Ines' Read Around the World Challenge

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I love this challenge (it might be the only one I'm doing), although my progress won't be that fast, because I want to read more science fiction this year.

Book recommendations based on the books in this list are always very welcome! Feel free to leave a suggestion, a comment on one of the books I read, or whatever comes to mind.

- I will only list one book - the book I liked most or the one I think contains the most information about the country out of the books I read
- I will try to include as many different authors as I can, but set no rule
- no goal, I just see how far I can get
- every book only counts for one country, even if it takes place in several

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Total: 19
read in 2021: 1 (China)
read in 2020: 3 (Cambodia, Mexico, Scotland)
+ 2 countries visited before (Germany, USA, UK)


AFRICA


Egypt: The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice

AMERICA, Central & North


Canada: The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky (might replace this later, since it is set before Canada was founded)
Martinique: Dark Shadows: Angélique's Descent by Lara Parker (it's technically France, but I'll count it, since it's on another continent)
Mexico: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
USA: Passing by Nella Larsen

ASIA


Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
China: When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai
India: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Indonesia: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Japan: Fujisan by Randy Taguchi
Korea (North): Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Korea (South/North): The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim

EUROPE


England: Soulless by Gail Carriger
France: Garou by Leonie Swann
Germany: Die juten Sitten by Anna Basener
Ireland: Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Italy: Blood And Gold by Anne Rice
Scotland: Changeless by Gail Carriger
Sweden: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren


I have probably read a lot more (I remember reading book series by female authors from Germany and Russia as a kid), but that was so long ago, I won't count it.

honourable mentions: (books by men that taught me a lot about the country)
South Africa: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood


list of maybe-to-read-books:
(China) Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up or The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
(Congo) How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
(England) The Familiars or The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
(Iran) Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark
(Iraq) Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations or Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia or A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
(Poland) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
(South Africa) Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir
(Uganda) Garden of the Lost and Abandoned: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves
(Zimbabwe) Dinner With Mugabe: The Untold Story Of A Freedom Fighter Who Became A Tyrant