Hmm… There is some food for my reading habit, which was starving for quite some time now 
I got to know about the Orbis Terrarum Challenge through Ramya’s blog, which I regularly follow. She writes some nice reviews on books in her blog, which otherwise I would never have known about.
In a nutshell, Orbis Terrarum Challenge is a proposal to read 9 books - across 9 countries, 9 authors - by December 2008. To know more about the challenge, please click here.
B&b ex libris is one another good blog, for book lovers.
Following is my proposed list for this challenge. I have liberally assumed a few exceptions, as this is not a contest but a self imposed challenge.
- Few books are from authors of a different origin, from the subject
- I am not gonna maintain any order in the reading of these books. This is just a comprehensive list
Following is my list. Comments are welcome… On completion of each, I shall write a review on the book, in my own terms.
1) A Pale View of Hills
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Country: Japan
Amazon: Book link
2) The Color of Serendipity: A Journey Through Sri Lanka
Author: Nishantha Gunawardena
Country: Sri Lanka
Amazon: Book Link
3) Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Author: Nelson Mandela
Country: South Africa
Amazon: Book Link
4) Paula
Author: Isabel Allende
Country: Chile
Amazon: Book Link
5) Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji
Author: Martha Kaplan
Country: Fiji
Amazon: Book Link
6) The Maya
Author: Michael D Coe
Country: Mexico (The Author is an American)
Amazon: Book Link
7) River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Author: Peter Hessler
Country: China (The Author is an American)
Amazon: Book Link
The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
Author: Martha Raddatz
Country: Iraq (The Author is an American)
Amazon: Book Link
9) India After Gandhi
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Country: India
Amazon: Book Link
4 responses so far ↓
Vinod Chandramouli // May 6, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Sounds interesting…
Starting to gather my list….Thanks a lot for this idea.
vc
Ashwin // May 6, 2008 at 9:09 pm
@vc
Great!! Welcome to the challenge
Good to see the chain growing
bethany canfield // May 7, 2008 at 4:19 am
That is an incredible list!! Welcome to the challenge! It is so interesting to see all the different books that are out there and that people choose and read and then review…I love international reading and book blogging, I think it brings us all closer together!!
So glad you joined us!
Don’t forget to come back and post a link to your reviews or travel (orbis terrarum thoughts)…we’re always happy to read them;)
Ashwin // May 7, 2008 at 9:52 am
@bethany
Thanks a lot!! Have bookmarked your blog and sure to come back and post my review links
Btw, this is a good challenge initiated by you
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