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Alright I finally finished my book list and OH MY LORD! I'm going to really have to edit later because I won't be able to read all of these books within a year. I have 36 countries listed but I really wanted to go for 38. So if you see a country not listed and know a good book let me know. If anyone has any recommendations I am all ears. There is some places where I feel sad that I don't have that many books listed. I want to read at least 2 books per country. The requirements are either the author has to be native of a specific country or the book is set in that specific country.
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
UNITED STATES
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
MEXICO
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
CUBA
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
GUATEMALA
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
The Queen Jade: A Novel by Yxta Maya Murray
The Divine Husband: A Novel by Francisco Goldman
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Unburnable: A Novel by Marie-Elena John
Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel by Angie Cruz
SOUTH AMERICA
COLUMBIA/VENEZUELA
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Snowstorms in a Hot Climate by Sarah Dunant
Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti
CHILE
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
The Dancer and the Thief: A Novel by Antonio Skármeta
URUGUAY
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
ARGENTINA
Show No Mercy by Cindy Gerard
The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Morrison
BRAZIL
The Seamstress: A Novel by Frances de Pontes Peebles
The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
POLAR
ARCTIC
Deception Point by Dan Brown
The Trudeau Vector by Juris Jurjevics
ANTARTICA
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
IRELAND
False Mermaid by Erin Hart
The Likeness: A Novel by Tana French
PS I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
SWEDEN
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
POLAND
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
FRANCE/GERMANY
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Amber Room: A Novel by Steve Berry
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
EASTERN EUROPE
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
RUSSIA
A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova
The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivoll
The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
GREECE
Zeus by Tom Stone
Love From Greece by Melanie Panagiotopoulos
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
ITALY
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ASIA
ISRAEL
Drawing in the Dustby Zoe Klein
Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
AFGHANISTAN
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
The Mulberry Empire: A Novel by Philip Hensher
INDIA
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
CHINA
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Emperor's Bones by Adam Williams
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
KOREA
The Living Reed by Pearl S Buck
The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel by Eugenia Kim
JAPAN
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, And Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient by Sheridan Prasso
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer
AFRICA
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
SUDAN
The Translator by Daoud Hari
EGYPT
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The Mummy by Anne Rice
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street (Everyman's Library) by Naguib Mahfouz
SOUTH AFRICA
Skinner's Drift: A Novel by Lisa Fugard
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
The world beneath by Cate Kennedy
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
NEW ZEALAND
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
A Respectable Girl by Fleur Beale
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
UNITED STATES
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
MEXICO
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
CUBA
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
GUATEMALA
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
The Queen Jade: A Novel by Yxta Maya Murray
The Divine Husband: A Novel by Francisco Goldman
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Unburnable: A Novel by Marie-Elena John
Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel by Angie Cruz
SOUTH AMERICA
COLUMBIA/VENEZUELA
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Snowstorms in a Hot Climate by Sarah Dunant
Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti
CHILE
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
The Dancer and the Thief: A Novel by Antonio Skármeta
URUGUAY
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
ARGENTINA
Show No Mercy by Cindy Gerard
The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Morrison
BRAZIL
The Seamstress: A Novel by Frances de Pontes Peebles
The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
POLAR
ARCTIC
Deception Point by Dan Brown
The Trudeau Vector by Juris Jurjevics
ANTARTICA
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
IRELAND
False Mermaid by Erin Hart
The Likeness: A Novel by Tana French
PS I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
SWEDEN
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
POLAND
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
FRANCE/GERMANY
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Amber Room: A Novel by Steve Berry
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
EASTERN EUROPE
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
RUSSIA
A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova
The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivoll
The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
GREECE
Zeus by Tom Stone
Love From Greece by Melanie Panagiotopoulos
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
ITALY
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ASIA
ISRAEL
Drawing in the Dustby Zoe Klein
Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
AFGHANISTAN
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
The Mulberry Empire: A Novel by Philip Hensher
INDIA
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
CHINA
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Emperor's Bones by Adam Williams
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
KOREA
The Living Reed by Pearl S Buck
The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel by Eugenia Kim
JAPAN
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, And Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient by Sheridan Prasso
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer
AFRICA
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
SUDAN
The Translator by Daoud Hari
EGYPT
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The Mummy by Anne Rice
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street (Everyman's Library) by Naguib Mahfouz
SOUTH AFRICA
Skinner's Drift: A Novel by Lisa Fugard
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
The world beneath by Cate Kennedy
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
NEW ZEALAND
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
A Respectable Girl by Fleur Beale