Diane P.'s List for 2013

[Diane]

I am going for a smaller number of books than in 2012. I plan to hit about 100 in 2013. For me, I prefer to have the book actually set in the country as opposed to an author from the country. I prefer to have both, but purist I'm not, so really anything goes. I am doing something a bit different this year. I will be reading in geographical order.

READ (in order read)

1. USA:
Cane (own)

2. Canada:
The Shipping News (own)
Anne of Avonlea (own)
Ru: A Novel (own)
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Requiem
Mrs. Mike
Juliet in August
The Stone Diaries (own)
Never Cry Wolf

3. Greenland:
Smilla's Sense of Snow (own)

4. Svalbard and Jan Mayen
The Solitude of Thomas Cave

5. Russia:
War and Peace (own)

6. Japan:
The Tale of Genji (own)

7. Korea (South):
Your Republic Is Calling You (own)

8. Korea (North):
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

9. China:
Empress Orchid (own)
Empire of the Sun (own)

10. Tibet:
Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography (own)

11. Mongolia:
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

12. Kazakhstan:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (own)

13. Kyrgyzstan:
Roaming Kyrgyzstan: Beyond the Tourist Track (own)

14. Uzbekistan:
A Collection of Uzbek Short Stories (own)

15. Afghanistan:
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

16. Pakistan:
The Wandering Falcon

17. Iran:
The Bathhouse: A Novel

18. Azerbaijan:
The Colonel's Mistake

19. Armenia:
Bosphorus Nights: The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian (own)

20. Georgia:
My Dear Son

21. Turkey:
Snow (own)

22. Cyprus
Gregory: and Other Stories (own)
Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (own)

23. Syria:
The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith

24. Lebanon:
The Prophet (own)

25. Israel: 
Barabbas (own)

26. Palestine:
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories (own)

27. Jordan:
Appointment with Death

28. Iraq:
Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel

29. Kuwait:
Dear Jawaher

30. Saudi Arabia:
Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia (own)

31. Bahrain:
Crowded With Voices: Thirteen Years In The Middle East (own)

32. Qatar:
From Dunes to Dior (own)

33. United Arab Emirates:
Dubai Wives (own)

34. Oman:
Letters from Oman (own)

35. Yemen:
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

36. Eritrea:
A Painful Season & a Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Mother (own)

37. Sudan:
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur (own)

38. Egypt:
Justine (own)
Balthazar (own)
Cleopatra: A Life

39. Libya:
The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya (own)

40. Algeria:
The Stranger (own)

41. Western Sahara:
Sufferings in Africa

42. Morocco:
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

43. Madeira:
Last April Fair

44. Portugal:
The Double (own)

45. Spain:
The Club Dumas (own)

46. Basque Region:
Obabakoak (own)

47. France:
Swann's Way (own)
Within a Budding Grove (own)
The Guermantes Way (own)
The Three Musketeers (own)

48. Wales:
Decline and Fall (own)

49. England:
Bleak House (own)
Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
The Casual Vacancy

50. Scotland:
Trainspotting (own)

51. Ireland:
Ulysses (own)
A Monster Calls (own)

52. Northern Ireland:
Home Is the Sailor: An Irish Country Doctor Story

53. Iceland:
Reply to a Letter from Helga (own)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (own)

54. Bermuda:
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

55. Virgin Islands:
On the Hard in Paradise (own)

56. St. Martin:
The Making of an Island: St. Martin (own)

57. Anguilla:
A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean (own)

58. Saba:
Saba Sā-bə (own)

59. Saint Eustatius:
A Notable Occupation (own)

60. Saint Kitts and Nevis:
Rum Punch Regrets (own)

61. Montserrat:
At Home with Miss Vanesa (own)

62. Antigua:
A Small Place (own)

63. Guadeloupe:
The Zabime Sisters

64. Dominica:
The Autobiography of My Mother (own)

65. Martinique:
School Days (own)

66. Saint Lucia:
White Egrets

67. Barbados:
It So Happen

68. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
Between Two Worlds: A Narrative

69. Grenada:
Tales from the Isle of Spice: A Collection of New Caribbean Folk Tales

70. Aruba:
Does This Island Go To The Bottom?

71. Bonaire:
Diving Bonaire

72. Curacao:
Superfecundation

73. French Guiana:
Common Human Flesh

74. Suriname:
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest (own)

75. Trinidad and Tobago: The Enigma of Arrival

76. Guyana: A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

77. Venezuela: The Sickness

78. Colombia: Our Lady of the Assassins

79. Ecuador: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

80. Peru: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

81. Bolivia: Andean Journeys: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Bolivian Poetry

82. Australia:
The Light Between Oceans (own)

83. Thailand:
The Orchid House (own)

84. Finland:
The Summer Book (own)

85. Malawi:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (own)

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Nice list! Lots to see and do.

[Diane]

TO READ

Albania:
Broken April
The Three-Arched Bridge (own)

Angola:
The Book of Chameleons (own)

Antarctica:
At the Mountains of Madness (own)
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

Argentina:
Ficciones (own)

Austria:
Chess Story (own)
Dream Story
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (own)

Bangladesh:
The Home and the World (own)
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (own)

Belarus:
Pack of Wolves (own)

Belgium:
Cheese (own)

Belize:
Beka Lamb (own)

Bolivia:
Andean Journeys: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Bolivian Poetry (own)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
S. (own)

Botswana:
A Question of Power (own)
Twenty Chickens For A Saddle (own)

Brazil:
Dom Casmurro (own)

Burma:
Burmese Days

Burundi:
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness (own)

Cambodia:
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Cameroon:
The Poor Christ of Bomba (own)

Central African Republic:
They Called Me Mama (own)

Channel Islands:
The Soldier's Wife (Guernsey) (own)

Chile:
Inés of My Soul (own)

Colombia:
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (own)

Congo(DRC):
A Bend in the River

Congo (RC):
African Psycho (own)

Cote d'Ivoire:
Allah Is Not Obliged (own)

Croatia:
On the Edge of Reason (own)

Cuba:
Monkey Hunting (own)

Czech Republic:
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (own)

Denmark:
The Boy in the Suitcase (own)

Djibouti:
Djibouti (own)

Dominican Republic:
Drown (own)

Ecuador:
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (own)

Estonia:
Professor Martens' Departure (own)

Ethiopia:
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel (own)

Faeroe Islands:
Barbara (own)

French Polynesia:
The Bungalow (own)

Gabon:
One Dry Season (own)

Germany:
The Glass Bees (own)
The Invention of Curried Sausage (own)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (own)

Ghana:
The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born (own)
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

Greece:
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
The Daughter (own)
The Penelopiad (own)

Guinea:
The Radiance of the King

Haiti:
The Kingdom of This World (own)

Hungary:
Fatelessness (own)

India: *
A Suitable Boy (own)

Indonesia:
Lost in Shangri-la (own)
This Earth of Mankind (own)

Italy: *
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (own)
I'm Not Scared (own)

Jamaica:
Abeng (own)
The Pirate's Daughter (own)

Kenya:
Matigari (own)
The River Between (own)

Laos:
Thirty-Three Teeth

Lesotho
She Plays with the Darkness (own)

Liberia:
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Macau:
Night of Many Dreams: A Novel (own)

Madagascar:
Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar

Mali:
The Epic of Askia Mohammed (own)

Malta:
The Great Siege: Malta 1565

Mauritius:
The Rape Of Sita (own)

Mexico:
The Conquest of New Spain (own)
The Underdogs (own)

Mozambique:
The Last Flight of The Flamingo (own)

Netherlands:
Rituals (own)

New Zealand:
Bliss and Other Stories (own)
The Bone People (own)
The Colour (own)

Niger:
Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past (own)

Nigeria:
Half of a Yellow Sun

Norway: *
Growth of the Soil (own)
The House with the Blind Glass Windows (own)
Nemesis (own)

Papua New Guinea:
Mister Pip (own)

Peru:
Deep Rivers (own)
In Praise of the Stepmother (own)

Philippines:
Ilustrado (own)

Poland:
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman (own)

Puerto Rico:
Call Me Maria (own)

Sri Lanka:
Reef (own)

Romania:
The Appointment (own)
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays (own)

Rwanda:
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (own)

Samoa:
The Adventures of Vela (own)
Where We Once Belonged (own)

Senegal:
God's Bits of Wood (own)

Sierra Leone:
Tarzan of the Apes (own)

South Africa:
The Conservationist (own)
July's People (own)
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (own)

Sweden:
Faceless Killers (own)

Switzerland:
Daisy Miller (own)
Hotel du Lac (own)
Homo faber (own)

Tanzania:
By the Sea (own)

Taiwan:
Dumpling Days

Trinidad and Tobago:
The Suffrage of Elvira (own)

Uganda:
Child of Dandelions
Snakepit: A Novel

Ukraine:
The Cathedral: A Novel (own)

Uruguay:
The Shipyard (own)

Vietnam:
Dispatches (own)
The Lover (own)

Zambia:
A Cowrie of Hope (own)

Zimbabwe:
King Solomon's Mines (own)
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm (own)

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[Tanya (mom's small victories)]

Looks like a great list. The Count of Monte Cristo is my all time favorite classic so Three Musketeers will be on my list for France as well. Good luck with the challenge and I look forward to reading your reviews next year!

[Tanya (mom's small victories)]

Oh and I read Strength in What Remains this year as well. It was one of those books that had parts that stay with you. What a remarkable journey, enjoy!

[Diane]

Tanya (mom's small victories) wrote: "Looks like a great list. The Count of Monte Cristo is my all time favorite classic so Three Musketeers will be on my list for France as well. Good luck with the challenge and I look forward to re..."

Thank you! I really look forward to reading it. Both of those books have been on my tbr forever. I have been avoiding them because of their length.

[Diane]

I hit every country and major non-country last year, but I have a few tiny land masses that I didn't visit that I want to read books from this year. If anybody has any good recommendations for the following places, please let me know:

Bonaire
Jersey
Madeira
New Caledonia
Niue
Tokelau

[[deleted user]]

Legends of New Caledonia: A Collection of Legends from the Isle of Pines

Also, try here for your South Pacific locales: http://uspbookcentre.com/

I've ordered from them before and had good service (though you need a large enough order to make the shipping cost worthwhile).

[Diane]

Osho wrote: "Legends of New Caledonia: A Collection of Legends from the Isle of Pines

Also, try here for your South Pacific locales: http://uspbookcentre.com/

I've ordered from them before and had good servic..."

Looks interesting. Thanks!

[Diane]

I really need to stop reading books from countries not on my list.