International favorite books, movies, music?

May 29, 2007 8:47 AM

Where can I find lists of other countries' favorite books, music and movies?

I'm looking for lists like the BBC Big Read, which I've had really good luck with. People's all-time favorite books, not the ever-changing best-seller lists. Any and all countries and languages...failing that, how about best international literature lists?

Same for music and movies?

posted by sLevi to writing & language (5 comments total)

CBC Radio "Summer Reading List": http://www.cbc.ca/checkup/booklists.html
Globe and Mail bestsellers: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/

CBC radio also ran a show called "50 Tracks" to nominate the best 50 songs EVAR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Tracks:_The_Canadian_Version
posted by GuyZero at 9:04 AM on May 29, 2007

Which books are most representative of other countries?
posted by theiconoclast31 at 9:47 AM on May 29, 2007

Music:
Charts All Over the World
posted by ibeji at 9:49 AM on May 29, 2007

Most of the world's favourite movies are Hollywood movies, with the notable exceptions of India and China. Global Hollywood 2 explains this pretty well.
posted by SoftRain at 10:23 AM on May 29, 2007

If you have an iTunes Store account, it's interesting to switch the country sometimes (the switch menu is at the very bottom) to see how the current charts differ by country.
posted by derMax at 11:58 AM on May 29, 2007