2012 Eastern European Challenge!

I came across this challenge today and thought it was super cool, so decided to join it! 

I found it over at The Black Sheep Dances. 

There aren't many rules and it's basically about reading and reviewing a few Eastern European books in 2012~ Sounds fantastic to me! There at least a dozen awesome books from Eastern Europe that immediately popped in my head when I fist found this fab challenge and I think I'll have plenty of fun participating in it! :)

Here's some info about the challenge:

Regions: Choose titles about or by an author from any of the following regions: Croatia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Belarus, Estonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Czech Rep., Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Romania, Moldova, and Kosovo.

Titles: Can be any genre: crime, poetry, literary fiction, history, historical fiction, memoirs, etc. If possible, try to select titles that are translated works to help support the continuing exposure of Eastern works to Western readers.

Links to reviews of Eastern European or Russian titles are in the comments box here:
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/01/links-to-your-reviews-of-eastern.html

Suggested titles by participants are here:
http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2011/01/suggest-title-for-eastern-european.

Levels:
tourist: 4 books over the 12 months
ambassador: 8 books over 12 months
scholar: 12 books over 12 months

I think I will go for SCHOLAR level, as I plan on doing one Eastern European book per month!
Here are a few books that I would love to read and feature on my blog:

1) Andrzej Sapkowski - The Blood of Elves (Poland, fantasy)
2) Dorota Masłowska - Snow White and Russian Red (Poland, contemporary/historical)
3) Sergei Lukyanenko - Night Watch (Russia, fantasy)
4) Dmitry Glukhovsky - Metro 2033 (Russia, fantasy/dystopia)

There's more, I just need to do research if they were translated to English :)
I'm really excited for this challenge! Woohoooo! 2012 is going to be so fun!