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2020 Around the World Challenge
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Ashley's Around the World 2020 Challenge
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This is an amazing list! Lots I’d like to read on here
Thanks Carol! I'm doing my best to stick to books I own on most of my challenges this year :)
Yes me to. My challenge was designed around my too read shelf.
My list has shrunk thanks to the current health crisis, but maybe if I finish all four levels I'll go back and add another country before the end of the year.
I seem to have stalled on level three, but it's still early for how I've planned everything out, so I refuse to panic yet. :D
Update in September: Only two books to go!
I’ve stalled as well Ashley. We still have time! It’s only September.
It's safe to say my HFU Challenge has crashed and burned, but this one's still going strong and I can see the finish line! One book left, and it's next in my audiobook queue after my current book.
Finished with a month to spare! I'm looking forward to adding more countries in 2021 :)
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Congratulations! Your non-fiction picks looks especially interesting. Are there any you'd recommend?
Fiona wrote: "Congratulations! Your non-fiction picks looks especially interesting. Are there any you'd recommend?"Thanks Fiona! I'd recommend all three nonfiction books, as audiobooks or otherwise. I learned a lot from all three of them :)
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Books mentioned in this topic
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (other topics)The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (other topics)
Wolf Hall (other topics)
The Vagabond (other topics)
Capturing the Devil (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Helen Castor (other topics)Tom Reiss (other topics)
Hilary Mantel (other topics)
Michelle Alexander (other topics)
Colette (other topics)
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✔ France: The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici 8Jan20
✔ USA: The Age of Innocence 18Jan20
✔ Great Britain: Medicus 22Jan20
Level Two: Time Periods - histfic
✔ France: All the Light We Cannot See 2Apr20
✔ USA: Brooklyn 29Jun20
✔ Great Britain: Silent in the Grave 24Apr20
Level Three: Authors - any genre
✔ French - The Vagabond by Colette 15Aug20
✔ American - Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco 5Jul20
✔ British - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 10Jun20
Level Four: Nonfiction
✔ France - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss 24Oct20
✔ America - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 16Sep20
✔ Great Britain - She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor 21Nov20