Ash's 2020 Around The World Challenge

[ashley]

Level 1: Countries
1. Mongolia: The Tiger Queens: The Women of Genghis Khan or Genghis: Birth of an Empire
2. Japan: The Teahouse Fire
3. Philippines
4. Ireland
5. Mexico
6. Nigeria
7. United States (Hawaii)

-Level 2: Time Periods
-Using the list from level one, your goal is to read a book set in a different time period for each country.. Example- If England is one of your listed countries, you can choose a book from WWI. However, once you have used WWI for a country, you cannot use it for another country. Additionally, the used time periods should not be the same as your settings in level one. Example -If you read a book about Germany during WWII for level one, you can’t read another book about Germany during WWII for level two. Dual timeline stories will not count for this challenge. Books used for this level must completely take place in the time period you have selected.

-Level 3: Authors
-Again using the list you created in Level 1, you must now read a book by an author from each of those countries. The author does not have to currently live in the country listed. If an author was born in Germany but now resides in the United States, you can count their work for either Germany or the United States. You have to be able to prove the author lived in the country you have listed at some point. The book you read does not have to take place in the same country. If you read a book by a German author the book can take place in South Africa. These books do not have to be historical fiction.

-Level 4: Nonfiction
-For the final challenge level, you will use your original list and read a nonfiction book from each of your listed countries. These books do not have to be historical. Just nonfiction. They can be biographies. They can be about wars. They can be about modern politics. It doesn’t matter as long as they are nonfiction works and they are about the country from your list.

[ashley]

POSSIBLE BOOKS

Mongolia:
- Silk Road

Japan:
- Shōgun
- The Shogun's Queen
- Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World (nf)
- The Printmaker's Daughter

Philippines:
- When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
- A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century (nf)

Ireland:
- The Heart's Invisible Furies

Mexico:

Nigeria:
- Stay with Me (contemporary)
- My Sister, the Serial Killer (contemporary)
- Freshwater

US (Hawaii):
- Moloka'i, 1891
- Honolulu, 1941