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THING TWO's 2015 TRIP



Africa (10)

Algeria - The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa finished 2/6/15
Angola - The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Botswana - Whites by Norman Rush (1987 Rosenthal)
Djibouti - Djibouti by Elmore Leonard finished 10/6/15
Ghana - Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd finished 9/19/15
Mauritius - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes finished 7/24/15
Nigeria - Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe Challenge 2
South Africa - May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes finished 1/4/2015
Uganda - Thirty Girls by Susan Minot finished 7/30/15
Zimbabwe - Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith finished 2/14/15

America (8)

Brazil - The Substance of Fire & The Film Society by Jon Robin Baitz - not Brazil
Canada - The Healer by Greg Hollingshead finished 1/18/15
Colombia - The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez finished 8/16/15
Costa Rica - Train Shots: stories by Vanessa Blakeslee finished 6/20/15
Honduras - The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (1981 Black)
Cuba - A Place We Knew Well by Susan Carol McCarthy finished 10/19/15
Jamaica - Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine finished 8/3/15
Mexico - The Son by Philipp Meyer finished 5/20/15
Puerto Rico-US - Alborada: A Poetic Memoir Across Cultures by Nylda Dieppa finished 9/15/15


Asia (13)

Afghanistan - Redeployment by Phil Klay finished 6/30/15
Bangladesh - The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell Series challenge 5 (1973 Booker)
China - Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler finished 6/6/15
India - The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri finished 5/10/15
Iran - I Married a Communist by Philip Roth finished 1/28/15
Iraq - Mission Rejected by Peter Laufer
Israel - The Retrospective by Abraham B. Yehoshua finished 1/20/15
Jordan - The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark finished 9/14/15
Japan - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki finished 6/11/15
Malaysia - The Edge of the World by Gail Vida Hamburg
Philippines - Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley (1987 Faulkner)
Singapore - The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell Series challenge 6
Viet-Nam - Parthian Shot by Loyd Little finished 2/13/15

Europe (16)

England (UK) - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein finished 2/6/15
France -Missing Person by Patrick Modiano finished 8/21/15
Germany - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr finished 1/21/15
Greece - Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels finished 6/17/15
Ireland - Troubles by J.G. Farrell finished 3/21/15
Italy - Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon finished 9/7/15
Netherlands - This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp finished 8/11/15
Norway - The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
Poland - View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wisława Szymborska finished 7/25/15
Romania - The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller finished with 4/15/15
Russian Federation - US Conductors by Sean Michael
Serbia - Walking the Black Cat byCharles Simic finished 1/28/15
Spain - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finished 6/25/15
Sweden - Maus, I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelmanfinished 8/11/15
Switzerland - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley finished 10/12/15
Ukraine - Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol

Oceania (5)

Australia - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute finished 2/18/15
Fiji - Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost finished 6/25/15
Micronesia - Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
New Zealand - The Carpathians by Janet Frame (1989 Commonwealth)
Samoa - Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead