Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[GailW]

Update message 59: have completed 13/15.

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

[Kaitlyn]

I want to join! My challenge for the year is 52 books, and out of that 52 I'd like to have 15 count for this challenge.

I'm doing where the author was born.

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini- Afghanistan
2. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi- Iran
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- Russia
4. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Spain
5. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín- Ireland
6. The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson- Austria
7. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty- Australia
8. Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple- USA
9. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster- UK
10. Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda- Chile
10.5 Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda- Chile
11. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi- Ghana
12. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman- Sweden
13. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel- Canada
14. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Japan
15. You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris France

Complete!

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, Kaitlyn!

[Laurie]

Updated message 19

18/24 complete

[Eggp]

May update:
Goal: 8/12

08. Germany: Siddhartha - 18 May 2016, 1/5

[Gretchen]

Edit Msg 10
Read 9/15

[Adria]

Updated 459

7/10 completed

[Ronja]

Updating message #86

9/10 completed

[Lynn]

Updated message 62. -- 22/25 --

✔France--Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly--05/28/16
✔Wales--Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth--06/02/16

[Lauri]

Hit me with 20!
I'll do the whole year...
Starting Jan. 1st, 2016
20 / 20!!
Completed!!

1. Master of Souls - Ireland
2. Lord John and the Private Matter - England
3. Unholy Night - Israel
4. The Blue Afternoon - The Philippines
5. The Hotel Riviera - France
6. Blade of the Samurai - Japan
7. The Case of the Missing Servant - India
8. Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali - Mali
9. The Relic Master - Germany
10. Blue Lightning - Shetland Islands, Scotland
11. House of Flowers - Haiti
12. City of Clowns - Peru
13. The Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a Time of War - Tanzania
14. The Kite Runner - Afghanistan
15. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine - Botswana
16. The Poet Prince - Italy
17. In the Shadow of the Banyan - Cambodia
18. Alpine for You - Switzerland
19. Salt to the Sea - East Prussia/ Germany/ Poland/Lithuania
20. The Xibalba Murders - Mexico

[Bücherhörnchen]

Update May

Rubinrot by Kerstin Gier (Germany)

-->6/12

[Lauren (:]

Updated Message #480
I was going through my 2016 reads for this year and realized I had already completed this challenge!
Total Read: 6/5

[Marina]

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

20/20 - COMPLETED!

With this book I have completed my challenge, but I don't think I will up my goal. Thanks anyway for the great challenge, I really enjoyed it!

[Samantha (AK)]

3/10

Updated message 162

[Cheri]

Update: 14/18
Country: Italy
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri (3 stars)

[GailW]

Update to message 59: I have completed the challenge!
15 of 15.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
[X] 1. USA-Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
[X] 2. SWEDEN-My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
[X] 3. ENGLAND-The Mrs. Dalloway Reader by Virginia Woolf
[X] 4. AUSTRIA-Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
[X] 5. ITALY-Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
[X] 6. KUWAIT-Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
[X] 7. AUSTRALIA-The Lake House by Kate Morton
[X] 8. INDONESIA-The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût
[X] 9. CANADA-The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman
[X] 10. ISREAL-The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi
[X] 11. PHILLIPINES-The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
[X] 12. TURKEY-Together Tea by Marjan Kamali
[X] 13. SCOTLAND-The Fairy Nurse by Andrew Lang
[X] 14. IRAN-Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
[X] 15. ZIMBABWE-The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

[Cassandra]

Congratulations, Marina, Gail, and Lauren! Which were your favorite books of the challenge?

Lauri, welcome to the challenge.

[Chloé]

Poland is my fourth country.

4/10

France: Mauprat ⭐⭐⭐
Canada: Je serai un territoire fier et tu déposeras tes meubles⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Nigeria: Nous sommes tous des féministes⭐⭐⭐⭐
Poland: Blood of Elves⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Cassandra]

What do you think of The Witcher books? Have you played the games?

[Sharon]

I've read 4 towards my 8 book goal.

[Marina]

Cassandra wrote: "Congratulations, Marina, Gail, and Lauren! Which were your favorite books of the challenge?"

Cassandra, my favorite book of the challenge was The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, a memoir from Malawi. Highly recommended.

[Janine]

Updated message 477. 10/15

9) Mexico - Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
10) India - Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

[Marja]

Updated message #80.

4/12

4. China: Kultapoika, smaragdityttö (Gold Boy, Emerald Girl) by Yiyun Li

[Cassandra]

Awesome, Marina! I put it on hold at my library.

[Gretchen]

Edit Msg 10
Read 11/15

[Eva]

Update Message 299:

Recently I've read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (USA) and Let the Right One In (Sweden). The latter being very disturbing!! A good book no doubt, but it put a few images in my head that I definitely didn't want to have!

So, that's a total 7 out of 12 books read.

[Cheri]

Update: 15/18
Country: Portugal
Caim by José Saramago (5 stars)

[Cassandra]

Updated to here.

[katie]

Update Message 526

Ute Nation/ Cheyenne Nation (and others): Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
5/5 stars

Read 3/10

[Rowizyx]

Updated post #119: 15/30

14) Cameroon: The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, Calixthe Beyala
15) Algeria: 2084: The End of the World, Boualem Sansal

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to post 50:

The Godfather Part 1 by Mario Puzo - Italy
Night by Ellie Weisel - Germany
Burn by James Patterson - U.S.A.

8/10

[Anita]

Update to post 155:

Reading Lolita in Tehran

10/20

[Lynn]

Updated message 62. -- 24/25 --

✔Scotland--Denise Mina: Blood Salt Water--06/06/16
✔Denmark--Pia Juul: The Murder of Halland--06/18/16

[Samantha (AK)]

Update message #162

4/10

[Dominique]

No 20 updated.

[Cassandra]

Updated to here.

[Susan]

10. Egypt- The Sinners by Yusuf Idris

10/20 Read

[Amanda]

Updated #181

13. Iran De kraai by Kader Abdolah Completed 5/06/16 Rating 4 stars

13/15

[Claire]

I just updated message #54 to show 6 out of 10 books read.

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to post 50:

6. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie - China

7/10

[Candiss]

I updated message #14.

Total read: 6/12

[Tara]

I finished my 6th book for the challenge, 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak from Australia. Loved, Loved, Loved this book.

[Tara]

I am trying to decide which of these to read next:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Colombia
or
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo from Brazil
I already have both of them on my Audible to listen to so I will get to both of them eventually but if you wanna give me feedback on which to take on first please let me know.

[Ilona]

Updated message 108

Iran: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
France: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

8/10

[Amanda]

Tara, the Alchemist is a lovely story. Very easy to read. I have kept my copy. I only do this with books I really love. You learn from this book in a positive way. I haven't read the other book but it is on my TBR list :)

[Deborah]

I have read 17/20 so far (#130) but - I'd have done more if I was just setting the books in a country as many seem to be doing - I thought this was meant to be the author comes from the country we reference?

Tara - to even things up here - sorry Amanda! - I thought The Alchemist preachy, self-satisfied and poorly written. I rarely give 1 star but this was what it got. It is, however, short.

[Amanda]

How funny Deborah that our opinions differ so much. Everybody's different. Happy reading!

[Laurie]

Updated message 19

19/24 complete

Added: 19. Russia - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Tara]

Thank you both Amanda and Deborah for your honest opinions. I think I will tackle The Alchemist next just to see how I feel about it. I do love a good short story...

[Erika]

I've fallen behind on updating, but I'm up to 9/12:

South Africa: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Canada: Sweet Tooth, Vol. 2: In Captivity by Jeff Lemire
Japan: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Australia: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
France: Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann
Mexico: The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
United Kingdom: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
South Korea: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
United States: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss