This will be fun! Starting in USA

Reminder to me:
Region + Country + Title + Author

A - Antarctica, Australia, Antigua, Argentina
B - Brazil, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia
C - China, Columbia, Canada
D - Dominican Republic, Dominica
E - Egypt, Ethiopia
F - France
G - Guatemala
H - Hong Kong, Haiti, Honduras
I - India, Ireland, Italy, Israel
J - Japan
K - Kenya, Kirabati
L - Lebanon, Lithuania
M - Mexico, Malayasia
N - New Zealand
O - Oman
P - Poland. Portugal, Puerto Rico
Q - Qatar
R - Russia, Rwanda
S - Scotland, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Seychelles
T - Tasmania, Tibet, Turkey
U - USA
V - Vietnam, Vanuatu
W - Wales
X
Y - Yemen
Z - Zimbabwe

Regions - 9
Countries - 53
ABC - 25

Wow, what a great system! Mind if I copy?

Miss GP wrote: "Wow, what a great system! Mind if I copy?"

I don't mind at all.

I Loved 'Love in the time of Cholera'.
What are you planning to read from Russia? Or Armenia?

pjreads wrote: "


A
B
C - China, Columbia
D
E
F - France
G - Guatemala
H - Hong Kong
I - India, Ireland
J
K
L
M
N
O
P - Poland
Q
R
S - Scotland, Spain
T - Tasmania
U - USA
V
W
X
Y
Z

..."PJ, like Miss GP I like your system. Hope you don't mind if I copy it also? Karen

North America - 3

1. USA (home country) - Song Yet Sung by James McBride 15 SEP 4 stars
17. Canada - Writing with Intent Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005 by Margaret Atwood 15 OCT 5 stars
20. Mexico - Frida by Barbara Mujica 17 OCT 4 stars

Antarctica - 1

21. Antarctica - White-Out by James Vance Marshall 17 OCT 4 stars

Asia - 7

2. India - Q & A by Vikas Swarup 15 SEP 3 stars
5. China - Waiting A Novel by Ha Jin 17 SEP 3 stars
6. Hong Kong - The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee 18 SEP 3 stars
24. Malayasia - Evening Is the Whole Day A Novel by Preeta Samarasan 21 OCT 3 stars
25. Japan - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 21 OCT 3 stars
31. Tibet - Red Poppies A Novel of Tibet by Alai 26 OCT 3 stars
36. Vietnam - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 29 OCT 4 stars

Oceania / Australia - 5

8. Tasmania* - English Passengers A Novel by Matthew Kneale 22 SEP 4 stars (*see rule #5)
23. Australia - Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living A Novel by Carrie Tiffany 19 OCT 2 stars
35. New Zealand - Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson 29 OCT 2 stars
38. Kirabati - The Sex Lives of Cannibals Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost 1 NOV 3 stars
40. Vanuatu - Getting Stoned with Savages A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost 2 NOV 2-3 stars

Caribbean - 6

18. Haiti - Cathedral of the August Heat by Pierre Clitandre 15 OCT 4 stars
27. Dominican Republic - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 24 OCT 4 stars
34. Barbados - One Dangerous Lady A Novel by Jane Stanton Hitchcock 29 OCT 2 stars
41. Antigua - Mr.Potter by Jamaica Kincaid 5 NOV 3 stars
43. Puerto Rico - The Meaning of Consuelo A Novel by Judith Ortiz Cofer 6 NOV 3 stars
46. Dominica - Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid 13 NOV 4 stars

Latin America - 7

7. Columbia - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 21 SEP 4 stars
12. Guatemala - Silence On The Mountain Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 28 SEP 3 stars
19. Brazil - Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis 16 OCT 3 stars
42. Belize - The Baker's Boy by Barry Kitterman 6 NOV 4 stars
44. Argentina - Heaven of Drums by Ana Gloria Moya 11 NOV 5 stars
47. Bolivia - American Visa by Juan De Recacoechea 16 NOV 3 stars
50. Honduras Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath 22 NOV 3 stars

Europe - 11

3. Ireland - Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes 16 SEP 3 stars
4. Scotland - The House on Fortune Street A Novel by Margot Livesey 16 SEP 3 stars
9. France - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 22 SEP 4 stars
10. Poland - In America A Novel by Susan Sontag 24 SEP 4 stars
11. Spain - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 25 SEP 4 stars
13. Italy - Pope Joan A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross 30 SEP 4 stars
15. Sweden - Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi 13 OCT 4 stars
16. Portugal - Alentejo Blue Fiction by Monica Ali 13 OCT 4 stars
28. Russia - Chagall A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager 25 OCT 3 stars
45. Wales - The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan 12 NOV 4 stars for writing / 3 stars for story
51. Lithuania - Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis 23 NOV 4 stars

Middle East - 6

26. Yemen - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday 22 OCT 2 stars
29. Oman - The Road to Ubar Finding the Atlantis of the Sands by Nicholas Clapp 25 OCT 3 stars
32. Lebanon - The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine 27 OCT 4 stars
39. Qatar - Bedouins of Qatar by Klaus Ferdinand 1 NOV 3 stars
48. Turkey - Enlightenment by Maureen Freely 17 NOV 4 stars

52. Israel - Drawing in the Dust by Zoe Klein 25 NOV 5 stars

Africa - 7

14. South Africa - Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 30 SEP 5 Stars
22. Egypt - Nefertiti A Novel by Michelle Moran 18 OCT 3 stars
30. Zimbabwe - When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin 26 OCT 3 stars
33. Rwanda - Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin 27 OCT 4 stars
37. Kenya - Wizard of the Crow A novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 31 OCT 4 stars
49. Ethiopia - There Is No Me Without You One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children by Melissa Fay Greene 18 NOV 5 stars

53. Seychelles - The Edge of Eden by Helen Benedict 25 NOV 5 stars