Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Dominique]

No 20 updated

[Meg]

I finished my challenge, plus a few extras! 27/24

Yearly challenge: AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
1. USA The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
2. Chile Ripper by Isabel Allende
3. UK World Without End by Ken Follett
4. Australia The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
5. Brazil Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
6. China Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian
7. Japan Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
8. Czech The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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
13. South Africa Elizabeth Costello
14. Pakistan I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
15. Netherlands Summer House with Swimming Pool
16. Korea The Vegetarian
17. Italy My Brilliant Friend
18. Singapore Crazy Rich Asians
19. Germany The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
20. Spain The High Mountains of Portugal
21. Canada The Stone Diaries
22. Sri Lanka Questions of Travel
23. Ethiopia Cutting for Stone
24. Nigeria Americanah
25. Iceland Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
26. France The Library of Unrequited Love
27. Zimbabwe We Need New Names

[Cassandra]

Congratulations to Leah, Adria, Amanda, Dominique, and Meg!

[Patricia]

Completed book #12-- The Lotus Eaters" from Viet Nam

[Patricia]

I have finished book #13, "Don Quixote" from Spain

[Clare]

Final book completed: Anna Karenina

10/10 CHALLENGE COMPLETED

1 Australia: Hush, Little Bird Nicole Trope
2 Wales: The Girl in the Red Coat Kate Hamer
3 USA: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
4 Finland: The Summer Book Tove Jansson
5 England: The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow Katherine Woodfine
6 India: The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
7 Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai
8 Italy: The Mentor Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli
9: France: Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne
10 Russia Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy

Have really enjoyed this challenge - introduced me to 9 new authors and led me to read Tolstoy again.
My favourites were my first and last books, my least favourites books 6 and 8.
Thanks for this challenge - looking forward to the 2017 version

[Cassandra]

Congratulations, Clare! I'm glad that you got to try so many new authors.

[Bücherhörnchen]

Update November

Austria - Verspielt
Ireland Skulduggery Pleasant
(lived in) France Book of Lies
(lived in) Italy Egmont a Tragedy in Five Acts

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[Katharine]

updated message 77--challenge complete

[Samantha (AK)]

Updated message 162 - 10/10 challenge complete. (If counting Hong Kong and the PRC as separate political entities is not acceptable, I can pull one of my British authors from this year instead.)

[Cassandra]

Congratulations Katharine and Samantha!

[Eva]

Update message 298: Finished the challenge!

[Ilona]

Updated message 108 and finished the challenge!

The Netherlands: Pogingen iets van het leven te maken by Hendrik Groen (the English title is The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old)

10/10

[Cassandra]

Congratulations Eva and Ilona!

[Angelique]

Yes, I finished this challenge! I must say, it's a lot harder than it looks

United States - The Fault in Our Stars - John Green - 01-01-2016
Brazil - The French Gardener - Santa Montefiore - 01-01-2016
England - Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson - 06-01-2016
India - The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - 09-01-2016
France - The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 09-01-2016
Japan - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami - 03-02-2017
Nederland - De eetclub - Saskia Noort - 05-04-2016
Australia - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - 13-04-2016
Germany - The Neverending Story - Michael Ende - 29-06-2016
Russia - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - 04-07-2016
Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - 10-07-2016
Switzerland - Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier - 09-11-2016
Cuba - Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - 03-12-2016
China - Het Lelietheater - Lulu Wang - 13-12-2016
Zimbabwe - The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins - 17-12-2016

15/15
Thanks for hosting this challenge

[Elina]

Message 189 update. 8/10.

[Elina]

Update message 189. I'm finished. 10/10.

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE: COMPLETE!

10/10

1. USA - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
2. JAPAN - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
3. RUSSIA - Foundation by Isaac Asimov
4. SOUTH AFRICA - The Copy by Grant Boshoff
5. ENGLAND - Coraline by Neil Gaiman
6. AUSTRALIA - Mary Poppins
7. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
8. THAILAND - Lullabies
9. IRELAND - In the Woods
10. PERU - Island Beneath the Sea

[Cassandra]

Congratulations Angelique, Elina, and Mary Pat!

[Debra H]

6/6 completed

Wales: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Scotland/Portugal: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
USA: Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Japan: Skip Beat vol 36 by Yoshiki Nakamura
Zimbabwe: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
France/Switzerland: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[Bücherhörnchen]

December Update

Australia: Die Wahrheit über Alice
South Africa: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Ugh I finished LotR on Dec. 31st. It's quite a hard challenge

[SibylM]

Late reporting in, but I did my 15:
1, USA: Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax
2. Italy: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
3. Nigeria: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. Sweden: Wolf Winter by Cecilia Eckback
5. United Kingdom: Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
6. South Africa: Mandela: An Audio History by Desmond Tutu
7. Israel: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Hariri
8. Vietnam: Listen, Slowly by Thanha Lai
9. Kuwait: Guapa by Saleem Haddad
10, Malaysia: Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
11. Canada: The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zenahat Khan
12. India: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
13. Zimbabwe: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
14. Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousufzai
15. Singapore: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan