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🗺️Around the World in 80 Books Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021

The Challenge:
For this challenge select books that are set in or authors native to 80 different cities or countries (or a combination of the two).

How to participate:
Make a comment below to indicate you're participating and which countries use are visiting (you can build your list as you go). You can edit your comment as you go to update your list of books or reply with a new comment.

Happy Reading!

🗺️Around the World in 80 Books Participants:

Amy 12/80 - msg 4
Barbara 48/80 msg 13
Cindy 0/80 msg 6
Gem 18/80 - msg 3
Jenny 3/80 - msg 10
Nadine 0/80 msg 5
Pam 17/80 msg 7
Sarah-Grace 2/80 msg 8
Valerie 26/80 - msg 2

updated 12/30/20 2:36pm MST

This challenge is right up my alley so I am in! I aim to, at a minimum, cover each country in Europe and some African countries. For the rest, I will add countries from other regions as I go along.

1. UK/Brighton: Peter James - Need You Dead (02/19)
2. Netherlands: Baantjer – De Cock en een dodelijke dreiging (02/19)
3. Belgium/Leuven: Jo Claes -Het gewicht van de haat (03/19)
4. UK/Oxfordshire: Mavies Doriel Hay - Death on the Cherwell (03/19)
5. Israel: Kathy Reichs - Cross Bones (03/19)
6. Solomon Islands: G.W. Kent - Devil-Devil (04/19)
7. Ireland: Peter Tremayne - Night of the Lightbringer (05/09)
8. Italy/Napels: Maurizio de Giovanni - I Will Have Vengeance (05/19)
9. Belgium/Brussels: Isabelle Corlier - Ring Est (06/19)
10. Australia: Jane Harper - The Dry (07/19)
11. Germany: Philip Kerr - The Pale Criminal (07/19)
12. UK/York: C.J. Sansom - Sovereign (08/19)
13. France/Brittany: Jean-Luc Bannalec - Un été à Pont-Aven (08/19)
14. US/New York: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen - The Wife Between Us (10/19)
15. Gabon: Janis Otsiemi - Le chasseur de lucioles (11/19)
16. UK/Norfolk: Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places (12/19)
17. Denmark (Greenland): Mads Peder Nordbo - The Girl Without Skin (12/19)
18. Mali: Moussa Konate - L'affaire des coupeurs de têtes (04/20)
19. Chile: Luis Sepulveda - La Fin de l'histoire (04/20)
20. UK/Lancashire: E.C.R. Lorac - Fell Murder (05/20)
21. Mexico: Fernanda Melchior - Hurricane Season (05/20) & Yuri Herrera - The Transmigration of Bodies (10/20)
22. Iceland: Yrsa Sigurdardottir - My Soul to Take (08/20)
23. UK/Scotland: Ann Cleeves - White Nights (09/20)
24. Ivory Coast: Marguerite Abouet - Commissaire Kouamé. Un si joli jardin (10/20)
25. France/Alsace: Jacques Fortier - Chapitre fatal à la cathédrale (11/20)
26. Canada: Ausma Zehanat Khan - The Unquiet Dead (12/20)
27. South Korea: You-Jeong Jeong - The Good Son (01/21)
28. Algeria: Ahmed Tiab - Le Français de Roseville (02/21)
29. Mongolia: Ian Manook - Yeruldelgger (03/21)
30. Laos: Colin Cotterill - The Coroner's Lunch (04/21)
31. Switzerland: Nicolas Feuz - Horrora borealis (05/21)
32. Cuba: Leonardo Padura - Havana Blue (06/21)
33. Belgium/Antwerp: Michael Kestemont - De witte weduwe (07/21)
34. Italy/Sicily: Andrea Camilleri - August Heat (07/21)
35. Spain: Dolores Redondo - The Invisible Guardian (08/21)
36. US/Texas: Attica Locke - Bluebird, Bluebird (08/21)
37. Sweden: Mari Jungstedt - Unseen (09/21)
38. France/Montpellier - Meurtres à la Pomme d'or (10/21)
39. Norway: Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast (11/21)
40. Botswana: Michael Stanley - A Carrion Death (12/21)
41. Russia: Yana Vagner - L'Hôtel (12/21)

Around the World in 80 Books Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021
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✔️01. Tallahassee, FL (US) - The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
✔️02. California (US) - The Postman Always Rings Twice
✔️03. Cotswolds, England (UK) - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
✔️04. New York City, NY (US) - The Woman in the Window
✔️05. Drake, WV (US) - Zero Day
✔️06. London, England (UK) - Then She Was Gone
✔️07. the border of France and England - The Scarlet Pimpernel
✔️08. Republic of Cyprus - Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
✔️09. Cortes Island, BC (CAN) - A Tale for the Time Being
✔️10. Savannah, GA (US) - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
✔️11. Aurora, MN (US) - Iron Lake
✔️12. Missoula, MT (US) - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
✔️13. Québec (CAN) - Still Life
✔️14. Los Angeles, CA (US) - The Big Sleep
✔️15. New York (US) - Fer-de-Lance
✔️16. Kilbane, County Cork (IRE) - Murder in an Irish Village
✔️17. Monte Carlo (MAR) - Rebecca
✔️18. Vancouver (CAN) - Those Girls
✔️19. San Francisco, CA (US)- Zodiac
✔️20. The Everglades, FL (US) - The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
✔️21. Poppyville, CA (US) - Daisies for Innocence
✔️22. various locations around the world - The Feather Thief
✔️23. Delano, GA (US) - Chiefs
✔️24. Florence (IT) - The Monster of Florence
✔️25. Personville (US) - Red Harvest
✔️26. Ada, OK (US) - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
✔️27. Alexander City, AL (US) - Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
✔️28. Sacramento County, CA (US) - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
✔️29. Bayport NY/NJ (US) - The Tower Treasure / The House On The Cliff
✔️30. Prairie Village, KS (US) - Bitter Harvest
✔️31. NC Coast/Swamp (US) - Where the Crawdads Sing
✔️32. Cornwall, England (UK) - My Cousin Rachel
✔️33. Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) - The Body Snatcher
✔️34. Ancombe (UK) - Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
✔️35. Wyckhadden (UK) - Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden
✔️36. Fryfam (UK) - Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
✔️37. Queensland, AU - The Lost Man
✔️38. Chester, NE (US) - Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
✔️39. Dartmoor (UK) - The Sittaford Mystery
✔️40. Fenchurch St. Paul, Fenland (UK) - The Nine Tailors
✔️41. Vermont (US) - Verity
✔️42. England Countryside - Tied Up in Tinsel
✔️43. Melaka, Malaysia - The Ghost Bride
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I'm going to try this one also, but no idea yet what areas! I'm thinking I'll just start adding and see what I come up with!

I'm going to try too. Starting with de UK (EU) (Susan Hill)

I am in. List subject to change.


China-shanghai
France
Iceland-reykjavik & siglufjordur
Japan-tokyo
Mexico
South Korea
Spain
United Kingdom-london
United States-los angeles, chicago

I am in!

1. ENGLAND/UK -- The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz -- 01/01/19
2. US/GA -- Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter -- 01/07/19
3. BRAZIL -- The Lost City of Z by David Grann -- 01/09/19
4. JAPAN -- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto -- 01/13/19
5. AUSTRALIA -- Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty -- 01/14/19
6. FRANCE -- The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani -- 01/28/19
7. IRELAND/UK -- Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris -- 02/09/19
8. TRINIDAD/TOBAGO -- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey -- 02/11/19
9. AFGHANISTAN -- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini -- 02/22/19
10. POLAND -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris -- 03/13/19
11, NIGERIA -- My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite -- 03/22/19
12. CANADA -- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny -- 03/24/19
13. SOUTH AFRICA -- Born A Crime by Trevor Noah -- 03/29/19
14. SCOTLAND -- Death of an Honest Man by M. C. Beaton -- 04/02/19
15. ITALY -- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare -- 04/27/19
16. MALAYSIA -- The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo -- 05/11/19
17. MOROCCO -- Tangerine by Christine Morgan -- 05/17/19

I would like to participate....but I do have a question. Do books from alternate realities count? Such as post-apocalyptic worlds, parallel worlds that; keep our countries and cities names, time travel, etc?

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1. Straits of Hell Seychelles (off East African coast)

2. The Lost Man The Australian Outback

Sarah-Grace wrote: "I would like to participate....but I do have a question. Do books from alternate realities count? Such as post-apocalyptic worlds, parallel worlds that; keep our countries and cities names, time tr..."

It's your challenge, you can do it however you'd like.

I am in

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1. Dream of the Wolf by Bradley McKenzie - 5 ★ - 03 / 01 / 2019 United States Of America
2. By Her Side by Lizzy Chandler - 5 ★ - 05 / 01 / 2019 - Australia
3. A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine - 4 ★ - 09 / 03 / 2019 - England

I'm not really going for rhyme or reason, just working my way around the continents in some fashion!
1. Ireland: Killer Treats, Kathy Cranston (2/3/19)
2. London, England: Poison in Paddington, Samantha Silver
3. NY: Grayson Manor Haunting, Cheryl Bradshaw
4. Northern CA (San Fran): Motherhood is Murder, Diana Orgain
5. NH: BlueBuried Muffins, Lyndsey Cole
6. WA: Witch Slapped, Dakota Cassidy
7. OR: Death of a Dapper Snowman, Angela Pepper
8. MO: Death by Chocolate, Sally Berneathy
9. Southern CA: Prescription to Die For, Bridget Bowman & KM Morgan
10. NM: Deadly Gamble, Connie Shelton
11. ME: Unforeseen, Nick Pirog (2/4/19)
12: FL: Dead Eye, Alyssa Day (2/6/19)

I am not sure if anyone is still doing this challenge, but I managed to read from 17 regions/countries this year. I intend to continue on with this challenge in 2020.

Updated to 85 as of 11/27/2021

United States
AL:Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep 5/13/2019
CA, LA:When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman 7/2/2019
CA, Lassen Volcanic Park: Firestorm by Nevada Barr 11/27/2021
CA, San Francisco: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 4/1/2020
CA, Silicon Valley: The Circle by Dave Eggers 9/30/2021
CO: Sadie by Courtney Summers 8/17/2021
FL (Dry Tortuga): Flashback by Nevada Barr 7/11/2021
FL (Everglades): The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean 5/4/2019
IL: The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe 2/5/2021
KS: Fallout by Sara Paretsky 4/30/2019
LA (New Orleans): November Road by Lou Berney 8/23/2019
LA (New Iberia) Robicheaux by James Lee Burke 9/9/2020
MA: Before She Knew Him 3/12/2019 by Peter Swanson 3/12/19
MD: Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman 8/8/2019
ME: The Precipice by Paul Doiron 12/23/2020
MN: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger 4/15/2019
MO: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 2/23/19
MS: Hunting Season by Nevada Barr 8/22/2021
NC: What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr 12/2/2019
NJ: Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart 11/2/2021
NY, Long Island: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith 8/5/2019
NY, NYC: The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti 7/21/2019
NY, Upstate: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz 4/14/2019 (this is a road trip, but these chapters were especially vivid for me and that's where author Lutz lives)
OK: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney 10/17/2019
OR: The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye 8/31/2021
PA: Long Bright River by Liz Moore 1/30/2020
TN: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson 8/21/2020
TX: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke 1/20/2020
VA: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 5/5/2020
WY: Back of Beyond by C.J. Box 11/15/2021
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United Kingdom
Scotland, Aberdeen: Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride 4/28/2019
Scotland, Edinburgh: Still Life by Val McDermid 12/17/2020
Scotland, Highlands: The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley 12/9/2019
Scotland, Shetland Islands: Raven Black by Ann Cleeves 11/8/2019
Northern Ireland, Belfast: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 4/29/2020
England, London: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 6/7/2019
England, Lake District: The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid 9/16/2021
England, North Devon: The Long Call by Ann Cleeves 12/23/2019
England, Norwich: Tombland by C.J. Sansom 5/4/2021
England, Nottingham: Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham 4/15/2021
England, Oxford: Murder on the Oxford Canal by Faith Martin 7/2/2020
England, Peak District: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid 3/18/2019
England, Yorkshire: I Found You by Lisa Jewell 10/12/2019
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Australia
Queensland: Crimson Lake by Candice Fox 4/3/2019
Tasmania: The Survivors by Jane Harper 2/13/2021
Victoria: The Dry by Jane Harper 10/8/2019
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Canada
Quebec:A Better Man by Louise Penny 9/23/2019
Vancouver Island, BC: The Glass Hotel by The Glass Hotel 6/6/2020
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Europe
Albania: The Body on the Shore by Nick Louth 3/2/2020
Austria:All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer 12/20/2020
Czech Republic: Lying and Dying by Graham Brack 6/21/2021
Denmark: Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen 6/1/2020
France: Cast Iron by Peter May 11/21/2019
Greece: Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger 8/26/2021
Greenland: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg 2/5/2021
Iceland: Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson 10/23/2020
Ireland (Dublin): A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell 5/22/2021
Ireland (Rural): The Searcher by Tana French 10/15/2020
Italy, Calabria: In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle 8/9/2021
Italy, Sicily: The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri 11/4/2020
Italy, Venice: Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King 9/11/2021
Luxembourg: The Expats by Chris Pavone 7/30/2021
Monaco: Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King 11/10/2021
Netherlands: Death in Delft by Graham Brack 8/15/2020
Norway:The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave 3/10/2020
Poland: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 2/6/2020
Spain: All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo 5/28/2019
Sweden: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 1/4/2021
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Africa
Burkina Faso: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson 2/12/20
Kenya: The Constant Gardener by John le Carré 4/11/2021
Morocco, Tangier: Tangerine by Christine Mangan 7/12/2019
Nigeria, Lagos: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 11/18/2019
Tanzania: Hard Rain by Irma Venter 8/3/2021
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Asia
Hong Kong: The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré 8/18/2020
Japan: Malice by Keigo Higashino 7/6/2021
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia: Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips 12/12/2019
Ural Mountains, Russia: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar 10/20/2021
Vietnam: The Quiet American by Graham Greene 7/27/2021
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Central America/Caribbean
Haiti: Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2/21/2021
Honduras: The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston 12/20/2020
St. Lucia: Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea 8/7/2021
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Southern Oceans
South Georgia Island: The Split by Sharon J. Bolton 3/2/2021
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Barbara wrote: "I'm coming to this challenge kind of late, but assuming it's OK to include the books I've read since joining CMT in February 2019, I'm jumping in with these 29.

United States
MO, Gone GIrl, Gill..."

Great to have you join in, Barbara!

Valerie wrote: "Great to have you join in."

Thanks, Valerie! I'm looking forward to using this challenge as motivation to expand my reading horizons further.

Barbara wrote: "I'm coming to this challenge kind of late, but assuming it's OK to include the books I've read since joining CMT in February 2019, I'm jumping in with these 29.

United States
MO, Gone GIrl, Gill..."
You are making good progress on your challenge Barbara! Which one has been your favourite read so far?

Valerie wrote: "Barbara wrote: "I'm coming to this challenge kind of late, but assuming it's OK to include the books I've read since joining CMT in February 2019, I'm jumping in with these 29.

United States
MO,..."

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Just an amazing book. I find it interesting how often the plots in contemporary books move among different countries, in which case I find myself torn about whether to include the book on the list. I generally make that decision based on whether the part that takes place in a country (or city or region) that isn't already on my list conveys something about that place, whether it's the history or the culture or the natural world. I wonder if there will be the same level of international movement post-pandemic?

Finished! Actually, I am guilty of poor record-keeping. When I reviewed everything today, I realized that I hit 80 quite a while ago. Today I cleaned up the list, leaving only crime novels and true crime, and I'm left with 84. Woo Hoo!

Barbara K wrote: "Finished! Actually, I am guilty of poor record-keeping. When I reviewed everything today, I realized that I hit 80 quite a while ago. Today I cleaned up the list, leaving only crime novels and true..."

Congratulations Barbara, that's very impressive! I only managed to get half-way through.