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Books read before 2012:Europe
1. Europe/Sweden: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
2. Water: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. North America/USA/New York: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
4. Multiple locations: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
5. Europe/UK/England: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Europe/Poland: Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi
7. Fictional realm: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Europe/UK/London: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Europe/Italy/Southern Italy: I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti
10. Europe/UK/London: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11. Europe/France/Île-de-France: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
12. Europe/UK/London: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. Europe/France/Hauts-de-France: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
14. Europe/UK/Hertfordshire: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
15. Europe/Switzerland: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
16. Europe/UK/London: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
17. Europe/UK/England: Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. Europe/UK/Sussex: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
19. Europe/Italy/Liguria: The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
20. Europe/Italy/Liguria: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
21. Europe/Romania: Dracula by Bram Stoker
22. North America/USA/New York: Watchmen by Alan Moore
23. Europe/UK/Northamptonshire: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
24. Europe/UK/Dorset: Persuasion by Jane Austen
25. Europe/Ireland/Leinster: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
26. Europe/UK/London: 1984 by George Orwell
27. Fictional realm: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Outer space: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
29. Europe/UK/Yorkshire: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
30. South America/Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
31. Outer space: Fondation by Isaac Asimov
32. Europe/Italy/Sicilia: The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
33. Europe/Italy/Lombardia: The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
34. Europe/UK/Surrey: Emma by Jane Austen
35. Europe/UK/Somerset: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
36. North America/USA/Louisiana: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
37. South America/Chile: Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
38. Europe/France/Languedoc-Roussillon: Silk by Alessandro Baricco
39. Europe/UK/Yorkshire: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
40. Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
41. Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
201242. Asia/Japan/Kansai: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
43. North America/USA/New York: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. Fictional realm: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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45. Europe/France/Île-de-France: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
46. Europe/UK/Oxfordshire: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
47. Asia/Japan: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
48. Fictional realm: Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
49. Europe/Italy/Lazio: The Ragazzi by Pier Paolo Pasolini
50. Europe/UK/Norfolk: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
51. Europe/Italy/Sicilia: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
52. Europe/France/Île-de-France: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
53. Europe/UK/England: Atonement by Ian McEwan
54. Asia/Japan/Kantō: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
55. Europe/UK/England: The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
201456. Europe/UK/North West England: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
57. Europe/UK/England: The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
58. Outer Space: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
59. Water: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
60. Europe/France/Île-de-France: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
61. Carribean/Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
62. North America/USA/Georgia: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
63. North America/USA/Vermont: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
64. South America/Argentina: Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
65. Africa/Algeria: The Stranger by Albert Camus
66. Europe/France/Normandy: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
67. Europe/Italy/Lazio: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
68. Asia/Japan/Kantō: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
69. Asia/Vietnam: The Lover by Marguerite Duras
70. Europe/Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
71. Europe/UK/England: Possession by A.S. Byatt
72. Europe/Greece: The Late-night News by Petros Markaris
73. Europe/Central Europe: The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
74. Africa/Egypt: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
75. Fictional realm: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
76. Asia/Japan: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
77. North America/Canada/Ontario: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
78. Africa/Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
79. North America/USA/New Hampshire: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
80. North America/USA/Alaska: The Call of the Wild by Jack London
81. Africa/South Africa: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
201582. Europe/Netherlands: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
83. Asia/Japan/Kyushu: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Europe/UK/London: Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
85. Asia/Pakistan: Shame by Salman Rushdie
86. Fictional realm: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
87. Europe/France/Île-de-France: Story of O by Pauline Réage
88. Asia/Pakistan: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
89. Europe/Sweden: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
90. Multiple locations: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
91. Europe/France/Île-de-France: The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
92. Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
93. Fictional realm: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
94. Europe/Serbia: Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš
95. Asia/Japan/Shikoku: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
96. North America/Canada/Ontario: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
97. Europe/Germany/Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
98. Caribbean/Antigua: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
99. North America/USA/Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
100. North America/USA/New York: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
101. Oceania/Australia/New South Wales: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
102. Caribbean/Cuba: Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
103. Central America/Mexico: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
104. Africa/Botswana: A Question of Power by Bessie Head
105. North America/USA/Michigan: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
106. Europe/UK/London: London Fields by Martin Amis
107. Europe/UK/Yorkshire: The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt
108. Europe/UK/England: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
109. North America/Canada/Quebec: Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
110. North America/Canada/Ontario: The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
111. Europe/UK/England: The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
112. Europe/UK/Wessex: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
113. Europe/France: The Nun by Denis Diderot
114. Europe/Italy/Campania: Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
115. Europe/UK/Yorkshire: Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
116. Asia/Japan: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
117. Asia/Malaysia: Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia by Emilio Salgari
118. Fictional realm: W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
119. Europe/France/Île-de-France: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2016120. Oceania/New Zealand: The Christmas Oratorio by Göran Tunström
121. Europe/Austria: The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
122. Africa/Lesotho: Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
123. Europe/UK/Yorkshire: Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
124. Europe/UK/London: Wise Children by Angela Carter
125. Europe/Ukraine: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
126. North America/USA/Texas: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
127. Africa/Egypt: Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
128. Europe/Russia: Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
129. Africa/Zimbabwe: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
130. Europe/UK/London: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
131. North America/USA/California: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
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