#I can stop reading french books since I got more than 10 authors covered XD

[smalltownfae]

Books from around the world - start

I decided to track how many authors from different countries I have read. The results were not surprising, but they were upsetting. 

1st place - US: 131 authors

U.S. Virgin Islands: Kacen Callender (Saint Thomas)

2nd place - UK: 70

3rd place -  Japan: 35

4th place - France: 14

5th place - Canada: 12

Portugal: 8 (Augustina Bessa-Luís; Inês Botelho; Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; Luís de Sttau Monteiro; Eça de Queirós; Aquilino Ribeiro; Gil Vicente; Alice Vieira)

Germany: 7 (Christiane Vera Felscherinow; Anne Frank; Cornelia Funke; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Brothers Grimm; Hanna Johansen; Patrick Süskind)

Australia: 3 (Liane Moriarty; C.S. Pacat; Markus Zusak)

New Zealand: 2 (Lloyd Jones; Juliet Marillier)

Brazil: 2 (Jorge Amado; Paulo Coelho)

Italy: 2 (Carlo Collodi; Elisabetta Gnone)

Sweden: 2 (John Ajvide Lindqvist; Astrid Lindgren)

Russia: 2 (Nikolai Gogol; Vladimir Nabokov)

Mexico: 1 (Tony Sandoval)

Poland: 1 (Andrzej Sapkowski)

Iceland: 1 (Sjón)

Singapore: 1 (Neon Yang)

Chile: 1 (Isabel Allende)

Czechoslovakia: 1 (Franz Kafka)

Spain: 1 (Laura Pérez)

Finland: 1 (Tove Jansson)

Denmark: 1 (Hans Christian Andersen)

Malaysia: 1 (Zen Cho)

The first 7 places don’t surprise me in the least, but I didn’t expect US to be that far ahead. I did this list for when I want to try authors from other countries in order to check the ones I already read at least a little from. I am surprised I only read one Spanish author to be honest. 

#books #my book lists #I can stop reading french books since I got more than 10 authors covered XD #I joke #I happen to be interested in some french classics #I have been wanting to tackle some russian classics but they are all huge it seems #it will take me months to read one book