Challenge: 50 Books discussion

If you say the post Question #79: Thinking Ahead, you know some people are considering some cools twists for next years challenge ~ books from different years, by authors from different countries, alphabetical by author's name etc.

So I thought we could pool our favourites to generate some ideas. Make a list of 5 favourite books (you'd rate 4 or 5), plus the author's name, nationality and year of publishing. Pull out the obscure ones if you want!

In no particular order:

Out by Natsuo Kirino, Japan, 1997
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley, Canada, 2009
Lullabies for Little Criminals Heather O'Neill, Canada, 2006
Fingersmith Sarah Waters, UK, 2002
Shades of Grey Jasper Fforde, UK, 2009

Bonus: because I still can't exclude it from any list of good books:
Ready Player One Ernest Cline, USA, 2011

Hmmm... looks like I need to be reading authors from a larger variety of countries.

Hi, Faye. Great idea. Not all of these are fiction, but here are my favorites from this year. Some would probably count as a little obscure. These are some of my favorites from the last year or so. In case anyone is interested in any of the books, I've reviewed all of them. If you need the link, just send me a message.

1 - The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye (Canada, 1982).

2 - Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (German, 2001).

3 - The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson (Dutch, originally 1947).

4 - The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor (Irish, 2002).

5 - Errand Into the Wilderness by Perry Miller (U.S., 1956).

6 - Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars by George Mosse (Germany, 1990).

7 - The Good Soldier ars by Ford Madox Ford (England, 1915).

8 - The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton (U. S., 2004).

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham, UK, 1815
The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russia, 2000
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro, UK/Japan, 1989
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, France, 1862
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi, Germany, 1994

I tried to get a good mix of countries here. I like spreading the desire to read foreign literature, no reading history is complete without it.