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message 1: by Werner (last edited Feb 08, 2020 04:28PM) (new)

Werner For this challenge, you try to "visit" every country in the world by reading a book set in that country. It's an open-ended challenge you can work at at your own pace; and it's okay to list books you've already read, if you want to! (But it would be best to pick books set entirely or at least mostly in the indicated country, not those set in multiple countries!) Post your list in the comments below (you're free to use my comment in message 2 as a model), and then use the "edit" function to add books as you go along.


message 2: by Werner (last edited Feb 17, 2020 10:00AM) (new)

Werner I thought it might be fun to keep track of how many countries of the world are represented in the settings of books I've read. So, here's my list so far:

Algeria --The Lion Hunt (La Chasse aux Lions): A Dual Language Story by Alfred Assollant
Antarctica --At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Australia --Best Australian Short Stories, ed. by Douglas Stewart and Beatrice Davis
Austria --Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Canada --Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
China --The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Cuba --Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Denmark --Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Egypt --Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
England --Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
France --The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Germany --A Handful Of Dominoes by James Leonard Johnson
Greece --Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Holland --Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Hungary --The Secret Ways by Alistair MacLean
India --The Dark Horse by Rumer Godden
Ireland --Tales from the Blue Stacks by Robert Bernen
Kenya --A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiongo
Laos --The Edge of Tomorrow by Thomas A. Dooley
Morocco --The Serpent's Daughter by Suzanne Arruda
Norway --Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Russia --The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Scotland --Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Spain --Crown of Aloes by Norah Lofts
Sri Lanka --Paradise Revisited by Shane Joseph
Switzerland --Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Tibet --Tibet: Being the Recollections and Adventures of the Hermit Called Small Ears by Gil Ziff
United States --The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Zanzibar --Devil Dance by Suzanne Arruda


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