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bartzturkeymom's "2008 Olympics Reading Challenge"

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The point is to read one author per each of the 205 nations participating in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games by the end of the games. This seems like a real fit for me as I like challenges, I love learning about the world—both past and present, and I love to read. My original goal for 2006 was only to read 50 books. I have to confess that I’m going to really have to step it up in order to make that goal much less this new one, but I think I can do it! (she says naively, having bitten off more than she can chew.)

These are by no means the only books that can be chosen for the challenge. They are just mine and they only represent the countries for which I have found a book that fits the challenge and sounds interesting to me. I wish I could list the country and follow it with the book(s) I’ve chosen, but it looks like I can only list items on the list and not places. I’ll list the books in order by country and then list the countries with the titles in the comments as I read them.

  1. 10.
    The Kite Runner
    by Khaled Hosseini

  2. 11.
    Broken April
    by Ismail Kadare

  3. 12.

  4. 13.
    At the Bottom of the River
    by Jamaica Kincaid

  5. 14.
    Seven Little Australians
    by Ethel Turner

  6. 15.
    Middle Passages (New Directions)
    by Kamau Brathwaite

  7. 16.
    Summer in Baden-Baden
    by Leonid Tsypkin

  8. 17.
    The Book of Proper Names
    by Amelie Nothomb

  9. 18.
    Beka Lamb (Caribbean Writers Series)
    by Zee Edgell

  10. 19.
    Essential African Mythology: Stories That Change the World
    by Ngangur Mbitu

  11. 20.
    You Shall Know Our Velocity
    by Dave Eggers

  12. 22.
    Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 7)
    by Alexander McCall Smith

  13. 23.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho

  14. 24.
    ?
    The Wheaten Loaf

  15. 25.

  16. 26.
    A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
    by Anthony Bourdain

  17. 27.
    The Robber Bride
    by Margaret Atwood

  18. 28.
    The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo
    by Germano Almeida

  19. 29.
    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck

  20. 30.
    Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  21. 31.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  22. 32.
    ?
    Cook Islands Legends
    by Jon Jonassen

  23. 33.
    ?
    The Shadow of Imana (Caribbean Writers SeriesRG)
    by Veronique Tadjo

  24. 34.
    Monkey Hunting
    by Cristina Garcia

  25. 36.

  26. 37.
    Before We Were Free
    by Julia Alvarez

  27. 38.
    Sweetness in the Belly: A Novel
    by Camilla Gibb

  28. 39.

  29. 40.
    Mema (African Writers Series)
    by Daniel Mengara

  30. 41.
    Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
    by Hermann Hesse

  31. 42.
    Changes: A Love Story
    by Ama Ata Aidoo

  32. 43.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernieres

  33. 44.
    A Long Way Down
    by Nick Hornby

  34. 45.
    Enrique's Journey
    by Sonia Nazario

  35. 46.
    White Ghost Girls
    by Alice Greenway

  36. 47.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

  37. 49.
    The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4)
    by Eoin Colfer

  38. 50.
    Island Songs
    by Alex Wheatle

  39. 51.
    Shipwrecks
    by Akira Yoshimura

  40. 52.
    The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
    by J. Maarten Troost

  41. 53.
    The Yankee Girl: A Korean Girl's Journey to Find Herself
    by Kyusun Chung

  42. 54.
    The Last Templar
    by Raymond Khoury

  43. 55.
    Chaka (African Writers)
    by Thomas Mofolo

  44. 56.
    Swift as Desire
    by Laura Esquivel

  45. 57.
    The Piano Tuner: A Novel
    by Daniel Mason

  46. 60.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  47. 61.
    ?
    The Whale Rider
    by Witi Ihimaera

  48. 62.
    The Icarus Girl
    by Helen Oyeyemi

  49. 63.
    Gabriel's Gift: A Novel
    by Hanif Kureishi

  50. 64.
    The News from Paraguay: A Novel
    by Lily Tuck

  51. 65.

  52. 66.
    Dogeaters
    by Jessica Hagedorn

  53. 67.
    Suite Francaise
    by Irene Nemirovsky

  54. 68.
    Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
    by Immaculée Ilibagiza

  55. 70.
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    by Ishmael Beah

  56. 71.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

  57. 72.
    Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
    by Al-Tayyib Salih; Tayeb Salih

  58. 73.
    Hanna's Daughters (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Marianne Fredriksson

  59. 74.
    On Love: A Novel
    by Alain de Botton

  60. 75.
    Nest in a Cage
    by Foluke Ogunleye

  61. 76.
    Bangkok Tattoo
    by John Burdett

  62. 77.
    Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel
    by Moses Isegawa

  63. 78.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  64. 81.
    Friends, Lovers, Chocolate: Book 2 in the Sunday Philosophy Club series
    by Alexander Mccall Smith

  65. 82.
    Micronesian Legends
    by Bo Flood

  66. 83.
    Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
    by Tony Horwitz

  67. 84.
    Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
    by Rita Golden Gelman

  68. 86.
    Cafe Au Lait (Leisure Contemporary Romance)
    by Liane Spicer

  69. 87.
    A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
    by Frances Mayes

  70. 88.
    After the Quake: Stories
    by Haruki Murakami

  71. 89.
    The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
    by Xinran Xinran

  72. 90.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  73. 91.
    ?
    Truly Married Woman and Other Stories (Three Crowns)
    by Abioseh Nicol

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