Val's Round the World list (2014)

[Val]

These are some I have lined up for 2014:
Lesotho: Chaka
Slovenia: Alamut
Latvia: Yet Icebound Rivers Flow
Botswana: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (reread)
Gambia: Chaff On The Wind: A Novel
Guinea-Bissau: Return To The Source: Selected Speeches Of Amilcar Cabral
Gabon: Tropic Moon
Trinidad and Tobago: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (already reviewed)
Bahrain: A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
Estonia: The Czar's Madman
Swaziland: Weeding the Flowerbeds
Mauritius: The Last Brother
Cyprus: A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible
East Timor: The Redundancy of Courage (reread)
Fiji: Kava in the Blood: A Personal & Political Memoir from the Heart of Fiji
Reunion (territory): The Map and the Territory
Djibouti: The Land Without Shadows
Guyana: The Guyana Quartet
Equatorial Guinea: Shadows of Your Black Memory
Bhutan: The Hero with a Thousand Eyes: A Historical Novel
Comoros: Le Kafir Du Karthala
Montenegro: Blood of Montenegro
Western Sahara (disputed): See How Much I Love You
Macau (territory): The Fan Tan Players
Solomon Islands: Solomon Time: Adventures In The South Pacific
Suriname: Oroonoko
Luxembourg: The Expats
Cape Verde: The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
Guadeloupe (territory): The Bridge of Beyond
Malta: Let Fair Weather Bring me Home
Brunei: Four Kings
Martinique (territory): Texaco
Bahamas: The Fledgling: A Bahamian Boyhood
Maldives: The Strode Venturer (reread)
Belize: The Festival of San Joaquin
Iceland: The Greenhouse
Barbados: In the Castle of My Skin
French Polynesia (territory): The Marriage Proposal
New Caledonia (territory): Perversity
Vanuatu: Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
French Guiana (territory): Papillon (reread)
Mayotte (territory): Brûlante est ma terre
Sao Tome and Principe: Equator
Samoa: Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Saint Lucia: What The Twilight Says: Essays and Selected Poems of Derek Walcott
Guam (territory): A Little Piece of Heaven: Growing Up on Wake Island
Guernsey and Jersey (territory): The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Curacao (territory): Double Play: The Story of an Amazing World Record
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Between Two Worlds: A Narrative
US Virgin Islands (territory): Don't Stop the Carnival
Grenada: Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Novel
Tonga: Tales of the Tikongs
Federated States of Micronesia: Nowhere Slow: Eleven Years in Micronesia
Aruba (territory): An Island Away
Kiribati: A Pattern Of Islands
Seychelles: Beyond the Reefs
Antigua and Barbuda: Annie John
Isle of Man (territory): English Passengers (already reviewed)
Andorra: The Teacher of Cheops
Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea (reread)
Bermuda (territory): The Story of Bermuda and Her People
Cayman Islands (territory): Founded Upon the Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and Their People
Greenland (territory): Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (already reviewed)
American Samoa (territory): A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Saint Kitts and Nevis: Caribbean Chemistry: Tales from St. Kitts
Northern Mariana Islands (territory): Tropical Depression
Marshall Islands: Melal
Faroe Islands (territory): Barbara
Sint Maarten (territory): The Making of an Island: St. Martin
Monaco: Loser Takes All
Liechtenstein: Best European Fiction 2011 (contains a short story "Dust" by Stefan Sprenger)
Turks and Caicos Islands (territory): The Unfortunate Potcake

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I don't know if you're looking, but I read The Bridge of Beyond for Guadeloupe, one of hte few you don't have filled in.

You have read so many of the countries! Truly incredible.

[Val]

Thanks Jenny, I have added it to the list.

I may have to combine some of the Pacific island nations and read:
Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific and
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact
and I may leave the smaller territories out.

[An]

Val wrote: "These are some I have lined up for 2014:
Lesotho: Chaka
Slovenia: Alamut
Latvia: Yet Icebound Rivers Flow
Botswana: [book:The No. 1 Ladies' Detective A..."

Wow, what a list. I might come back and look for inspiration from time to time!

[Val]

Half way through the year, I am approximately half way through my list. I had to make a couple of changes to my choices because I was finding it difficult to get hold of the books.

[Lilisa]

I'm impressed by the list of countries on your list. - I can imagine books might be difficult to suss out. For Andorra - I've seen The Road to Andorra on Goodreads - I haven't read it although it's on my TBR List. For St. Lucia, you might want to check out Derek Walcott - he was a St. Lucia native and won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His works include poems, plays and essays.

[Val]

Thanks Lilisa.
I will probably read something by Derek Walcott for St. Lucia. The library has several of his works, so I might try a few of them.
They also have a biography of him.