Part I

So here are the books I’ve gathered. My initial criteria was that it was fiction and that it was written in another language and translated into English. I didn’t want to add books that have a non-English language setting, because I wasn’t sure if they counted or not. (ie John Burdett lives in France and Bangkok, and writes about Bangkok, but is British. So does that count? I decided no. Same for Pearl Buck.) But I added a couple, because the authors are not British / North American.

I also didn’t count any of Michael’s manga. Because it’s not my thing.

If I own a book, but have not yet read it, I stuck it at the end and marked it (NR). But I felt I should get partial points for possessing it.

So here’s the list:

So that’s 46 total on my shelves, of which I’ve read 40.

(And I KNOW I own a copy of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. But I have no idea where I put most of my fiction. So there are might be some other books I’m missing.)

I’ve been remiss. Translators of the above books:
Margaret Sayers Peden, Margaret Jull Costa, Sonia Soto, Andrew Hurley, Stephen Sartarelli, Andrew Bromfield, Reg Keeland, Andrew Brown

And then there’s folklore and mythology… Do they count? I think they should, but since you might have a different opinion, I separated them out.

That’s 38 more, if you think they count.

Do I have all the countries in the world? Of course I don’t. Could I read 174 books in a year? Probably. I’ve got 150 books this year, thought I’ve been slacking the past two months. But that seems… not fun.

So, readers: what non-British or non-North American authors I should read?