Tuesday 22 April 2008

Reading Around the World

Reading Around the World is a personal challenge to try and ensure that I read a wide range of literature and potentially learn some Geography and History at the same time. I'm counting books written by authors from that country or the book is set predominantly in that country.
There is no target date as I expect this is going to be a hard one.
I've set up my own virtual bookbox to help people trying to complete this type of challenge at Bookcrossing.com
Countries:
A
Afghanistan – The Kite Runner, Hosseini
Albania
AlgeriaThe Plague, Camus
American Samoa

Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina – (Place of Birth) Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries
Armenia
Aruba
AustraliaMister Pip, Jones
Austria
Azerbaijan

B
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina[13]
Botswana
BrazilThe Devil and Miss Prym, Coelho
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi

C
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada[14] Microserfs, Coupland
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic[15]
Chad
ChileDaughter of Fortune, Allende
China – Empire of the Sun, J.G Ballard
Christmas Island
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic[20]

D
Denmark – Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Hoeg
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
E
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt – In the Eye of The Sun, Souief
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
EthiopiaThe Garbage King, Laird

F
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Polynesia
G
Gabon
Gambia, The
Georgia
GermanySiddartha, Hesse (authors birthplace)
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
H
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
I
Iceland
IndiaThe Space Between Us,
Indonesia

IranPersian Brides, Rabinyan
Iraq

Ireland -
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
J
Jamaica
Japan - The Sound of Waves, Mishima
Jersey
Jordan

K
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea,
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
L
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
M
Macao
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico – Like Water for Chocolate, Esquivel
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia -
Montenegro
Montserrat
MoroccoA Woman of My Age, Bawden
Mozambique
Myanmar
N
Nagorno-Karabakh
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway – The Ringmaster's Daughter, Jostein Gaarder
O
Oman
P
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Islands
Poland
PortugalYossel, Kubert
Puerto Rico
Q
Qatar
R
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
S
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia[36]
Somaliland
South Africa- Elizabeth Costello, Coetzee
South Ossetia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
T
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Transnistria
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey – Snow, Orphan Pamuk
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu

U
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom – The Years, Virginia Woolf
United States – (See bootom of page) A Walk in the Woods, Bryson
Uruguay

Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, United States
W
Wallis and Futuna
Western Sahara[40]
Y
Yemen
Z
Zambia
Zimbabwe

USA I will split into the States as this is where a lot of my reading comes from:

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
DC
Delaware
Florida
Georgia - Gone With the Wind, Mitchell
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska - The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington - Twilight, Meyer
West Virginia
Wisconsin Blankets, Thompson
Wyoming

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