29: United States
15: England
9: Ireland
5: Scotland
3: Germany, France
2: Iceland, South Africa, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy
1: Belguim, Sweden, Cambodia, Eygpt, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Laos, Russia, Denmark, Turkey, Australia, Poland, Canada
5: Multiple countries (including Ireland, England, Austria, Hungary, Poland, France, Germany, Australia, China, India, Burma, Singapore)
3: Short story collections
11: non-fiction
3 comments:
Only one from Canada? And an English author at that!
I'm deeply impressed, Rob, and will be sure to have a browse as this is a very rich list. Many thanks!
I'm never quite sure whether to classify novels by the author's country of origin as opposed to the place the novel is set. I've tended to go for the latter, but there are of course lots of authors who set their novels in a country other than their own (Philip Kerr - Germany, MJ McGrath - Arctic Circle, Quentin Bates - Iceland, to name but three)...
I'll have to hunt down some Canadian works this year. I've been meaning to read another John McFetridge so that would be a start.
I classify by the place the novel is setting in as that's what I'm trying to capture in the post - where I've visited, rather than the nationality of the author. I was quite surprised by how many places I'd made it to as it felt like a very US/UK/Irish year of reading.
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