Travel the World (2018)

[Allison, Quest Hound]

Travel the world in 2018. Books must be set in the region to count for the challenge, but can be either fiction or nonfiction.

You have two options for completing this challenge:

1. Read one book for each leg to go all the way around the world
2. Choose to stay in a particular region(s) for a more in-depth exploration (you choose how many books)

Bon Voyage!

Around the World
1st Leg: North America
2nd Leg: South America
3rd Leg: Europe
4th Leg: Middle East
5th Leg: Africa
6th Leg: Asia
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

[LindaH]

I’m going to stay in one region, Britain, for this. Thanks for the flexibility, Renee.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

I am going around the world for this one.

1st leg: North America

Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
Prince Edward Island, Canada.

The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Alaska, U.S.A.

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Mexico

[Allison, Quest Hound]

I'm going around the world this time too.

Around the World *Completed*

🚂 1st Leg: North America

✔ The Kingdom (South Carolina)
✔ Murder on Sisters' Row (New York)
✔ A Familiar Tail (New Hampshire)
✔ The Broken Girls (Vermont)
✔ The House on Tradd Street (South Carolina)
✔ The Widow's House (New York)
✔ Lethal (Louisiana)
✔ Walk on Earth a Stranger (Pioneer Trail)
✔ Bellewether (New York)



🚙 2nd Leg: South America

✔ The Seven Sisters (Brazil)



🚃 3rd Leg: Europe

✔ Nine Coaches Waiting (France)
✔ Secrets of the Lighthouse (Ireland)
✔ The Memorist (Austria)
✔ The Castle of Otranto (Italy)
✔ All Is Fair (England)
✔ The Lost Book of the Grail (England)
✔ A Place Beyond Courage (England)
✔ The Moor (England)
✔ One Corpse Too Many (England)
✔ A Curious Beginning (England)
✔ The Face of a Stranger (England)
✔ A Useful Woman (England)
✔ As the Crow Flies (England, France, Australia)
✔ Murder at the Brightwell (England)
✔ The Anatomist's Wife (Scotland)
✔ A Perilous Undertaking (England)
✔ When Gods Die (England)
✔ Dissolution (England)





🚎 4th Leg: Middle East

✔ The Wrath & the Dawn (Persia/Iran)
✔ The Rose & the Dagger (Persia/Iran)
✔ Cybele's Secret (Turkey)



🛩 5th Leg: Africa

✔ Daughter of the Sky (South Africa)
✔ The Thousand Names (North Africa)



🛵 6th Leg: Asia

✔ The Star-Touched Queen (India)



🛥 7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

✔ As the Crow Flies (England, France, Australia)
✔ Evergreen Falls (Australia)

[LindaH]

I’m going to stay in one region, Europe.


➡️England
The Girls of Slender Means
South Riding
Slow Horses
Wives and Daughters
Magpie Murders

➡️ England, The Netherlands
Amsterdam

➡️ France
The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
The Devil's Cave
Goodbye to All That
The Resistance Man
The Ambassadors

➡️ Germany
All Quiet on the Western Front


➡️ Denmark
Number the Stars


➡️ Switzerland
The Other Einstein

➡️ Italy
Ratking

➡️ Hungary, Austria
Beware of Pity

[Sonia]

I'm going to try for getting all regions. It's easy to read books just from your own country.

Around the World
1st Leg: North America
1. The Valkyries
2. Of Mice and Men
2nd Leg: South America
3rd Leg: Europe
1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
2. An Infamous Army
3. A Farewell to Arms
4. Hot Water
5. Absolute Friends
6. Tender Is the Night
4th Leg: Middle East:
1. Exit West
5th Leg: Africa
6th Leg: Asia
1. The Jungle Books
2. The Midnight Palace
3. The Honourable Schoolboy
4. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

[Glennis]

I don't know how well I'll do with this...but...I like variety!
Around the World
1st Leg: North America - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2nd Leg: South America
3rd Leg: Europe
4th Leg: Middle East
5th Leg: Africa
6th Leg: Asia
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

[Clare]

Around the World

1st Leg: North America
2nd Leg: South America
3rd Leg: Europe
4th Leg: Middle East
5th Leg: Africa
6th Leg: Asia
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

[Sonia]

I finished two books this week which are both set in India - post 6. This wasn't planned, but is a good start to 2018 on this challenge I think.

[Trisha]

Around the World: I aim to visit as many areas as I can.

1st Leg: North America
Alaska: The Snow Child
Massachusetts: Ethan Frome
Minnesota: The Widow's Watcher
Ohio: The Last Runaway

2nd Leg: South America

3rd Leg: Europe
Many of my books are set in England so I’m looking for different regions too.
Norfolk: Dying Fall
Northumberland: High Force

Scotland, Isle of Lewis: The Blackhouse
Scotland, Shetland: White Nights

Belgium: Villette
Corfu: My Family and Other Animals
Finland & Sweden: The Eye of the Reindeer
France: All the Light We Cannot See
France: Chocolat
Germany: The Rider on the White Horse
Iceland: Snowblind
Russia: The Master and Margarita
Spain: Forgotten Women
Switzerland: Frankenstein
Switzerland: No Thoroughfare

4th Leg: Middle East
5th Leg: Africa
Algeria: The Outsider
Kenya: The Constant Gardener

6th Leg: Asia
China: Half the World Away
India: A Passage To India
Japan: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying
Japan: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Maldives: Swimming With Sharks
Sri Lanka (Ceylon): The Sapphire Widow

7th Leg: Australia & Oceania
Australia: Little Exiles

[Allison, Quest Hound]

Sonia wrote: "I finished two books this week which are both set in India - post 6. This wasn't planned, but is a good start to 2018 on this challenge I think."

Great start, Sonia!

[Anna]

Didn't try that one last year, now I shall:

1st Leg: North America - American Gods
2nd Leg: South America
3rd Leg: Europe
4th Leg: Middle East
5th Leg: Africa
6th Leg: Asia
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

[Kathy]

I will try:

1st Leg - North America
2nd Leg - South America
3rd Leg - Europe = Private, Paris by James Patterson
4th Leg - Middle East
5th Leg - Africa = The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
6th Leg - Asia
7th Leg -Australia

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Next stage of my journey: Leg 2 South America (I am going to include Central America and the Caribbean in this zone too)

1. Chile - Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada by Pablo Neruda
2. Brazil - River of the Sun by James Ramsey Ullman
3. Argentina - El túnel by Ernesto Sabato
4. Haiti- El Reino de Este Mundo by Alejo Carpentier
5. Uruguay - La casa de papel by Carlos María Domínguez

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Leg 3 : Europe

1. Germany - Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
2.Scotland - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. England - A Small Boy in the Sixties by George Sturt
4. France - The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz
5. Montenegro - The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
6. Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
7. Portugal - Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa
8. Switzerland - Swiss Sonata by Gwethalyn Graham

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Leg 4: Middle East

1. Jordan- The Talisman by Walter Scott
2. Iraq - Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
3. Israel - This Year In Jerusalem by Mordecai Richler

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Leg 5: Africa

1.Zimbabwe- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
2. South Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
3. Sudan - A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
4. Botswana - A Question of Power by Bessie Head

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Leg 6: Asia

1. China - The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun by Lu Xun
2.Tibet - Lost Horizon by James Hilton
3. Vietnam - The Quiet American by Graham Greene
4. India - A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
5. North Korea - This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
6. Japan - The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Leg 7: Australia (including Oceania and Antarctica)

1. New Zealand - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2. Vanuatu -Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost
3. Tuvalu - La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
4. Australia - Missus by Ruth Park

[Sonia]

I've got four from Europe and four from Asia. Not doing so well on the other places - need to work on that. It's in message 6.

[Allison, Quest Hound]

Well done on the four from Asia, though. I have only managed to read 2 books outside of Europe and America... I need to make a renewed effort as well.

[Nancy]

Around the World

✓1st Leg: North America The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve (United States)
✓2nd Leg: South America Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (Argentina)
✓3rd Leg: Europe The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor (England)
✓4th Leg: Middle East Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (Syria)
✓5th Leg: Africa To My Children's Children by Sindiwe Magona (South Africa)
✓6th Leg: Asia The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
✓7th Leg: Australia & Oceania Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (Australia)

[Nancy]

Just finished my first trip around the world. I'll see if I can manage another full trip around!

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Happy travels, Nancy.

[Allison, Quest Hound]

That's great, Nancy, well done!

[Sonia]

I got a new destination a couple of weeks ago. It was the Middle East with Exit West. It's a brilliant book, really brilliant, and I had to tell you all.

[Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader]

Thanks for letting us know.

[Nancy]

Trisha wrote: "Around the World: I aim to visit as many areas as I can.

1st Leg: North America
Alaska: The Snow Child
Massachusetts: Ethan Frome
Minnesota: [book:The Widow's Watcher..."

Trisha, I LOVED the Snow Child. One of my most favorite books!