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message 1: by Jeri (last edited Dec 23, 2024 09:15PM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments (2026 do an A-Z Country Challenge!!)
WORLD READING TRIP

A
Afghanistan - The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini 08/2017
Albania - Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare 01/2021
Algeria - The Stranger by Albert Camus07/2017
>The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Andorra Andorra by Peter Cameron 6/2023
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda - Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid 06/2018
Argentina - Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig 06/27/17
Armenia
Australia - Murder Down Under byArthur W. Upfield 11/2021
Austria - Chess Story by Stefan Zweig 06/2017
Azerbaijan Ali and Nino by Kurban Said 02/2022
B
Bahamas - Any Human Heart byWilliam Boyd 11/2020
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados - No Man in the House by Cecil Foster 10/2017
Belarus Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
Belgium Cheese by Willem Elsschot 02/2022
Belize On heroes, lizards and passion byZoila Ellis 10/2017
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia The Fat Man from La Paz: Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia by Rosario Santos completed 10/2017
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley completed 12/2021
Brazil - Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis completed 06/05/17
Brunei
Bulgaria - On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev completed 04/20
Burkina Faso
Burundi An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd completed 02/2022
C
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
>Alberta - Chorus Of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto completed 06/2017
>British Columbia - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki completed 06/2017
>Manitoba - Larry's Party by Carol Shields completed 06/2017
>New Brunswick The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards completed 11/2022
>Newfoundland/Labrador The Bird Artist by Howard Norman completed 10/2022
>Northwest Territories
>Nova Scotia Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald completed 09/2022
>Nunavut
>Ontario Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro completed 08/2017
> Prince Edward Island Grinder: A Mystery by Mike Knowles completed 08/2017
>Quebec Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill - completed 06/17/17
>Saskatchewan - Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper completed 06/06/17
>Yukon White Fang by Jack London completed 09/2020
Central African Republic (CAR)
Chad The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary 06/2023
Chile Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra completed 09/2017
China Red Sorghum by Mo Yan completed 01/2022
Colombia One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez finished June 15, 2017
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad completed 06/2017
Republic of the Congo - King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild completed 06/2017
Costa Rica Returning Home by Anthony Trollope
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža completed 07/2022
Cuba Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante 02/2022
Cyprus
Czech Republic The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera completed 07/2018
D
Denmark The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Djibouti
Dominica - Wide Sargasso Sea byJean Rhys completed 08/2017
Dominican Republic In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez completed 09/2017
E
Ecuador Blood Lake by K.J.A. Wishnia completed 01/2019
Egypt Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi completed 08/2017
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste completed 07/2017
F
Fiji
Finland the hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto completed 09/2017
France - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 06/2017
G
Gabon
Gambia A Season In Sinji by J.L. Carr completed 08/2023
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller finished 10/2021
Grenada - The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross completed 10/2022
Guatemala - Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope by Beatriz Manz 07/2017
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana Green Mansions by William H. Hudson completed 09/2022
H
Haiti The Farming of Bones byEdwidge Danticat completed 12/2017
Honduras The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux completed 01/2022
> The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston completed 03/2022
Hungary Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
I
Iceland Independent People by Halldór Kiljan Laxness completed 07/2018
India A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry completed 07/2017
Indonesia Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad completed 06/2018
Iran Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books byAzar Nafisi completed 07/2018
Iraq
Ireland At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Israel A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman completed 07/2017
Italy The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa completed09/2017
J
Jamaica - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 07/2017
Japan - Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura 07/2017
Jordan
K
Kazakhstan Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman completed 02/2022
Kenya Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
L
Laos - The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill completed 10/2018
Latvia Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming by Inara Verzemnieks completed 09/2017
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania - Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić 04/2023
Luxembourg
M
Macedonia (FYROM)
Madagascar
Malawi The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba completed 08/2017
Malaysia Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari completed 06/2022
Maldives
Mali - The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer completed 06/2017
Malta V. by Thomas Pynchon 10/2023
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi 06/2023
Mexico - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 06/2017
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco Loser Takes All by Graham Greene June/2023
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco - The Forgiven byLawrence Osborne 03/2019
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)


message 2: by Jeri (last edited Jul 11, 2024 10:23PM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather

1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber
1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling

1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee

1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux
1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks
2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2016 - The Sympathizer by Nguyen
2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2019 - The Overstory Powell
2020 - Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2022 - The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

2023 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2023 - Trust by Hernan Diaz
2024 - Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
2025 -


message 3: by Jeri (last edited Oct 19, 2024 10:45AM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Nobel Prize in Literature

1. Sully Prudhomme
2. Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
3. Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
4. José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
5. Frédéric Mistral
6. Henryk Sienkiewicz
7. Giosuè Carducci
8. Rudyard Kipling
9. Rudolf Christoph Eucken
10. Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
11. Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
12. Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
13. Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
14. Rabindranath Tagore
15. Romain Rolland
16. Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam
17. Karl Adolph Gjellerup
18. Henrik Pontoppidan
19. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
20. Knut Pedersen Hamsun
21. Anatole France
22. Jacinto Benavente
23. William Butler Yeats
24. Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
25. George Bernard Shaw

26. Grazia Deledda
27. Henri Bergson
28. Sigrid Undset
29. Thomas Mann
30. Sinclair Lewis

31. Erik Axel Karlfeldt
32. John Galsworthy
33. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
34. Luigi Pirandello
35. Eugene Gladstone O'neill
36. Roger Martin Du Gard

37. Pearl S. Buck
38. Frans Eemil Sillanpää
39. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
40. Gabriela Mistral
41. Hermann Hesse
42. André Paul Guillaume Gide
43. Thomas Stearns Eliot
44. William Faulkner
45. Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

46. Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
47. François Mauriac
48. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
49. Ernest Miller Hemingway
50. Halldór Kiljan Laxness
51. Juan Ramón Jiménez

52. Albert Camus
53. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

54. Salvatore Quasimodo
55. Saint-John Perse
56. Ivo Andric
57. John Steinbeck
58. Giorgos Seferis
59. Jean-Paul Sartre
60. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
61. Nelly Sachs
62. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
63. Miguel Angel Asturias
64. Yasunari Kawabata
65. Samuel Beckett
66. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
67. Pablo Neruda

68. Heinrich Böll
69. Patrick White
70. Harry Martinson
71. Eyvind Johnson
72. Eugenio Montale
73. Saul Bellow
74. Vicente Aleixandre
75. Isaac Bashevis Singer
76. Odysseus Elytis
77. Czeslaw Milosz
78. Elias Canetti
79. Gabriel García Márquez
80. William Golding
81. Jaroslav Seifert

82. Claude Simon
83. Wole Soyinka
84. Joseph Brodsky
85. Naguib Mahfouz
86. Camilo José Cela
87. Octavio Paz
88. Nadine Gordimer
89. Derek Walcott
90. Toni Morrison
91. Kenzaburo Oe
92. Seamus Heaney
93. Wislawa Szymborska
94. Dario Fo
95. José Saramago
96. Günter Grass
97. Gao Xingjian

98. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
99. Imre Kertész

100. John M. Coetzee
101. Elfriede Jelinek

102. Harold Pinter
103. Orhan Pamuk
104. Doris Lessing

105. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
106. Herta Müller
107. Mario Vargas Llosa
108. Tomas Tranströmer

109. Mo Yan
110. Alice Munro
111. Patrick Modiano (Patrick Modiano)
112. Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexievich)
113. Bob Dylan
114. Kazuo Ishiguro
115. Olga Tokarczuk
116. Peter Handke
117. Louise Gluck
118. Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021)
119. Annie Ernaux (2022)
120. Jon Fosse (2023)
121. Han Kang (2024)


message 4: by Jeri (last edited Nov 08, 2022 03:29PM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments ✔✔ Terry Pratchett's Discworld ✔✔

1. The Color of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
2. The Light Fantastic
3. Equal Rites
4. Mort
5. Sourcery
6. Wyrd Sisters
7. Pyramids
8. Guards! Guards!
9. Eric
10. Moving Pictures
11. Reaper Man
12. Witches Abroad
13. Small Gods
14. Lords and Ladies
15. Men at Arms
16. Soul Music
17. Interesting Times
18. Maskerade
19. Feet of Clay
20. Hogfather
21. Jingo
22. The Last Continent
23. Carpe Jugulum
24. The Fifth Elephant
25. The Truth
26. Thief of Time
27. The Last Hero
28. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
29. Night Watch
30. Wee Free Men
31. Monstrous Regiment
32. A Hat Full of Sky
33. Going Postal
34. Thud!
35. Wintersmith
36. Making Money
37. Unseen Academicals
38. I Shall Wear Midnight
39. Snuff
40. Raising Steam
41. The Shepherd's Crown



message 5: by Jeri (last edited Dec 22, 2024 07:54AM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments 2023 Wrap Up - Countries of Europe:

Armenia (transcontinental - generally considered Asian)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cyprus (generally considered European)

Estonia

Georgia (transcontinental - generally considered Asian) A Hero of Our Time with Biographical Introduction by Mikhail Lermontov

Liechtenstein Ludmila: A Story Of Liechtenstein by Paul Gallico

Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

North Macedonia

San Marino


message 6: by Jeri (last edited Dec 01, 2024 06:37PM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Neustadt International Prize for Literature Winners
https://www.listchallenges.com/neusta...

1. Giuseppe Ungaretti
2. Gabriel García Márquez
3. Francis Ponge
4. Elizabeth Bishop
5. Czesław Miłosz
6. Josef Škvorecký
7. Octavio Paz
8. Paavo Haavikko
9. Max Frisch
10. Raja Rao
11. Tomas Tranströmer
12. João Cabral De Melo Neto
13. Edward Kamau Brathwaite
14. Assia Djebar
15. Nuruddin Farah
16. David Malouf
17. Álvaro Mutis
18. Adam Zagajewski
19. Claribel Alegría
20. Patricia Grace
21. Duo Duo
22. Rohinton Mistry
23. Mia Couto
24. Dubravka Ugrešić
25. Edwidge Danticat
26. Margarita Engle
27. Ismail Kadare

28. Boubacar Boris Diop
29. Ananda Devi
30. 2026


message 7: by Jeri (last edited Dec 30, 2024 09:29AM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Balzac's Human Comedy: One Suggested Reading Order
https://www.listchallenges.com/balzac...

1. Old Goriot (Honoré De Balzac)
2. The Chouans (Honoré De Balzac)
3. An Episode Under the Terror (Honore De Balzac)
4. The Vendetta (Honore De Balzac)
5. The Recruit (Aka the Conscript) (Balzac)
6. The Red Inn (Balzac)
7. Juana (Aka the Maranas) (Balzac)
8. A Passion in the Desert (Balzac)
9. The Exiles (Balzac)
10. Christ in Flanders (Balzac)
11. Maitre Cornelius (Balzac)
12. A Second Home (Aka a Double Family / Double Life) (Balzac)
13. A Murky Business (Honoré De Balzac)
14. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (Aka the House of the Tennis-Playing Cat, Aka Fame and Sorrow) (Balzac)
15. The Executioner (Aka El Verdugo) (Balzac)
16. Domestic Peace (Aka Peace in the Home) (Balzac)
17. Louis Lambert (Balzac)
18. The Alkahest (Balzac)
19. A Woman of Thirty (Honoré De Balzac)
20. The Girl With the Golden Eyes (Balzac)
21. The Black Sheep (Honoré De Balzac)
22. The Elixir of Life (Balzac)
23. About Catherine De Medici (Preface / Introduction) (Balzac)
24. About Catherine De Medici: The Calvinist Martyr (Balzac)
25. Eugénie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)
26. About Catherine De Medici: The Ruggieri's Secret (Balzac)
27. About Catherine De Medici: The Two Dreams (Balzac)
28. Cesar Birotteau (Honore De Balzac)
29. The Unknown Masterpiece (Honoré De Balzac)
30. Sarrasine (Balzac)
31. The Hated Son (Honore De Balzac)
32. Adieu (Balzac)
33. Ferragus (Balzac)
34. The Message (Balzac)
35. Colonel Chabert (Honoré De Balzac)
36. Facino Cane (Balzac)
37. Lost Illusions 1: The Two Poets (Balzac)
38. Lost Illusions 2: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Balzac)
39. Lost Illusions 3: Eve and David (Balzac)
40. La Grenadiere (Balzac)

41. Massimilla Doni (Honoré De Balzac)
42. Lilly of the Valley (Balzac)
43. Melmoth Reconciled (Balzac)
44. The Atheist's Mass (Honoré De Balzac)
45. An Old Maid (Honoré De Balzac)
46. The Cabinet of Antiquities (Balzac)

47. Drama on the Seashore (Balzac)
48. The Duchesse of Langeais (Honoré De Balzac)
49. Madame Firmiani (Balzac)
50. The Sons of the Soil (Aka the Peasantry) (Balzac)
51. Esther Happy (Scenes From a Courtesan's Life 1) (Balzac)
52. What Love Costs an Old Man (Scenes From a Courtesan's Life 2) (Balzac)
53. The End of Evil Ways (Scenes From a Courtesan's Life 3) (Balzac)
54. Vautrin's Last Avatar (Scenes From a Courtesan's Life 4) (Balzac)
55. Modeste Mignon (Honoré De Balzac)
56. The Purse (Balzac)
57. The Ball at Sceaux (Balzac)
58. The Marriage Contract (Balzac)
59. Gobseck (Honoré De Balzac)
60. The Deserted Woman (Balzac)
61. Study of a Woman (Balzac)
62. The Commission in Lunacy (Aka the Interdiction) (Balzac)
63. A Start in Life (Balzac)

64. The Vicar of Tours (Balzac)
65. The Country Doctor (Honoré De Balzac)
66. Another Study of Woman (Balzac)
67. La Grande Breteche (Balzac)

68. Letters of Two Brides (Aka Memoirs of Two Young Married Women) (Balzac)
69. Pierette (Balzac)
70. Pierre Grassou (Balzac)

71. The Government Clerks (Aka Bureaucracy) (Balzac)
72. The Wild Ass's Skin (Honoré De Balzac)
73. The Illustrious Gaudissart (Aka Gaudissart the Great) (Balzac)
74. A Man of Business (Balzac)

75. A Daughter of Eve (Honoré De Balzac)
76. Ursula (Honoré De Balzac)
77. A Princess's Secrets (Balzac)
78. Honorine (Balzac)
79. Albert Savarus (Honoré De Balzac)

80. Gambara (Honoré De Balzac)
81. The Firm of Nucingen (Honoré De Balzac)
82. Madame De La Chanterie (Balzac)
83. The Brotherhood of Consolation: The Initiated (Balzac)
84. The Imaginary Mistress (Aka Paz, Aka the False Mistress) (Balzac)
85. A Prince of Bohemia (Balzac)
86. Beatrix (Honoré De Balzac)
87. Z Marcas (Balzac)
88. The Muse of the Department (Balzac)
89. The Country Parson (Balzac)
90. Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
91. Cousin Pons (Honoré De Balzac)
92. The Lesser Bourgeoisie (Aka the Middle Classes) (Balzac)
93. Gaudissart II (Balzac)
94. The Deputy of Arcis (Aka the Member for Arcis) (Balzac)
95. The Unconscious Comedians (Aka the Unconscious Humourists) (Balzac)
96. The Physiology of Marriage (Balzac)
97. The Petty Troubles of Married Life (Balzac)
98. Seraphita (Honore De Balzac)


message 9: by Jeri (last edited May 26, 2023 08:03AM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Carolien wrote: "Interesting lists, Jeri!

For some of the African countries which you are missing, here are some options:

Angola - Transparent City
Central African Republic - [book:Co-wives, Co-wi..."


Thank you so much! This is such a generous help and saves so much time researching!. :-)


message 10: by Jeri (last edited Dec 22, 2024 07:55AM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Jeri wrote: "WORLD READING TRIP

N
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal High Road To China byJon Cleary
Netherlands The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
New Zealand
Nicaragua A Flag For Sunrise by Robert Stone completed 08/2017
Niger
Nigeria Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe completed 08/2017
North Korea - The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee 06/2017
Norway The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas completed 11/2017
Oman
P
Pakistan Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie completed 09/2018
Palau
Palestine
Panama Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck completed 02/2018
Peru The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa completed 07/2017
Philippines Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 08/2024
Poland The Tin Drum by Günter Grass completed 08/2017
Portugal Blindness by José Saramago completed 06/2018
Q
Qatar
R
Romania - In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan 06/2017
Russia A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles completed 08/2017
Rwanda An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd completed 02/2022 duplicate from Brunei
S
Saint Kitts and Nevis Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Saint Lucia Omeros by Derek Walcott completed 03/2022
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines The Moon Is Following Me by Cecil Browne completed 2022
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène completed 07/2017
Serbia Greenmantle by John Buchan
Seychelles
Sierra Leone The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene completed 06/2018]
Singapore
Slovakia The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Slovenia Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Solomon Islands
Somalia North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
South Africa - Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer 06/2017
South Korea The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story Hyeonseo Lee completed 06/2017
South Sudan The River War by Sir Winston S. Churchill completed 07/2023
Spain The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón completed 02/2018
Sri Lanka - Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera completed 04/2020
Sudan Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih completed 07/2023
Suriname Oroonoko by Aphra Behn completed 07/2017
Swaziland
Sweden The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall completed 08/2017
Switzerland Heidi by Johanna Spyri completed 08/2017
Syria
T
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd 02/2022 (3rd country)
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul completed 08/2017
Tunisia
Turkey Madonna in a Fur Coat bySabahattin Ali completed 07/2017
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
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Uganda
Ukraine -A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian byMarina Lewycka completed 11/2021
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Kingdom (UK) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome completed
United States of America (USA) -American Gods by Neil Gaiman 05/2017
Uruguay The Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal completed 2017
Uzbekistan
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Vanuatu
Vatican City (Holy See) The Confessor by Daniel Silva Aug/2024
Venezuela
Vietnam The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen completed
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Yemen
Z
Zambia - The Old Drift byNamwali Serpell completed 06/2019
ZimbabweNervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga completed



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Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction

1. The Man With the Golden Arm
2. The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
3. From Here to Eternity
4. Invisible Man

5. The Adventures of Augie March
6. A Fable
7. Ten North Frederick
8. The Field of Vision
9. The Wapshot Chronicle
10. The Magic Barrel
11. Goodbye, Columbus
12. The Waters of Kronos
13. The Moviegoer
14. Morte D'urban
15. The Centaur
16. Herzog

17. Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
18. The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
19. The Eighth Day
20. Steps
21. Them
22. Mr. Sammler's Planet
23. The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
24. Chimera
25. Augustus
26. Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)

27. A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
28. Dog Soldiers
29. The Hair of Harold Roux
30. JR
31. The Spectator Bird
32. Blood Tie
33. Going After Cacciato
34. Sophie's Choice
35. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
36. Plains Song
37. The Stories of John Cheever

38. Rabbit Is Rich
39. So Long, See You Tomorrow
40. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
41. Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
42. Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
43. White Noise
44. World's Fair
45. Paco's Story
46. Paris Trout
47. Spartina
48. Middle Passage
49. Mating
50. All the Pretty Horses

51. The Shipping News
52. A Frolic of His Own
53. Sabbath's Theater
54. Ship Fever and Other Stories
55. Cold Mountain
56. Charming Billy
57. Waiting
58. In America
59. The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
60. Three Junes
61. The Great Fire
62. The News From Paraguay
63. Europe Central
64. The Echo Maker
65. Tree of Smoke
66. Shadow Country
67. Let the Great World Spin
68. Lord of Misrule
69. Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward)
70. The Round House
71. The Good Lord Bird (James McBride)
72. Redeployment (Phil Klay)
73. Fortune Smiles (Adam Johnson)
74. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
75. Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
76. The Friend (Sigrid Nunez)
77. Trust Exercise (Susan Choi)
78. Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu)
79. Hell of a Book (Jason Mott)
80. The Rabbit Hutch (Tess Gunty)
81. Blackouts (Justin Torres)

82. James by Percival Everett 2024
83. 2025


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Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Winners of the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969-2023)


1. Something to Answer for (P. H. Newby)
2. The Elected Member (Bernice Rubens)
3. Troubles (J. G. Farrell)
4. In a Free State (V.S. Naipaul)
5. G (John Berger)
6. The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)
7. The Conservationist (Nadine Gordimer)
8. Holiday (Stanley Middleton)
9. Heat and Dust (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
10. Saville (David Storey)
11. Staying on (Paul Scott)
12. The Sea the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
13. Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)
14. Rites of Passage (William Golding)
15. Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
16. Schindler's Ark (Thomas Keneally)
17. Life and Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee)
18. Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
19. The Bone People (Keri Hulme)
20. The Old Devils (Kingsley Amis)
21. Moon Tiger (Penelope Lively)
22. Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey)
23. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
24. Possession (A.S. Byatt)
25. The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
26. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
27. Sacred Hunger (Barry Unsworth)
28. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)
29. How Late It Was, How Late (James Kelman)
30. The Ghost Road (Pat Barker)
31. Last Orders (Graham Swift)
32. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
33. Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
34. Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
35. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
36. True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey)
37. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
38. Vernon God Little (D.B.C. Pierre)
39. The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
40. The Sea (John Banville)
41. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
42. The Gathering (Anne Enright)
43. The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
44. Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
45. The Finkler Question (Howard Jacobson)
46. The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
47. Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
48. The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton)
49. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan)
50. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
51. The Sellout (Paul Beatty)
52. Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
53. Milkman (Anna Burns)
54. The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)
55. Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo)
56. Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)
57. The Promise (Damon Galgut)
58. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka)
59. Prophet Song (Paul Lynch)

60. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 2024


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Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments And the next great challenge will be??? 2025 is a clean up year.


message 14: by Jeri (last edited Jan 27, 2025 11:32AM) (new)

Jeri (jerireads) | 182 comments Winners of the Women's Prize for Fiction 1996 - 2023
https://www.listchallenges.com/winner...

1. A Spell of Winter
2. Fugitive Pieces
3. Larry's Party (Carol Shields)
4. A Crime in the Neighbourhood (Suzanne Berne)

5. When I Lived in Modern Times (Linda Grant)
6. The Idea of Perfection (Kate Grenville)
7. Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
8. Property (Valerie Martin)
9. Small Island (Andrea Levy)
10. We Need to Talk About Kevin
11. On Beauty
12. Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

13. The Road Home (Rose Remain)
14. Home
15. The Lacuna (Barbara Kingsolver)

16. The Tiger's Wife (Tea Obreht)
17. The Song of Achilles
18. May We Be Forgiven (A.M. Homes)
19. A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (Eimear McBride)
20. How to Be Both (Ali Smith)
21. The Glorious Heresies (Lisa McInerney)
22. The Power (Naomi Alderman)
23. Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie)
24. An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)
25. Hamnet (Maggie O'farrell)
26. Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
27. The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ruth Ozeki)
28. Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
29. Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan 2024
30. 2025


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