50 Books Challenge

[flytastic]

Just so I can keep a list of all my suggestions for international authors and books I need to read this year:

British Isles (8):

1. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (England) - Man Booker Prize
2. Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel (England) - Man Booker Prize
3. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears (England)
4. Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (England)
5. On Beauty - Zadie Smith (England)
6. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (England)
7. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott (Scotland)
8. Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (Ireland)

Continental Europe (9)

1. Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes (Spain)
2. Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (France)
3. The Stranger - Albert Camus (France)
4. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass (Germany)
5. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece)
6. The Divine Comedy - Dante (Italy)
7. With Fire and Sword - Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
8. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden)
9. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Russia)

Africa, India, and Middle East (3)

1. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
2. Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih (Sudan)
3. Ramayana - William Buck (Indian, but Western translator)

North America (2)

1. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood (Canada)
2. Bitten - Kelley Armstrong (Canada)

Carribean and South America (3)

1. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua and Barbuda)
2. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende (Peru)
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)

Asia and Pacific Islands (1)

1. Audition - Ryū Murakami (Japan)

Total: 26
Total Read: 0

I'm all set for English literature, but I would love to venture further into continental Europe. I also need to research some good Mexican novels, as well as descend further into South America. I'll snag some Mario Vargos Llosa and some Che Guevara, as well as Carlos Ruiz Zafron for modern Spainish lit. I'm REALLY lacking in Northern and Southern African lit, Middle Eastern, and Asian authors. I also should slip some Australian authors in there too.

I'm going to keep editing this as I add more titles to this list. I also will commit to writing up reviews of each book, so that I can share them with library patrons and keep them abreast of what I'm tackling this year.

Woo!

Comments

[kol]

Kelley Armstrong is Canadian, and I'm devouring her Women of the Otherworld series (yay 13 books of awesome ladies :D)

Also, Dualed is a YA novel coming out this month by a new author from British Columbia.

Actually the other book I'm looking forward to reading this month is by a Scottish author, too. Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina

.... I just realized nearly all the books I'm intending to read this year are by women. SO COOL :D