The national origins of the authors of all the books I've read in the past five years

Today I added data on national origin to my booklog, which consists of every long-form work that I've read in the past five years. These notations are totally idiosyncratic. In some cases, they veered dramatically from what other people would've put. For instance, I did not mark Nabokov as 'Russian' because it just didn't feel right. He seems like he's …