1. Andorra: Albert Salvadó: Los Ojos de Anibal
   
2. Brunei: Arif K. Abukhudairi: Thoughts of the Time: Introduction to Arabic Literature
   
3. Guinea-Bissau: Amilcar Cabral: Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar
   
4. Montenegro: Bajram Angelo Koljenovic: Blood of Montenegro
   
5. Seychelles: Maxime Ferrari: Sunshine and Shadows, or other
   
6. Slovakia: Peter Pišťanek: Rivers of Babylon
   
7. Suriname: Andrew Westoll: The Riverbones: Stumbling after Eden in the Jungles of Suriname (if better can't be found)
   
8. Turkmenistan: Gregory M. Levin: Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden (or Joan Heron: Chai Budesh? Anyone for Tea?: A Peace Corps Memoir of Turkmenistan)
   

I own but have not yet read these books.



Book in hand

1. Azerbaijan: Kurban Said: Ali and Nino: A Love Story
2. Bahrain: Quixotiq by Ali Al Saeed
3. Barbados: Frank Collymore: The Man Who Loved Attending Funerals
4. Belarus: Bella Chagall: Burning Lights
5. Benin: Olympe Bhely-Quenum: Snares Without End
6. Bolivia: Ulises Estrada: Tania: Undercover in Bolivia with Che Guevara
7. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Emir Suljagić: Postcards from the Grave
8. Botswana: Peter Allison: Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
9. Cameroon: Calixthe Beyala: Sun Hath Looked upon Me
10. Cape Verde: Germano Almeida: The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
11. Comoros:
12. Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa): Larry Devlin: Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
13. Costa Rica: Richard Garrigues: The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
14. Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast: Kouassi P. Soman: Abongui My People Cote D'Ivoire My Country America My Home: The Ethno-History of a Small African Kingdom
15. Cyprus: Stavros Panteli: Place of Refuge: A History of the Jews in Cyprus
16. East Timor: Luis Cardoso: The Crossing: A Story of East Timor
17. Ecuador: Esteban Mayorga: Un cuento violento (in Spanish)
18. Equatorial Guinea: Donato Ndongo: Shadows of Your Black Memory
19. Eritrea: Senait Mehari: Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
20. Federated States of Micronesia: The Students of the Community College of Micronesia (Editor: Gene Ashby): Micronesian Customs and Beliefs (2nd ed.)
21. Fiji: Epeli Hau'ofa: Tales of the Tikongs
22. Gabon: Daniel Mengara: Mema 
23. Gambia: Phyllis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral
24. Georgia: Fazil Iskander: Sandro of Chegem
25. Guatemala: Elisa Burgos Debray: I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
26. Jordan: Marguerite Van Geldermalsen: Married to a Bedouin
27. Kenya: Wangari Maathai: Unbowed: A Memoir
28. Kiribati: J. Maarten Troost: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
29. Kuwait: Holly Doyne: Kuwait Diary: Email from the Desert Camps
30. Latvia: Harry G. Kapeikis: Exile from Latvia: My WWII Childhood - From Survival to Opportunity
31. Lesotho: Mpho Matsepo Nthunya: Singing away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman
32. Liechtenstein: Gustav Wilhelm: The Journey of the Liechtenstein Gallery from Vienna to Vaduz, or Gerda Lerner: Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
33. Macedonia: Slavko Janevski: The Bandit Wind
34. Malawi: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza: Smouldering Charcoal
    
35. Maldives: Liz Banks: Maldives Musings
36. Marshall Islands: I. J. Taafaki, M. Kabua Fowler, & R. R. Thaman: Traditional Medicine of the Marshall Islands: The Women, The Treatments, The Plants
37. Mauritania: Samuel Cotton: Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery, or Peter Hudson: Travels in Mauritania, or Shanta Rao: Stories of Women
38. Morocco: Fatima Mernissi: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, or Malika Oufkir: Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
39. Namibia: Neshani Andreas: Purple Violet of Oshaantu
40. Nicaragua: Gioconda Belli: The Country under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
41. Niger: Paul Stoller: In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
42. Oman: Matthew Heines: My Year in Oman: An American Experience in Arabia During the War on Terror
43. Papua New Guinea: Christina Dodwell: In Papua New Guinea
    
44. Paraguay: Maureen Burn: Outcast but Not Forsaken: True Stories from a Paraguayan Leper Colony
45. Qatar: Habibur Rahman: The Emergence of Qatar
46. Rwanda: Philip Gourevitch: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow we Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
    
47. Samoa: Albert Wendt: Leaves of the Banyan Tree
48. Sao Tome and Principe: Donald Burness: Ossobo: Essays on the Literature of Sao Tome and Principe
    
49. Senegal: Ken Bugul: The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
50. Slovenia: Slavoj Zizek: Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
51. Swaziland: Richard E. Grant: The Wah-Wah Diaries
52. French Polynesia: Anonymous: Tahiti: The Other Side
53. Tajikistan: Robert Frimtzis: From Tajikistan to the Moon: A Story of Tragedy, Survival and Triumph of the Human Spirit
54. Togo: Tété-Michel Kpomassie: An African in Greenland
55. Tunisia: Aicha Ben Abed: Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa
56. Tuvalu: Gerd Koch (ethnographer): Songs of Tuvalu
57. United Arab Emirates: Denys Johnson Davies (Ed.): In a Fertile Desert: Modern Writing from the United Arab Emirates
58. Uruguay: Christine Peri Rossi: Ship of Fools
59. Venezuela: Frank Kane and John Tilsley: In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
60. Zambia: Malama Katulwende: Bitterness

1. Bermuda: Mary Prince: The History of Mary Prince
2. Guam: Paula Ann Lajan Quinene: A Taste of Guam
3. Hong Kong: Martin Booth: Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
4. Mornington Island [Australia]: Labumore Elsie Roughsey, Edited by Paul Memmott and Robyn Horsman: An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New
5. New Caledonia: Jean-Claude Staudt (Ed.), Hilary Roots (translator), island children (illustrators): Legends of New Caledonia: A Collection of Legends from the Isle of Pines
6. Puerto Rico: When I Was Puerto Rican
7. Sint Maarten/Saint Martin: Jean Glasscock: The Making of an Island
8. St. Croix: Florence Lewisohn: Divers Information on the Romantic History of St. Croix: From the Time of Columbus until Today
9. Taiwan: Ann C. Carver: Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
10. Western Sahara: Thomas Hollowell: Allah's Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert

1. Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
2. Albania: Ismail Kadare: The Palace of Dreams
3. Algeria: Yasmina Khadra: In the Name of God
4. Angola: Ondjaki: Good Morning Comrades
5. Antarctica: Richard E. Byrd: Alone
6. Antigua and Barbuda: Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place
7. Argentina: Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
8. Armenia: Vartan Derounian & Alidz Jebejian-Agbabian: Dzalabidig: Images of Survival
9. Australia: Doris Pilkington-Nugi Garimara: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
10. Austria: Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus
11. The Bahamas: Gertrude "Cleo" Lythgoe: The Bahama Queen: The Autobiography of Gertrude "Cleo" Lythgoe: Prohibition's Daring Beauty: Including With the Whiskey Smugglers by H. De Winton Wigley
12. Bangladesh: Amitav Ghosh: The Hungry Tide
13. Belgium: Herge: Tintin in America
    
14. Belize: Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto: Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
15. Bhutan: Queen of Bhutan Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck: Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan
16. Brazil: Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
17. Bulgaria: Blaga Dimitrova: Because the Sea Is Black
18. Burkina Faso: Malidoma Patrice Somé: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
19. Burma/Myanmar: Nu Nu Yi: Smile as They Bow
20. Burundi: Gilbert Tuhabonye and Gary Brozek: This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness
21. Cambodia: Loung Ung: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
22. Canada: Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
23. Central African Republic: Makombo Bamboté: Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui
24. Chad: Joseph Brahim Seid: Told by Starlight in Chad
25. Chile: Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
26. China: Anchee Min: Red Azalea
27. Colombia: Gabriel García Márquez: Cronica de una muerte anunciada
28. Congo, Republic of (Congo-Brazzaville): Alain Mabanckou: African Psycho
29. Cook Islands (a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand): Kauraka Kauraka: Dreams of a Rainbow (Moemoea a te Anuanua)
30. Croatia: Dubravka Ugrešić: The Ministry of Pain
31. Cuba: Cristina García: Dreaming in Cuban
32. Czech Republic: Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
33. Denmark: Peter Høeg: Smilla's Sense of Snow
34. Djibouti: Abdourahman Waberi: In the United States of Africa
35. Dominica: Jean Rhys: The Wide Sargasso Sea
36. Dominican Republic: Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
37. Egypt: Sana Hasan: Enemy in the Promised Land: An Egyptian Woman's Journey into Israel
38. El Salvador: Claribel Alegría: Flowers from the Volcano
39. Estonia: Jaan Kaplinski: The Wandering Border
40. Ethiopia: Dinaw Mengestu: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
41. Finland: Johanna Sinisalo: Troll: A Love Story
42. France: Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
43. Germany: Herman Hesse: Magister Ludi
44. Ghana: Ama Ata Aidoo: Our Sister Killjoy, or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint
45. Greece: Olga Broumas: Beginning with O
46. Greenland (member country of the Kingdom of Denmark): Gretel Ehrlich: This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
47. Grenada: Richardo Keens-Douglas: The Nutmeg Princess
48. Guadeloupe (overseas department of France): Gisèle Pineau: The Drifting of Spirits
49. Guinea:  Camara Laye: The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
50. Guyana: Edward Ricardo Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
51. Haiti: Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory
52. Honduras: Translator/Editor: Medea Benjamin: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart
53. Hungary: Elie Weisel: Night
54. Iceland: Unknown: The Elder Edda
55. India: Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
56. Indonesia: Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The Fugitive
57. Iran: Marjane Satrapi: The Complete Persepolis
58. Iraq: Hiner Saleem: My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan
59. Ireland: Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist
60. Israel: Amos Oz: Elsewhere, Perhaps
61. Italy: Italo Calvino: Cosmicomics
62. Jamaica: Michelle Cliff: Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise
63. Japan: Yukio Mishima: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
64. Kazakhstan: Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
65. Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan: Chingiz Aitmatov: Jamilia
66. Laos: Outhine Bounyavong: Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
67. Lebanon: Alexandre Najjar: The School of War
68. Liberia: Helene Cooper: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
69. Libya: Hisham Matar: In the Country of Men
70. Lithuania: Solly Ganor: Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale from Lithuania to Jerusalem
71. Luxembourg: Edward Steichen: The Family of Man
72. Madagascar: Fanj Andriamialisoa, Ian Sinclair, & Olivier Langrand: A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion and the Comoros
73. Malaysia: Tash Aw: The Harmony Silk Factory
74. Mali: Kris Holloway: Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
75. Malta: Professor Sir Themistocles Zammit: Prehistoric Malta: Tarxien Temples and Saflieni Hypogeum
76. Mauritius: Nathacha Appanah: Blue Bay Palace
77. Mexico: Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate
78. Moldova: Grigore Vieru: Bread and Dew
79. Monaco: Princess Grace with Gwen Robyins: My Book of Flowers
80. Mongolia: Ts. Bold (Ed.): Some Short Stories from Mongolia
81. Mozambique: Lina Magaia: Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique
82. Nauru: Alois Kayser, KSC: Nauru One Hundred Years Ago: 3. Games & Sports
83. Nepal: Samrat Upadhyay: Arresting God in Kathmandu
84. Netherlands: Diny van Bruggen: Flowers on the Cactus: AIDS and Orphan Care in Cambodia
85. New Zealand: Keri Hulme: The Bone People
86. Nigeria: Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
87. North Korea: Richard E. Kim: Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
88. Norway: Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
89. Pakistan: Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
90. Palau: Republic of Palau Ministry of Education: Education Master Plan 2006-2016, Republic of Palau
91. Palestine: Raja Shehadeh: Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
92. Panama: Nancy Mankins: Hostage: The Incredible True Story of the Kidnapping of Three American Missionaries
93. Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
94. Philippines: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard: When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
95. Poland: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
96. Portugal: José Saramago: Blindness
97. Romania: Dan Pagis: Points of Departure
98. Russian Federation: Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
99. Saint Lucia: Derek Walcott: The Prodigal: A Poem
100. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Miriam H. Huggins: Miriam Gone Home: The Life of Sister Huggins
101. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Vivian Child: City of Arches: Memories of an Island Capital, Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
102. San Marino: Unknown: Guida Souvenir Di San Marino
103. Saudi Arabia: Rajaa Alsanea: Girls of Riyadh
104. Scotland: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet
105. Serbia: Milorad Pavić: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel
106. Sierra Leone: Ishmael Beah: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
107. Singapore: Gerrie Lim: Invisible Trade: High Class Sex for Sale in Singapore
108. Solomon Islands: Alvert Wendt (Ed.): Some Modern Poetry from Solomon Islands
109. Somalia: Fadumo Korn with Sabine Eichhorst: Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
110. South Africa: Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country
111. South Korea: Cullen Thomas: Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
112. Spain: Federico García Lorca: The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca
113. Sri Lanka: Michael Ondaatje: Running in the Family
114. Sudan: Dave Eggers: What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel
115. Sweden: Astrid Lindgren: The Tomten and the Fox
116. Switzerland: Jean Piaget and Barbel Inhelder: The Psychology of the Child
117. Syria: Mohja Kahf: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
118. Tanzania: Tepilit Ole Saitoti: The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior
119. Thailand: Warren Fellows with Jack Marx: The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
120. Tibet: The Dalai Lama: How to See Yourself as You Really Are
121. Tonga: Semisi Nau: The Story of My Life: A Tongan Missionary at Ontong Java
122. Trinidad and Tobago: Samuel Selvon: A Brighter Sun
123. Turkey: Orhan Pamuk: The White Castle
124. Uganda: Doreen Baingana: Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
125. Ukraine: Sholom Aleichem: The Tevye Stories and Other Stories
126. United Kingdom: Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
127. United States: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
128. Uzbekistan: Bibish: The Dancer from Khiva
129. Vanuatu: Grace Mera Molisa: Black Stone
130. Vatican City: Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI): Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977
     
131. Vietnam: Monique Truong: The Book of Salt
132. Wales: Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
133. Yemen: Zayd Muteeʻ Dammaj: The Hostage
134. Zimbabwe: Alexander McCall Smith: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

• The challenge: To have read a book by an author from every existing country in the world (plus a few territories and possessions) by the end of 2012

• The parameters
• Books I've already read count toward the total
• Both expatriate and immigrant authors are okay, but a book by a native or long-term resident is preferred
• If no book is available in English, and I cannot read the language, a biography of someone from the country is a poor yet acceptable substitute
• Reviews will be posted on my main journal, shoshanapnw.livejournal.com
• That's the deal! Author recommendations for countries I haven't yet read are always welcome