The List, in progress

I think this will always be a work in progress. Even when the trip is over, I'll still be thinking of things I should have read. As it stands, here are my best intentions (blue being those books I have already:

UK: Down and Out in Paris and London (it's a bridging book)
France: The Needle in the Blood, Bonjour Tristesse, The Misanthrope, Candide.
Spain: Don Quixote (too ambitious/large perhaps? We own it, that's the main attraction.)
Portugal: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Italy: The Leopard, Invisible Cities, Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Croatia/Bosnia: The Bridge on the Drina
Slovenia: (Less than 48 hours here, but we'll see what I can come up with)
Austria: Goalies Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Liechtenstein: (Just passing through, again we'll see)
Switzerland: On Travel (it's a bit of a cheat, but I read The Magic Mountain last year and it was enough on Switzerland for a lifetime).
Germany: Summer in Baden-Baden (wangled a trip here on the basis of this book), Goodbye to Berlin, Vertigo
Czech Republic: The Trial
Luxembourg: (Here a few days, so I'll have to come up with something.)

Then it's on to Africa:
Zimbabwe: Maybe... Nervous Condition, Butterfly Burning or The House of Hunger?
Botswana: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Namibia: Born of the Sun?
South Africa: Chaka or Cry the Beloved Country?

As you can see, it's a list in progress. The Africa addition to the trip is relatively new, so I've not had much time to think on it. I'd just bought a new McCall Smith, so it will be called into active service.

Some countries have too many books, others too few. Some countries we'll be in for less than 48 hours. I've not limited myself to fiction either, there are a few plays in there, and one possibility is to download a bit of poetry from each place as well just to round things out. Thank goodness we're driving Europe in a campervan.