Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your recommendations here for classic literature set around the world.

Recommendation for Victorian Women's Lit

Tenant of Wildefell Hall by Anne Bronte. This was the best seller of all the Brontes' novels at the time of publication; however the book proposed a very radical idea, for the time, about women and relationships. Consequently it was suppressed first by the author herself and after her death by her surviving sister.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. In this novel, the author addresses challenges of cultural differences. This subject is so pertinent today and it is one of the best, earliest treatments of the subject that I have read.

Further note: the BBC dramatizations of both these books are ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!

I would suggest The Scarlet Letter or actually any book by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is excellent at capturing the times he writes about.

Algeria: The Plague by Albert Camus
Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
China: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Ireland: Dubliners by James Joyce
France: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Poland: With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Spain: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Wales: How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn