reading a book from every country? challenge update & bookclub!!!

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0:00 bookclub announcement!!
4:00 around the world challenge update

#booktube #bookclub

[bby]

Japan: 4:37
India: 5:27
China: 5:58
Russia: 6:05
Finland: 6:45
UK, US: 7:19
Turkey: 7:38
France: 8:10
South Africa, Iraq: 9:11
South Korea: 9:26
Italy: 9:39
Brazil: 11:12
Lebanon: 12:05
Canada: 12:18
Germany: 13:43
Zimbabwe: 14:23
Mexico: 14:30
Argentina: 15:23
Norway: 16:25
Nigeria: 16:32
Ireland: 16:36
Sudan: 16:51
Australia: 17:01
Colombia: 17:05
Denmark, Iran, Austria, Iceland: 17:09
Jamaica: 17:32
Guatemala: 18:34
Portugal: 18:52
Palestine: 19:35
Sweden: 20:43
The Philippines: 20:50
Kenya: 21:00
Indonesia: 21:11
Taiwan: 21:18
Albania: 21:31

(I may have missed some lol)

[theapenning]

One of my goals for 2024 is to read books from 10 new countries. You really inspired me to start this challenge this year!

[Sopranistineberhard]

Hey Emma, I’m a Canadian living in Germany and there are so many awesome books from Germany! Putting Thomas Mann aside as his books are massive, though he is incredible, I’d highly recommend Patrick Süßkind’s Perfume, Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin, Austerlitz by Sebald and one could count Isherwood’s Berlin novels towards Germany. Also, Heinrich Böll’s The Clown or the Lost Honour of Katharina Blum. Trust me, there is a treasure trove here that is far beyond Goethe and Hesse. (Though I’m a huge fan of both of them and especially their poetry)! Happy reading, I hope to join in!

[dr.dschiii]

From Germany I highly recommend my favourite book: The City of Dreaming Books by German author Walter Moers.

Protagonist Optimus Yarnspinner is a Lindworm (a species of bibliophile dinosaurs) who inherits a perfectly written manuscript from his mentor. Its author went to Bookholm, the center of the Zamonian book trade, and was not heard of again.
Seeking adventure as well as inspiration for his own writing, Optimus travels to Bookholm in search of the mysterious author. A fantastic adventure like none I have ever seen before unfolds...

[fiddleleaffiction]

You are the only influencer I will join another app for 😂 I can’t wait for this!!!

[claragarcia]

I really recommend "The House of Spirits" for Chile. Isabel Allende's writing is extremely effective, at least in the original language. I think you will really like it. 😊

[flaviastahli]

I’m studying slavic literature at university so i have a lot of recommendations from east/centraleast and southeast europe 😍
Croatia: the ministry of pain
Albania (biography): free, coming of age at the end of history
Hungary: katalin street
Slovenia: the fig tree
Montenegro (but set in Romania): hansen’s children
Lithuania: breathing into marble
Bulgaria: time shelter
Latvia: white shroud
Enjoy 😍🤓

[soboycottmaja]

10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World is absolutely amazing!

[Miranda-jobo]

For Germany I highly recommend 'Perfume' by Patrick Süßkind. The protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, possesses an extraordinary sense of smell and becomes OBSESSED with creating the perfect scent, leading him on a journey of passion and obsession. Its sooo good.

[rhae]

For Palestine you would love "Bak to Haifa" by Ghassan Kanafani (or anything by him tbh) or RIFQA by Mohamed El kurd if you're in the mood for poetry <3

[chrisschross]

All Quiet On The Western Front is also a german classic. I know it was a huge movie some years ago, bute I really recommend the book because it has another vibe. Erich Maria Remarque, the author, is not that popular in germany (his books were banned by the nazis of course), but a friend told me that he is very famous in eastern Europe (especially Russia).

[Nabend]

For Germany I highly recommend „Where you come from“ and „How the soldier repairs the Gramophone“ by Sasa Stanisic, beautiful Books, some of my favourites :)

[EisteeOhneWasser]

As for Germany I'd reccommend "The Drinker" by Hans Fallada, even though his most famous work is "Alone in Berlin". And a book everybody loves ist "Momo - The Men in Grey " by Michael Ende. It's a childrens book, but loved by every adult that reads it, because then you really understand, what Michael Ende wants to tell us.

[jiji-wrqh]

some german recommedations:
Eugen Ruge: In Times of Fading Light (literary historical fiction set in DDR (east germany));
Heinrich Böll: The Clown;
Bernhard Schlink: The Reader;
Daniel Kehlmann;
Kai Meyer: The Water Mirror/The Flowing Queen (middle-grade, set in Venice, magic, mermaids, flying stone lions, loved it); Erich Kästner The Flying Classroom (children's classic wintery, must read for Christmas) Kästner also wrote a lot of poems and literature for adults;
Thomas Mann (Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain);

[salmonellaisbad]

I’m currently at 43 countries for the challenge. This is exciting!!

[angeliqueazul]

As a German, I would highly recommend these two books for Germany: Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann, which is a very funny historical novel, and Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann, which is a literary fiction novel about ex-pat writers from Germany and Austria gathering in Ostende, in Belgium, for one last summer together. Happy reading!

[lenani]

German recommendations coming in:
- „Gilgi - One of us“ (1920s/30s Germany, for especially Berlin in that time: „The Artificial Silk Girl“)
- „Momo“ by Michael Ende (very fairytale-esque)
- „When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit“
- „Why We Took The Car“ (more on the YA side/coming-of-age)

Maybe a bit more out of your comfort zone:
- „The City of Dreaming Books“
- „QualityLand“

[deanna]

Emmie you need to read Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski. It's a Polish book and is one of my all time favorites. It's about a man's life as he goes through the second world War as a rebel fighter, his relationship with his family and God, and his dealing with an accident that leaves him crippled. It's so layered and wonderful, I can't recommend it enough.

[alicegomes]

my favorite author is Clarice Lispector, from Brazil. She transformed me completely. My life have a new meaning after reading her

[Annikidiary]

For Germany, If you like to read Thriller I would recommend “Sebastian Fitzek” I am not the biggest fan of German books but his books are amazing. Definitely worth to check his books out