Ged's Around the World in 80 Books.

[Ged]

Backtracking to the beginning of 2011 my list so far is as follows.


BOOKS 1-20

1.EGYPT- Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
2.GREECE The Lost Labyrinth Will Adams
3.RUSSIA Child 44 Tom Rob Smith
4.UNITED KINGDOM 4 50 from Paddington Agatha Christie
5.CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Legacy James Steel
6.PERU Temple Matthew Reilly
7.UNITED STATES Killing Floor Lee Child
8.NORTH KOREA The Aquariums of Pyongyang Chol-Hwan Kang
9.MEXICO The Death Relic Chris Kuzneski
10.D R CONGO Warlord James Steel
11.JAPAN Second Son Lee Child
12.MADAGASCAR The Eden Legacy Will Adams
13.AUSTRALIA Down Under Bill Bryson
14.TURKEY The Istanbul Puzzle Laurence O'Bryan
15.FRANCE The Templar's Quest C M Palov
16.SYRIA Mirror to Damascus Colin Thubron
17.JORDAN Appointment with Death Agatha Christie
18.GERMANY Redeemable Aly Monroe
19.ISRAEL The Jerusalem Puzzle Laurence O'Bryan
20.ITALY The Shape of Water Andrea Camilleri

[Ian, Former Moderator]

Good start Ged - enjoy your travels

[Ged]

Thanks Ian, looking forward to having a go at the challenge, it should be an interesting journey. :-)

[Ged]

Added The Istanbul Puzzle by Laurence O'Bryan to the list.

[Ged]

For France, I've added The Templar's Quest by C M Palov to the list. The third book in the Caedmon Aisquith series. A decent, enjoyable thriller.

[Chris]

I like the look of "Temple", I'll be adding that one for this challenge

[Ged]

For Syria, added Mirror to Damascus by travel author Colin Thubron. Although nearly forty-five years old, it's still a fascinating insight into the city, in which he also tells the history of Damascus from biblical times through the the 1960's.

[Ged]

Added Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death for Jordan, which is set around Petra, featuring Hercule Poirot.

[Ged]

For Germany I've added the new Peter Cotton short story Redeemable by the excellent Aly Monroe in which Cotton who works for British intelligence gets posted to Germany just after the war has ended.

[Ged]

For Israel I've added Laurence O'Bryan's current thriller The Jerusalem Puzzle, the middle book of the Puzzle trilogy.

[Ged]

After ages without visiting somewhere new, I've added for Italy, Andrea Camilleri's first book of the Inspector Montalbano series The Shape of Water.

[Ian, Former Moderator]

Quarter way there Ged.

[Ged]

Hi Ian, yes, hoping to add a few more this year, although reading a lot of fantasy will probably slow me down a little. :-)

[Ged]

Books 21-40


21.NEPAL A Beard in Nepal Fiona Roberts
22.LEBANON The Hills of Adonis Colin Thubron
23.MALI Sahara Clive Cussler
24.INDIA The Midnight Palace Carlos Ruiz Zafon
25.ICELAND Last Rituals Yrsa Sigurdardottir
26.UGANDA Ebola K Bobby Adair

[Ged]

Added Colin Thubron's account of his 1967 trek through the hills of Lebanon, and for Mali the Clive Cussler thriller Sahara.

[Ged]

Added for India Carlos Ruiz Zafon's brilliant young adult book The Midnight Palace

[Ged]

Added for Iceland the first Yrsa Sigurdardottir novel Last Rituals which is my first attempt at Scandi Crime, and for Uganda Ebola K by Bobby Adair which is a bio-terror thriller free on Kindle.