British journalist Ann Morgan has accomplished a big goal as a reader, she read a book from every country around the world. That is 196 books from authors from Swaziland to Nicaragua.
She came to the decision after she realized that most of the books on her bookshelves were written by British and American authors. To help find titles from various places around the globe, she set up a blog called A Year of Reading the World and got many suggestions about good reads from readers and writers around the worlds.
Here is more about the project from the blog:
It wasn’t easy — according to the Society of Authors, only 3 per cent of the books published in the UK each year are translations. There are plenty of languages that have next to nothing translated into English. Then there are all the tiny tucked away places like Nauru and Tuvalu (I know, I hadn’t either), where not much is written down at all.
You can check out her reading list here. (Via The Christian Science Monitor).