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(Completed)EUROPE
97. Albania: The Successor
190.Andorra: The Road to Andorra
81. Austria: Rock Crystal AND A Death In Vienna
212.Azores: The Islands of Magic: Legend, Folk, and Fairy Tales from the Azores
184.Belarus: Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
149.Belgium: The Lady and the Unicorn
96. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Cellist of Sarajevo
182.Bulgaria: Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
110.Channel Islands: A Place of Hiding
68. Croatia: The Tiger's Wife
80. Czech Republic: The Metamorphosis
25. Denmark: To Siberia
1... England: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
104. Estonia: The Compromise
129.Finland: Snow Angels
160.France: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame AND Madame Bovary
71. Germany: Crabwalk
221.Gibraltar: Luna Benamor
23. Greece Captain Corelli's Mandolin AND The Green Shore
86. Greenland: First Light
41. Hungary: The Singing Tree
169.Iceland: Independent People
156.Ireland: The Picture of Dorian Gray
5... Italy: The Leopard
198.Kosovo: Elegy for Kosovo: Stories
148.Latvia: The Dogs of Riga
165.Liechtenstein: H.R.H.
31. Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray
52. Luxembourg: The Expats: A Novel
73. Macedonia: The Bandit Wind: Poems AND Cousins
167.Malta: The Sword And The Scimitar
197.Moldova: Lost Province
145.Monaco: Guilty Wives
185.Montenegro: Mountain Wreath
20. Netherlands: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
126.Northern Ireland: Reading in the Dark
75. Norway: Hunger
70. Poland: The boy in the striped pajamas
106.Portugal: Alentejo Blue
47. Romania: The Passport
155.Russia: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
202.San Marino: A Freak Of Freedom; Or, The Republic Of San Marino
53. Scotland: Death of a Travelling Man
196.Serbia: Pearl Drops / Biserne Suze
194.Slovakia: Year of the Frog
207.Slovenia: Ljubljana Witch
55. Spain: I, Juan de Pareja
43. Sweden: Astrid and Veronika
152.Switzerland: Heidi
123.Ukraine: Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
122.Vatican City: The Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century
14. Wales: The Owl Service AND Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
LATIN AMERICA
130.Argentina: The Secret in Their Eyes
142.Belize: The Possibility of Everything
220.Bolivia Biting Silence
6... Brazil: The Witch of Portobello (author) AND State of Wonder (setting)
157.Chile: The Yellow Heart
136.Colombia: Of Love and Other Demons
84. Costa Rica: At the Bottom: A Woman's Life in Central America
218.Easter Island: Mysteries of Easter Island
94. Ecuador: The Indigo Notebook
32. El Salvador: In Search of Bernabe
232.Falkland Islands (Malvinas): Exocet
107.French Guiana: The Governor's Daughter
230.Galápagos Islands: Galápagos
153.Guatemala: Grave Secrets
33. Guyana: Shape-shifter
90. Honduras: Madam Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter
72. Mexico Swift as Desire
69. Nicaragua: Tooth Man
127.Panama: The Path Between the Seas
188.Paraguay: Saved by a Poem
19. Peru: The Cubs and Other Stories
193.Suriname: The Shadow Behind My Rainbows
51. Uruguay: The Invisible Mountain
151.Venezuela: Blue Gold
MIDDLE EAST
158.Afghanistan: The Patience Stone
163.Bahrain: Bras, Boys, and Blunders: Juliet & Romeo in Bahrain
109.Cyprus: Small Wars
59. Iran: The Septembers of Shiraz AND The Love Poems of Rumi
24. Iraq: A Hundred And One Days
87. Israel: Ben-Hur
60. Jordan: Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
181.Kuwait: Suitcase Filled with Nails
146.Lebanon: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
195.Oman: Sandstorm
26. Pakistan: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
50. Palestine: Unveiled
207.Qatar: My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality
18. Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh
67. Syria: Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled
105.Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul
111.United Arab Emirates: Layover in Dubai
48. Yemen: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
NORTH AMERICA
209.Bermuda: The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
154.Canada: Anne of Green Gables
76. USA: In Cold Blood
Kimberly wrote: "Diane I enjoyed I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced I hope you like it too."I am really looking forward to reading it.
Half way there! Well, not really, since I haven't made much of a dent in my original list.
Well, 3/4ths of the way to 52, and yet my tbr list doesn't seem to be getting any smaller! I somehow keep managing to read books not on my list.I am currently reading my books from Uganda, Cameroon, Hungary, and Rwanda, plus a second book from Nigeria.
Finished!Well, not really since my TBR list has grown faster than my "read" list. So....
I am going to try for another 52 countries!
Diane wrote: "Finished!Well, not really since my TBR list has grown faster than my "read" list. So....
I am going to try for another 52 countries!"
Congrats. You really read 52 books already. Amazing! Do you get enough sleep? ;) I like your list, there are a lot of books I don't know, so I might copy some of them to complete my list.
Sylvia wrote: "Diane wrote: "Finished!Well, not really since my TBR list has grown faster than my "read" list. So....
I am going to try for another 52 countries!"
Congrats. You really read 52 books already...."
Thank you! I do read a lot and, no, I really don't get enough sleep. ;)
Finished the second batch of books and came up with a new list to read. I'm going to try to see how many countries I can fit into a year's time.
Update: 156 down and 52 to go. I am now 3/4 of the way of my trip around the world. I am really going to try hard to read a book for each country this year, or at least get as close as I can. It is getting SO much harder not to repeat countries or read other things!
Lovely list. We're both closing in on the same goal of finishing this year. You're going faster than I am!
I don't see a book for San Marino on your list. I was wondering if you'd found a good one. I used a guidebook published there because I couldn't find anything else.
I don't see a book for San Marino on your list. I was wondering if you'd found a good one. I used a guidebook published there because I couldn't find anything else.
Diane wrote: "Update: 156 down and 52 to go. I am now 3/4 of the way of my trip around the world. I am really going to try hard to read a book for each country this year, or at least get as close as I can. It ..."Impressive! Well done Diane!It is encouraging for those of us trailing in your wake.
(I think I might finish my tour by the end of 2014.)
Osho wrote: "Lovely list. We're both closing in on the same goal of finishing this year. You're going faster than I am!I don't see a book for San Marino on your list. I was wondering if you'd found a good one..."
I am still looking. I actually have a spiral bound Sammarinese cookbook I bought several years ago - I just haven't been able to figure out where I put it. If I remember right, it was written by a group of people who have lived in San Marino or had relatives from there. If that doesn't turn up, I'm not sure what I will read. I have 3 or 4 countries that are posing a real challenge to me.
Judy wrote: "I'm in awe of your discipline, Diane! You are an inspiration."Thank you! It has been hard not to deviate off course. I am actually looking forward to reading books set in the US and the UK again.
Judy wrote: "Do you feel like you have jet lag? lol. Its incredible that you have been able to find books available for all these countries."lol, I have been looking them for a while. I started my first reading trip around the world 3 years ago. I read 99 countries that year. I enjoyed it so much that I kept "traveling".
Any countries I can help you with? I've found books for all of them (even though I'm still upgrading some of the books for a better fit).
Wow, I'm also impressed by this list. It's great, I'm going to borrow several of these so I can keep going with my world challenge in 2013, 2014, 201.....
Osho wrote: "Any countries I can help you with? I've found books for all of them (even though I'm still upgrading some of the books for a better fit)."I have found and acquired books for all of them (if I can relocate the San Marino book). I do need to find another book for Nauru. I read Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature last year, and now don't have a Nauru book for this year. I may end up re-reading it. It was very thought-provoking. I want to eventually read a book both set in, and written by a native author of, each country. I have read a few regrettable books (think cheesy romance or implausible manfiction thriller), only because I had them readily available. I have also counted a few children's books I have read to my kids. I'll try to atone for those next year! ;)
I read Nauru One Hundred Years Ago: 3. Games and Sports. It's occasionally available in Amazon Marketplace.
My self-imposed rule is that the author must have lived in the country for two or more years, and if there's a choice, my preference is for a book that's also about the country. I'm not fussy about genres and have read several children's books. A few countries have been hard to find books for and I intend to supplement the cheesy/badly written/largely irrelevant books that meet the two-year criteria with books about the country.
My list, not entirely up to date but maybe good enough, is at http://shoshana-world.livejournal.com/
My self-imposed rule is that the author must have lived in the country for two or more years, and if there's a choice, my preference is for a book that's also about the country. I'm not fussy about genres and have read several children's books. A few countries have been hard to find books for and I intend to supplement the cheesy/badly written/largely irrelevant books that meet the two-year criteria with books about the country.
My list, not entirely up to date but maybe good enough, is at http://shoshana-world.livejournal.com/
Osho wrote: "I read Nauru One Hundred Years Ago: 3. Games and Sports. It's occasionally available in Amazon Marketplace. My self-imposed rule is that the author must have lived in the country for two or more ..."
Thanks, Osho!
I am bowed by your success and discipline with this. The books I have read were excellent for the most part but I am reading other things as well. What were your favorite books?
Susan wrote: "I am bowed by your success and discipline with this. The books I have read were excellent for the most part but I am reading other things as well. What were your favorite books?"Thank you, Susan. My favorites so far:
Non-Fiction
The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Married to Bhutan
The Oath
Fiction
The Leopard
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Island Beneath the Sea
The Calligrapher's Daughter
Of Love and Other Demons
The Tiger's Wife
Invisible Cities
The Garden Party and Other Stories
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Purple Hibiscus
And one I am reading now will probably be added to the favorites list: Independent People
I'm now at 170. This is getting harder and harder to keep up with! A couple of really long books have slowed my progress.
Judy wrote: "How many countries are there total that you will be reading, Diane?"Somewhere between 208 and 212. I read a few non-country books (i.e. Puerto Rico, etc.) and that has inflated my list.
Judy wrote: "The rate you are going you should make it. But...are you feeling a little tired out with all this reading? If so, here is a little something to energize you!"
Yum! Thanks for the treat! I can almost taste them...
Ten more read. Still roaming the world...
Ten more down. I hope to get a few more knocked out while I am on vacation this week.
Almost there. Here's what I have left to read:Bolivia Biting Silence
Chad: Teenager in the Chad Civil War: A Memoir of Survival, 1982-1986
Georgia: A Time of Miracles (setting) AND One More Year: Stories (author) Maybe
Mauritania: Travels In Mauritania
Niger: Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past
Qatar: Qatari Women: Past & Present
San Marino: A Freak Of Freedom; Or, The Republic Of San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe: São Tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
Slovenia: The Cartier Project
Turkmenistan: Sacred Horses: Memoirs of a Turkmen Cowboy
I was able to catch up on my reading quite a bit last week while I was at the beach.
So amazing, what a feat!
Jenny wrote: "So amazing, what a feat!"I'm really ready to read some books set in the US again.
Finished! I have read a book from each UN country of the world, plus a few others this year. Current total = 221 destinations! I am going to try to squeeze a few more destinations in before year's end. I am currently reading books in Kashmir and Tristan de Cunha. I have the rest of the week off from work, so I hope to at least make it to 225.Reading this many countries was not my original intention, but I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to keep up with a reader from another around the world challenge. I will end up about 10-15 places short of her end of the year total. I have had a great time and will continue to read around the world next year, but to a much smaller extent.
Done! For real this time. I don't have time to read another book.Countries and other land masses traveled to in 2012: 232
Congratulations on a job well done! I am in awe!! *bows in respect* : )Now, it is time to pack your bags for 2013. LOL!
Connie wrote: "Congratulations on a job well done! I am in awe!! *bows in respect* : )Now, it is time to pack your bags for 2013. LOL!"
Thank you! I'm now happily reading a book set in the US.
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The Plague (other topics)Good Morning Comrades (other topics)
Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin (other topics)
Morality for Beautiful Girls (other topics)
The Parachute Drop (other topics)
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Thomas Hardy (other topics)Ernest Hemingway (other topics)
160170180190200 countries so far and plan to read every country of the world, eventually. Here is where I have been and hope to go:http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...
My goal this year is to read at least 20 new destinations and revisit some countries I have already been to with books mainly by native or resident authors, if I haven't already done so. I also want to mostly read books I already own, since my bookshelves are very, um, full (I own all but two of the books on the following list. Yes, I have a book-buying problem). It is very difficult for me to commit to (anything) a definitive 52 countries/books, especially since I participate in many simultaneous challenges, so this may be very subject to change. I also will have an occasional juvenile fiction book showing up since I am reading around the world to my kids, as well. Here goes:
COMPLETED SO FAR THIS YEAR:
AFRICA
138.Algeria: The Plague
201.Angola: Good Morning Comrades
112.Benin: Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin
62. Botswana: Morality for Beautiful Girls
176.Burkina Faso: The Parachute Drop
177.Burundi: Hugging the Chimps: Adventures in Burundi
56. Cameroon: The Usurper: and Other Stories
226.Canary Islands: More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
103.Cape Verde: The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
175.Central African Republic: African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic
205.Chad: Nasara
63. Comoros: Marriage In Domoni: Husbands And Wives In An Indian Ocean Community
54. Congo (DRC): Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
162.Congo (RC): Broken Glass
7... Cote d'Ivoire: Queen Pokou
46. Djibouti: The Land Without Shadows
66. Egypt: Woman at Point Zero
128.Equatorial Guinea: The Wonga Coup
61. Eritrea: Song of the Nightingale: One Woman's Dramatic Story of Faith and Persecution in Eritrea
140.Ethiopia: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
95. Gabon: Tropic Moon
180.Gambia: Tubob: Two Years in West Africa with the Peace Corps
131.Ghana: Wife of the Gods
173.Guinea: The King of Kahel
28. Guinea-Bissau: Fighting Two Colonialisms: Women in Guinea-Bissau
45. Kenya: Unbowed
172.Lesotho: Chaka Zulu
34. Liberia: Beyond The Mango Tree
36. Libya: The Shadows of Ghadames
166.Madagascar: The Madagascar I Love
12. Malawi: The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
8... Mali: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
216.Mauritania: Travels In Mauritania
189.Mauritius: The Last Brother
79. Morocco: Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
164.Mozambique: A Girl Named Disaster
199.Namibia: East Wind: a True Story
206.Niger: Bridge Over Niger
35. Nigeria: Purple Hibiscus AND Beasts of No Nation
228.Reunion Island: Traditional Recipes of Reunion Island
42. Rwanda: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
210.Sao Tome & Principe: Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
121.Senegal: Redemption in Indigo
174.Seychelles: Grk: Operation Tortoise
134.Sierra Leone: The Heart of the Matter
120.Somalia: Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
159.South Africa: Favorite African Folktales
91. South Sudan: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
16. Sudan: The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
4... Swaziland: Palace of Gold
179.Tanzania: Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
171.Togo: Letters from Togo
147.Tunisia: Salammbô
40. Uganda: The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
213.Western Sahara: Sahara
39. Zambia: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
49. Zimbabwe: The Stone Virgins: A Novel
ANTARCTICA, ETC.
92. Antarctica: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
215.St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte - Englands Prisoner
222.Tristan da Cunha: Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha
ASIA
170.Armenia: Martyred Armenia AND Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope
27. Azerbaijan: Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
88. Bangladesh: A Golden Age
102.Bhutan: Married to Bhutan
133.Brunei: The Last Harem
118.Burma: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
132.Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
74. Chechnya: The Oath
65. China: The Crazed
192.East Timor: Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor
204.Georgia: The Knight in the Panther's Skin
108.India: The White Tiger
30. Indonesia: The Twenty-One Balloons
13. Japan: Kitchen
223.Kashmir: Chef: A Novel
139.Kazakhstan: Almaty-Transit
137.Korea, North: Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
114.Korea, South: The Calligrapher's Daughter
141.Kyrgystan: Jamilia
124.Laos: The Coroner's Lunch
37. Malaysia: Lord Jim
168.Maldives: On the Island
116.Mongolia: Invisible Cities
94. Nepal: Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
99. Philippines: Fairy Tale Fail
85. Singapore: My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore
15. Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost
100.Taiwan: Setting Out: The Education of Li-Li
101.Tajikistan: Boat Trip
115.Thailand: Bangkok 8
22. Tibet: Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet
203.Turkmenistan: Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age
183.Uzbekistan: The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace
119.Vietnam: The Novice: A Story of True Love
AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
38. Australia: I am the Messenger
211.Cook Islands: History and Traditions of Rarotonga
144.Fiji: Fiji: A Novel
186.French Polynesia: Call It Courage
187.Guam (Marianas Islands): Keeper of the Night
89. Kiribati: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
3... Marshall Islands: Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
143.Micronesia: Island of the Sequined Love Nun
178.Nauru: Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature
64. New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories
191.Palau: Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau
83. Papua New Guinea: The White Mary: A Novel
224.Pitcairn Island: The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island
98. Samoa: Pouliuli
135.Solomon Islands: South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to the Vella Gulf
161.Tonga: The Friendly Islanders
200.Tuvalu: Logs In The Current Of The Sea: Neli Lifuka's Story Of Kioa And The Vaitupu Colonists
125.Vanuatu: Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
CARIBBEAN
117.Antigua: Lucy
17. Aruba: Aruba Home Cooking
82. Bahamas: The Day is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island
78. Barbados: The Polished Hoe
227.Cayman Islands: Down the Cayman Wall
2... Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea
231.Curacao: The House of Six Doors
58. Dominica: Unburnable
29. Dominican Republic: Before We Were Free
11. Grenada: Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Novel
225.Guadeloupe: Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood
21. Haiti: Island Beneath the Sea
113.Jamaica: The Long Song
214.Martinique: Hurricane
219.Montserrat: Montserrat On My Mind: Tales Of Montserrat
150.Puerto Rico: The Rum Diary
217.Saint Barth's: St. Barts Breakdown
77. Saint Kitts & Nevis: The Reef
9... Saint Lucia: Selected Poems
10. Saint Maarten: Hurricanes, Paradise and Fairy Tales
57. Saint Vincent & the Grenadines: Memoirs of My Childhood: St. Vincent, West Indies
44. Trinidad and Tobago: The Mystic Masseur
229.Turks & Caicos: Food Plane Soup: the Desert Island Letters