Good call! Don't know how I'd missed your post (mea culpa).
Thread management has got to be a task of Ariadnean (or is it Arachnean?) proportions (world wide web indeed). (Your sticky index in Writers and Assorted Lits was another good call.) Perhaps it would help to encourage those who initiate single-book topics to link them in the relevant national literature thread. Likewise, we previously linked some Hungarian Lit resources
here:
Translated literature - books, websites