We're offering you different fun reading challenges each month. May's challenge is to read a book from another country. (And let's exclude England. Let's make it books written in languages other than English.)
You can go with classics, like "The Count Of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, or "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. The modern classics include "Love In The Time Of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being" by Milan Kundera, and "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass.
"Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse, "The Plague" by Albert Camus, and "Bonjour Tristesse," by then 18-year-old Francoise Sagan are good easy reads. And there are scores of excellent Scandinavian mysteries and thrillers to sample. If you don't want to commit yourself to a trilogy ("The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson) you can begin with "Faceless Killers," first in the Wallander series by Henning Mankell, or "Eva's Eye," first in the Inspector Sejer series by Karin Fossum. If you are in it for the long haul, you could even begin with "Inspector Maigret And The Dead Girl," an early Maigret mystery from France's prolific Georges Simenon.
Here's a Best Foreign Language Book list to get you started.
Stick with the program through "A Year in Reading" to expand your reading horizons.
Check it out!