Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Rowizyx]

Updated post #119

7/30

Added Mauritius and Turkey

[Fadwa]

Update:
UK - Me Before You

[Meg]

Further additions

9. Ukraine The Master and Margarita
10. Austria The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
11. India The Taliban Cricket Club
12. Sweden A Man Called Ove

[Ecem]

Update for the message 303:

7. Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai -- READ
10. Ireland - So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1) by Diane Duane -- READ

9/16

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13

8/15

[Daniela]

I want to join this challenge with 7 diferent countries and authors

1 - Argentina : Resiste claves para encontrar tu llave - Leandro Calderone
2 - America: Morte Em Viena - Daniel Silva
3 - Portugal :Não há crimes perfeitos~? - José Carlos Moreira
4 - França: Sexta-Feira ou a Vida Selvagem - Michel Tournier
5 - Suécia: O Hipnotista - Lars Kepler
6 - República de Weimar : O Diário de Anne Frank - Anne Frank
7 ~ Reino Unido: Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal - J.K.Roling

Total Read : 5/7

[Aurora]

Updated message 348:

13. Greece: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone
14. Turkey: The Legend of Ararat

14/15

[Geri]

Update post 270
6/10

[Yvonne]

Update Message 241
11/20 Read

10. Australia - Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project 3/23/2016 3 Stars

11. Nigeria - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun3/27/2016 3 Stars

[Marja]

Update Message 80
3/12

3. Finland: Hanna by Minna Canth

[Fr. Andrew]

Updated: finished 10/15

[Diana]

update:

7/12

7. UK: Me Before You and After You by Jojo Moyes

[Yaara]

Can I still join the challenge? i think I'm going to aim for 12.
I've just finished:
Israel - Bandit (Itamar Orlev)

[Cassandra]

Certainly, Yaara!

Welcome to the challenge, Yaara and Daniela. :)

[katie]

I've been wanting to broaden the diversity of my reading lately, so in addition to #readwomen I'm going to add this challenge to my plan for the year. I'm trying to pick places(whether the whole country, or the specific region/city) I haven't read books from before.

Goal: 10
Read: 5/10

1. Nigeria - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 4/25/16
2. Chile - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 5/3/16
3. Ute & Cheyenne Nations (and others) - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown 6/15/16
4. Argentina - El túnel by Ernesto Sabato 7/20/16
5. Latvia - High Tide by Inga Ābele8/17/16
6. Palestine/Israel - The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
7. Japan-Nagasaki - Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai
8. China-Anhui Province - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
9. South Africa - Plays 1: The Road to Mecca / A Place With the Pigs / My Children! My Africa! / Playland / Valley Song by Athol Fugard
10.

Possibilities:
Dominican Republic - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Reservation Blues
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
India-Sikkim - The Inheritance of Loss
Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone
Haiti - Edwidge Danticat
Lebanon - House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

[Cheri]

Update: 13/18
Country: Spain

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (5 stars)

[GailW]

Update message 59:

Increased to 11, have completed 8
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, Katie!

[Ilona]

Diana, what did you think of After You in comparison with Me Before You?

I am asking because I loved Me Before You and am slightly scared to read the sequel, being afraid that it might be less good or would ruin the first book.

[Cassandra]

I'm afraid too, Ilona! I've been hearing good things about it from people in the group, but I'm still not sold.

[Maria]

I read it and liked it, thought it is completely different from the first book.

[Laurie]

Update #341: 8/15

[Franci]

1. USA - NicholasEvans - The Smoke Jumper
2. Canada - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
3. Ireland - Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
4. England - Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
5. Bermuda - Jon McGregor - Even the Dogs

5/10

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated message 267 to 10/20.

[Susan]

USA- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton

Ghana- Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah

5/20 Finished

[Geri]

Updated msg 270
7/10

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13

10/15

[Cassandra]

Awesome job, everyone! We're a quarter of the way through the year. :)

[Marina]

The Netherlands: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk

12/20

[Eggp]

March update:
Goal: 5/12

05. Australia: The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1) - 22 Mar 2016, 3/5

[Bücherhörnchen]

Update March

-Die stille Bestie by Chris Carter (Born in Brazil)
-Seventh Son: The Spook's Apprentice Film Tie-in by Joseph Delaney (Born in England)

->3/10

[Cassandra]

Happy April!

[Amanda]

Updated #181

9/10

8. Wales Esio Trot by Roald Dahl Completed 27/03/16 Rating 4 stars
9. China Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Completed 28/03/16 Rating 4 stars

[Candiss]

I updated message #14.

Read: 3/12

[Laurie]

Updated message 20

12/24

I'm halfway through my challenge with my 12th book.

12. Cape Verde - The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida

[Yvette]

Update 13/40

[Laurie]

Update #341: 9/15

[Marina]

Update post 24

Norway: Sønnen

Read 8/15

[Nick]

@Marina:

Love Jo Nesbo!

[Claire]

Updated #156

4/15

[Fadwa]

5/20
Pakistan : I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

[Cassandra]

Congratulations on hitting the halfway mark, Laurie!

[Canadian Dragon]

Sign me up for 10 plz (1/10)

1) by Marissa Meyer -The United States
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[Canadian Dragon]

by Marissa Meyer -The United States

1/10

[Cassandra]

Welcome, Tasha. :)

[Tara]

I have read 2 more books for this challenge. Grab Your Crown by Krista Boan is a book about my home, Kansas City Missouri and our World Champion Royals. I also read From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne from France.

[Brooke]

Cassandra wrote: "
How to Participate

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can ..."

So cool!!

[Cassandra]

Nice job, Tara. I need to read some Jules Verne.

Hey Heidi! Did you want to join us for this challenge? You can set as small or big of a goal as you want, or if you're not sure yet you can always join later.

[Marina]

Austria: Der Golem (English: The Golem) by Gustav Meyrink

13/20

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to post 50:

5. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - Egypt