All Around the World Challenge - 2013

[Trisha]

This challenge involves reading stories that take place in countries all over the world. Start a post and add to it throughout the year listing the country, title of the book, author, and date finished. Lets see who can visit the most countries. You can even get a jump start with December! Ready...set...go!

[Kat]

I like this idea!

[Trisha]

England: "The Constant Princess" - Philippa Gregory
"The Casual Vacancy" - J.K. Rowling
USA: "On the Road" - Jack Kerouac

[Trisha]

One other rule: it has to be an ACTUAL country. Imaginary places (i.e. Hogwarts, Narnia, Middle-earth, etc...) don't count!

[Meg]

Engkand--A CHRISTMAS CAROL--Charles Dickens

[Emily]

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Russia

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Author - Britain
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - England

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan - USA

[Trisha]

Hey guys! Welcome to the challenge! Just continue to add on to your original post as you continue to read different countries and we will see who was visited the most places at the end!

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I may come up with a few countries but around the world, I doubt it, we'll see.


Southeastern USA: The Civil War: A Narrative 12/31/12
Oregon USA: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1/11/13
England & France: The Scarlet Pimpernel1/19/13
Italy: Up at the Villa 1/30/13
Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, &
Egypt: The Alchemist 2/6/13
Itlay & England A Room with a View 3/24/13
Cuba, Hawaii, Japan, Philippines, China, & Korea: The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War 4/9/13
Newfoundland, Canada: The Shipping News 4/21/13
Central Africa & Belgium: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4/28/13
Scotland: To the Lighthouse 5/27/13
China: The Good Earth 6/3/13
France & England: Pied Piper Finished 6/13/13
Germany & Iceland: Journey to the Center of the Earth 6/23/13
Russia: Doctor Zhivago 7/4/13
Amsterdam. Netherlands: The Diary of a Young Girl 7/11/13
France & Italy: The Count of Monte Cristo 7/28/13
Australia & England: Requiem for a Wren 8/24/13
England, Hawaii, & Tahiti: Trustee from the Toolroom Finished 10/28/13
New Guinea: Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II Finished 8/10/13

[Annina]

Finland: Onnen tunti by Anna-Leena Härkönen

Germany: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Sweden: Pekka Töpöhäntä by Gösta Knutsson

France: Kuplissa : novelleja by Claire Castillon

UK: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Israel: Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

Italy: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Greece: Z by Vassilis Vassilikos

Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk

USA: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Ireland: Brida by Paulo Coelho

Afghanistan: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Poland: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Finland: Ilonen talo by Kreetta Onkeli

USA: Room by Emma Donoghue

UK:
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Estonia: Kun kyyhkyset katosivat by Sofi Oksanen

[Emily]

I have a question - can we use the country of the author if it is a fantasy novel? Just curious!

[Trisha]

Good question...I say yes, just specify in parenthesis if it is the author rather than the plotline :-)

[Jenny]

England: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (12/25/12)

Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (01/03/13)

India: Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (04/21/13)

Thailand: Yellow Card Man

Scotland: Changeless

Italy: Blameless

[Emily]

Trisha, glad you're flexible on things like that, it is just for fun after all - some other challenges I've wanted to participate in are much too strict to be much fun personally. So thank you!

[Silver]

Egypt: Nefertiti by Michelle Moran - 12/30/12

USA: Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow-1/30/13

Turkey: Snow by Orhan Pamuk - 1/31/13

France: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas-1/31/13

[Kat]

If a book is set in more than one country, I only list one of those countries. For example, Gate of the Sun takes place in four different countries but I've only chosen one for the list. Also, if I've read several books that take place in the same country, I only list one of those books. For example, I've read six books set in Jordan this year but I've only listed one.

England: Last Orders -Graham Smith (1/27/13)
Wales: Wolf Blood -N.M. Browne (2/28/13)
Ireland: The Sea -John Banville (11/10/13)
Scotland: The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem -Aneirin (4/6/13)
France: El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel -Emmuska Orczy (12/14/12)
Italy: Pictures from Italy -Charles Dickens (12/2/13)
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind -Carlos Ruiz Zafón (10/16/13)
Czech Republic: A Hunger Artist -Franz Kafka (1/4/13)
Romania: Dracula -Bram Stoker (10/31/13)
Russia: Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoyevsky (12/28/13)
Norway: Hunger -Knut Hamsun (11/7/13)
Switzerland: Hotel du Lac -Anita Brookner (11/26/13)
Netherlands: The Laughing Cavalier -Emmuska Orczy (5/29/13)
Iceland: Ice Land -Betsy Tobin (11/6/13)
Greenland: The Greenlanders -Jane Smiley (11/14/13)
USA: The Water Thief -Nick Soutter (3/14/13)
Republic of Columbia: One Hundred Years of Solitude -Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7/1/13)
Peru: The Storyteller -Mario Vargas Llosa (11/7/13)
Jamaica: Pirate Latitudes -Michael Crichton (7/5/13)
India: Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (12/30/13)
South Africa: Youth -J.M. Coetzee (9/16/13)
Morocco: The Storyteller of Marrakesh -Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya (6/11/13)
Algeria: The Stranger -Albert Camus (11/7/13)
Afghanistan: أرض ورماد -Atiq Rahimi (1/20/13)
Lebanon: Gate of the Sun -Elias Khoury (2/23/13)
Iran: The Blood of Flowers -Anita Amirrezvani (10/19/13)
Saudi Arabia: بنات الرياض -Rajaa Al-Sanea (10/20/13)
Jordan: Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril -King Abdullah II (6/21/13)
Palestine (West Bank): Mornings in Jenin -Susan Abulhawa (10/21/13)
Israel: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East -Sandy Tolan (10/28/13)

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[Emily]

Do we continue to add all the books we've read even if they're the same country? I noticed your updated post, Trisha, and was wondering. I guess it doesn't matter either way, eh?

[Trisha]

You can if you want to, or you can keep it to 1 book per country, however you would like to keep track :-). I appear to be stuck in England!! Haha!

[Kat]

I tried adding several books under one country but it made my post look a little messy so I'll go with choosing one book per country. I hope everyone is enjoying their book tours of the world!

[Trisha]

I seem to be stuck in either the USA or England!

[Betsy]

Interesting challenge... My book selection is typically by genre... Here's mine:

USA / The Racketeer / Grisham, John
USA / Treasure Island!!! / Levine, Sara

[Sara]

The Thorn Birds-Australia

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Trisha wrote: "I seem to be stuck in either the USA or England!"

I too am stuck. Who would think that world travel could be this hard. I have read eight books this month and I am firmly planted in the USA with two trips to Western Europe. However, I think I will be going to Spain and North Africa soon.

[Barbara]

I do like this idea. And so far ....

Finland: The Summer Book: Tove Jansson

Alaska: The Snow Child: Eowyn Ivey

Malaya: The Garden of Evening Mists: Tan Twan Eng

USA: The Cardturner: Louis Sachar

Sweden: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jona Jonasson

Update 8th July 2013

Scotland: A Darker Domain: Val McDermid

England: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: Rachel Joyce.

Peru: Three Letters From the Andes: Patrick Leigh Fermor

Burma and India: The Glass Palace: |Amitav Ghosh

[Maude]

Yours is the Earth, by Margaret Vail. set in France, North Africa, and the Pyrenees, during WWII, 287pp.
Finished January 25, 2013.

[Kat]

I read a lot of science fiction, so most of my books are out of this world.

[Sara]

Pope Joan- Rome
Anna Karenina- Russia

[Sara]

- Japan

[Janet]

England: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 2/13
Butte, America: Work Song, Ivan Doig 3/13
Channel Islands: The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society 4/13
USA: A Painted House, John Grisham 5/13
England: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte 6/13
USA: The Outlander, Gil Adamson 6/13
Norway: Out Stealing Horses, Per Pederson 6/13

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Thanks Janet: I've only read a couple on your list, I'll have to work more in!

[Sara]

Japan-

England- ]
Switzerland-
France-

[MK]

Hmm, I seem to be mostly in America. Maybe over the fall, I'll travel some ;-).

I just joined Goodreads, and The Classics group, so I'll just jump in with my books from the last few weeks, as I did for the A-Z challenge. Maybe I'll specify states, to add a bit of variety :-p


Editing to add on recent reads ~~

All Around the World:

Canada, NS (& US, CA): An Imperfect Witch, by Debora Geary - Sept 2013
Canada, ON (& US, CA): Village Books, by Craig McLay - Dec 2013
Czech Republic: The Riddle of Prague, by Laura DeBruce - Dec 2013
England: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen - Dec 2013
England (& US, NM): Brave New World, by Alduous Huxley - Dec 2013
France, Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, & England, Italy, US, Ireland: Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne - Dec 2013
Italy: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller - Nov/Dec 2013
Northern Ireland: The Yellow House, by Patricia Falvey - Dec 2013
Peru: The Savannah Coven Series (primarily in the US, book 6 also in Peru), by Suza Kates - Oct/Nov 2013
Switzerland, Russia, North Pole, Germany, Scotland, Ireland & France, England: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley -Oct/Nov 2013
United States: list below

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US states/etc:

CA (& Canada, NS): An Imperfect Witch, by Debora Geary - Sept 2013
CT (& NV, NY): Zero Sight, by B. Justin Shier - Dec 2013
DC (& GA): The Silo Saga - Wool, Shift & Dust Omnibus novels Wool, Shift, Dust trilogy (primarily underground, parts in GA & DC, by Hugh Howey - Sept/Oct 2013
GA (& Peru): The Savannah Coven Series (primarily in GA, book 6 also in Peru), by Suza Kates - Oct/Nov 2013
Midwest, IA (& CT, NY; An unnamed Midwestern state, I just picked one, IA): The XY Axis, by Karin Bishop - Dec 2013
ME (& MN, NY): Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline - Sept 2013
Mississippi River (incl IL, MO, KY, AS): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain - Oct/Nov 2013
MN (& ME, NY): Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline - Sept 2013
NJ: Atlantic Island 1- The Event, book 1 of 3, in Atlantic Island Omnibus, by Frederic Shernoff - Dec 2013
NM (& England): Brave New World, by Alduous Huxley - Dec 2013
Transcontinental rail trip (incl UT, WY, NE, IL & CA, NY): Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne - Dec 2013
NV (& CT, NY): Zero Sight, by B. Justin Shier - Dec 2013
WA (& CA, & Italy): The Sullivans Series The Sullivan Family series (primarily in CA, books 8.5 & 9 in WA, book 10 in CA & Italy), by Bella Andre - Sep/Oct 2013

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[Mariana]

So far this year...

Crime and Punishment - Doistoievski (Russia)

A new Life - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

On the Road - Jack Kerouac (USA)

Retratos da vida de um Médico - Fernando Namora (Portugal)

[Vincent]

France:
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Timeline by Michael Crichton

India:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Italy:
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe

Sweden:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

United Kingdom:
Camilla by Fanny Burney
Cecilia by Fanny Burney
The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

United States:
Next by Michael Crichton
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Timeline by Michael Crichton

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[Connie]

How do I add to a previous comment? I wanted to add to the list of countries.

[Vincent]

Connie, at the bottom right on your post, there is a little button marked "edit" you can use to add to your post.

[Connie]

Just joined the group but the countries I have read about most recently are:

Canada: Death in Cold Type - C.C. Benison

United States: Library of the Dead - Glenn Cooper

Poland/Germany: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne

France: Les Miserables

India: Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Great Britain: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

Russia: Crime and Punishment

Australia: A Light Between the Oceans - M. L. Stedman

North Korea: The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson

Afghanistan: And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

[Melanti]

Let' see what my map looks like... Since Thorn Birds had quite a bit in New Zealand before they moved to Australia, I have it listed twice.

Eek... Compared to the rest of the world, my South America and Africa are shamefully empty!

Algeria: The Stranger by Albert Camus
Austria: Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart - 12/19
Australia (partial): The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - 11/8
Canada: White Fang by Jack London 3/1
Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - 4/8
China: Cinder by Marissa Meyer - 5/1
Denmark (author's country): The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen - 11/10
Egypt: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare - 8/3
England: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - 7/18
France: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux - 7/12
Germany (Author's country): The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach - 8/30
Greece: The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart - 4/22
India: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - 9/22
Ireland: Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht - 12/1
Italy (Author's country): Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino - 11/4
Japan: The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey - 3/13
Mexico (partial):Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes by Kathleen Alcala - 9/11
Mongolia: Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang - 3/3
Nicaragua: Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester - 9/19
New Zealand (partial): The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - 11/8
Poland: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy - 5/20
Russia: The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia - 8/1
Scotland: Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers - 12/9
Ukraine (partial): Enchantment by Orson Scott Card - 3/27
United States:My Antonia by Willa Cather - 9/23

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