Around The World Book Challenge

The aim of this challenge is to read at least one book set in a country or by an author from all the countries in the world. I'll be keeping my proposed reading list here and then marking off a country/book once I've read it.



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~ Africa ~

Algeria ~ Yasmina Khadra - Swallows Of Kabul
Angola ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa - Creole
Benin ~ Annie Caulfield - Show Me The Magic: Travels Round Benin By Taxi
Botswana ~ Caitlin Davies - Place Of Reeds
Burkina Faso ~ Malidoma Patrice Some - Of Water And The Spirit
Burundi ~ Gilbert Tuhabonye - The Running Man
Cameroon ~ Gerald Durrell - A Zoo In My Luggage
Cape Verde ~ Germano Almeida - The Last Will and Testament of Senor Da Silva
Central African Republic ~ Louis Sarno - Song From The Forest: My Life Among The Ba-Benjelle Pygmies
Chad ~ Joseph Brahim Seid - Told By Starlight In Chad
Comoros ~ Paul Greenway - Lonely Planet: Madagascar & Comoros
Congo Brazzaville ~ Alain Mabanckou - Broken Glass
Congo Kinshasa ~ Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
Cote d'Ivoire ~ Ahmadou Kourouma - Allah Is Not Obliged
Djibouti ~ Abdourahman A. Waberi - The Land without Shadows
Egypt ~ Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building
Equatorial Guinea ~ Adam Roberts - The Wonga Coup
Eritrea ~ Hannah Pool - My Father's Daughter
Ethiopia ~ Dinaw Mengestu - Children of the Revolution
Gambia ~ Dayo Forster - Reading the Ceiling
*Ghana ~ Michael Cordy - The Venus Conspiracy
Guinea ~ Camara Laye - The Dark Child
Guinea-Bissau ~ Ian Stewart - Ambushed: A War Reporter's Life On The Line
Kenya ~ Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - A Grain Of Wheat
Lesotho ~ Thomas Mofolo - Traveller To The East
Liberia ~ Helene Cooper - The House At Sugar Beach
Libya ~ Hisham Matar - In The Country of Men
Madagascar ~ Paul Greenway - Lonely Planet: Madagascar & Comoros
*Malawi ~ Michelle Paver - Wolf Brother
Mali ~ D.T. Niane - Sundiata: Epic Of Old Mali
Mauritania ~ Lauren Goodsmith - The Children Of Mauritania
Mauritius ~ Lindsey Collen - Getting Rid Of It
Morocco ~ Malika Oufkir - Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail
Mozambique ~ Mia Couto - Sleepwalking Land
Namibia ~ Neshani Andreas - The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Niger ~
*Nigeria ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half Of A Yellow Sun
*Rwanda ~ Imaculee Ilibigiza - Left to Tell
Sao Tome and Principe ~
Senegal ~ Sembene Ousmane - God's Bits of Wood
Seychelles ~ Joshua Doder - Grk: Operation Tortoise
Sierra Leone ~ Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Somalia ~ Aman - Aman: Story of a Somali Girl
*South Africa ~ Natasha Mostert - The Keeper
Sudan ~ Daoud Hari - The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Swaziland ~ Martha Mphahlele - A Time Of Bliss
Tanzania ~ Abdulrazak Gurnah - By The Sea
Togo ~ Fauziya Kassindja - Do They Hear You When You Cry
Tunisia ~ Albert Memmi - The Pillar Of Salt
Uganda ~ Doreen Baingana - Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
Western Sahara ~
Zambia ~ Malama Katulwende - Bitterness
Zimbabwe ~ Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions

~ Americas ~

Anguilla ~
Antigua and Barbuda ~ Jamaica Kincaid - Annie John
*Argentina ~ Ernesto 'Che' Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries
Aruba ~ Dave Holloway - Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway And Corruption In Paradise
Bahamas ~ Richard Laymon - Island
Barbados ~ George Lamming - In The Castle Of My Skin
Belize ~ Zee Edgell - The Festival of San Joaquin
Bermuda ~ Gian Quasar - Into The Bermuda Triangle
Bolivia ~ Deborah Ellis - I Am A Taxi
*Brazil ~ Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
British Virgin Islands ~
*Canada ~ Kelley Armstrong - Broken
Cayman Islands ~
Chile ~ Isabel Allende - Paula
Colombia ~ Gabriel García Márquez - News Of A Kidnapping
Costa Rica ~ Michelle Richmond - A Year Of Fog
*Cuba ~ Leonardo Padura - Havana Black
Dominica ~ Marie-Elena John - Unburnable
Dominican Republic ~ Junot Díaz - Drown
Ecuador ~ James Scudamore - The Amnesia Clinic
El Salvador ~ Mark Danner - The Massacre At El Mozote
Falkland Islands ~
French Guiana ~
Greenland ~
Grenada ~ Merle Collins - Angel
Guadeloupe ~
Guatemala ~ Ben Mikaelsen - Tree Girl
Guyana ~ Pauline Melville - The Ventriloquist's Tale
Haiti ~ Edwidge Danticat - Breath, Eyes, Memory
Honduras ~ Terry Trueman - Hurricane
Jamaica ~ Kwame Dawes - She's Gone
Martinique ~
Mexico ~ Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate
Monserrat ~
Netherlands Antilles ~
Nicaragua ~ Gioconda Belli - The Country Under My Skin
Panama ~ Cristina Henriquez - Come Together, Fall Apart
Paraguay ~
Peru ~ Mario Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter
Puerto Rico ~
St. Kitts & Nevis ~ Randall Robinson - Quitting America
St. Lucia ~ Derek Walcott - Selected Poetry
St. Vincent & the Grenadines ~ H. Nigel Thomas - Return to Arcadia
Suriname ~
Trinidad & Tobago ~ Amanda Smyth - Black Rock
Turks and Caicos Islands ~
*United States of America ~ Tess Gerritsen - Keeping The Dead
Uruguay ~ Juan Carlos Onetti - The Shipyard
Venezuela ~
Virgin Islands ~

~ Asia ~

*Afghanistan ~ Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Bahrain ~ Ali Al Saeed - QuixotiQ
Bangladesh ~ Monica Ali - Brick Lane
Bhutan ~ Eric Weiner - The Geography Of Bliss
Brunei ~
Cambodia ~ Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father
*China ~ Adeline Yen Mah - Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots
East Timor ~ Luis Cardoso - The Crossing
*India ~ Vikas Swarup - Slumdog Millionaire
Indonesia ~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer - All That Is Gone
Iran ~ Azar Nafisi - Reading 'Lolita' In Tehran
Iraq ~ Mahmoud Saeed - Saddam City
Israel ~ Amal Rifa'i, Odelia Ainbinde & Sylke Tempel - We Just Want to Live Here
*Japan ~ Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Jordan ~ Queen Noor - A Leap Of Faith: Memoir Of An Unexpected Life
Kazakhstan ~ Anatole Konstantin - A Red Boyhood
Kuwait ~ Randa Jarrar - A Map Of Home
Kyrgyzstan ~ Chingiz Aitmatov - Jamilia
Laos ~ Colin Cotterill - The Coroner's Lunch
Lebanon ~ Hanan Al-Shaykh - I Sweep The Sun Off Rooftops
Malaysia ~ Jacqueline Pascarl-Gillespie - Once I Was A Princess | Rani Manicka - The Rice Mother
Maldives ~
Mongolia ~ Galsan Tschinag - The Blue Sky
Myanmar ~
Nepal ~ Samrat Upadhyay - The Guru of Love
North Korea ~ Hyejin Kim - Jia: A Novel Of North Korea
Oman ~
Pakistan ~ Mahsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundementalist
Palestinian Authority ~ Souad - Burned Alive
Philippines ~ Hampton Sides - Ghost Soldiers
Qatar ~
*Saudi Arabia ~ Rajaa Alsanea - Girls of Riyadh
Singapore ~ Catherine Lim - Following The Wrong God Home
South Korea ~ Lee Seung-U - The Reverse Side of Life
Sri Lanka ~ Roma Tearne - Mosquito
Syria ~ Muhammad Kamil Al-Khatib - Just Like a River
Taiwan ~ Francie Lin - The Foreigner
Tajikistan ~
Thailand ~
Turkey ~ Elif Shafak - The Bastard Of Istanbul
Turkmenistan ~
United Arab Emirates ~
Uzbekistan ~ Hamid Ismailov - The Railway
Vietnam ~ Bao Ninh - The Sorrow Of War
Yemen ~ Mary Quin - Kidnapped In Yemen

~ Australia & Pacific ~

American Samoa ~
*Australia ~ Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Cook Islands ~
Fiji ~ Nicholas Hogg - Show Me The Sky
French Polynesia ~
Guam ~
Kiribati ~
Marshall Islands ~ Theresa Kelly - Dream A Little Dream
Micronesia ~ Christopher Moore - Island Of The Sequined Love Nun
Nauru ~
New Caledonia ~
New Zealand ~ Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip
Niue ~
Norfolk Island ~
Northern Mariana Islands ~
Palau ~
Papua New Guinea ~ Epeli Hau'ofa - Tales of the Tikongs
Pitcairn Islands ~
Solomon Islands ~ Homer Hickam - The Ambassador's Son
Tonga ~ Philip Weiss - American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps
Tuvalu ~
Vanuatu ~ J. Maarten Troost - Getting Stoned With Savages
Western Samoa - Albert Wendt - The Book Of The Black Star

~ Europe ~

*Albania ~ Ismail Kadare - Chronical In Stone
Andorra ~ Kresley Cole - If You Dare
Armenia ~ Adam Bagdasarian - Forgotten Fire
*Austria ~ Eva Ibbotson - The Dragonfly Pool
Azerbaijan ~ Kurban Said - Ali And Nino: A Love Story
Belarus ~ Peter Duffy - The Bielski Brothers
*Belgium ~ Anita Shreve - Resistance
Bosnia & Herzegovina ~ Zlata Filipovic - Zlata's Diary
Bulgaria ~ Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
*Channel Islands ~ Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society
Croatia ~ Clea Koff - The Bone Woman
Cyprus ~ M. M. Kaye - Death In Cyprus
Czech Republic ~ Bohumil Hrabal - The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
Denmark ~ Peter Hoeg - The Quiet Girl
Estonia ~ Mati Unt - Diary of a Blood Donor
Faroe Islands ~
*Finland ~ Tove Jansson - A Winter Book
*France ~ Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Georgia ~
*Germany ~ Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
Gibraltar ~
Greece ~ Gerald Durrell - My Family And Other Animals
Hungary ~ Imre Kertesz - Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Iceland ~ Arnaldur Indridason - Arctic Chill
*Ireland ~ Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
*Italy ~ Marina Fiorato - The Madonna Of The Almonds
Latvia ~ Henning Mankell - The Dogs Of Riga
Liechtenstein ~ Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
*Lithuania ~ Thomas Harris - Hannibal Rising
Luxembourg ~ Vitali Vitaliev - Little Is The Light
Macedonia ~ Mary Renault - Fire From Heaven
Malta ~ Lyn Hamilton - The Maltese Goddess
Moldova ~ Tony Hawks - Playing The Moldovans At Tennis
Monaco ~ Giorgio Faletti - I Kill
Montenegro ~
Netherlands ~ Harry Mulisch - The Assault
*Norway ~ Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
*Poland ~ Morris Gleitzman - Once
Portugal ~ Monica Ali - Alentejo Blue | José Saramago - Blindness
Romania ~ Elie Wiesel - Night
*Russia ~ Sarwat Chadda - Dark Goddess
San Marino ~
Serbia ~ Ivo Andric - The Bridge Over The Drina
Slovakia ~ Kathryn Winter - Katarina
Slovenia ~ Drago Jancar - Joyce's Pupil
*Spain ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Angel's Game
*Sweden ~ Steig Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Switzerland ~ Johanna Spyri - Heidi
*Ukraine ~ Marina Lewycka - A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
*United Kingdom ~ Jenny Downham - Before I Die
*Vatican City ~ Dan Brown - Angels And Demons

*Completed - 20
*Own/To be read - 14
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