Erin - Circumnavigator

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I'm new to challenges and thought I would start with the one with the least constraints (i.e. deadlines) since I am a graduate student and I do not get as much reading for pleasure in as I would like. I've always enjoyed reading literature that takes place in countries around the world, that I've never been to, or with a culture with which I am not familiar. I love the ATW Challenge as a way to keep track of the countries I visit through reading :).

I'm going to use this post as my own master post to keep track of all countries, plus I'll make a new post for each country visited as I complete my reads as per the challenge rules.

Date started: November 26, 2015
Number of countries already visited: 30/235 as of 11/26/2015
Number of regions already visited: 7/8

North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania/Australia

North America (3/11)
Belize
Canada = Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Costa Rica
Cuba
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico = The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Nicaragua
Panama
USA = Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Caribbean (3/24)
Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
Cayman Islands
Curacao = The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Dominica
Dominican Republic = The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Dutch Caribbean (Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius)
French West Indies (Guadeloupe, St. Barts, Martinique & St. Martin)
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
Montserrat
Puerto Rico = The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Maarten
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos
Virgin Islands

Latin America (1/16)
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia = One Hundred Year of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Easter Island
Ecuador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Galapagos Islands
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

Europe (13/56)
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Azores
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia = Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
England = Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Estonia
Faeroe Islands
Finland
France = Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece = Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland = All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madeira
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands = Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Norway
Northern Ireland = Transatlantic by Colum McCann
Poland = Night by Elie Wiesel
Portugal
Romania
Russia = Dancer by Colum McCann
San Marino
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain = The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Sweden = The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
Switzerland = A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Ukraine = Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Vatican City
Wales

Africa (4/58)
Algeria = The Stranger by Albert Camus
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Republic) = Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Congo (DRC)
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria = Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Reunion
Rwanda4
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa = Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zanzibar
Zambia
Zimbabwe

The Middle East (0/14)
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

Asia (5/34)
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Georgia
Hong Kong
India = Jasmine by Bh arati Mukherjee
Indonesia = Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Japan = Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Kazakhstan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan = Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet
Timor Leste
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam = The Lover by Marguerite Duras (set in colonial Indochina outside of Saigon, which is Ho Chi Minh City today)

Oceania/Australia (1/22)
Australia = Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic by Donna Williams
Belau
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Guam & Wake
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Island
Samoa (Western)
Samoa (American)
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

Erin, Circumnavigator -- ATW in 80 Books

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[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Welcome to the challenge, Erin!