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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.

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    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

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    He Who Searches
    by Luisa Valenzuela

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    The Whispering Land
    by Gerald Durrell

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    The Power of One
    by Bryce Courtenay

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    Man’s search for meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

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

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    QuixotiQ
    by Ali Al Saeed

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    Brick Lane: A Novel
    by Monica Ali

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    The Sea ‘venture

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    The Matter of Desire: A Novel
    by Edmundo Paz Soldan

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    The Bridge Over the Drina
    by Ivo Andric

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    A Question of Power (African Writers)
    by Bessie Head

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    New Islands: And Other Stories
    by Maria Luisa Bombal

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

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    Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
    by Jung Chang

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    Mexico And The Caribbean
    by Lewis Hanke

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    As If I Am Not There
    by Slavenka Drakulic

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    City Sister Silver
    by Jachym Topol

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    Houseboy (African Writers)
    by Ferdinand Oyono

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    Maru (African Writers Series)
    by Bessie Head

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    Children of Gebelawi (African writers series)
    by Najib Mahfuz

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    One Day of Life
    by Manlio Argueta

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    The Egyptian: A Novel
    by Mika Waltari

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

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    The Facade Lady of Corfu (Modern Greek Writers Series)
    by Spyros Plaskovitis

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    Tide Running; A Novel
    by Oonya Kempadoo

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    Complete Works and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)
    by Augusto Monterroso

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

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    Disappearance
    by David Dabydeen

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

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    Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller
    by Arnaldur Indridason

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    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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    A Fine Balance
    by Rohinton Mistry

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    Letters of a Javanese Princess
    by Raden Adjeng Kartini

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    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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    Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by James Joyce

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    To Know a Woman
    by Amos Oz

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    Twilight and Other Stories
    by Shulamith Hareven

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    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

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    The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Umberto Eco

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    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino

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    Certifiable
    by Pamela Mordecai

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

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    Out of Africa (Modern Library)
    by Isak Dinesen

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    Breaking the Tongue: A Novel
    by Vyvyane Loh

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    The Taebaek Mountains
    by Jo Jung-Rae

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    Land
    by Park Kyong-Ni

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    Anarchy and Old Dogs
    by Colin Cotterill

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    The Darling: A Novel
    by Russell Banks

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    In the Country of Men
    by Hisham Matar

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

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    Feng Shui Life Planner
    by Lilian Too

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    Segu
    by Maryse Conde

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    Palestine
    by Joe Sacco

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

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    Neighbours: The Story of a Murder
    by Lilia Momple

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

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    The Discovery of Heaven
    by Harry Mulisch

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    Once Were Warriors
    by Alan Duff

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    Family Album
    by Claribel Alegria

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    Don't Look Back (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)
    by Karin Fossum

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    The Way to Paradise : A Novel
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

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    Cosmos
    by Witold Gombrowicz

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    Imperium
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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    Seeing
    by Jose Saramago

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    Tales from the Mountain
    by Miguel Torga

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    In the Palm of Darkness: A Novel
    by Mayra Montero

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    Qatari Women: Past and Present

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

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    Crossing the River
    by Caryl Phillips

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    Collected poems, 1948-1984
    by Derek Walcott

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    THEY WHO DO NOT GRIEVE
    by SIA FIGIEL

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

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    Dictionary of the Khazars (F)
    by Milorad Pavic

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    Links
    by Nuruddin Farah

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    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

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    The Secret Supper: A Novel
    by Javier Sierra

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    Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics)
    by Miguel De Cervantes

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    Famished Waterfall
    by Jean Arasanayagam

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    Coming Through Slaughter
    by Michael Ondaatje

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    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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

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

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    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

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    Istanbul: Memories and the City
    by Orhan Pamuk

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    Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Sixtonian: Vignettes 'Bout Amalia
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    Paradise of the Blind: A Novel
    by Thu Huong Duong

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    Hungry As The Sea
    by Wilbur Smith

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

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    Dakar Childhood (Drumbeats S.)
    by Natiassatou Diallo

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    A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
    by Marina Lewycka

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

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    Cannery Row
    by John Steinbeck

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

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    July's People
    by Nadine Gordimer

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    Letters of a Javanese Princess
    by Raden Adjeng Kartini

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    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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  103. 110.
    The House at Sugar Beach: A Memoir
    by Helene Cooper

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  104. 111.
    The Saffron Kitchen
    by Yasmin Crowther

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  105. 112.
    The Story of Lucy Gault
    by William Trevor

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    Turning Japanese
    by Cathy Yardley

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