Around the World discussion

Well, these are a few of the sixty books I am planning to read in 2012. I'll keep updating the list as soon as I find more books:
Argentina: The Library at Night
Labyrinths
Austria: The Trial
Australia: The Harp in the South
Brazil: The Warrior of Light
Canada: The Blind Assassin
Czech Repulic: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Chile: Inés of My Soul
China: The Good Earth
Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude Was thinking I would manage finishing it before 2012 but seems impossible now! :D
Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea
Denmark: Hamlet
Egypt: In An Antique Land
Nefertiti
England: Great Expectations
The Picture of Dorian Gray
84 Charing Cross Road
Villette
How Green Was My Valley
1984
The Way of the World
The Time Machine
France: Les Misérables
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Intimacy
Germany: The Year of Goodbyes
Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Ireland: Dubliners
India: The Great Indian Novel
Lesser Breeds
A Suitable Boy
Shantaram
Italy: Romeo and Juliet
The Prince
Jamaica: Small Island
Japan: Kafka on the Shore
Lebanon: The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
Lithuania:Lithuania
Norway: Sophie's World
A Doll's House
Netherlands: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Palestine: I Saw Ramallah
Peru: The Feast of the Goat
Poland: Folk Tales of Poland
Russia: The Master and Margarita
The Idiot
Crime and Punishment
Spain: The Angel's Game
Tibet: Seven Years in Tibet
The United States of America: The Fountainhead
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Help
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Children's Hour
On the Road
The Time Traveller's Wife
More than one country: Hons and Rebels
The Swiss Family Robinson

Actually, Shantaram could be out and out India. It's written by an Australian, yes but he lives in India and a mammoth story covering 1980s Bombay's underbelly couldn't be any more Indian than this. Good list, though. You already have so many of these books!

Wow, you've got some great books there. And some of them, like Shantaram, Dubliners and Crime and Punishment are pretty epic reads. Good luck!

Nice list! Enjoy.

Judy wrote: "Nice list, Shriya. I see you aren't intimidated by chunksters. :-)"
Thanks, Judy! And chunksters intimidate me a LOT if I am not prepared for them before hand. In 2012 however, I have all the plans at least those which I have with me! :-)

Janice wrote: "Nice list! Enjoy."

Thanks, Janice! :)

Starfish13 wrote: "Wow, you've got some great books there. And some of them, like Shantaram, Dubliners and Crime and Punishment are pretty epic reads. Good luck!"

Thanks a lot! This new year I am planning to finish all the books I have been 'saving for my retirement' 40 years later so that there'll be scope to add more books then! ;)

I just noticed! Why is the mother of all chunksters, A Suitable Boy not on your list? >.<

Navdeep wrote: "I just noticed! Why is the mother of all chunksters, A Suitable Boy not on your list? >.<"
Ooh! How could I forget to add that one? Thanks for the reminder. Adding it NOW! :D

Shriya wrote: "Navdeep wrote: "I just noticed! Why is the mother of all chunksters, A Suitable Boy not on your list? >.
Ooh! How could I forget to add that one? Thanks for the reminder. Adding it NOW! :D"

Wait, isn't Suitable Boy too big a book to be considered for a challenge like this? Thats one reason why I didn't pick it up..

One honest suggestion - Time traveller's wife, you'd rather see the movie than read the book. Coz the book is just about okay, and the movie is certainly better than the book, in this case.

Scarlett wrote: "Shriya wrote: "Navdeep wrote: "I just noticed! Why is the mother of all chunksters, A Suitable Boy not on your list? >.
Ooh! How could I forget to add that one? Thanks for the reminder. Adding it N..."

Haha, that was exactly my reason for not including it, at first. However, it has been over ten months since I borrowed it from the Midget and more than the fact that she REALLY wants it back, she wants to discuss it with someone. Plus finishing that books is really a challenge. Hence, I included it in this list. :D

Scarlett wrote: "One honest suggestion - Time traveller's wife, you'd rather see the movie than read the book. Coz the book is just about okay, and the movie is certainly better than the book, in this case."
Oh! Ok...but I'll still read the book considering it was purchased with hard-earned Rakhi dough! :D
As for the movie, it has been on my torrents list forever.I'll watch it for sure! :)

I've added your picks to the master list(s). Personally, I thought the book of the Time Traveler's Wife was better than the movie. :)

Jenny wrote: "I've added your picks to the master list(s). Personally, I thought the book of the Time Traveler's Wife was better than the movie. :)"

You did? Well... for some reason I wasnt as touched by Niffenegger's words as I was touched by Rachael McAdam's action... :)

Jenny wrote: "I've added your picks to the master list(s). Personally, I thought the book of the Time Traveler's Wife was better than the movie. :)"
Oh! Thanks, Jenny. I hope you like them. :)
@The Time Traveller's Wife: Really now! I am curious about reading the book and watching the movie. It will definitely be the next on my list! :D

The book was excellent - the film was practically gibberish. I suggest to skip the film, or, preferably, to toss it very, very far out the window. That is my personal opinion, of course.

Judy wrote: "Nice titles, Shriya. Welcome!"

Thanks, Judy! :)

Scarlett wrote: " Well... for some reason I wasnt as touched by Niffenegger's words as I was touched by Rachael McAdam's action... :)"

Eugh! That bloody Rachel McAdams pokes her ugly mug in every darn good movie. She looks like a brain dead hyena, man! And has the acting skills of a 2-year old on a sugar high. The idiot practically spoilt Midnight in Paris and Sherlock Holmes for me. I am not going to watch her ruin The Time Traveller's Wife for me. I think I'll happily skip the movie.

Navdeep wrote: "Scarlett wrote: " Well... for some reason I wasnt as touched by Niffenegger's words as I was touched by Rachael McAdam's action... :)"

Eugh! That bloody Rachel McAdams pokes her ugly mug in every ..."

Hahaha. I dont like her in any other movie except this one, for some strange reason. May be I didnt read like the book at all and the movie seemed much better...