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I've decided to add another challenge for next near.

I figure if a goal was met too easily, it wasn't much of a challenge, so in addition to the A-Z title and author and the genre challenge, I'm going to add a "translated from..." challenge. Here are 25 languages (I probably missed a couple of major ones, but this is a start.) I want to read a book that was originally written in each of these languages.

English
French
Spanish
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Chinese
Hindi
Portuguese
Swedish
Arabic
German
Italian
Greek
Dutch
Polish
Hungarian
Czech
Bulgarian
Icelandic
Finnish
Russian
Hebrew
Thai
Norwegian

I'm not going to start this until January 2011, but it was an impulse and if I didn't get a post up I thought I might forget.

Here's my tentative list for my language challenge:

French -- Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
Japanese -- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
Korean -- Hwang Sun-won
Portuguese -- Seeing by José Saramago
Swedish -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Arabic -- A Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Italian -- If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
Dutch -- The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
Danish -- Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
Polish -- One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem
Bosnian -- Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic
Hebrew -- Black Box by Amos Oz
Norwegian -- Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
Hindi -- The Gift of a Cow by Premchand
Chinese -- Journey to the West
Hungarian -- Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi
Icelandic -- Independent people : an epic by Halldór Laxness
Indonesian -- Atheis by Achdiat K Mihardja
Finnish -- Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Urdu -- The lightning should have fallen on Ghalib : selected poems of Ghalib
Czech -- The Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera
Latin -- The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Yiddish -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Spanish -- In Her Absence by Antonio Muñoz Molina
German -- Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann
Russian
Greek
Still need some recommendations for:
Thai
Bulgarian
Romanian
Vietnamese
(and any language I might have missed)

This is way too intimidating for me! Good luck! :)

hehe... I don't think I'll finish it...more languages kept popping up as I made my list, but it was fun to compile :)

I love making lists, I'm just not as good as completing them. lol

I've added The Wind-up Bird Chronicle for Japanese. A strange book - I haven't figured out what I think about it yet.

I haven't added any more to this challenge (though I am sporadically reading Journey to the West...at nearly 2400 pages it's taking me a while :)

I have decided to take the time limit off this challenge. I've realized it is silly to try and complete it in one year...and if I didn't finish I'd keep at it anyway.

Adding The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest for Swedish

Polish - One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem
Hungarian - Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi
Spanish - In Her Absence by Antonio Muñoz Molina
German - Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann
Norwegian - Aliss at the Fire - by Jon Fosse

Portuguese - Seeing by Jose Saramago