2014 Winter Olympics Reading Challenge

March 1,2012 – February 6, 2014

Goal
Read a book featuring a country that got a Medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Duration
March 1, 2010 - Feb 6, 2014
Summary
This is a personal challenge, but feel free to participate with me by leaving a comment below. The purpose is to encourage reading books from countries other than your own - where the country is the setting for the book, or the author is from that country. And you have until the start of the next Winter Olympic games to do it.

The 2014 Winter Olympics Reading Challenge

If you do want to participate, choose a level below:

Level 1 (Gold): Read a book from every country that won a medal.
Level 2 (Silver): Read a book from every country that won aGold medal.
Level 3 (Bronze): Read a book from every country that wonGold, Silver AND Bronze medals.

Of course, I'm going for the GOLD!!! Valuable resources for finding books from different countries include BiblioTravel and Books Set In.

Below is a List of the 26 Countries with Medals from the 2010 Winter Olympics (* means the country got gold, silver and bronze medals).

• Australia - Gold & Silver (no Bronze)
• Austria *
• Belarus *
• Canada *
• China *
• Croatia - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
• Czech Republic - Gold & Bronze (no Silver)
• Estonia - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
• Finland - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
• France *
• Germany *
• Great Britain - Gold (no Silver or Bronze)
• Italy *
• Japan - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
• Kazakhstan - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
• Latvia - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
• Netherlands *
• Norway *
• Poland *
• Russia *
• Slovakia *
• Slovenia - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
• South Korea *
• Sweden *
• Switzerland - Gold & Bronze (no Silver)
• United States *

For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.