Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Adria]

1. England: Thatcher's Trial: 180 Days that Created a Conservative Icon by Kwasi Kwarteng
2. Australia: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
3. Ireland: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
4. Malaysia: One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong
5. India: Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party by Dinesh D'Souza
6. Germany: The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
7. Italy: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
8. Greece: The Iliad by Homer
9. Israel: God and Politics in Esther by Yoram Hazony
10. Pakistan: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
11. Algeria: The Stranger by Albert Camus

11/10 completed

[Stephanie (Chinchillita)]

Update Message 56
4. Leviathan 2/1/2016 - Austria
5. Behemoth - 2/5/2016 - Ottoman Empire
6. Boxers - 2/6/2016 - China
7. If You Could See Me Now - 2/28/2016 - Ireland
7/10

[Marja]

Updated message #80.

2. France: Lohduttaja

2/10 completed

[Anita]

I'm message #156 & I've updated my read list. I've read 4/13.

[[deleted user]]

After realizing some of the books I read could apply to this challenge I updated my reading list for this challenge.

I finished 4 books

Australia: Wildflower Hill - 5 stars
Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone - 4 stars
United Kingdom: An Echo in the Bone - 3 stars
USA: The Web - 3 stars

[Rowizyx]

Updated message #119: 4/30

[Kelly]

Updated #95.

12. Israel - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo ✔

8/12 read.

[Ecem]

Update for the message 303:

1. France - La Chatte by Colette -- READ
16. Australia - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion -- READ

7/16

[Chloé]

3/10
France: Mauprat ⭐⭐⭐
Canada: Je serai un territoire fier et tu déposeras tes meubles⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Nigeria: Nous sommes tous des féministes⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Cheri]

Update: 2 books -- 9/12 (Brazil) and 10/12 (Morocco)

9) Brazil
Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey

10) Morocco
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

[Lynn]

I'd like to raise my goal from 15 to 25 books. That should make it a real challenge for me.

Updated message 62 -- 15/25

✔Germany--Bernhard Schlink: The Reader--03/04/16

[Maria]

5/10

5.France: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 3-2-16

[Marina]

Malaysia: The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

10/20

[Haley]

UPDATE ---> 3/12

Canada: Station Eleven

[Cassandra]

Lynn, congratulations on reaching your original goal! Good luck with the next 10. :)

[Lynn]

Thanks Cassandra!! I'm enjoying the challenge.

[Yvonne]

Update Message 241

9/20 Read

9. Denmark - Lene Kaaberbøl - Death of a Nightingale 3/7/2016 3 Stars

[Kelly]

Updated #95.

2. Ireland - Flawed by Cecelia Ahern ✔

9/12 complete.

[Janine]

I didn't originally sign up for this as I don't like to participate in too many yearly challenges, but this has become somewhat of a personal goal this year. I've been tracking authors' nationalities for the first time and there's been a real lack of diversity!

My goal is 15 countries, not including the UK or US as that is where most of what I read comes from.

So far this year: 16/15

1) Japan - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
2) Russia - Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3) Canada - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
4) Australia - Sabriel by Garth Nix
5) Czech Republic - The Goddess Within by Iva Kenaz
6) Nigeria - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7) Norway - A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
8) China - I Am China by Xiaolu Guo
9) Mexico - Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
10) India - Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
11) Iran - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
12) North Korea - The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
13) Afghanistan - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
14) South Africa - The Copy by Grant Boshoff
15) Germany - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
16) France - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

My map so far (link taken from Sherry, thanks!):

Janine's Around the World in Books 2016

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Ideas/TBR:
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Sweden)
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (France)
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Italy)
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
- The King of Taksim Square by Emrah - Serbes (Turkey)

[Cheri]

Update: 11/12 South Korea
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (4 stars)

[Franci]

I'll do 10. :)

[Lauren (:]

I just finished The Little Prince last night and finding this challenge this morning sounds like a good way to branch out! I would like to sign up for 5 at the moment.
1. Germany:Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. Canada: Karma by Cathy Ostlere
3. France: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4. England: 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
5. Pakistan: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai
6. India 1984 by George Orwell
Total read: 6/5

[Lauren (:]

Emily wrote: "Sign me up for 10! I want to read more books from non-American authors, this is great.

Finished:
1. US - The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
2. UK - [book:The Sandman, Vol. 1: Pr..."

I read the first half of Persepolis in the fall let me know if the second half is worth reading!

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, everyone! I'm so glad to see new participants. :)

Lauren, I read The Complete Persepolis last year. The whole thing is really good, but the second half is darker than the first - Marjane really struggles on her own.

[Marina]

Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

11/20

[Aurora]

Updated message 348:

9. UK: The Years
10. Nigeria: Americanah

10/15

[Sam F]

Updated Message 60

Finished 10 - but I think I'll try for 10 more!

[Haley]

Update: 4/12

Zimbabwe: The Girl on the Train

[Ronja]

Updated message #86

5/10

[Lauren (:]

Cassandra wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, everyone! I'm so glad to see new participants. :)

Lauren, I read The Complete Persepolis last year. The whole thing is really good, but the second half is d..."

Thank you for telling me about Persepolis! I think it would be interesting to see a darker tone for Marjane as in the first half her tone was somewhat innocent. I will have to check it out!

[Laurie]

Updated message 19

11/24

Added:
10. Morocco - The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
11. Sierra Leone - Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

[GailW]

I increased my total to 11, and have 8 completed.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Lynn]

Updated message 62.
-- 16/25 --

✔Cuba--Italo Calvino:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler--03/13/16

[Janine]

Updated message 447: 6/15

5) Czech Republic - The Goddess Within by Iva Kenaz
6) Nigeria - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[Susan C]

Updated message 79

6/10

[Cheri]

Update - 12/12 -- but I'd like to move my goal up to 18, so now it's 12/18.

Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (3 stars)

[Diana]

update: AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

6/ 12

1. USA: Love You More by Lisa Gardner
2. Iran: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
3. Turkey: Prayers Stay The Same by Tuna Kiremitçi
4. Danmark: The Seventh Child by Erik Valeur
5. Polen: Vraciul. Profesorul Wilczur by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz book 1 & 2
6. USA : Stoner by John Edward Williams

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to message 50:
4. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet - England

[Fr. Andrew]

Updated message 163:

9/15 done

[Alex]

Update message 94 - 8/14

I was also wondering if I could change my goal from 14 to 15, please? So then I would be at, 8/15. :-)

[Aurora]

Updated message 348:

11. Ireland: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
12. Sweden: Pippi Longstocking

12/15

[Cassandra]

Great job, everyone! It's so cool to see so many of you increasing your goals. :)

[Mai]

I'm finished :)

AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
12/12 - COMPLETE

1.USA|Divergent|Veronica Roth|16/01/15 ★★★★
2.Canada|The Year of the Flood|Margaret Atwood|16/02/15 ★★★
3.Colombia|Love in the Time of Cholera|Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez|16/02/29★★★
4.UK|Northern Lights|Philip Pullman|16/02/12 ★★★
5.Germany|Buddenbrooks|Thomas Mann|16/03/17 ★★★★
6.South Africa|A Conspiracy of Alchemists|Liesel Schwarz|16/02/23 ★★★
7.Brazil|The Alchemist|Paulo Coelho|16/02/15 ★★
8.Afghanistan|Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir|Fatima Bhutto|16/03/04 ★★
9.India|Red Leaves|Sita Brahmachari|16/01/12 ★★★
10.Czech Republic|Ignorance|Milan Kundera|16/01/28 ★★
11.Hong Kong|Girl in Translation|Jean Kwok|16/02/08 ★★★
12.Norway|Satellite People|Hans Olav Lahlum|16/01/13 ★★★


Thank you for a great challenge!

[Paul Emily]

Updating message 13 with Pakistan - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai.

6/15

[Charity]

Updated message 51.

3/10

[Kelly]

Updated #95.

Pakistan - I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai ✔

10/12 complete!

[Janine]

Updated message 477. 7/15

7) Norway - A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

[Cassandra]

Congratulations, Mai! :)

[Katzi]

Updated Post 305

changed Congo for Belarus, for reasons of accessibility

Read 2/8

[Marina]

Update post 24

United Kingdom: The Last Letter from Your Lover

Read: 7/15