Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Marina]

Update in message #24

3/15

[Susan]

2/20 Read

Cameroon- The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti

[Cheri]

Update: 3/12 - Australia

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (5 stars)

The author was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia at age 12 and has lived there since. The book takes place in Australia.

[Lauren]

I'm totally into this challenge! I'd like to start with 5.

1. France. Michel Foucault - The Archaeology of Knowledge
2. USA. James C. Scott - Domination and the Arts of Resistance
3. Martinique. Frantz Fanon - Orientalism
4. Argentina. Walter Mignolo - The Darker Side of Western Modernity

[Patricia]

I just was researching where authors are from as well as where books were set, and I was mistaken about Beautiful Joe being from Germany. I will find something else as I go along

[Amanda]

Updated #181

The Newton Letter by John Banville
Completed 13/1/16

2/10

[Chloé]

1/10
France: Mauprat ⭐⭐⭐

[Samantha]

update: 4/20

1. England( Cornwall,,,) - Rebecca
2. Poland - Night
3. France( Grasse, Paris, Monte Carlo) - Perfume : Story of a Murderer, Rebecca
4. Namibia(Windhoek) - The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs by Damon Galgut

[Stephanie (Chinchillita)]

Update Message 57
First Country - India
1/10

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Put me down for 20. Last year I read authors from 18 non-US countries in another group challenge. I'd like to bump it up slightly.

AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Progress: 22/25 (Note: Passed my initial goal of 20, so am increasing to 25 as of Aug. 1.)

1. England - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1/4
2. Malawi - Tana French - The Secret Place 1/14 This author has also lived in US, Ireland and Italy, but I'm going with the more obscure Malawi here.
3. Israel - Leigh Bardugo - Six of Crows 1/21
4. France - Anouk Markovits - I Am Forbidden 1/22
5. United States of American - Andy Weir - The Martian 1/23
6. Canada - Wm. Paul Young - The Shack 1/31
7. Germany - Cornelia Funke - Reckless 2/24
8. Nigeria - Uwem Akpan - Say You're One of Them 3/7
9. Pakistan - Malala Yousafzai - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 3/20
10. Afghanistan - Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns 3/23
11. Colombia - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera 4/12
12. Portugal - José Saramago - Blindness 4/17
13. Italy - Niccolò Ammaniti - I'm Not Scared 4/24
14. Vietnam - Thanhha Lai - Inside Out & Back Again 4/29
15. Ireland - Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray 5/19
16. Belarus - Isaac Asimov - I, Robot 6/16
17. Spain - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind 6/30
18. Australia - A.J. Betts - Zac and Mia 7/5
19. Scotland - Ali Smith - The Accidental 7/12
20. Japan - Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant 7/18
21. Malaysia - Zen Cho - Sorcerer to the Crown 7/25
22. South Africa - Desmond Tutu - Mandela 7/26

[Yvonne]

update Message 241

3/20

UK - Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

[Willemijn]

Update: 4/15

Italy: Versluiering - Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti

[Geri]

I'm not sure I'll manage, but I'd like to try. I'll challenge myself with 10 countries.

Update: I have actually managed. I'm disappointed that there's not much diversity though. I feel like I half-a*sed the challenge. Half of the authors are from English speaking countries, the other half are also from English speaking countries (save for two) and just happen to be born elsewhere .

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France - Имение в планината by Max Du Veuzit
USA - Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan
UK - Persuasion by Jane Austen
Australia - Willing Captive by Belle Aurora
Canada - The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Ireland - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Kenya - Stormbringers by Philippa Gregory
South Africa - The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher
Iran - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

10/10

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with Jamaica - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

3/15

[Cheri]

Update: 4/12
Sweden

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (3 stars)

[Paul]

Italy is my 2/12. Read Elena Ferrante's 'The Story of the Lost Child'.

[Kelly]

Updated #97.

Wales - Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas ✔

4/7

[Laurie]

Updated message 19

5/24 complete

Added: USA - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

[Alex]

Update msg 94: 3/14 completed

[Willemijn]

For those of you who are reading books set in different countries for this challenge, I would like to recommend this book.

Never Fall Down - Patricia McCormick

Everyone needs to read this. I'm actually shocked by how little we know about Cambodia's fairly recent history. It's a very powerful and heartbreaking true story about a boy who survived in the time of the Khmer Rouge, when a quarter of all Cambodian people lost their lives.

[Meg]

update 6/24 completed

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

[Nik]

Willemijn wrote: "For those of you who are reading books set in different countries for this challenge…"

I didn't even know that was an option. Cassandra, maybe the challenge description that's in the first message can be updated to reflect this?

Read books written by authors from as many different countries as you can. The authors can have either been born there or lived there.

Thanks!

[Willemijn]

Nik wrote: "I didn't even know that was an option. Cassandra, maybe the challenge description that's in the first message can be updated to reflect this?"

Officially, this challenge is about authors from as many different countries as possible. But there's always people who bend the rules for their own challenges, so I thought I'd mention this book. Personally, I'm sticking to the country where the author was born, which is why this book doesn't count for my own Around The World challenge.

[Nik]

Willemijn wrote: "But there's always people who bend the rules for their own challenges, so I thought I'd mention this book.."

Ah ha! Thank you for clarifying and sorry for the confusion. =)

[Paul]

I read 'Nature of the Beast' by Canadian author Louise Penny. That's 3/12.

[Paul]

I read 'Nature of the Beast' by Canadian author Louise Penny. That's 3/12.

[Marina]

Update in message #24

Just added:
Nigeria - Things Fall Apart

Read: 4/15

[Cassandra]

Sorry I haven't been updating recently - I've been recovering from being under the weather. I hope to catch up with updates tonight!

[Nik]

Cassandra wrote: "Sorry I haven't been updating recently - I've been recovering from being under the weather."

=( Hope you're feeling better!

[Annie]

Get well soon Cassandra!

[Maureen]

Updated message 208 --> 4/25 countries done

[Fr. Andrew]

Update message 163 - 3 done

[Willemijn]

Update: 5/15

UK
The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey

[Marina]

Russia: Povera gente (Poor Folk) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5/20

[Fadwa]

I'd like to join with 15 :)
Now I have : 2/15
1 The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis - Germany
2 City of Bones by Cassandra Clare- USA

[Gretchen]

Edit message #10
Read 3/10

[Kelly]

Updated #95.

Australia - Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

Can I please update my target for the year, 7 has turned out to be really low!

Can I up it to 12 please? Therefore I'm currently on 5/12 :)

[Cheri]

Update: 5/12
Canada

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2 stars)

[Marelis]

Update: 2/10

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (5 stars) - England

Cómplices by Benito Taibo (5 stars) - Mexico

[Cassandra]

Thank you for the get well wishes!

Welcome Yvonne, Lori, B, Lauren, TerryJane, Geri, and Fadwa!

[Patricia]

finished book #3 of my around the world challenge -- The Book Thief from Australian author.

[Eva]

Can I still join? If yes, please sign me up for 10!

1. UK: The Woman in White
2. Argentina: Reading Pictures: What We Think About When We Look at Art
3. USA: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
4. Sweden: Let the Right One In
5. France: Commentary
6. Poland: Within These Walls
7. Indonesia: Home
8. South Africa: The Shining Girls
9. Canada: Station Eleven
10. Germany: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
11. Korea: I'll Be Right There
12. Japan: Revenge
read 12/12

[Patricia]

Fadwa wrote: "I'd like to join with 15 :)
Now I have : 2/15
1 The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis - Germany
2 City of Bones by Cassandra Clare- USA"
The City of Bones is set in the UK and the author is from Iran. You could use something different for USA and clain that as from Iran.

[Cassandra]

Eva, you can definitely join! Welcome. :)

[Annika]

I've completed book 2/10, Longbourn by Jo Baker (Ireland).

[Ecem]

I'm signing up for 16 :)

1. France - La Chatte by Colette -- READ
2. Greece - Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn -- READ
3. Japan - The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yōko Ogawa -- READ
4. Iran - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi -- READ
5. UK - American Gods by Neil Gaiman -- READ
6. Germany - The Double-Bass by Patrick Süskind -- READ
7. Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai -- READ
8. Italy - Inferno (La Divina Commedia #1) by Dante Alighieri -- READ
9. South America - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez -- READ
10. Ireland - So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1) by Diane Duane -- READ
11. USA - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou -- READ
12. Turkey - Kediler Güzel Uyanır by Yekta Kopan -- READ
13. Brazil - Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho -- READ
14. Norway - Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4) by Jo Nesbø -- READ
15. Austria-Hungary - The Trial by Franz Kafka -- READ
16. Australia - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion -- READ

16/16 -- Challenge Completed

[Cassandra]

Welcome to the challenge, Ecem!

[Katzi]

Totally in! I'll try to read books from 8 countries I've never read before.. (or at least believe I've never read before)

EDIT: Belarus/former USSR: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2. Finnland: Fegefeuer
3. North Korea: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
4. Iran: The Complete Persepolis
5. Turkey: something by Orhan Pamuk
6. Yemen:A Land without Jasmine
7. Lithuania: No Men, No Cry OR Vilnius Poker
8. Bulgaria: Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend

But I'll have to see, if I can get the books I want to read...

[Diana]

update:

3/ 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

[Carrie]

Updated message 89 2/5 completed