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Africa Asia
Caribbean
Anguilla - Antigua & Barbuda - Aruba -
Europe
Latin America
Argentina - Bolivia - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Easter Island - Ecuador - French Guiana - Galapagos Islands - Guyana - Islas Malvinas - Paraguay - Peru - Suriname - Uruguay -
Middle East
North America
Belize - Canada - Costa Rica - Cuba - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras -
Oceania
Australia -
AFRICA6/58
✔ Algeria: The Plague by Albert Camus 01/08/22 ★★★★
Angola The Land at the End of the World by António Lobo Antunes
Benin: The Dahomean by Frank Yerby
Botswana: Tears of the Giraffe
Burkina Faso Folktales from the Moose of Burkina Faso by Alain-Joseph Sissao
Burundi
Cameroon
✔ Canary Islands: Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq 05/24/16 ★★★★
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad: The Roots of Heaven
Comoros
Congo (Republic)
✔ Congo (DRC): Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 12/19/15 ★★
Djibouti: Djibouti
✔ Egypt: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie 12/01/16 ★★★★
Equatorial Guinea Guinea by Fernando Gamboa
Eritrea
Ethiopia
✔ Gabon: Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon 02/17/18 ★★★
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
Kenya: Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood
Lesotho
Liberia
✔ Libya: Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini 05/28/16 ★★★★
Madagascar:
Malawi:
Mali:
Mauritania:
Mauritius: Georges by Alexandre Dumas
Morocco
Mozambique: Every Man Is a Race by Mia Couto
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Reunion
Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal: Ramata = Ramata by Abasse Ndione
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia: Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zanzibar: Death in Zanzibar
Zambia: The Eye of the Leopard
Zimbabwe: African Stories
ANTARCTICA1/1
✔ Antarctica: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander 11/18/17 ★★★★★
ASIA7/34
✔ Bangladesh: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam 12/26/18 ★★★
Bhutan
Brunei: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Cambodia: The Elimination: A survivor confronts the chief of the Khmer Rouge Death Camps by Rithy Panh
China
Georgia
Hong Kong: The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
India
Indonesia
✔ Japan: Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan by Lafcadio Hearn 12/30/16 ★★★
Kazakhstan
Korea, North
Korea, South
✔ Kyrgyzstan: Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov 06/26/2017 ★★★
Laos Love Songs From A Shallow Grave
Macau
Malaysia
✔ Maldives: On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves 09/19/17 ★★★★★
✔ Mongolia: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 04/27/16 ★★★★
Myanmar
Nepal: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
✔ Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 01/30/17 ★★★
Philippines
Singapore: South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean
✔ Sri Lanka Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 02/14/19 ★★★
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
✔ Tibet: Lost Horizon by James Hilton 06/02/18 ★★★★
Timor Leste
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
CARIBBEAN2/25
Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Aruba
✔ Bahamas: Island Interlude by Anne McAllister 05/05/16 ★
Barbados: Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Bermuda: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Cayman Islands
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Dutch Caribbean (Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius)
French West Indies (Guadeloupe, St. Barts, Martinique & St. Martin)
Grenada
Haiti An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Jamaica
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts & Nevis
✔ St. Lucia: White Lies by Sara Wood 04/30/16 ★★
St. Maarten
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos
Virgin Islands
EUROPE9/55
✔ Albania: The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare 01/06/18 ★★★★★
Andorra
Armenia
✔ Austria: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 10/23/16 ★★★
Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said
Azores
Belarus: La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer by Svetlana Alexievich
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
✔ Bulgaria: Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw 07/11/17 ★★★★★
Croatia: April Fool's Day by Josip Novakovich
✔ Cyprus: Viajar a Chipre by Marta Rivera de la Cruz 07/05/2017 ★★★★
Czech Republic:
Denmark:
England: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Estonia: Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Faeroe Islands
Finland
✔ France: Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky 10/04/16 ★★★★
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland: Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Ireland
✔ Italy: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins 10/31/16 ★★★★★
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madeira: Francesca by Sally Wentworth
✔ Malta: The Earl's Intended Wife by Louise Allen 11/12/17 ★★★★
Moldova: Trafficked: The Diary of a Sex Slave by Sibel Hodge
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
✔ Poland: The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 by Władysław Szpilman 05/16/17 ★★★★★
Portugal
Romania:
Russia: Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
San Marino
Scotland: The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Serbia
Slovakia
✔ Slovenia: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho 03/26/18 ★★
Spain
Sweden: Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Switzerland: The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Ukraine
Vatican City
Wales: The Mabinogion by Unknown
LATIN AMERICA1/16
Argentina: Misteriosa Buenos Aires by Manuel Mujica Láinez
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Easter Island
Ecuador
French Guiana
Galapagos Islands
Guyana: Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell
Islas Malvinas
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
✔ Venezuela: Patria o muerte by Alberto Barrera Tyszka 07/30/17 ★★★★
MIDDLE EAST4/15
✔ Afghanistan: 300 Dias En Afganistan by Natalia Aguirre Zimerman 07/08/16 ★★★★
Bahrain
Iran
✔ Iraq: Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie 09/07/16 ★★★★
Israel:
Jordan: Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Kuwait:
Lebanon:
✔ Oman: Quicksands by Elizabeth Oldfield 05/23/16 ★★
Palestine: Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria: Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami
United Arab Emirates
✔ Yemen: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen by Paul Torday 12/09/17 ★★★★
NORTH AMERICA2/11
Belize
Canada: Still Life by Louise Penny
Costa Rica:
Cuba:
El Salvador: Baile Con Serpientes by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Guatemala: Leyendas de Guatemala y Miguel Ángel Asturias
Honduras: The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
✔ Mexico: The Pearl by John Steinbeck 06/01/16 ★★★★★
Nicaragua: Nicaragua tan violentamente dulce by Julio Cortázar
✔ Panama: Varamo by César Aira 05/13/18 ★★★
USA:
OCEANIA4/19
Australia
✔ Cook Islands: An Afternoon in Summer: My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything, and Finally Falling in Love by Kathy Giuffre 05/09/21 ★★★
✔ Fiji: The Trouble with Paradise by Jill Shalvis 05/30/21 ★★
✔ French Polynesia: Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite 06/30/16 ★★★★
Guam & Wake
Kiribati: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
Marshall Islands
Micronesia : The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Nauru:
New Caledonia:
New Zealand: Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Island: The Bounty Mutiny by William Bligh
Samoa: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation by Margaret Mead
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
✔ Vanuatu: Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost 06/10/17 ★★★
Welcome to the challenge, Paula!
Diane wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Paula!"Thank you!
Middle East / Afghanistan: 300 Dias En Afganistan by Natalia Aguirre Zimerman 07/08/16 ★★★★6 regions
10 countries
Europe / Italy: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins 10/31/16 ★★★★7 regions
14 countries
Asia / Japan: Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan by Lafcadio Hearn 12/30/16 ★★★7 regions
16 countries
Asia / Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai 01/30/17 ★★★7 regions
17 countries
Europe / Poland: The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Władysław Szpilman 05/16/17 ★★★★★7 regions
18 countries
Oceania / Vanuatu: Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost 06/10/17 ★★★7 regions
19 countries
Latin America / Venezuela: Patria o muerte by Alberto Barrera Tyszka 07/30/17 ★★★★8 regions
23 countries
Oceania / Cook Islands: An Afternoon in Summer: My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything, and Finally Falling in Love by Kathy Giuffre 05/09/21. ★★★9 regions
35 countries
Around the World in 80 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Plague (other topics)The Trouble with Paradise (other topics)
An Afternoon in Summer: My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything, and Finally Falling in Love (other topics)
An Untamed State (other topics)
Half of a Yellow Sun (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Albert Camus (other topics)Jill Shalvis (other topics)
Kathy Giuffre (other topics)
Roxane Gay (other topics)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (other topics)
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TOTAL
Countries: 234 (Includes countries that are not "countries" XD)
Regions: 9
Visited: 37 countries
9 regions
37 books