Around the World in Books Challenge - 2016

[Diana]

update:

5/ 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
4. Danmark: The Seventh Child by Erik Valeur
5. Polen: Vraciul. Profesorul Wilczur by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz book 1 & 2

[Annie]

I have just finished "La disparue du Père-Lachaise" bu Claude Izner (France), a really great book!
3/13!

[Cheri]

Update: 6/12
Country: Israel

Author: Irin Carmon was born in Israel.
She wrote Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[Claire]

Updated post #156

2/15

USA - Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult

Australia - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Eva]

Updated message 299. Finally finished The Woman in White! Cassandra - the book certainly has its charme, but I lacked the patience for the endless descriptions and melodrama. ;)

[Eggp]

January update:
Goal: 4/12

01. France: The Little Prince - 06 Jan 2016, 2/5
02. Ireland: At Swim Two Birds - 08 Jan 2016, 1/5
03. Canada: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 24 Jan 2016, 3/5
04. China: The Good Earth - 27 Jan 2016, 5/5

[Cassandra]

Eva, good to know! I bet I'll probably have a similar opinion. I might have to plan to break it up with other books.

[Marelis]

Update:
3/10
The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons - Rusia

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to post 50:

2. I am Radar by Reif Larson - Cambodia

2/10

[Fadwa]

Update 3/15
Les dunes vives - Khireddine Mourad - Morocco

[Leslie Ann]

updated message #58

4/5

[Cassandra]

Updated. :)

[Ilona]

Updated message 118

Ireland: Room by Emma Donoghue

3/5

[Kelly]

Updated #95.

Canada - All the Rage by Courtney Summers ✔

7/12 Complete

[Ecem]

Update for the message 303:

5. UK - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

2/16

[Bücherhörnchen]

January Update:
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Born in Iran)
->1/12

[Laurie]

Update to post 341 : 5/15

[Ecem]

Update message 303:

11. USA - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

3/16

[Susan C]

Updated message 79

2/10

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated message 267 to add:
Canada - Wm. Paul Young - The Shack

6/20

[GailW]

Completed 5. Please increase my goal to 10.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Cassandra]

Awesome job, Gail! I updated your goal.

[JackAttack]

Joining in :) Going to shoot for 20!

Around the World in Books
Duration: 01 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
Progress: 8/20

1. United States of America - We'll Always Have Summer-2/14/2016
2. England - The Devious Dr. Jekyll-2/20/2016
3. Ireland - Verity-3/4/2016
4. Hungary - Fire Me Up-3/9/2016
5. Germany - Slaughterhouse-Five-3/17/2016
6. Switzerland - Half Bad-3/17/2016
7. Italy - Doctor Who: The Stone Rose-3/22/2016
8. Scotland - The Shadowy Horses-4/9/2016
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Create Your Own Visited Countries Map

[Cinnie]

Hi Cassandra,
book #3 updated (message 169)

[Cassandra]

Welcome Jacki!

[Ecem]

Update message 303:

8. Italy - Inferno (La Divina Commedia #1) by Dante Alighieri -- Read

4/16

[Fr. Andrew]

Updated message 163:

5/15

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)

Thanks!

[Ilona]

Updated message 118

UK: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

4/5

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 13 with Ireland - Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane

5/15

[Aurora]

Thank you, Cassandra!

Updated message 348:
1. Russia: The Idiot
2. Canada The Penelopiad
3. US: Citizen: An American Lyric

3/15

[Annika]

Update message #81:
Just finished my 3rd book, Out by Natsuo Kirino.

[Cassandra]

Ilona, you're so close to your goal! Do you think you will increase it or just move on to other challenges?

[Ilona]

Can you increase my goal to ten? Thanks! :)

[Mary Pat]

UPDATE:


3/10

1. USA - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
2. JAPAN - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
3. RUSSIA - Foundation by Isaac Asimov

[Alison]

I was wondering, can I do this challenge a little different, and just write down the different places the books take place. whether they are in different countries or not? And then do the miles between them? I think I saw someone do that last year.

[Meg]

One third of the way there. 8/24
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

[Yvette]

UPDATE
I've read 5/40

[Deborah]

message #130 page 3 - I have read 5 books for this challenge so far.

Sorry, make that six!

[Ornina]

Update to post #97

1/10 done

[Marina]

Message #24 updated:

France - All the Light We Cannot See

New total: 5/15

[Cheri]

Update: 7/12
Country: Nigeria

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars)

[Cassandra]

Ilona, I updated your goal. :)

Alison, we did that challenge as a monthly last year!

[Fr. Andrew]

Updated msg 163...

6/15 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)

[Marelis]

Update:
4/10
Flutter: The Story of Four Sisters and an Incredible Journey by Erin E. Moulton - USA

[Cheri]

Update: 8/12
Country: China

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua (5 stars)

[Marelis]

Update:
5/10
El Crimen de Lord Arthur Saville y Otras Historias by Oscar Wilde - Ireland

[Katariina]

Message 126 updated: 4/15

[Cassandra]

Andrew, I meant to ask earlier, but what did you think of Hark! A Vagrant?

[Claire]

Updated post #156

3/15

USA - Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult

Australia - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Scotland - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Owlonmywrist]

Update to post 50:

I live here by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons - Burma

3/10