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ATW in 1001 Books Challenge
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AfricaAlgeria
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Biafra
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Egypt
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Kenya-Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen-2/25/19-*****
Libya
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nigeria
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
AsiaBurmaBurmese Days by George Orwell
India The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Japan
1.An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
3. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
India The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Arabia-The Arabian Nights-Anonymous-8/24/18-🧞🧞🧞🧞🧞
EuropeFinland-The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
France
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue-Marquis de Sade
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer-Patrick Süskind
Germany
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Great Britain-UK
England--
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Wise Children by Angela Carter
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Emma-Jane Austen
Animal Farm-George Orwell
1984-George Orwell
Scotland
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Wales, Northern Ireland
Italy
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Spain-Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez-7/29/19-*****
Sweden-Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Latin America/CaribbeanDominca-Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Haiti
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
North AmericaUnited States
Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
California
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Farewell, My Lovely-Raymond Chandler
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Louisiana
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Maine
The Cider House Rules-John Irving
New York
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Ohio
-Toni Morrison
North America-Canada and MexicoCanada
I Heard the Owl Call My Name-Margaret Craven
Mexico
1. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
South America
Additional SitesCanadian Provinces
UK Counties
Irish Counties
French, German, Italian, and Spanish Regions
Indian States
Australian States and Territories
Book set in outer space (count once)
Book set in fictional realms (count once)
The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood-6/10/22-💛💛💛💛💛
Book set in multiple locations (count once)
Book set in water (count once)
Book set in air (count once)
Book with no setting (count once)
Around the World in 80 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
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1984 (other topics)
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Farewell, My Lovely (other topics)
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Last Book Posted: The Awakening
RULES:
Object: Read around the world using the books on the combined 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die lists.
Time Limit: None. Challenge is ongoing.
Page Number Requirements: None
The only real rule is that the book must be found on one of the editions of Boxall's 1001 Books lists. I have made a list to get you started: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...
Note: Obviously, I haven't read all these books (...yet). I have based the settings based upon book descriptions, reader reviews, and other online sources. There are probably a good many that aren't precisely accurate in terms of where they are set. Also, there are a handful of 1001 books that did not make it on this list for one reason or another (i.e. no clear place settings, too many settings, settings in outer space and/or fantasy realms, etc.). Books to use are not limited to the books I have listed on the link (as I may have missed a few). Any 1001 book with a designated setting may be used. Vague or unnamed settings can default to the author's country of origin.
To post your progress, simply start a new topic in this folder. Please keep all of your updates in your same topic, making a new post with each book or group of books read. You may do this challenge in conjunction with the other group challenges, but if you are participating in this challenge, you must post your results for this challenge on this thread.
New for 2013: The following can be now be counted as separate destinations for the 1001 challenge:
Canadian Provinces
UK Counties
Irish Counties
French, German, Italian, and Spanish Regions
Indian States
Australian States and Territories
Book set in outer space (count once)
Book set in fictional realms (count once)
Book set in multiple locations (count once)
Book set in water (count once)
Book set in air (count once)
Book with no setting (count once)
Books Read Before 2012
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Count of Monte Cristo byAlexandre Dumas
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Howards End by E.M. Forster
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas