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 –
Algeria – The Plague, Camus
American Samoa –
Andorra –
Angola –
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina – (Place of Birth) Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries
Armenia –
Aruba
Australia – Mister Pip, Jones
Austria –
Azerbaijan –
B
Bahamas, The –
Bahrain –
Bangladesh –
Barbados
Belarus –
Belgium –
Belize
Benin –
Bermuda
Bhutan –
Bolivia –
Bosnia and Herzegovina[13]
Botswana –
Brazil – The Devil and Miss Prym, Coelho
Brunei –
Bulgaria –
Burkina Faso
Burundi –
C
Cambodia –
Cameroon –
Canada[14] Microserfs, Coupland
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic[15]
Chad –
Chile – Daughter 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 –
Ethiopia – The Garbage King, Laird
F
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji –
Finland –
France –
French Polynesia
G
Gabon –
Gambia, The –
Georgia
Germany – Siddartha, Hesse (authors birthplace)
Ghana –
Gibraltar
Greece –
Greenland
Grenada
Guam –
Guatemala –
Guernsey –
Guinea –
Guinea-Bissau –
Guyana –
H
Haiti –
Honduras –
Hong Kong –
Hungary –
I
Iceland –
India – The Space Between Us,
Indonesia –
Iran – Persian 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
Morocco – A 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 –
Portugal – Yossel, 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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