May-ja Vu - Re-read a book, or read an author you've previously read (116 added)
This is here because I couldn't pass up the deja vu pun. And I don't re-read enough.
But if you hate re-reading, read a book by an author you've read before.
6. June: Reading Shame Forgiveness Month (92 added)
Everyone's favourite month-long public holiday is back!
Read that book you feel ashamed not to have read yet. Whether it's the book that's been on your shelf the longest, or one you've told everyone you already read but actually you haven't (you fibber). No judgement here.
7. July: Read a work in translation (116 added)
Pretty self-explanatory: read a book translated from one language to another.
8. August: Read a book by a Booker Prize-winning author (77 added)
Read any book by an author that has won the Booker Prize (either English language or International). It doesn't have to be their prize-winning book!
9. September: Sapphire September - Read a book with a blue cover (109 added)
Sapphire is the birthstone for September. I don't really subscribe to that sort of thing, but it was a nice opportunity to ask you to read something blue.
10. October: Ug-tober - Read a book with an ugly cover (104 added)
We all judge books by their covers, so don't feel bad about that. Maybe it's put you off a certain book until now. But it's time to get over it, dust that little ugly duckling off, and read it.
11. November: No Comfort November - Read something outside your comfort zone (92 added)
Switch up your reading. If you normally read lit fic, give romance a go. If you're a non-fiction aficionado, try some poetry. Maybe read about a subject that intimidates you, or a person you don't agree with.
12. December: Decem-bros - Read a book about brothers or brotherhood (55 added)
There are lots of books about sisters right now, so let's read something about brothers.
bonus
Wildcard: Agatha All Along (7 added)
Swap out any prompt you're struggling with for an Agatha Christie. You can do this once.
To make sure your reading challenge still looks complete, add your Agatha to this prompt, and to the prompt you're swapping.
If you see an erroneous Agatha in another prompt: the person isn't going mad, it's just their wildcard.
This is dedicated to the dearly missed Alice and the Giant Bookshelf.
1. January: Ann-uary - Read a book by an author called Ann, or with Ann in the title (115 added)
Anne, An, Annie and any other variation also count.
2. February: Flame-uary - Read a book with fire on the cover (103 added)
We're looking for an image of fire here, not just the word - but if it has both then great!
3. March: Ides of March - Read a book with 15 letters in the title (135 added)
The Ides of March was the 15th of March on the Roman calendar, and most famous for being the day Julius Caesar was betrayed and murdered.
But this prompt isn't about Caesar - we're just going with the whole '15th' thing.
Looking for a book with 15 characters in the title. Spaces and punctuation don't count, only letters.
4. April: Read a book nominated for the Women's Prize (100 added)
Read any book that has ever been nominated for the Women's Prize (fiction or non-fiction).
Full list of previous winners and shortlistees. If you want to venture into longlistees, you may need to look up each specific list.
5. May: May-ja Vu - Re-read a book, or read an author you've previously read (116 added)
This is here because I couldn't pass up the deja vu pun. And I don't re-read enough.
But if you hate re-reading, read a book by an author you've read before.
6. June: Reading Shame Forgiveness Month (92 added)
Everyone's favourite month-long public holiday is back!
Read that book you feel ashamed not to have read yet. Whether it's the book that's been on your shelf the longest, or one you've told everyone you already read but actually you haven't (you fibber). No judgement here.
7. July: Read a work in translation (116 added)
Pretty self-explanatory: read a book translated from one language to another.
8. August: Read a book by a Booker Prize-winning author (77 added)
Read any book by an author that has won the Booker Prize (either English language or International). It doesn't have to be their prize-winning book!
9. September: Sapphire September - Read a book with a blue cover (109 added)
Sapphire is the birthstone for September. I don't really subscribe to that sort of thing, but it was a nice opportunity to ask you to read something blue.
10. October: Ug-tober - Read a book with an ugly cover (104 added)
We all judge books by their covers, so don't feel bad about that. Maybe it's put you off a certain book until now. But it's time to get over it, dust that little ugly duckling off, and read it.
11. November: No Comfort November - Read something outside your comfort zone (92 added)
Switch up your reading. If you normally read lit fic, give romance a go. If you're a non-fiction aficionado, try some poetry. Maybe read about a subject that intimidates you, or a person you don't agree with.
12. December: Decem-bros - Read a book about brothers or brotherhood (55 added)
There are lots of books about sisters right now, so let's read something about brothers.
bonus
Wildcard: Agatha All Along (7 added)
Swap out any prompt you're struggling with for an Agatha Christie. You can do this once.
To make sure your reading challenge still looks complete, add your Agatha to this prompt, and to the prompt you're swapping.
If you see an erroneous Agatha in another prompt: the person isn't going mad, it's just their wildcard.
This is dedicated to the dearly missed Alice and the Giant Bookshelf.
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And reading Good literature from around the world;
*Favorite books by author/country.
Afghanistan
*A Thousand Splendid Sun (this author is now in US) Khaled Hosseini
The Patience Stone (this author is in France now) - Atiq Rahimi
Albania
*Broken April - Ismail Kadare
Algeria
*The Plague - Albert Camus
Andorra
Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion - Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Antigua and Barbuda
*Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Argentina
Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions
*Fever Dream - Samanta Schwebin
Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Armenia
Australia
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Deep Road to the North - Richard Flanagan
*Remembering Babylon = David Malouf
Austria
*Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Svetlana Alexievich Secondhand Time not read
Belgium
The Lion of Flanders - Hendrik Conscience
Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Chronicles - Ivo Andric (not read)
Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric (not read)
The Death and the Dervish - Meša Selimović (not read)
Botswana
Brazil
* Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro- Machado de Assis
Devil in Pay in the Backland - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Paulo Coelho
Brunei
Bulgaria
* Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov
Auto de Fe - Elia Canetti
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
*Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Alice Munro
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Cape Verde
Central Affrican Republic
Chad
Chile
Robert Bolano
*Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
China
*Monkey King: Journey to the West
Half a Man is Woman
Columbia
Our Lady of Assassins - Fernando Vallejo
One Hundred Years of Solitude -
*Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Comoros
Congo, Democratric Republic
Congo, Republic of
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Slavenka Drakulic, want to read If I am Not There
Cuba
*The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier
Cyprus
*The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
Czech Republis
*Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabel
Milan Kundara
Denmark
*Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
Djibouti
Dominica
Phillis Shand Allfrey - The Orchid Housee (not read)
*Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic
* The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junet Diaz
The Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
*Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
* Woman at Point Zero - Narwal El Saadawi
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
* Professor Martens' Departure - Jaan Kross
Ethiopia
*Cutting for Stone - Abraja, Verghese
The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste (not read yet)
Fiji
Finland
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna
Purge - Sofi Oksanen (not read yet)
France
*Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Life: a User's Manual - Georges Perec
Raymond Queneau, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac
Gabon
The Bambia
Georgia
Germany
*Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
Ghana
Greece
*Deadline in Athens - Pétros Márkarīs
Nikos Kazantzakis
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
*The Dark Child - Camara Laye
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
László Krasznahorkai
*Embers - Sándor Márai
Iceland
Independent People - Halldór Laxness
India
The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Indonesia
The Rainbow Troops - Andrea Hirata
Iran
The Blind Owl - Hidāyat, Ṣādiq
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
*Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Iraq
Ireland
*Amongst Women - John McGahern
The Sea - John Banville
Ulysses - James Joyce
Israel
The Myth of Samson - David Grossman
*To The End of the Land - David Grossman
Italy
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
*If This is Man - Primo Levi
Jamaica
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marion James
Japan
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Dance of the Jakaranda - Peter Kimani
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo
Kiribati
Kurdistan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
10KristelhEdited: Today, 7:45 pm
Best book(s) by Country (using UN list), part 3
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Because They Hate - Brigitte Gabriel (NF)
Lesotho
Chaka - Thomas Mofolo (Wishlist)
Liberia
Libya
Hisham Matar - My Friends Booker Long list
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
*The Garden of Evening Mist - Tan Twan Eng
The Storm We Made - Vanessa Chan
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Island
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Life Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
The Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
*All Souls' Day - Cees Nooteboom
Harry Mulisch
New Zealand
Keri Hulme
Janet Frame
Eleanor Catton
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
North Korea
The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee
Norway
*Kristin lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Growth of Soil - Knut Hamsun
Jon Fosse
Oman
Pakistan
Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Exit West
Palau
Palestine
A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Deep Rivers Jose Maria Arguerdas
Philippines
Poland
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
Flights on my TBR, International Booker
Stanislaw Lem science fiction
Portugal
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis- Jose Saramago
Qatar
Romania
Russia
*The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzehenitsyn
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ
Serbia
Dictionary of the Khazars - Miorad Pavic TBR
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Alamut - Vladimir Bartol
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
*Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
J.M. Coetzee
Nadine Gordimer
South Korea
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
South Sudan
Spain
The Hive - Camilo José Cela
Sri Lanka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
Sudan
Seasons of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
Suriname
Swaziland (Eswatini)
Sweden
The Red Room - August Strindberg
Switzerland
The Judge and the Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Syria
No Knives in the Kitchens of this City - Khālid Khalīfah
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Togo
Tongo
Trinidad and Tobago
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
Jumbies - Tracey Baptiste
Tunisia
Turkey
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
A History of Burning -
Ukraine
The Cathedral - Oles Honchar
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
England
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Scotland
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Wales
Northern Ireland
C.S.Lewis - A Grief Observed
United States Of America
Uruguay
The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti
Memory of Fire - Eduardo Galeano
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Paradise of the Blind - Thu Huong Duong
The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui
Yeman
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
*Favorite books by author/country.
Afghanistan
*A Thousand Splendid Sun (this author is now in US) Khaled Hosseini
The Patience Stone (this author is in France now) - Atiq Rahimi
Albania
*Broken April - Ismail Kadare
Algeria
*The Plague - Albert Camus
Andorra
Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion - Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Antigua and Barbuda
*Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Argentina
Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions
*Fever Dream - Samanta Schwebin
Santa Evita - Tomas Eloy Martinez
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Armenia
Australia
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Deep Road to the North - Richard Flanagan
*Remembering Babylon = David Malouf
Austria
*Old Masters - Thomas Bernhard
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Svetlana Alexievich Secondhand Time not read
Belgium
The Lion of Flanders - Hendrik Conscience
Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Chronicles - Ivo Andric (not read)
Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric (not read)
The Death and the Dervish - Meša Selimović (not read)
Botswana
Brazil
* Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis
Dom Casmurro- Machado de Assis
Devil in Pay in the Backland - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Paulo Coelho
Brunei
Bulgaria
* Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov
Auto de Fe - Elia Canetti
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
*Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Alice Munro
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Cape Verde
Central Affrican Republic
Chad
Chile
Robert Bolano
*Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
China
*Monkey King: Journey to the West
Half a Man is Woman
Columbia
Our Lady of Assassins - Fernando Vallejo
One Hundred Years of Solitude -
*Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Comoros
Congo, Democratric Republic
Congo, Republic of
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Slavenka Drakulic, want to read If I am Not There
Cuba
*The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier
Cyprus
*The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
Czech Republis
*Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabel
Milan Kundara
Denmark
*Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
Djibouti
Dominica
Phillis Shand Allfrey - The Orchid Housee (not read)
*Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic
* The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junet Diaz
The Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
*Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
* Woman at Point Zero - Narwal El Saadawi
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
* Professor Martens' Departure - Jaan Kross
Ethiopia
*Cutting for Stone - Abraja, Verghese
The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste (not read yet)
Fiji
Finland
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna
Purge - Sofi Oksanen (not read yet)
France
*Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Life: a User's Manual - Georges Perec
Raymond Queneau, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac
Gabon
The Bambia
Georgia
Germany
*Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
The Safety Net - Heinrich Böll
Ghana
Greece
*Deadline in Athens - Pétros Márkarīs
Nikos Kazantzakis
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
*The Dark Child - Camara Laye
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
László Krasznahorkai
*Embers - Sándor Márai
Iceland
Independent People - Halldór Laxness
India
The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Indonesia
The Rainbow Troops - Andrea Hirata
Iran
The Blind Owl - Hidāyat, Ṣādiq
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
*Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Iraq
Ireland
*Amongst Women - John McGahern
The Sea - John Banville
Ulysses - James Joyce
Israel
The Myth of Samson - David Grossman
*To The End of the Land - David Grossman
Italy
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
*If This is Man - Primo Levi
Jamaica
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marion James
Japan
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Dance of the Jakaranda - Peter Kimani
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo
Kiribati
Kurdistan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
10KristelhEdited: Today, 7:45 pm
Best book(s) by Country (using UN list), part 3
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Because They Hate - Brigitte Gabriel (NF)
Lesotho
Chaka - Thomas Mofolo (Wishlist)
Liberia
Libya
Hisham Matar - My Friends Booker Long list
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
*The Garden of Evening Mist - Tan Twan Eng
The Storm We Made - Vanessa Chan
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Island
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Life Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
The Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
*All Souls' Day - Cees Nooteboom
Harry Mulisch
New Zealand
Keri Hulme
Janet Frame
Eleanor Catton
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe
North Korea
The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonseo Lee
Norway
*Kristin lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Growth of Soil - Knut Hamsun
Jon Fosse
Oman
Pakistan
Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Exit West
Palau
Palestine
A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Deep Rivers Jose Maria Arguerdas
Philippines
Poland
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
Flights on my TBR, International Booker
Stanislaw Lem science fiction
Portugal
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis- Jose Saramago
Qatar
Romania
Russia
*The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzehenitsyn
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ
Serbia
Dictionary of the Khazars - Miorad Pavic TBR
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Alamut - Vladimir Bartol
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
*Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
J.M. Coetzee
Nadine Gordimer
South Korea
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
South Sudan
Spain
The Hive - Camilo José Cela
Sri Lanka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
Sudan
Seasons of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
Suriname
Swaziland (Eswatini)
Sweden
The Red Room - August Strindberg
Switzerland
The Judge and the Hangman - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Syria
No Knives in the Kitchens of this City - Khālid Khalīfah
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Togo
Tongo
Trinidad and Tobago
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
Jumbies - Tracey Baptiste
Tunisia
Turkey
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
A History of Burning -
Ukraine
The Cathedral - Oles Honchar
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
England
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Scotland
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Wales
Northern Ireland
C.S.Lewis - A Grief Observed
United States Of America
Uruguay
The Shipyard - Juan Carlos Onetti
Memory of Fire - Eduardo Galeano
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Paradise of the Blind - Thu Huong Duong
The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui
Yeman
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
10Kristelh
January Bingo Card
1. The Circle - Dave Eggers (1001)
2. Morality Play - Barry Unsworth (BAC)
3. The Praise Singer - Mary Renault (BAC)
4. Far to Go - Noel Streatfeild
5. Shepherds For Sale
6. The Children of the New Forest - ET
7. The Return of the Native - ET
8. The Professor's House 1001
9. House Mother Normal 1001
10. This Tender Land Bookclub
11. Saving My Assassin Bookclub
12. The Heather Blazing 1001, tbr takedown
13. Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis Pulitzer
14. When the Angels Left the Old Country JBC
15. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont BB
16. The Eclipse of God - Lutzer
17. Black Dekker, TIOLI
18. Truth and Beauty - Anne Patchett
19. Martyr! best of 2024
20. You Dreamed of Empires best of 2024
Bookspin:
Double Spin:
1. The Circle - Dave Eggers (1001)
2. Morality Play - Barry Unsworth (BAC)
3. The Praise Singer - Mary Renault (BAC)
4. Far to Go - Noel Streatfeild
5. Shepherds For Sale
6. The Children of the New Forest - ET
7. The Return of the Native - ET
8. The Professor's House 1001
9. House Mother Normal 1001
10. This Tender Land Bookclub
11. Saving My Assassin Bookclub
12. The Heather Blazing 1001, tbr takedown
13. Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis Pulitzer
14. When the Angels Left the Old Country JBC
15. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont BB
16. The Eclipse of God - Lutzer
17. Black Dekker, TIOLI
18. Truth and Beauty - Anne Patchett
19. Martyr! best of 2024
20. You Dreamed of Empires best of 2024
Bookspin:
Double Spin:
11Kristelh
I will be traveling to Florida from December 28th and it usually takes 3 days so my presence will be decreased. See you in 2025.
12PaulCranswick
Safe travels, Kristel. Great to see you back for another year. xx
14Kristelh
>12 PaulCranswick: Thank you, Paul. I can't even imagine not being a part of the 75ers.
>13 drneutron:. Thank you, Jim. Thanks for all you do.
>13 drneutron:. Thank you, Jim. Thanks for all you do.
