Posted by Steven on 23/8/2011, 12:41:19, in reply to "Ideas for 2012"
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The one thing that really stands out here is that we now have a member living in Buenos Aires, but have never read a book together by an Argentinian author. Latin America as a whole is underrepresented, and we've let Canada slip too far down this list considering that's where this group is headquartered.
Books read by nationality through Dec 2011:
England - 20
United States - 17
France - 12
Russia - 11
Germany - 8
Canada - 6
Austria - 4
India - 4
Italy - 4
Japan - 4
Australia - 3
Ireland - 3
Peru - 3
Egypt - 2
Netherlands - 2
Poland - 2
Portugal - 2
South Africa - 2
Turkey - 2
Afghanistan - 1
Bosnia Herzegovina - 1
Brazil - 1
China - 1
Czech Republic - 1
Greece - 1
Hungary - 1
Israel - 1
Lebanon - 1
Mexico - 1
Spain - 1
Switzerland - 1
Trinidad - 1
Nationalities not yet read by our group (with suggested authors):
Albania (Ismail Kadare)
Argentina (Julio Cortazar, Manuel Puig, Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares)
Chile (Isabel Allende, Roberto Bolano, Jose Donoso)
Columbia (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Restrepo, Evelio Rosero)
Cuba (Reinaldo Arenas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Jose Lezama Lima)
Denmark (Isak Dinesen, Peter Hoeg)
Dominican Republic (Junot Diaz)
Guatemala (Miguel Angel Asturias)
Haiti (Edwidge Danticat)
Kenya (Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
Lesotho (Thomas Mofolo)
Morocco (Tahar Ben Jelloun, Mohammed Mrabet)
New Zealand (Janet Frame, Maurice Gee, Keri Hulme)
Nigeria (Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wole Soyinka)
Norway (Lars Saabye Christensen, Knut Hamsun, Per Petterson, Cora Sandel)
Pakistan (Nadeem Aslam, Zulfikar Ghose, Mohsin Hamid)
Senegal (Mariama Ba, Ousmane Sembene)
Serbia (Danilo Kis, Milorad Pavic, Tea Obreht)
Sweden (Per Olov Enquist, Marianne Fredriksson, Hjalmar Soderberg)
Uruguay (Juan Carlos Onetti)
Zimbabwe (Tsitsi Dangarembga, Doris Lessing)
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