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ATW in 80 Books World Challenge
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Connie's World Tour 2020-2022 Circumnavigator
CARIBBEAN1. Haiti-The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (1/2/20)
7. Dominican Republic-In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (2/8/20)
28. Antigua Biography of a dress by Jamaica Kincaid (2/11/21)
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid (5/5/21)
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
15. Chile Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (5/11/20)
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende (8/15/20)
42. Argentina The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (4/4/22)
EUROPE2. Northern Ireland-Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (1/16/20)
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom (2/9/20)
The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna (3/25/20)
The Legacy of Lucy Harte by Emma Heatherington (3/29/20)
4. Iceland- The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson (1/19/20)
5. England- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1/20/20)
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (2/2/20)
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan (3/21/20)
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (5/17/20)
The Stones of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston (5/18/20)
The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb (5/22/20)
Books Do Furnish a Room by Anthony Powell (5/25/20)
Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell (5/30/20)
An English Murder by Louise Doughty (6/6/20)
Keep Your Friends Close by Paula Daly (6/8/20)
Half Broken Things by Morag Joss (6/21/20)
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (6/24/20)
The Life of Charles Dickens Vol. I. 1812-1842 by John Forster (6/25/20)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (6/28/20)
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (7/5/20)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (7/9/20)
The Dwelling Place by Catherine Cookson (7/10/20)
The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (8/21/20)
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict (9/7/20)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson (11/15/20)
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (11/20/20)
Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior (11/25/20)
The Chimes by Charles Dickens (12/13/20)
Rags and Riches: Kids in the Time of Charles Dickens by Mary Pope Osborne (12/13/20)
Dickens: His Work and His World by Michael Rosen (12/13/20)
Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon (12/18/20)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (12/19/20)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (1/1/21)
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (3/19/21)
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders (4/10/21)
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen (4/11/21)
Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce (4/22/21)
Winter by Christopher Nicholson (4/26/21)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (5/1/21)
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (5/2/21)
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (5/13/21)
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff (6/25/21)
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley (6/29/21)
The Black Veil by Charles Dickens (6/29/21)
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (7/20/21)
George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens(9/6/21)
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (9/10/21)
Old Filth by Jane Gardam (11/26/21)
The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (12/13/21)
The High House by Jessie Greengrass (1/15/22)
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (2/1/22)
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (4/12/22)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (5/22/22)
The Real Thing: By Henry James - Illustrated by Henry James (6/22/22)
The Mudfog Papers by Charles Dickens (6/23/22)
The Master by Colm Tóibín (6/26/22)
The Light of Day by Graham Swift (7/18/22)
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (7/28/22)
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell (8/26/22)
Odds Against by Dick Francis (8/28/22)
Night Walks by Charles Dickens (9/27/22)
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (10/10/22)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (10/18/22)
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan (11/6/22)
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (11/19/22)
6. Russia- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (1/28/20)
My Life by Anton Chekhov (7/26/20)
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders (2/2/21)
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (8/28/21)
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (10/24/21)
The Siege by Helen Dunmore (1/4/22)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1/26/22)
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (5/13/22)
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (6/18/22)
The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov (7/28/22)
Misery by Anton Chekhov (8/2/22)
8. France-The People in the Photo by Hélène Gestern (2/16/20)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (11/13/20)
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (7/17/20)
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (11/28/20)
Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette (1/3/21)
Nick by Michael Farris Smith (2/7/21)
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain (4/18/21)
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles (7/3/21)
The Paris Hours by Alex George (8/22/21)
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah (9/9/21)
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (10/30/21)
Maigret and the Toy Village by Georges Simenon (1/20/22)
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert (6/12/22)
11. Wales- Longing by Mary Balogh (3/14/20)
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher (3/28/20)
The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick (7/13/20)
12. Scotland- His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet (4/3/20)
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley (7/30/20)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (11/29/20)
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (12/15/20)
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd (1/26/21)
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld (2/18/21)
Morning Tide by Neil M. Gunn (4/16/21)
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan (5/27/21)
As High as the Heavens by Kathleen Morgan (5/29/21)
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird (6/3/21)
A Shine Of Rainbows by Lillian Beckwith (6/17/21)
The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story by Susan Boyle (6/23/21)
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (6/25/21)
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (8/7/21)
The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah (10/19/21)
A Double Death on the Black Isle by A.D. Scott (11/2/21)
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean (11/19/21)
The Hanging of Margaret Dickson by Alison J. Butler (11/27/21)
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (12/26/21)
Legacy by Jeanette Baker
Corrag by Susan Fletcher (4/29/22)
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell (5/3/22)
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (5/17/22)
September by Rosamunde Pilcher (5/24/22)
13. Republic of Ireland- Dubliners by James Joyce (4/11/20)
The Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy (3/12/21)
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (4/24/21)
The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan (9/8/21)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (12/21/21)
The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican (3/10/22)
16. Italy- Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell (5/28/20)
Daisy Miller by Henry James (7/23/20)
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland (8/27/20)
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens (1/4/21)
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham (6/26/21)
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri (9/6/21)
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton (8/28/22)
19. Austria - Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler (10/5/20)
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1/9/22)
27. Croatia Girl at War by Sara Nović (3/22/21)
29. Bosnia-Herzegovina Death of the President's Dog by Miljenko Jergović (5/18/21)
30. Norway Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen (5/21/21)
31. Sweden The Silver Mine by Selma Lagerlöf (6/2/21)
33. Spain Love in Lowercase by Francesc Miralles (8/28/21)
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (3/26/22)
Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton (9/12/22)
34. Switzerland Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (9/3/21)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (10/10/21)
35. Germany The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (9/12/21)
41. Ukraine A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert (3/28/22)
44. Monaco Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor (4/24/22)
45. Netherlands The Dinner by Herman Koch (9/28/22)
MIDDLE EAST18. Iran- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi(7/24/20)
24. Saudi Arabia- Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah (2/11/21)
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (4/18/22)
NORTH AMERICA
3. United States- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (1/6/20)
Other USA books are listed in the Around the USA challenge
14. Canada- Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny (5/5/20)
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (5/16/20)
The Life Lucy Knew by Karma Brown (7/18/21)
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (4/3/22)
The Maid by Nita Prose (8/2/22)
20. Mexico - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (10/11/20)
Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter (11/22/22)
OCEANIA AND AUSTRALIA
25. Australia - The Dry by Jane Harper (3/14/21)
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (6/7/21)
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (8/10/21)
Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood (8/24/21)
The Secret River by Kate Grenville (9/22/22)
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (10/13/22)
Dangerous Women by Hope Adams (10/22/22)
37. New Caledonia - Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce (12/13/21)
46. New Zealand - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (11/19/22)
Region: Europe12. Adding Scotland
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
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AFRICA
9. Sudan- The Translator by Leila Aboulela (2/26/20)
17. Libya In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (7/15/20)
26. Nigeria Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3/17/21)
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (7/16/21)
32. Botswana The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith (7/24/21)
36. South Africa Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (10/24/21)
43. Algeria Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi (4/21/22)
ASIA
10. Japan- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (3/11/20)
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama (7/1/20)
A Quiet Place by Seichō Matsumoto (3/12/22)
21. South Vietnam The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian (10/26/20)
Ru by Kim Thúy (10/10/22)
22. Sri Lanka Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (11/7/20)
23. India The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (1/16/21)
The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly (5/6/22)
38. Afghanistan The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (12/18/21)
39. Malaysia The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (1/17/22)
40. Kazakhstan Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared by Christopher Robbins (3/24/22)