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Colorado, US (It takes place in several states but GR lists Colorado first so I went with that state.) 22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover-
The Twelve/Justin Cronin 3/25/19
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Also, for a new addition, I want to Malaysia with The Night Tiger!
My UK book was set for the majority in England
USA:California - Saint Heist
Connecticut - The Girl Who Saved Ghosts
Louisiana - My Life As a White Trash Zombie
Maine - That Ain’t Witchcraft
Oklahoma - Ready Player One
Canada - Are there/can there be individual listings for Canadian provinces?
Ontario - Summon the Keeper, The Second Summoning, Long Hot Summoning
Alberta - The Enchantment Emporium
Nova Scotia - The Wild Ways
England -
Poison or Protect
The Murder on the Links
Charlotte Collins: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet's Pride and Prejudice
Scotland-
Star Witch
India-
Dipy Singh. Private detective
Isle of Man (is a "self-governing British crown dependency", not part of Great Britain or the EU - should this have its own entry in the general UK category?)
Aunt Bessie Considers
France - The Perfect NannyEngland - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
King Henry IV, Part 1
The Birds
The Sittaford Mystery
Mary Poppins
The Lying Game
The End We Start From
New York - The Last Time I Lied
Germany - Slaughterhouse-Five
The Reader
Maine - Pet Sematary
CA - Fahrenheit 451
GA - An American Marriage
Nigeria - My Sister, the Serial Killer
Colorado - Our Souls at Night
China - In Real Life Now this one really takes place through Anda's point of view, but Ray who lives in china is the story and also I don't think it ever said where Anda lived. So for setting, online and China were most important.
Russia - Baba Yaga's Assistant
ladymurmur wrote: "Isle of Man (is a "self-governing British crown dependency", not part of Great Britain or the EU - should this have its own entry in the general UK category?)..."Ah welcome to the oddities of the British Isles! The people on the island are still considered British citizens, but the island itself has different laws. It's the same sort of situation as the Channel Islands, so if Jersey and Guernsey are split out, IoM should be too.
just finished Toast za przodków - it's about 3 countries - Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia. It doesn't really make sense to pick one from them as main. But if it's really necessary, I'd say Azerbaijan sounds like most reasonable pick (it has most pages dedicated to it and author lived there for 5 years).
I love this idea, but it's made me realise how geographically limited my list is this year. This is where I've been so far:Australia
The Dry
England
The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway
The Severed Streets
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
USA
Utah: When the Emperor Was Divine
Maryland: Vinegar Girl
New York: The Dollhouse
New Jersey: The Plot Against America
Alaska: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Texas: Echo Burning
Colorado: The God of Animals
California: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
and a little trip up to the Moon for Artemis
USA:Alabama: The Almost Sisters
California: The Age of Miracles
California: Hidden Bodies
California: The Dreamers
California: The Immortalists
California: Daisy Jones & The Six
Maine: Cell
Maine: Lisey's Story
Massachusetts: Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
New York: The Dark Tower
North Carolina: Where the Crawdads Sing
Virginia: America's First Daughter
Australia: What Alice Forgot
Cuba: Next Year in Havana
England: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
England: The Thirteenth Tale
England: Jane Eyre
England: The Clockmaker's Daughter
England: My Plain Jane
France: Madame Bovary
Iceland: Britt-Marie Was Here
Italy: The Tempest
Italy: My Brilliant Friend
Japan: Pachinko
Nigeria: My Sister, the Serial Killer
What the Body Remembers - India Read for the 5 W's promptThe Book of Secrets - Kenya- about reading, books or authors
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The UK map does have Mann on it so I've added that in the same comment as the UK.
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Here's my contribution so far:United Kingdom:
England
The Wench Is Dead, The Wicked Earl, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Bookshop
United States:
Nevada Vegas, Baby
Montana Jaguar's Joy
Hawaii Sail Away
Louisiana A Confederacy of Dunces
Europe:
Italy Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
France The Big Four
Sweden The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Germany When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Ireland Notes to Self: Essays
Asia:
India No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History
South Korea The Korean War
North Korea The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Africa:
Nigeria The Half-God of Rainfall
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Spinning - Texas, USA
Breakfast at Tiffany's - New York, USA
The Corpse of St James's - England, UK
Love this! Though I'm a bit annoyed at a) how US heavy my list is
b) how little my own country (Scotland/UK) is represented...
I thought I was more diverse than this, and also that I read more Brits than I have so far. I don't know how representative this is of my reading usually, as I've never tracked this before. I'm tempted to at least do this for my 2018 reads too.
USA
California - There There, White Oleander
Alaska - The Great Alone
? - What We Keep
Washington - New Boy
Tennessee - Before We Were Yours
New York - I Loved You All, The Book of Speculation
South America
Argentina - Fever Dream
Europe
Greece - Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
Poland - The Tattooist of Auschwitz
UK
England - Special
UK:
England - The Missing
England - My Sister's Bones
England - The Cuckoo's Calling
England - Call for the Dead
England - The Night Language
US:
New York - Luckiest Girl Alive
California - Lily and the Octopus
New Jersey - Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport
Connecticut - I Know This Much Is True
Pennsylvania - Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
Louisiana - A Density of Souls
Ohio - Beloved
Africa:
Algeria - The Stranger
Congo - Heart of Darkness
Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Europe:
France - Let's Eat France!: 1,250 specialty foods, 375 iconic recipes, 350 topics, 260 personalities, plus hundreds of maps, charts, tricks, tips, and anecdotes and everything else you want to know about the food of France
Italy - Beautiful Ruins
France (possibly? Seems to be modern day France) - The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog
England - The Missing
England - My Sister's Bones
England - The Cuckoo's Calling
England - Call for the Dead
England - The Night Language
US:
New York - Luckiest Girl Alive
California - Lily and the Octopus
New Jersey - Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport
Connecticut - I Know This Much Is True
Pennsylvania - Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
Louisiana - A Density of Souls
Ohio - Beloved
Africa:
Algeria - The Stranger
Congo - Heart of Darkness
Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Europe:
France - Let's Eat France!: 1,250 specialty foods, 375 iconic recipes, 350 topics, 260 personalities, plus hundreds of maps, charts, tricks, tips, and anecdotes and everything else you want to know about the food of France
Italy - Beautiful Ruins
France (possibly? Seems to be modern day France) - The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog
For the United States, the map is showing that we are only missing:Arizona
Hawaii
Idaho
Iowa (I did one for Iowa this week)
Kansas
Wyoming
Does anyone have books they are reading for those states?
Lizzie - I will be reading Epitaph, which is set in AZ.
England - Pride and PrejudiceCuba - Next Year in Havana
Not sure where to place This is How It Always Is. It begins with the family living in Wisconsin, then they move to Seattle, Washington but there is also an extended trip to Thailand.
This looks great!I'll add my ATY Challenge books, although they are all fairly common locations:
England -
Shatter
Secrets of a Charmed Life
Sense & Sensibility
The Secrets She Keeps
How to Stop Time
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Ireland -
An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War
An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea
Chestnut Street
Australia -
Crimson Lake
In the Valley of Blue Gums
The Orchardist's Daughter
Will to Live
Beyond the Orchard
Kimberley Sun
The Book Ninja
The Good Teacher
US -
Virginia - The Passengers
Atlanta - Cop Town
New York - The Woman in the Window
Alaska - The Great Alone
Europe -
Greece - John
I'm not sure about Flight Risk - it's a very global book - starts in Sydney, then the main character goes to...Indonesia (I think), then the States and then somewhere in Africa/Middle East.
So far in 2019:Europe:
Boznia & Herzegovina - The Cellist of Sarajevo
England - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Greece - Why Homer Matters
USA:
California - Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun; The Library Book; Slouching Towards Bethlehem; They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
Maryland - Vinegar Girl
Idaho - Educated
Iowa - The Nigerian-Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems
Alabama - Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Asia:
Japan - Convenience Store Woman
Africa:
Rwanda - Baking Cakes in Kigali
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- I figured out how to split up the UK. The only downside is that Man is not displayed. But it's at least all on one map now.
New locations this week:
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Congo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Rwanda
my updates:England: What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies
Zambia: The Old Drift
USA:
NY: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (it was hard to choose between CA & NY for this one)
CA: The Mothers
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: took place in quite a few settings, I'll go with China because of few stories took place there including one of the longer ones, and many had Chinese influence or characters.
My ATY books so far for 2019:USA
Los Angeles, California - The Pisces
Caribou Island, Alaska - Caribou Island
Mexico, Maine - When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Batavia, NY - The Sunlight Dialogues
New York, NY - Button Man
USA (in general) - American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
Europe
London, UK - Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Africa
Ghana - Homegoing
Middle East
Israel - Dolly City
Asia
Japan - The Emissary
North Korea - The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Japan : My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame - Week 36, a book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list.
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I noticed one person said Milkman was set in Ireland and I assume you've counted that under Republic of Ireland. For future reference it's supposed to be in Northern Ireland, if anyone else is reading it.