Annie’s 2021 reading list and challenges

[Annie]

All Year Challenges

All year: Invisible Cities - Challenge not met!

Jan:
☆ 1. Argentina - Luis Sagasti A Musical Offering translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Charco Press/2017)
- Selva Almada The Wind that Lays Waste translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews (Charco Press/2012)
2. Morocco
★ 3. Japan - #1 Miri Yū Tokyo Ueno Station translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles (Tilted Axis Press/2014)
Feb:
1. Egypt
☆ 2. China - Li Juan Distant Sunflower Fields translated from the Chinese by Christopher Payne (Sinoist Books/2017)
★ 3. Colombia - #1 Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (1981)
Mar:
1. Iraq
★ 2. Libya - • 1 Hisham Matar The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between (2016) A
☆ 3. Mexico - Yuri Herrera A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (And Other Stories/2018)
Apr:
★ 1. Peru - Renato Cisneros The Distance Between Us translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Charco Press/2015)
2. Equatorial Guinea
3. Vietnam
May:
1. Madagascar
★ 2. Romania - Ana Blandiana The Sun of Hereafter • Ebb of the Senses translated from the Romanian by Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea (Blood Axe/2000)
3. North Korea
Jun:
☆ 1. Lebanon - #1 Charif Majdalani Moving the Palace translated from the French by Edward Gauvin (New Vessel Press/2007)
★ 2. Barbados - George Lamming In the Castle of My Skin (1953) K
3. Mozambique
Jul:
1. Panama
2. Israel
★ 3. Ethiopia - Ada Edemariam The Wife’s Tale (2018)
Aug:
1. Nigeria
★ 2. South Korea - Han Kang The White Book translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Granta-Portobello/2016)
Sep:
★1. Chile - Benjamín Labutut When We Cease to Understand the World translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West (Pushkin Press/2020)
- Alejandro Zambra Not to Read translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Fitzcarraldo/2010)
2. Palestine
Oct:
1. Guinea
★2. Sweden - Elin Willows Inlands translated from the Swedish by Duncan J Lewis (Nordisk Books/2018)
Nov:
1. Sierra Leone
2. Paraguay
Dec: Didn’t run!

(Invisible Cities http://mybookishempire.blogspot.com/)

Country list - international literature I own in addition to above.

#Argentina - Luis Sagasti Fireflies translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Charco Press/2011)
- María Sonia Cristoff False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Transit Books/2005)
- Marcos Aguinis Against the Inquisition translated from the Spanish by Carolina De Robertis (1991) https://bit.ly/3x5yLbq
#Austria - Peter Handke A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim (1972)
#Brazil - Julián Fuks Resistance translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn (Charco Press/2015)
#Canada - David Balzer Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (Pluto Press/2014)
#Channel Islands - G.B. Edwards The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (NYRB Classics/1981)
#Chile - 1 Benjamín Labutut When We Cease to Understand the World translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West (Pushkin Press/2020)
- Alejandro Zambra Not to Read translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Fitzcarraldo/2010)
#China - Li-Young Lee The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (BOA Editions/1995)
#Croatia -Dubravka Ugrešić The Museum of Unconditional Surrender translated from the Croatian-Bosnian-Serbian (CBS) by Celia Hawkesworth (New Directions/1997)
#Cuba - • 1 Dulce María Loynaz Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor (Archipelago Books/1953&1997 trans 2015)
- Karla Suárez Havana Year Zero translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeny (Charco Press/2011)
#Czechia - Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim (1976)
#Finland - Petri Tamminen Crime Novel translated from the Finnish by Kristian London (2016) K
- Ulla-Lena Lundberg Ice translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal (Sort of Books/2012)
#Ethiopia - Yves Stranger Ethiopia: Through Writers' Eyes (Eland/2016) !
#France - Jacques Bonnet Phantoms on the Bookshelves translated from the French by Siân Reynolds (2008)
- Collette Fellous This Tilting World translated from the French by Sophie Lewis (Les Fugitives/2017)
- Sylvie Weil Selfies translated from the French by Roz Schwartz (Les Fugitives]0/2019)
- Mireille Gansel Translation as Transhumance translated from the French by Ros Schwartz (Les Fugitives/2017)
- Christophe Boltanski The Safe House: A Novel translated from the French by Laura Marris (University of Chicago Press/2015) K
#Germany - W.G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn translated from the German by Michael Hulse (New Directions Books/1995)
#Hungary - Magda Szabó The Door translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix (NYRB Classics/1987)
#Iceland - • 1 Halldór Laxness The Fish Can Sing translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson (1957) K
#Iran - Shokoofeh Azar The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree translated from the Persian, “The translator’s name has not been included here for reasons of safety and at the translator’s request.” (Europa Editions/2017) !
#Ireland - Dermot Healy The Reed Bed (The Gallery Press/2001) K
- William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969)
- Tim Robinson Connemara: Listening to the Wind (2007)
#Italy - Guido Morselli Divertimiento 1889 translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland (1975)
#Mauritius - Shenaz Patel Silence of the Chagos: A Novel translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Restless Books/2005)
#Mexico - Luis Alberto Urrea The Hummingbird's Daughter (2005) K A
#Norway - Morton A. Strøksnes Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean translated from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally (2015)
#Peru - Heidi King Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru (MMoA/2001)
#Russia -
1a -
1b Siberia - 1. Sophy Roberts (author U.K.) The Lost Pianos of Siberia (2021) K
1c Chukchi - 1. Yuri Rytkheu When the Whales Leave translated from the Russian by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse (Milkweed Editions/1977)
#Slovakia - Daniela Kapitánová Samko Tále's Cemetery Book translated from the Slovakian by Julia Sherwood (Garnett Press/2000)
#Slovenia - Dušan Šarotar Billiards at the Hotel Dobray translated from the Slovene by Rawley Grau (Istros Books/2007)
#Spain - José Luis de Juan Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer (Giramondo Publishing/1996)
#Sweden - Elin Willows Inlands translated from the Swedish by Duncan J Lewis (Nordisk Books/2018)
#Switzerland - Richard Weihe Sea of Ink translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch (Peirene Press/2012)

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Long term: #Reading20thCWomen

#1 Dorothy Canfield Fisher (USA) The Home-Maker (Persephone Books/1924)
#2 Susan Cooper (UK) The Dark Is Rising A (1973)
#3 Lettice Cooper (UK) The New House (Persephone Books/1936)
#4. Josephine Tey (UK) Miss Pym Disposes (1946)
#5 Barbara Comyns (UK) The Skin Chairs (Virago/1962)
• 6 Dulce María Loynaz (Cuba) Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor (Archipelago Books/1953&1997 trans 2015)
• 7 Elizabeth Jane Howard (UK) Something in Disguise (Picador/1969) Backlisted/20thC Women

- Daniela Kapitánová (Slovakia) Samko Tále's Cemetery Book translated from the Slovakian by Julia Sherwood (Garnett Press/2000)
- Sylvia Townsend Warner (UK) Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927)
- Magda Szabó (Hungary) The Door translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix (NYRB Classics/1987)
- Dubravka Ugrešić (Croatia/former Yugoslavia) The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (New Directions/1997)
- Jessica Anderson (Australia) Tirra Lirra by the River (1978) K
- May Sarton (USA) Journal of a Solitude (1973) K
- Nancy Mitford (UK) The Pursuit of Love (1945)
- Jill Paton Walsh (UK) Fireweed (1969)
- Barbara Comyns (UK) Mr Fox (Turnpike Books/1987)
- Barbara Comyns (UK) The House of Dolls (Turnpike Books/1989)
- Barbara Pym (UK) Excellent Women (1952)
Beryl Markham (UK) West With The Night (Virago/1942)
- Nan Shepherd (UK) The Living Mountain (1977/written in the 1940s)
- Tirzah Garwood (UK) Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood (Persephone/1942/unpublished until 2012)
- Annie Dillard (USA) For the Time Being (1999)
- Susan Cooper (UK) Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children (1996)
- Susan Cooper (UK) Over Sea, Under Stone (1965)

[Leslie]

Interesting lists, Annie - I don't think that I am familiar with any of your books! Wishing you good books for 2021 :-)

[Annie]

Leslie wrote: "Interesting lists, Annie - I don't think that I am familiar with any of your books! Wishing you good books for 2021 :-)"

Thank you Leslie, and likewise, wishing you much happy reading in the year ahead.

[LauraT]

Great challenge!!!

[Annie]

Somewhere to keep the list of something I started a couple of years ago: Reading the 20th Century (Possibles from among the books I own are in italics.) Also Reading the Last 100 Years.

1900 [Mary Augusta Ward/Mrs Humphrey Ward (UK) [book:Eleanor|17287627]
https://archive.org/details/eleanorwa...]
1901
[E.F. Benson (UK) [book:The Luck of the Vails|17456940]
Project Gutenberg download to Books]
1902
[Arnold Bennett (UK) [book:Anna of the Five Towns|29744378] (Penguin Classics)]
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
[E.M. Forster (UK)) [book:A Room with a View|50244514] (Penguin Classics)?]
Kenneth Grahame (UK) The Wind in the Willows (Folio Society)
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914 Edward Thomas In Pursuit of Spring (Little Toller)
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
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1924
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher (USA) The Home-Maker (Persephone Books)
1925
Mikhail Bulgakov (Kyiv, now Ukraine) The White Guard translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny (Vintage)
[Dennis Mackail [book:Greenery Street|1528926] (Persephone Books)
1926
• Sylvia Townsend Warner (UK) Lolly Willowes (Virago)
1927
Sylvia Townsend Warner (UK) Mr Fortune's Maggot (NYRB)
1928
1929
Elizabeth Avon Arnim (UK) Expiation (Persephone Books)
1930
[Dorothy Canfield Fisher (USA) [book:The Deepening Stream|14624285] (Persephone Books)]
1931
R.C. Sherriff (UK) The Fortnight in September (Persephone Books)
1932
1933
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (Japan) In Praise of Shadows translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker (Vintage)
1934
1935
Willa Cather (USA) Lucy Gayheart ((Vintage) A
Dorothy L. Sayers (UK) Gaudy Night (Hodder) K
1936
• Lettuce Cooper (UK) The New House (Persephone Books)
[R.C. Sherriff (UK) [book:Greengates|27422476] (Persephone Books)]
1937
• A. J. Cronin The Citadel (Picador)
1938
[Lettice Cooper (UK) [book:National Provincial|42376987] (Persephone Books)]
1939
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France) Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Classics]
1940
1941
1942
1943
• Barbara Noble (UK) The House Opposite (Dean Street Press/first pub. 1943)
1944
1945
• Tove Jansson (Sweden) The Moomins and the Great Flood translated from the Swedish by David McDuff (Sort Of Books)
1946
• Josephine Tey (UK) Miss Pym Disposes (Arrow)
1947
1948
Jocelyn Brooke (UK) The Military Orchid (Little Toller)
1949
Jocelyn Brooke (UK) A Mine of Serpents (Bodley Head)
1950
Jocelyn Brook (UK) The Goose Cathedral (Bodley Head]
1951
• J.D. Salinger (USA) The Catcher in the Rye (Penguin)
•Josephine Tey (UK - Scotland) The Daughter of Time (Penguin)
1952
• Dylan Thomas (Wales, UK) A Child's Christmas In Wales (Orion)
1953
• Jean Giono (France) The Man Who Planted Trees (Peter Owen)
Dulce María Loynaz (Cuba) Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor (Archipelago Books)
George Lamming (Barbados) In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Classics) K
1954
• Barbara Comyns (UK) Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Dorothy Project)
Lucy M. Boston (UK) The Children of Green Knowe (Clarion Books)
Eudora Welty (USA) The Ponder Heart (Mariner Books)
1955
• Rumer Godden (UK) An Episode of Sparrows (Virago) K
[Monica Dickens (UK) [book:The Winds of Heaven|9664402] (Persephone Books)]
1956
1957
• Tove Jansson (Sweden) Moominland Midwinter translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton (Sort Of Books)
Halldór Laxness (Iceland) The Fish Can Sing translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson (Vintage Classics) K
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
• Barbara Comyns (UK) The Skin Chairs (Virago)
1963
1964
William Golding (UK) The Spire (Faber & Faber) A
1965
1966
1967
• John McPhee (USA) The Pine Barrens (Daunt Books)
J.A. Baker (UK) The Peregrine (Harper Collins)
1968
1969
• Elizabeth Jane Howard (UK) Something in Disguise (Picador)
William Trevor (Ireland) Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (Penguin)
1970
John McPhee (USA) The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island (Daunt Books)
1971
1972
Peter Handke (Austria) A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
1973
• Susan Cooper (UK) The Dark Is Rising (Vintage Children’s Classics)
• Elizabeth Mavor (UK) A Green Equinox (1973)
1974
• Daniel Moyano (Argentina) The Devil's Trill translated from the Spanish by Giovanni Pontiero (Serpents Tail)
1975
Guido Morselli Divertimiento 1889 translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland (E.P. Dutton)
1976
Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim (Abacus)
1977
• JM Coetzee (South Africa) The Lives of Animals (Princeton University Press)
John McPhee (USA) Coming into the Country: Travels in Alaska (Daunt Books)
1978
1979
1980
1981
• Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) Chronicle of a Death Foretold translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (Penguin)
[G.B. Edwards (Channel Islands) [book:The Book of Ebenezer Le Page|750407] (NYRB Classics)]
1982
• Anne Truitt (USA) Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (Scribner)
Bruce Chatwin On The Black Hill (Vintage)

1983
Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) The Unwomanly Face of War translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (Penguin)
1984
• Anita Brookner (UK) Hotel du Lac (Penguin - Kindle)
1985
• Joyce Dennys (UK) Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942
Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Vintage)
1986
1987
Magda Szabó (Hungary) The Door translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix (NYRB)
1988
1989
• Ted Hughes (UK) Moortown Diary (Faber & Faber)
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
Li-Young Lee (China/USA) The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (BOA Editions/1995)
W.G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn translated from the German by Michael Hulse (New Directions Books)
1996
José Luis de Juan (Spain) Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer (Giramondo)
1997
• Svetlana Alexievich (Ukraine) Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future, translated from the Russian by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait (Penguin Modern Classics)
1998
• Sigrid Nunez (USA) Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (Soft Skull Press)
1999
Drusilla Modjeska (Australia) Stravinsky's lunch (Picador)
2000
Daniela Kapitánová (Slovakia) Samko Tále's Cemetery Book (Garnett Press)

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2001
2002
• Tony Porter The Great White Palace (Bantam Press)
2003
2004
Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2005
2006
• Verlyn Klinkenborg Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (Vintage)
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Martin Gayford Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (Thames and Hudson)
• Yu Miri Tokyo Ueno Station translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles (Tilted Axis)
2020
• Susanna Clarke Piranesi (Bloomsbury)
• Eley Williams [[book:The Liar's Dictionary|53488317] (Penguin)
2021
2022
• Nancy Campbell (UK) Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm (Elliott and Thompson)
2023
2024

[Annie]

Somewhere to keep the list of something I started a couple of years ago: Reading the Americas!

North America: 23 Countries/20 Dependencies (Worldometer - descending size of population)

★1. United States of America - I read a lot of US books so not listed individually here.
☆2. Mexico
1 Yuri Herrera A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (And Other Stories/2018)
☆3. Canada
1. David Balzer (Canada) Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (Pluto Press/2014)
4. Guatemala (Central America)
5. Haiti (Caribbean)
☆6. Cuba (Caribbean)
•1 Dulce María Loynaz Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor (Archipelago Books/1953&1997 trans 2015)
7. Dominican Republic (Caribbean)
8. Honduras (Central America)
9. Nicaragua (Central America)
10. El Salvador (Central America)
11. Costa Rica (Central America)
12. Panama (Central America)
13. Jamaica (Caribbean)
14. Puerto Rico (USA)
15. Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean)
16. Guadeloupe (France)
17. Belize (Central America)
18. Bahamas (Caribbean)
19. Martinique (France)
☆20. Barbados (Caribbean)
1 George Lamming In the Castle of My Skin (1953)
21. Saint Lucia (Caribbean)
22. Curacao (Netherlands)
23. Grenada (Caribbean)
24. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Caribbean)
25. Aruba (Netherlands)
26. US Virgin Islands (USA)
27. Antigua and Barbuda (Caribbean)
28. Dominica (Caribbean)
29. Cayman Islands (UK)
30. Bermuda (UK)
31. Greenland (Denmark)
32. Saint Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean)
33. Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
34. Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
35. Saint Martin (France)
36. British Virgin Islands (UK)
37. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius & Saba (Caribbean Netherlands)
38. Anguilla (UK)
39. Saint Barthelemy (France)
40. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
41. Montserrat (UK)

South America: 12 Countries/2 Dependencies (Worldometer - descending size of population)

☆1. Brazil
1 Julián Fuks (Brazil) Resistance translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn (Charco Press/2015)
★2. Colombia
#1 Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (1981)
★3. Argentina
#1 Daniel Moyano The Devil's Trill translated from the Spanish by Giovanni Pontiero (Serpents Tail/1974)
#2 Pedro Mairal The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra (New Vessel Press/2008)
3 Luis Sagasti (Argentina) A Musical Offering translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Charco Press/2017)
4 Luis Sagasti (Argentina) Fireflies translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Charco Press/2011)
5 Selva Almada (Argentina) The Wind that Lays Waste translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews (Charco Press/2012)
☆4. Peru
1 Renato Cisneros The Distance Between Us translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Charco Press/2015)
5. Venezuela
★6. Chile
#1 Benjamín Labutut (Chile) When We Cease to Understand the World translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West (Pushkin Press/2020)
2 Alejandro Zambra (Chile) Not to Read translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Fitzcarraldo/2010)
7. Ecuador
8. Bolivia
9. Paraguay
★10. Uruguay
#1 Carlos María Domínguez The Paper House translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor (2002)
11. Guyana
12. Suriname
13. French Guiana (France)
14. Falkland Islands (UK)

[Leslie]

Annie wrote: "Somewhere to keep the list of something I started a couple of years ago: Reading the 20th Century

1900 ..."

I did something similar to this a few years ago - it really made me aware of how I tend to read more from some decades more than others. A great multiyear challenge - good luck with it!

[Annie]

Somewhere to keep the list of something I started a couple of years ago: Reading Europe!

Western Europe: 9 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

☆1. Germany (EU)
1 W.G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn translated from the German by Michael Hulse (New Directions Books/1995)
★2. France (EU)
#1 Jean Giono The Man Who Planted Trees (1953)
2 Christophe Boltanski The Safe House: A Novel translated from the French by Laura Marris (University of Chicago Press/2015) K
3 Mireille Gansel Translation as Transhumance translated from the French by Ros Schwartz (Les Fugitives/2017)
3. Netherlands (EU)
4. Belgium (EU)
☆5. Austria (EU)
1 Peter Handke A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim (1972)
☆6. Switzerland
1 Richard Weihe Sea of Ink translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch (Peirene Press/2003)
7. Luxembourg (EU)
8. Monaco
9. Lichtenstein

Northern Europe: 10 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. U.K.
★1a. England
*Far too many to list here - see general listings*
★1b. Scotland - a selection from a long list
#1 Andrew Greig At the Loch of the Green Corrie (2010)
#2 Kathleen Jamie The Tree House (2005)
#3 Kathleen Jamie Findings (Sort of Books/2011)
★1c. Wales
#1 Dylan Thomas A Child's Christmas In Wales K (1952)
#2 Matthew Francis The Mabinogi (2017)
1d. Northern Ireland
★2. Sweden (EU)
#1 Tove Jansson The Moomins and the Great Flood translated from the Swedish by David McDuff (Sort of Books/1946)
#2 Tove Jansson Moominland Midwinter translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton (Sort of Books/1957)
•3 Elin Willows Inlands translated from the Swedish by Duncan J Lewis (Nordisk Books/2018)
3. Denmark (EU)
4. Finland (EU)
5. Norway
☆6. Ireland (EU)
1 Dermot Healy (Ireland) The Reed Bed (The Gallery Press/2001) K
7. Lithuania (EU)
8. Latvia (EU)
9. Estonia (EU)
☆10. Iceland
• 1 Halldór Laxness The Fish Can Sing translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson (1957) K

Eastern Europe: 10 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Russian Federation
★2. Ukraine
#1 Svetlana Alexievich Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future, translated from the Russian by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait (1997)
★3. Poland (EU)
#1 Olga Tokarczuk Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (Fitzcarraldo/2009)
☆4. Romania (EU)
1 Ana Blandiana The Sun of Hereafter • Ebb of the Senses translated from the Romanian by Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea (Blood Axe/2000)
☆5. Czechia (EU)
1 Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim (1976)
6. Hungary (EU)
Magda Szabó The Door translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix (NYRB Classics/1987)
7. Belarus
8. Bulgaria (EU)
☆9. Slovakia (EU)
1 Daniela Kapitánová (Slovakia) Samko Tále's Cemetery Book translated from the Slovak by Julia Sherwood (Garnett Press/2000)
★10. Moldova
#1 Vladimir Lorchenkov The Good Life Elsewhere Translated from the Russian by Ross Ufberg (New Vessel Press/2008)

Southern Europe: 15. Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

★1. Italy (EU)
#1 Edgardo Franzocini The Animal Gazer translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore (New Vessel Press 2015)
2 Guido Morselli Divertimiento 1889 translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland (1975)
☆2. Spain (EU)
1 José Luis de Juan (Spain) Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer (Giramondo Publishing/1996)
2a. Catalonia
3. Greece (EU)
4. Portugal (EU)
5. Serbia
6. Croatia (EU)
7. Boznia & Herzegovina
8. Albania
9. North Macedonia
10. Slovenia (EU)
11. Montenegro
12. Malta (EU)
13. Andorra
14. San Marino
15. Holy See

Dependencies: 4 (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Channel Islands (U.K.)
2. Isle of Man (U.K.)
3. Faroe Islands (Denmark)
4. Gibraltar (U.K.)

Cyprus is also in the EU

[Annie]

Somewhere to keep the list of something I started a couple of years ago: Reading Asia!

Southern Asia: 9 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. India
2. Pakistan
3. Bangladesh
☆ 4. Iran
1 Shokoofeh Azar The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree translated from the Persian, “The translator’s name has not been included here for reasons of safety and at the translator’s request.” (Europa Editions/2017) https://bit.ly/2RoqLCY
5. Afghanistan
6. Nepal
7. Sri Lanka
8. Bhutan
9. Maldives

Eastern Asia: 8 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

☆ 1. China
1 Li Juan Distant Sunflower Fields translated from the Chinese by Christopher Payne (Sinoist Books/2017)
★ 2. Japan
#1 Miri Yū Tokyo Ueno Station translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles (Tilted Axis Press/2014)
☆ 3. South Korea
1 Han Kang The White Book translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Granta-Portobello/2016)
4. North Korea
5. Taiwan
6. Hong Kong
7. Mongolia
8. Macao

South-Eastern Asia: 12 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Indonesia
2. Philippines
3. Vietnam
5. Thailand
6. Myanmar
7. Malaysia
8. Cambodia
9. Laos
10. Singapore
11. Timor-Leste
12. Brunei Darussalam

Central Asia: 5 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

☆ 1. Uzbekistan
1 Hamid Ismailov The Dead Lake translated from the Uzbek by Andrew Bromfield (Peirene Press/2014)
2. Kazakhstan
3. Tajikistan
4. Kyrgyzstan
5. Turkmenistan

Western Asia: 18 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Turkey
2. Iraq
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Yemen
5. Syria
6. Azerbaijan
7. United Arab Emirates
8. Israel
9. Jordan
10. Lebanon
11. State of Palestine
12. Oman
13. Kuwait
14. Georgia
15. Armenia
16. Qatar
17. Bahrain
18. Cyprus

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Somewhere to keep the list of something I started a couple of years ago: Reading Africa

Western Africa: 17 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Nigeria
2. Ghana
3. Côte d'Ivoire
4. Niger
5. Burkina Faso
6. Mali
7. Senegal
8. Guinea
9. Benin
10. Togo
11. Sierra Leone
12. Liberia
13. Mauritania
14. Gambia
15. Guinea-Bissau
16. Cabo Verde
17. Saint Helena

Eastern Africa: 11 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

☆ 1. Ethiopia
1 Ada Edemariam The Wife’s Tale (2018)
2. Tanzania
3. Kenya
4. Uganda
5. Mozambique
6. Madagascar
7. Malawi
8. Zambia
9. Zimbabwe
10. South Sudan
11. Rwanda
12. Burundi
13. Somalia
14. Eritrea
15. Mauritius
16. Djibouti
18. Réunion
19. Comoros
10. Mayotte
11. Seychelles

Northern Africa: 7 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Egypt
2. Sudan
3. Algeria
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia
★ 6. Libya
#1. Hisham Matar (USA/UK/Libya) The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between (2016)
7. Western Sahara

Southern Africa: 5 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. South Africa
2. Namibia
3. Botswana
4. Lesotho
5. Swaziland

Middle Africa: 9 Countries (Worldometer - descending size of population)

1. Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. Angola
3. Cameroon
4. Chad
5. Central African Republic
6. Congo
7. Gabon
8. Equatorial Guinea
9. Sao Tome and Principe