Around the World in 80 Books Challenge - 2014

[MK]

Fifteen - Nigeria

[Nathan]

Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Algeria: The Plague
Antarctica: At the Mountains of Madness
Australia: On the Beach
Canada: The Blind Assassin
China: Pump Six and Other Stories
Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
France: Les Misérables
French Polynesia (Tahiti): The Signature of All Things
Germany: The Book Thief
India: Life of Pi
Italy: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Lebanon: Black Sunday
Liberia: The Color Purple
Mexico: All the Pretty Horses
Netherlands: The Goldfinch
New Zealand: The Luminaries
Romania: Dracula
Russia: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Sweden: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Switzerland: A Farewell to Arms
Thailand: The Windup Girl
United Kingdom: Persuasion
United States: The Dog Stars
24/80

This is a great idea! I don't think I'll get to 80, but it'll be fun to try.

[MK]

Nathan wrote: "
... This is a great idea! I don't think I'll get to 80, but it'll be fun to try."


Agree! Welcome to the challenge :)

[Kelly B]

France--In a Dark Wood Wandering
Indonesia--The Thirteen Gun Salute
Jamaica--Wide Sargasso Sea
Poland--Schindler's List
Russia--Crime and Punishment
United Kingdom--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #3
United States--Wild Girls


I've only got six so far, and the year is half over already:-).

This is a fun challenge. Hopefully we can do it again in 2015?

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

17/80 countries. Don't think I'll manage to get 80 this year. But at least I have expanded my reading this way.

[Melanti]

Hm. 20 countries so far, but none of those countries were in South America and only one country in Africa - and that was just a technicality!

That's pretty sad...

[MK]

Kelly wrote: "... This is a fun challenge. Hopefully we can do it again in 2015? "


Kelly, for sure! :)

[MK]

Melanti wrote: "Hm. 20 countries so far, but none of those countries were in South America and only one country in Africa - and that was just a technicality!

That's pretty sad..."

Kathy wrote: "17/80 countries. Don't think I'll manage to get 80 this year. But at least I have expanded my reading this way."


You two are doing great. Probably one of the higher totals so far!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

I'm thinking though this is really about a 80 countries in several years. I guess one could do it with a plan up front.

[MK]

Kathy wrote: "I'm thinking though this is really about a 80 countries in several years. I guess one could do it with a plan up front."

I agree! Tytti's neverending challenge is a good place for tracking past multi-years. It's neat to see how many in an individual year, too.

But yea, for me, 80 countries would have to be a multi-year challenge.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

20 -- not close to 80, but 25%.

[Kat]

I finished the year with 33/80. Hopefully I'll do better this year.

[Melanti]

I ended with a pretty poor 23, with only one country in South America and none in Africa... And considering the entire reason I signed up was to encourage myself to read more from those two continents, that's kind of sad. I kept reading books from/set in the same European countries over and over.

Are we doing a new thread for this year?

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

I put mine up here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... to continue to add to it for 2015.