List of Books and Countries

Here is my list of countries, together with books read. Books shown in bold have already been read, with those shown in italics on the tbr (to be read) pile. Some books shown may have been read prior to January 2012. I have listed up to 5 books per country.

1. Afghanistan – The Kite Runner – Khalid Hussein, Born Under a Million Shadows – Andrea Busfield, A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khalid Hussein

2. Albania - Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare

3. Algeria - What the Day Owes the Night - Yasmina Khadra

4. American Samoa - Pago Pago Tango (Jungle Beat) - John Enright

5. Andorra

6. Angola - The Granta Book of African Short Story - Helon Habila

7. Antigua and Barbuda - Annie John: A Novel - Jamaica Kincaid

8. Anguilla

9. Argentina - Fatal Tango - Wolfram Fleischhauer

10. Armenia - An Armenian Sketchbook - Vasily Grossman

11. Aruba

12. Australia – A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz, The Secret River – Kate Grenville, Dark Places – Kate Grenville

13. Austria

14. Azerbaijan

15. Bahamas

16. Bahrain

17. Bangladesh - Brick Lane - Monica Ali

18. Barbados

19. Belarus

20. Belgium

21. Belize

22. Benin

23. Bermuda

24. Bhutan – Married to Bhutan - Linda Leaming

25. Bolivia

26. Bosnia and Herzegovina - Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon

27. Botswana

28. Brazil - All Dogs Are Blue - Rodrigo Souza Leao, The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho

29. British Virgin Islands

30. Brunei

31. Bulgaria - Zift: A Noir Novel - Vladislav Todorov

32. Burkina Faso

33. Burma – The Road to Wanting: Wendy Law-Yone

34. Burundi – Strength in What Remains – Tracy Kidder

35. Cambodia – When Broken Glass Floats – Chanrithy Him

36. Cameroon - The Granta Book of African Short Story - Helon Habila

37. Canada – Late Nights on Air – Elizabeth Hay, The Life of Pi: Yann Martel

38. Cape Verde

39. Cayman Islands

40. Central African Republic

41. Chad

42. Chile - Ways of Going Home - Alejandro Zambra

43. China – The Vagrants – Yi Yun Li

44. Colombia - Delirium - Laura Restrepo

45. Comoros

46. Congo - Drums on the Night Air - Veronica Cecil

47. Cook Islands

48. Costa Rica

49. Cote d'ivoire

50. Croatia - The Hired Man - Aminatta Forna

51. Cuba - Maids of Havana - Pedro Perez Sarduy

52. Curacao

53. Cyprus

54. Czech Republic

55. Denmark – The Library of Shadows – Mikkel Birkegaard, The Vanishing Act - Mette Jacobsen

56. Djibouti - Transit: A Novel - Abdourahman  A Waberi

57. Dominica

58. Dominican Republic - Drown - Junot Diaz

59. Ecuador

60. East Timor

61. Egypt - Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt - Jean Naggar

62. El Salvador - A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez

63. England – The Checkout Girl - Tazeen Ahmad, My Autobiography - Charles Chaplin  

64. Equatorial Guinea - Cry Havoc - Simon Mann

65. Eritrea

66. Estonia - Purge - Sofi Oksanen

67. Ethiopia - The Granta Book of African Short Story - Helon Habila

68. Falkland Islands

69. Faroe Islands - The Old Man and His Sons - Hedin Bru

70. Fiji

71. Finland - The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

72. France – The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery, Rosie's War - Rosemary Say and Noel Holland, The Presidents Hat - Antoine Laurain

73. French Polynesia

74. Gabon

75. Gambia - The Granta Book of African Short Story - Helon Habila

76. Georgia

77. Germany - Fatal Tango - Wolfram Fleischhauer, Berlin: A Novel - Pierre Frei, The Reader - Bernard Schlink

78. Ghana

79. Gibraltar

80. Greece – The Island – Victoria Hislop, The Messenger of Athens - Anne Zaroudi

81. Greenland – The Long Haul: Alex Hibbert

82. Grenada - Pynter Bender - Jacob Ross

83. Guam

84. Guatemala - Tree Girl - Ben Mikaelson

85. Guernsey - The Book of Lies: Mary Horlock

86. Guinea - The Granta Book of African Short Story - Helon Habila

87. Guinea-Bissau

88. Guyana - Kiskadee Girl - Maggie Harris

89. Haiti - Love Anger Madness - Marie Veiux-Chauvet

90. Honduras

91. Hong Kong - Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok

92. Hungary - The Door - Magda Szabo

93. Iceland – Independent People: Halldor Laxness, Hypothermia: Arnaldur Indridason, My Soul to Take - Yrsa Sigurdadottir, Laxdaela Saga – Herman Palsson

94. India – Shantaram – David Gregory Roberts, Tiger Hills: Sarita Mandanna, Sea of Innocence - Kishwar Desai

95. Indonesia - Hotel K - Kathryn Bonella

96. Iran - The Cypress Tree - Kamin Mohammadi, Children of the Jacaranda Tree - Sahar Delijani

97. Iraq - The Dove Flyer - Eli Amir

98. Ireland – Round Ireland With a Fridge: Tony Hawks

99. Isle of Man - Boy Racer - Mark Cavendish

100. Israel – When I Lived in Modern Times – Linda Grant

101. Italy – That Summer in Ischia: Penny Feeny, Last Train from Liguria: Christine Dwyer Hickey

102. Jamaica – Small Island – Andrea Levy

103. Japan – Norwegian Wood: Haruki Murakami

104. Jersey

105. Jordan

106. Kazakhstan - On the Trail of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope

107. Kenya - The Granta Book of African Short Story - Helon Habila

108. Kiribati

109. Korea North – Nothing to Envy – Barbara Dimmock

110. Korea South – Please Look After Mother: Kyung-sook Shin

111. Kosovo - Travels in Blood and Honey - Elizabeth Gowing

112. Kuwait

113. Kyrgyzstan

114. Laos

115. Latvia

116. Lebanon - Somewhere Home - Nadar Awar Jarrar

117. Lesotho

118. Liberia

119. Libya - In the Country of Men: Matar Hisham

120. Liechtenstein

121. Lithuania – Between Shades of Grey: Ruta Sepetys

122. Luxembourg

123. Macedonia

124. Macau

125. Madagascar

126. Malawi

127. Malaysia - Evening is the Whole Day - Preeta Samarasan, The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng

128. Maldives

129. Mali - Monique and the Mango Rains - Kris Holloway

130. Malta

131. Marshall Islands

132. Mauritania

133. Mauritius

134. Mexico - Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

135. Micronesia

136. Moldova

137. Monaco

138. Mongolia - On the Trail of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope

139. Montenegro

140. Montserat

141. Morocco - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila, A Palace in the Old Village - Tahar Ben Jelloun

142. Mozambique - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila

143. Namibia - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila

144. Nauru

145. Nepal

146. Netherlands

147. New Caledonia

148. New Zealand

149. Nicaragua

150. Nieu

151. Niger - Harmattan - Gavin Weston

152. Nigeria – Tiny Sunbirds Far Away: Christie Watson, The Famished Land – Ben Okri

153. North Marianna Islands

154. Norway – The Devils Star: Jo Nesbo, Out Stealing Horses: Per Petterson

155. Northern Ireland - Watching the Door – Kevin Myers

156. Oman

157. Pakistan - Partitions - Amit Majmundar

158. Palestine - Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life - Sari Nusseibeh

159. Palau

160. Panama

161. Papua New Guinea - Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones

162. Paraguay

163. Peru

164. Puerto Rico - We The Animals - Justin Torres

165. Philippines - Banana Heart Summer - Merlinda Bobis

166. Pitcairn Island

167. Poland - The Auschwitz Violin - Maria Angels Anglada

168. Portugal - Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier

169. Qatar

170. Romania - The Appointment - Herta Muller

171. Russia - The Conductor - Sarah Quigley

172. Rwanda – Running the Rift - Naomi Benaron

173. St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - Three Years in Tristan da Cunha - Kathleen Mary Barrow

174. St. Kitts & Nevis - A Distant Shore - Caryl Philips

175. St. Lucia

176. St Pierre and Miquelon

177. St. Vincent & the Grenadines

178. Samoa - Sons for the Return Home - Albert Wendt

179. San Marino

180. Sao Tome & Principe

181. Saudi Arabia – Girls of Riyadh: Rajaa Alsanea, The Consequences of Love - Sulaiman Addonia

182. Scotland –The Life and Death of St Kilda – Tom Steel, Island of Wings - Karin Altenberg, The Panoptican - Jenni Fagan

183. Senegal - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila, Redemption in Indigo - Karen Lord

184. Serbia

185. Seychelles

186. Sierra Leone - Ancestor Stones: Aminata Forna

187. Sint Maarten

188. Singapore

189. Slovakia

190. Slovenia

191. Solomon Islands - Devi, Devil - GW Kent

192. Somalia

193. South Africa - Stones for my Father - Trilby Kent

194. South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

195. South Sudan

196. Spain – The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruis Zafon, The Angels Game - Carlos Ruis Zafon, Pilgrimage to Heresy – Tracy Saunders

1967 Sri Lanka - Mosquito - Roma Tearne

198. Sudan - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila

199. Suriname

200. Swaziland

201. Sweden – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larson, The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest - Stieg Larson, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson 

202. Switzerland

203. Syria - The Silence and the Roar - Nihad Sirees

204. Taiwan

205 Tajikistan

206 Tanzania - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila

207. Thailand - The Beach - Alex Garland

208. Togo - Do They Hear You When You Cry - Layli Miller Bashir/Fauziya Kassindja

209. Tonga

210. Trinidad & Tobago - The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar - Kevin Baldeosingh

211. Tunisia

212. Turkey - Ali and Ramazan - Perihan Magden

213. Turkmenistan

214. Turks and Caicos Islands

215. Tuvalu - Where the Hell is Tuvalu - Philip Ells

216. Uganda - The Granta Book of the African Short Story - Helon Habila

217. Ukraine - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

218. United Arab Emirates - Dubai Dreams: Inside the Kingdom of Bling - Raymond Barrett

219. US Virgin Islands

220. United States - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Elizabeth Tova Bailey, The Storm Before the Calm - Neale Donald Walsch, Divergent - Veronica Roth

221. Uruguay

222. Uzbekistan - A Carpet Ride to Khiva - Christopher Aslan Alexander

223. Vanuatu

224. Vatican City

225. Venezuela

226. Vietnam

227. Wales

228. Yemen

229. Zaire

230. Zambia

231. Zimbabwe - Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace