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15.8 - Up In the Air: Every country has an Airline Country Code. Using this list of , read a book by an author whose initials match one of these country codes. The initials should appear consecutively. ex. William Makepeace Thackeray= WMT works for MT= Malta, C.S. Lewis= CSL works for CS = Serbia. Required: Please identify the country and the code when you post.

If you have questions, need suggestions OR have suggestions for books to read for this task, please post them here.

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Barbara Gowdy (BG = Bulgaria)
Michael Chabon (MC = Monaco)
Frances Itani (FI = Finland)
Curtis Sittenfeld (CS = Serbia)

Charlaine Harris (CH = Switzerland)

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (SE = Sweden)

Geraldine Brooks (GB = United Kingdom)

Stephen King (SK = Slovakia)

Adriana Trigiani (AT = Austria)

Amy Tan (AT = Austria)

Alexander McCall Smith (AM = Armenia)

Sue Monk Kidd (MK = Republic of Macedonia)

Adam Levin (AL = Albania)

(AM = Armenia)
Anne Michaels
Arthur Miller

(SM = San Marino)
W. Somerset Maugham
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Susan Minot

(DE = Germany)
Dave Eggers
Deborah Eisenberg

Randy Susan Meyers fit this task as RSM = SM San Marino?

Anne wrote: "Randy Susan Meyers fit this task as RSM = SM San Marino?"

That works

J.M Coetzee (MC = Monaco)
Meg Cabot (MC = Monaco)
Michael Cunningham (MC = Monaco)
Mary Doria Russell(MD = Moldova)

Would Melissa de la Cruz work for MD (Moldova)?

★M±ð²µ³ó²¹²Ôâ˜� wrote: "Would Melissa de la Cruz work for MD (Moldova)?"

Yes

Thanks!

wow, I had more on my list than I thought...now I just got to figure out which one to read...lol!

a quick way to do this - I took my to-read list and organized it by author, then looked at the second letter of the code, and then the first (but put them in two separate columns on a spreadsheet) and then annotated authors who worked

Would George R.R. Martin work for Greece (GR)? I think it should but I wanted to double-check.

i'm going to double check mine too - Mickie B. Ashling - BA for Bosnia-Herzogovenia

Dee wrote: "i'm going to double check mine too - Mickie B. Ashling - BA for Bosnia-Herzogovenia"

Erin (NY) wrote: "Would George R.R. Martin work for Greece (GR)? I think it should but I wanted to double-check."

The BA in Mickie B. Ashling (MBA) and the GR in George R.R. Martin (GRRM) are consecutive- they work

Signing Their Lives Away has 2 authors: Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese. Can I use Denise Kiernan for DK- Denmark?

A few more eligible authors:

Dean Koontz (DK; Denmark)
Marguerite Duras (MD; Moldova)
T.S. Eliot (SE; Sweden)
Bret Easton Ellis (EE; Estonia)
Alan Moore (AM; Armenia)
Leo Tolstoy (LT; Lithuania)
Adrian Tomine (AT; Austria)
Banana Yoshimoto (BY; Belarus)
J.G. Ballard (GB; United Kingdom)
Robert Olen Butler (RO; Romania)
Christie Hodgen (CH; Switzerland)
Milan Kundera (MK; Republic of Macedonia)
John Ajvide Lindqvist (AL; Albania)

Jennifer W wrote: "Signing Their Lives Away has 2 authors: Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese. Can I use Denise Kiernan for DK- Denmark?"

You could- this works as she is a co-author and Kiernan appears as the author on the goodreads record. Please be careful if you use this book when you post in completed tasks, there are duplicate GR records and D'Agnese appears first on some of them.

Thanks! :)

Do I have to use the particular list that you've included in the task? I looked one up on Google () and it has the initials SJ for Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. It does not appear on the list for this task. Am I able to use it, as I want to read a book by Steven Johnson!

Sarah Dee wrote: "Do I have to use the particular list that you've included in the task? I looked one up on Google () and it has the initials SJ for Svalbard and Jan Mayen..."

Since those territories are on the link, I've added the countries that have designated country codes

Ã…land (Finland) AX
Faroe Islands (Denmark) FO
Gibraltar (UK) GI
Guernsey (UK) GG
Isle of Man (UK) IM
Jersey (UK) JE
Svalbard and Mayen Islands (Norway) SJ

Great, thanks!

Dlmrose wrote: "Jennifer W wrote: "Signing Their Lives Away has 2 authors: Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese. Can I use Denise Kiernan for DK- Denmark?"

You could- ..."

As I went to post this book, I noticed that goodreads has changed the formatting so that Joseph is now listed as the first author on every edition. Does this mean I can no longer use this book?

Jennifer W wrote: "Dlmrose wrote: "Jennifer W wrote: "Signing Their Lives Away has 2 authors: Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese. Can I use Denise Kiernan for DK- Denmar..."

You're still good, please add both author's links when you post

Yay! Thanks!