Reading Across Borders Challenge Update

I started this year with a somewhat small challenge, to read one book by an author from another country each month. I decided to expand that, however, to aim for the *slightly* larger long-term goal of reading a book from every country. I am fairly happy with my progress, although I feel some books don't count completely (my choices from Afghanistan, Cuba, China and Cambodia), and I would like to read some works in translation from these countries in the future. In the coming year, I would like to focus on Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

I haven't read too many on my list of original 12 books for this year, but I have continued to read books from all over the world. Here is a list of countries I have covered so far, totalling 23. The books that I read this year crossing borders (16 total) are linked to their review:

Africa:
Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
South Africa: The Life and Times of Michael K by JM Coetzee; Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton; and No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu

Asia:
Afghanistan: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Cambodia: First They Killed My Father by Luong Ung
China: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
India: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy; Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra; and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (among others)
Israel: A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua
Japan: I Am A Cat by Soseki Natsume; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Russia: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Australia/Oceania:
Australia: Illywhacker, The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and Blueback: A Fable for all Ages by Tim Winton; Zig Zag Street and Bachelor Kisses by Nick Earls.
New Zealand: The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Europe:
Austria: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Italy: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Portugal: Blindness by Jose Saramago
United Kingdom: Excellent Women and An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym (and many others)

North America: (Since I live in the U.S., I don't include any of my readings of US authors in this list)
Canada: Random Passage by Bernice Morgan; Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, and others by Margaret Atwood (and many more)
Cuba: Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Guatemala: I, Rigoberta Menchu, as told to Elizabeth Burgos-Debray
Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival

South America:
Brazil: The Alchemist and By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coehlo
Chile: House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, and others by Isabel Allende
Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez