Read a book written by a renowned author from a country not your own

[Emily]

This might require a bit of research to learn about famous authors from different countries.

To get you started:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

[Karen]

I read Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book was a quest for place in history and culture written after the Cultural Revolution in China. It is like nothing I've ever read before. "You've slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk songs, added some legend-like nonsense of your own invention, and are calling it fiction!" (Chapter 72)