Around the World in 80 Books discussion

COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019:

AFRICA:
Nigeria - My Sister, the Serial Killer 6 January 2019

EUROPE:
Iceland - Last Rituals 21 January 2019
Ukraine - The Museum of Abandoned Secrets 27 March 2019
Wales - The Life of Rebecca Jones 21 April 2019
Sweden -Silenced 11 May 2019Republic of Ireland Normal People 19 May 2019
Spain - The Dinner Guest 21 July 2019
Germany - The Reader 28 July 2019
Poland - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 15 August 2019
Finland The Hummingbird 9 September 2019
Austria A Whole Life 14 September 2019
Czech Republic Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light 29 September 2019
Italy The Story of a New Name 19 October 2019
Netherlands The Dinner 3 November 2019

ASIA:
Japan - Kitchen 18 February 2019
Vietnam - The Quiet American 30 April 2019
Indonesia Apple and Knife 6 October 2019

CARIBBEAN:
Dominican Republic - The Feast of the Goat 17 April 2019
Martinique - The Old Slave and the Mastiff 23 June 2019

NORTH AMERICA:
USA - Swan Song 17 April 2019
Greenland - Crimson 6 May 2019

LATIN AMERICA:
Colombia - Love in the Time of Cholera 17 June 2019
Argentina - Feebleminded 10 August 2019
Brazil - The Hour of the Star 19 December 2019

MIDDLE EAST:
Oman - Celestial Bodies 14 July 2019

OCEANIA:
Australia - Force of Nature 19 September 2019
New Zealand Faces in the Water 19 October 2019

COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2018:

AFRICA:
South Africa - The Woman Next Door 25 January 2018
Zimbabwe - Nervous Conditions 13 February 2018
Mauritius - Eve out of Her Ruins 2 October 2018

ASIA:
India - We That Are Young 8 February 2018
South Korea - The White Book 20 April 2018
Taiwan - The Stolen Bicycle 22 April 2018
Cambodia - Death in the Rainy Season 3 May 2018
Japan - The Boy in the Earth 7 May 2018
Laos - The Coroner's Lunch 24 June 2018
China - The Chilli Bean Paste Clan 4 July 2018

CARIBBEAN:
Haiti - Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy 12 November 2018
Trinidad & Tobago - The White Woman on the Green Bicycle 30 November 2018

EUROPE:
Iceland - The Legacy: A Children's House Thriller 4 January 2018
Kosovo - How To Be a Kosovan Bride 19 January 2018
Scotland (Orkney Islands) - The Outrun 25 February 2018
England - The Gallows Pole 28 February 2018
Switzerland - Frankenstein 8 March 2018
Latvia - Soviet Milk 18 March 2018
Belarus - Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future 27 April 2018
Sweden - Pippi Longstocking 8 May 2018
Denmark - Mercy 16 May 2018
Spain - Death Rites 14 June 2018
Italy - My Brilliant Friend 11 August 2018
Hungary - Another Love: A Novel 21 August 2018
France - Vernon Subutex, 1 1 September 2018
Germany - Blue Night 3 September 2018
Estonia - When the Doves Disappeared 22 September 2018
Russia - The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich 27 September 2018
Croatia - Zagreb Noir 7 October 2018
Serbia - With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia 19 October 2018
Bosnia & Herzegovina Sarajevo Marlboro 28 October 2018

LATIN AMERICA:
Brazil - Daytripper 31 January 2018
Argentina - Fever Dream 18 March 2018
Peru - The Bedlam Stacks 9 April 2018
Paraguay - The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel 31 July 2018
Mexico - Like Water for Chocolate 10 August 2018
Colombia - The Sound of Things Falling 10 October 2018

MIDDLE EAST:
Syria - The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria 24 February 2018
Pakistan - Kartography by Kamila Shamsie - 14 March 2018
Iraq - Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi - 15 March 2018
Iran Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik -19 March 2018
Turkey - Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez - 10 June 2018
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine - 25 November 2018

NORTH AMERICA:
USA - The Haunting of Hill House 11 January 2018
Canada - And the Birds Rained Down 13 April 2018

OCEANIA:
Australia - The Dry 13 January 2018
Samoa - They Who Do Not Grieve 28 March 2018

11 January 2018

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

13 January 2018

AUSTRALIA

The Dry by Jane Harper

19 January 2018

KOSOVO

How To Be a Kosovan Bride by Naomi Hamill

25 January 2018

SOUTH AFRICA

The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

31 January 2018

BRAZIL

Daytripper by Fábio Moon

8 February 2018

INDIA

We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

13 February 2018

ZIMBABWE

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Welcome to the challenge, Viv! You are off to a great start!

Kosovo didn't seem to be a country on this Map Maker!

Diane wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Viv! You are off to a great start!"

Thanks Diane!

24 February 2018
SYRIA (Middle East)

The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek

Translated by Nashwa Gowanlock and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

25 February 2018
SCOTLAND (Europe)

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

This is a memoir of the author's recovery from alcoholism and is a beautiful testament to the healing power of nature. The descriptions of life on the remote Orkney Islands and the wildlife there are lovely. Recommended.

28 February 2018
ENGLAND (Europe)

The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers

8 March 2018
SWITZERLAND (Europe)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

14 March 2018
PAKISTAN (Middle East)

Kartography by Kamila Shamsie

15 March 2018
IRAQ (Middle East)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

A bit of a disappointment for me, after all the hype :-(

18 March 2018
ARGENTINA, Latin America

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

18 March 2018
LATVIA, Europe

Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena

19 March 2018
IRAN, Middle East

Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik

28 March 2018
SAMOA, Oceania

They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel

9 April 2018
PERU, South America

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

13 April 2018
CANADA, North America

And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier

20 April 2018
SOUTH KOREA, Asia

The White Book by Han Kang

22 April 2018
TAIWAN, Asia

The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi

27 April 2018
BELARUS, Europe

Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich

3 May 2018
CAMBODIA, Asia

Death in the Rainy Season by Anna Jaquiery

7 May 2018
JAPAN, Asia

The Boy in the Earth by Fuminori Nakamura

8 May 2018
SWEDEN, Europe

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

16 May 2018
DENMARK, Europe

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen

10 June 2018
TURKEY, Middle East

Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez

14 June 2018
SPAIN, Europe

Death Rites by Alicia Giménez Bartlett

24 June 2018
LAOS, Asia

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

4 July 2018
CHINA, Asia

The Chilli Bean Paste Clan by Yan Ge

10 August 2018
MEXICO, Latin America

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

11 August 2018
ITALY, Europe

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

21 August 2018
HUNGARY, Europe

Another Love: A Novel by Erzsébet Galgóczi

1 September 2018

FRANCE, Europe

Vernon Subutex, 1 by Virginie Despentes

3 September 2018

GERMANY, Europe

Blue Night by Simone Buchholz

22 September 2018

ESTONIA, Europe

When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen

27 September 2018

RUSSIA, Europe

The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

2 October 2018

MAURITIUS, Africa

Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi

7 October 2018

CROATIA, Europe

Zagreb Noir ed by Ivan Sršen

10 October 2018

COLOMBIA, Latin America

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

19 October 2018

SERBIA, Europe

With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Åsne Seierstad

28 October 2018

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Europe

Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergović

12 November 2018

HAITI, Caribbean

Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

25 November 2018

LEBANON, Middle East

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

30 November 2018

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Caribbean

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey