Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Clare]

Update to post 114:

5/10
having read a book from England
and a book from Finland

[Cassandra]

Updated to here.

[Patricia]

finished "This is How You Lose Her" by Junot Diaz from the Dominican Republic. I believe that is book #8 for me

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with Portugal - Blindness by José Saramago

11/15

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to post 50:

6. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin - Ireland

6/10

[Claire]

Updated #156

5/15

[Kelly]

Updated #95.

7. Germany - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank ✔

11/12 complete.

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara

12/15

[Geri]

Updates msg 270

8/10

[Susan]

6. Botswana- Serowe, Village of the Rain Wind by Bessie Head

6/20 finished

[Cassandra]

Updated to here.

[Marina]

Philippines: Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 1 edited by Dean Francis Alfar (all the authors are Filipino)

14/20

[Gretchen]

Edit Message #10
Read 7/15

[[deleted user]]

Completed 5/5

Iceland: Burial Rites

[Cassandra]

Congratulations Monique!

[Alex]

Updated message 94: 11/15 completed.

[Laurie]

Update #341:11/15

[Ilona]

Updated message 108

Australia: The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth

6/10

[Daniela]

Update post 517

4- França - Sexta-Feira ou a Vida Selvagem - Michel Tournier

3/7

[Amanda]

Updated #181

10/10

Here are my 10

I would like to up my challenge to 15

1. Australia The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Completed 11/01/16 Rating 4 stars
2. Ireland The Newton Letter by John Banville Completed 13/01/16 Rating 3 stars
3. Algeria L'étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus Completed 10/02/16 Rating 3 stars
4. Scotland Knots and Crosses (Kat & muis) by Ian Rankin Completed 19/02/16 Rating 3 stars
5. England Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley Completed 20/02/16 Rating 3 stars
6. The Netherlands The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber Completed 29/02/16 Rating 4 stars
7. Czech Republic Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka Completed 2/03/16 Rating 4 stars
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
10. Denmark The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis Completed 12/04/16 Rating 4 stars

[Cassandra]

Amanda, congratulations on meeting your goal! I increased it to 15 for you.

[Marina]

Iran: Leggere Lolita a Teheran (English: Reading Lolita in Tehran) by Azar Nafisi

15/20

[Maria]

6/10

7.Australia: Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty 4-18-16

[Tara]

I have completed my 4th book for this challenge. The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida from Japan. Naoki is autistic and beautiful and intelligent and everyone would benefit by taking 90 minutes to read this book! There are some awesome books being read in this challenge! Keep up the good work everyone.

[Fr. Andrew]

Update: I'm at 13/15 (I had an error in my previous update, so I deleted it and posted this)

Thanks!


1. Canada: HARK! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (1/2/16)
2. England: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (1/6/16)
3. India: The Snake Charmer: A Novel by Sanjay Nigam (1/18/16)
4. United States: The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon (1/24/16)
5. Japan: Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto (2/4/16)
6. Netherlands: Under the Skin by Michel Faber (2/8/16)
7. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel (2/12/16)
8. Italy: The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule by Igort (2/24/16)
9. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović (3/14/16)
10. Russia: There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar (3/27/16)
11. Kuwait: Guapa by Saleem Haddad 4/12/16
12. Lebanon: A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached 4/11/16
13. Australia: New Kids on the Block's Hangin' Tough by Rebecca Wallwork 4/14/16

[Marina]

Update post 24:

Iceland: Burial Rites

Read: 9/15

[Cassandra]

Updated to here.

[GailW]

Updated #59. Increased goal to 14. Have completed 12 of 14

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

[Amanda]

Updated #181

11/15

11. USA Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Completed 19/04/16 Rating 4 stars

[Ronja]

Updated #86

7/10 Belarus: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

[Patricia]

If not too late, I'd like to join this challenge for 18 books. (I count so far this year books from 9 different countries.)
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Progress: 10/18

Australia:
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Austria:
- The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig

Japan:
- Just So Happens by Fumio Obata

Mexico:
- Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel

Nigeria:
- A Time For New Dreams by Ben Okri
- Apollo by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Somalia:
- Hiding in Plain Sight by Nuruddin Farah

Syria:
- A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Schami

UK:
- Shtum by Jem Lester
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

US:
- Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor
- One Day Soon by A. Meredith Walters
- The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
- The Call of the Wild/White Fang by Jack London

Yemen/US:
- I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13, could I also increase my goal to 20 please? :)

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, Patricia!

[Sam F]

Updated Message 60

Completed 13/20 to date

[Marina]

Spain: I disturbi dissociativi (no English edition) by Anabel Gonzalez Vazquez

16/20

[Leslie Ann]

Edited message #58 5/5

[Marelis]

Update
6/10
Erec y Enid for France

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with India - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

15/20

[Tara]

I completed my 5th book for the challenge. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon. The author is English and the book is set in Swindon and London. I have wanted to read this book for quite some time. April's brownbag bookclub was any book relating to autism. 3 bookclub members read this book and enjoyed it. So at that point it moved to the top of my list and was on my challenge list from the start. Glad I did cause I really enjoyed it. I felt Christopher's pain.

[Eva]

Updated message # 299: read 5/12 books.

Finally made some progress and read books from Indonesia Home, Korea I'll Be Right There and Canada Station Eleven!

[Angelique]

I seem to have lost my original message, so here's the whole again:

United States - The Fault in Our Stars - 2016/01/01
Brazil - The French Gardener - 2016/01/01
India - The Jungle Book - 2016/01/09
France - The Little Prince - 2016/01/09
England - Notes from a Small Island - 2016/01/06
Japan - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 2016/02/03
Australia - The Book Thief - 2016/04/13
Nederland - De eetclub - 2016/04/05
Germany - The Neverending Story - 30-06-0216

8/15

[Marina]

Romania: Il Libro dei Sussurri (no English edition) by Varujan Vosganian

17/20

[Cassandra]

Leslie, congratulations on achieving your goal!

[Patricia]

I don't know why I did not join earlier. I'm loving discovering your books from around the world! I picked a few already, e.g. from Tara's and Andrew's lists, to read later.

[Patricia]

just finished book #9- the kite runner from Afghanistan

[Laurie]

Updated message 20

15/24 complete

Added:
14. Czech Republic - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
15. Turkey - My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

[Marina]

Laos: ແພງແມ່ Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong

18/20

[katie]

Updated Message 526

Nigeria- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Rated it 4 Stars, fantastic book.

1/10 complete

[Willemijn]

Update: 7/15

India: Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

[Cassandra]

That's great, Patricia! I always love borrowing ideas from other member's lists too.