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bartzturkeymom's "2012 Olympics Reading Challenge"

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The point is to read one author per each of the 205 nations participating in the 2012 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.

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. 2.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

  2. 4.
    He Who Searches (Latin American Literature)
    by Luisa Valenzuela

  3. 5.
    The Whispering Land
    by Gerald Durrell

  4. 6.
    Power of One
    by Bryce Courtenay

  5. 7.
    Man’s search for meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

  6. 8.
    The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
    by Sidney Poitier

  7. 9.
    QuixotiQ
    by Ali Al Saeed

  8. 10.
    Brick Lane: A Novel
    by Monica Ali

  9. 11.
    ?
    The Sea ‘venture

  10. 12.
    The Matter of Desire: A Novel
    by Edmundo Paz Soldan

  11. 13.
    Bridge Over the Drina
    by Ivo Andric

  12. 14.
    A Question of Power
    by Bessie Head

  13. 16.
    New Islands: And Other Stories
    by María Luisa Bombal

  14. 17.

  15. 18.
    Savage: the Life And Times Of Jemmy Button
    by Nick Hazlewood

  16. 19.
    Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
    by Jung Chang

  17. 20.
    ?
    Mexico And The Caribbean
    by Lewis Hanke

  18. 21.
    As If I Am Not There
    by Slavenka Drakulic

  19. 22.
    City Sister Silver (paperback)
    by Jachym Topol

  20. 23.
    Houseboy (African Writers)
    by Ferdinand Oyono

  21. 24.
    Maru (African Writers Series)
    by Bessie Head

  22. 26.
    ?
    Children of Gebelawi (African writers series)
    by Najib Mahfuz

  23. 27.
    One Day of Life
    by Manlio Argueta

  24. 28.
    The Egyptian: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
    by Mika Waltari

  25. 29.
    ?
    Ndowe Tales I: The Ndowe Series
    by Enenge, M.D. A'Bodjedi

  26. 30.
    ?
    The Facade Lady of Corfu (Modern Greek Writers Series)
    by Spyros Plaskovitis

  27. 31.
    ?
    Tide Running; A Novel
    by Oonya Kempadoo

  28. 32.
    ?
    Complete Works and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
    by Augusto Monterroso

  29. 33.
    The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
    by Camara Laye

  30. 34.
    Disappearance
    by David Dabydeen

  31. 35.
    Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Edwidge Danticat

  32. 36.
    Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller
    by Arnaldur Indridason

  33. 37.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

  34. 38.
    A Fine Balance
    by Rohinton Mistry

  35. 39.
    Letters Of A Javanese Princess
    by Raden Adjeng Kartini

  36. 40.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

  37. 41.
    Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by James Joyce

  38. 42.
    To Know a Woman
    by Amos Oz

  39. 43.
    ?
    Twilight and Other Stories
    by Shulamith Hareven

  40. 44.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

  41. 46.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino

  42. 47.
    Certifiable
    by Pamela Mordecai

  43. 48.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

  44. 49.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
    by Isak Dinesen

  45. 50.
    Breaking the Tongue: A Novel
    by Vyvyane Loh

  46. 51.
    ?
    The Taebaek Mountains
    by Jo Jung-Rae

  47. 52.
    ?
    Land
    by Park Kyong-Ni

  48. 53.
    Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun)
    by Colin Cotterill

  49. 54.
    The Darling: A Novel
    by Russell Banks

  50. 55.
    In the Country of Men
    by Hisham Matar

  51. 56.
    Of Chameleons and Gods (African Writers SeriesRG)
    by Jack Mapanje

  52. 57.
    Feng Shui Life Planner
    by Lilian Too

  53. 58.
    ?
    Segu
    by Maryse Conde

  54. 59.
    Palestine
    by Joe Sacco

  55. 60.
    The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
    by Tahir Shah

  56. 61.
    ?
    Neighbours: The Story of a Murder
    by Lilia Momple

  57. 62.
    The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (African Writers)
    by Neshani Andreas

  58. 63.
    The Discovery of Heaven
    by Harry Mulisch

  59. 64.
    Once Were Warriors
    by Alan Duff

  60. 65.
    Family Album
    by Claribel Alegria

  61. 66.
    Don't Look Back
    by Karin Fossum

  62. 67.
    The Way to Paradise : A Novel
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

  63. 68.
    Cosmos
    by Witold Gombrowicz

  64. 69.
    Imperium
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski

  65. 70.
    Seeing
    by Jose Saramago

  66. 71.
    Tales from the Mountain
    by Miguel Torga

  67. 72.
    In the Palm of Darkness: A Novel
    by Mayra Montero

  68. 73.
    ?
    Qatari Women: Past and Present

  69. 74.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  70. 75.
    Crossing the River
    by Caryl Phillips

  71. 76.
    Collected poems, 1948-1984
    by Derek Walcott

  72. 77.
    THEY WHO DO NOT GRIEVE
    by SIA FIGIEL

  73. 78.
    So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
    by Mariama Ba

  74. 79.

  75. 80.
    Links
    by Nuruddin Farah

  76. 81.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

  77. 82.
    ?
    The Secret Supper: A Novel
    by Javier Sierra

  78. 83.
    Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

  79. 84.
    ?
    Famished Waterfall
    by Jean Arasanayagam

  80. 85.
    Coming Through Slaughter
    by Michael Ondaatje

  81. 86.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

  82. 87.
    Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet (Interlink World Fiction)
    by Ulfat Idilbi

  83. 88.
    An African in Greenland (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Tete-Michel Kpomassie

  84. 89.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

  85. 90.

  86. 91.
    Istanbul: Memories and the City
    by Orhan Pamuk

  87. 92.
    Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed)
    by Nikolai Gogol

  88. 94.
    ?

  89. 96.
    ?
    Sixtonian: Vignettes 'Bout Amalia
    by Geraldo Guirty

  90. 97.
    Paradise of the Blind: A Novel
    by Duong Thu Huong

  91. 98.
    Hungry As The Sea
    by Wilbur Smith

  92. 99.
    Blood Of Montenegro: A story of Civil War Reenactment
    by Bajram A. Koljenovic

  93. 100.
    ?
    Dakar Childhood (Drumbeats S.)
    by Natiassatou Diallo

  94. 101.
    A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
    by Marina Lewycka

  95. 103.
    Bella Tuscany: the Sweet Life in Italy
    by Frances Mayes (author of Under the Tuscan Sun)

  96. 104.
    Cannery Row
    by John Steinbeck

  97. 105.
    Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia
    by Louisa Waugh

  98. 106.
    July's People
    by Nadine Gordimer

  99. 107.
    Letters of a Javanese Princess
    by Raden Adjeng Kartini

  100. 108.
    ?
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  101. 109.
    Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
    by Mary Morris

  102. 110.
    The House at Sugar Beach: A Memoir
    by Helene Cooper

  103. 111.
    The Saffron Kitchen
    by Yasmin Crowther

  104. 112.
    The Story of Lucy Gault: A Novel
    by William Trevor

  105. 113.
    ?
    Turning Japanese
    by Cathy Yardley

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