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Lifetime challenge:

Here are the books from the 1001 books I read in 2012:

1. Europe/England: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (read in January 2012).
2. Europe/Greece: Aesop's Fables by Aesop (read in February 2012).
3. Europe/Germany/Saxony: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (read in May 2012).
4. Europe/England/London: The Time Machine by H G Wells (read in June 2012).
5. North America/USA: Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger (read in July 2012).
6. Europe/England/London: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read in July 2012).
7. Europe/England/Devon: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read in July 2012).
8. North America/USA/New York: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (read in July 2012).
9. Europe/Germany/Thuringia: Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz (read in August 2012).
10. Europe/England: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (read in August 2012)
11. Europe/England/Somerset: Persuasion by Jane Austen (read in October 2012).

Here are the books from the 1001 books I read in 2012:

1. Europe/England: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (read in January 2012).
2. Europe/Greece: Aesop's Fables by Aesop (read in February 2012).
3. Europe/Germany/Saxony: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (read in May 2012).
4. Europe/England/London: The Time Machine by H G Wells (read in June 2012).
5. North America/USA: Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger (read in July 2012).
6. Europe/England/London: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read in July 2012).
7. Europe/England/Devon: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read in July 2012).
8. North America/USA/New York: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (read in July 2012).
9. Europe/Germany/Thuringia: Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz (read in August 2012).
10. Europe/England: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (read in August 2012)
11. Europe/England/Somerset: Persuasion by Jane Austen (read in October 2012).

12. North America/USA/Virginia: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (11/12)

Books: 12
Countries: 4
States: 2

13. North America/USA/New Jersey: Nemesis by Philip Roth

My first book from the new list and a really great one!

Books: 13
Countries: 4
States: 3

Ellinor wrote: "13. North America/USA/New Jersey: Nemesis by Philip Roth

My first book from the new list and a really great one!

Books: 13
Countries: 4
States: 3"

I just bought this one on Kindle today.

14. Europe/Greece: The Golden Ass by Apuleius

Books: 14
Countries: 4
States: 3

15. North America/USA/New York: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Books: 15
Countries: 4
States: 3

I'll start with one of the new categories right away:

16. Fictional Country: The 13 Clocks by James Thurber (read 01/01/2013)

Books: 16
Countries: 5
States: 3

17. Asia/India: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (read 03/01/13)

Books: 17
Countries: 6
States: 3

18. Europe/Slovenia: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (read 04/01/13)

Books: 18
Countries: 7
States: 3

19. Europe/England/Gloucestershire: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (read 06/01/13)

Books: 19
Countries: 7
States: 3
UK-Counties: 1

20. Asia/Pakistan: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (read 11/01/13)

Books: 20
Countries: 8
States: 3

21. North America/United States/Nevada: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (read 16/01/13)

Books: 21
Countries: 8
States: 4

22. Caribbean/Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (read 19/01/13)

Books: 22
Countries: 9
States: 4

23. Europe/Romania: Dracula by Bram Stoker (read 22/01/13)

Books: 23
Countries: 10
States: 4

24. Caribbean/Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (read 25/01/13)

Books: 24
Countries: 11
States: 4

25. Europe/Hungary: Embers by Sándor Márai (read 26/01/13)

Books: 25
Countries: 12
States: 4

26. Oceania/French Polynesia: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (read 03/02/13)

Books: 26
Countries: 14
US-States: 4
UK-Counties: 1

27. Europe/Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (read 03/04/13)

Books: 27
Countries: 15
US-States: 4
UK-Counties: 1

28. North America/United States/Massachusetts: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (read 09/04/13)

Books: 28
Countries: 15
US-States: 5
UK-Counties: 1

29. Europe/Italy/Campania: A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (read 10/04/13)

Books: 29
Countries: 16
US-States: 5
UK-Counties: 1
Italian States: 1

30. Europe/England/Middlesex: 1984 by George Orwell (read 16/04/13)

Books: 30
Countries: 16
US-States: 5
UK-Counties: 2
Italian States: 1

31. North America/United States/Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (read 16/04/13)

Books: 31
Countries: 16
US-States: 5
UK-Counties: 2
Italian States: 1

32. Middle East/Jordan: Caim by José Saramago (read 13/05/13)

Books: 32
Countries: 17
US-States: 5
UK-Counties: 2
Italian States: 1

33. Asia/Japan: Mit Staunen und Zittern by Amélie Nothomb (read 21/05/13)

Books: 33
Countries: 18
US States: 5
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1

Here are the books I read before 2012 (in reverse order):

34. Europe/Scotland: Der Master von Ballantrae: Eine Wintergeschichte by Robert Louis Stevenson
35. Europe/Germany: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
36. North America/USA/New York: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
37. Europe/England: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
38. Europe/Germany: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39. Europe/Germany: Der Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
40. Fictional Realm: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Fictional Realm: Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
42. Europe/England: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
43. Europe/Ukraine: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
44. Europe/Netherlands: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
45. North America/USA/California: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
46. North America/USA/Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
47. North America/USA: The World According to Garp by John Irving
48. Europe/Italy: Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht by Italo Calvino
49. Asia/India: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
50. Europe/England: Atonement by Ian McEwan
51. North America/USA: The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
52. Europe/Italy: The Foucault Pendulum by Umberto Eco
53. Europe/Austria: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter by Peter Handke
54. North America/USA: America by Franz Kafka
55. Europe/Poland: Die schöne Frau Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
56. Europe/England: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
57. North America/USA/New Hampshire: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
58. Europe/Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
59. Europe/England: Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
60. Africa/Congo: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
61. Europe/England: Howards End by E.M. Forster
62. Europe/England: The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
63. Europe/Italy: The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
64. Europe/Germany: Paare, Passanten by Botho Strauß
65. Europe/England: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
66. Europe/Austria: The Third Man by Graham Greene
67. Europe/Germany: The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen
68. Asia/Japan: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
69. Europe/Russia: Doktor Schiwago by Boris Pasternak
70. Europe/England: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
71. Europe/Italy: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
72. Europe/Belgium: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackerey
73. Asia/India: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
74. Europe/Netherlands: All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
75. Europe/England: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
76. Europe/Ireland: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
77. Europe/England: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
78. Europe/Germany: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
79. Europe/England: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
80. Europe/England: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
81. Multiple Settings: The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
82. Europe/Germany: German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz
83. Europe/France: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
84. Africa/Egypt: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
85. Europe/France: Perfume by Patrick Süskind
86. North America/USA/New York: New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
87. Europe/Germany: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
88. North America/USA: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
89. Europe/England: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
90. South America/Chile: Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
91. Europe/Poland: Cat and Mouse by Günther Grass
92. North America/USA/New York: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
93. Europe/Spain: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
94. North America/USA/New York: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
95. Asia/Vietnam: The Lover by Marguerite Duras
96. Fictional Realm: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
97. Europe/Denmark: Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
98. North America/USA/Maine: The Cider House Rules by John Irving
99. North America/USA/California: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
100. Europe/Germany: Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann
101. Europe/Switzerland: The Judge and His Handman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
102. North America/USA/Massachuesetts: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
103. Europe/Sweden: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
104. Europe/Greece: Metamorphoses by Ovid
105. Fictional Realm: The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
106. North America/USA/Georgia: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
107. Europe/England: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
108. Europe/England: Animal Farm by George Orwell
109. Europe/Austria: Young Törless by Robert Musil
110. Europe/Scotland: The 39 Steps by John Buchan
111. Europe/England: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
112. Europe/England: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
113. Europe/France: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
114. North America/USA/Alaska: The Call of the Wild by Jack London
115. Fictional Setting: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edger Allan Poe
116. Multiple Settings: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
117. Fictional Setting: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
118. Fictional Setting: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
119. North America/USA/Missouri: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
120. Europe/England: The Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
121. Europe/Sweden: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

122. Europe/Ireland/Dublin: The Gathering by Anne Enright (read 20/06/13)

Books: 34
Countries: 19
US States: 5
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
Irish Counties: 1

123. Africa/Liberia: The Color Purple by Alice Walker (read 26/06/13)

Books: 35
Countries: 20
US States: 5
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
Irish Counties: 1

124. Europe/Germany/Baden-Wurtemberg: Ein Sommer In Baden Baden Roman by Leonid Tsypkin (read 08/07/13)

Books: 36
Countries: 20
US-States: 5
UK-Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 1
Irish Counties: 1

125. Europe/Germany/Schleswig-Holstein: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann (read 12/07/13)

Books: 37
Countries: 20
US States: 5
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 2
Irish Counties: 1

126. Africa/South Africa: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (read 14/07/13)

Books: 38
Countries. 21
US States: 5
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 2
Irish Counties: 1

127. Europe/Germany/Hesse: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (read 23/07/13)

Books: 39
Countries: 21
Us States: 18
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 3
Irish Counties: 1

128. Set on water: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (read 23/07/13)

Books: 40
Countries: 21
US States: 5
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 3
Irish Counties: 1
Books with special settings: 1

129. North America/United States/Michigan: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (read 28/07/13)

Books: 41
Countries: 21
US States: 6
Uk Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 3
Irish Counties: 1
Books with special settings: 1

130. Europe/Germany/Saxony-Anhalt: Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (read 01/08(13)

131. Europe/Ireland: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (read 01/08/13)

Books: 43
Countries: 21
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
Italian States: 1
German States: 4
Irish Counties: 1
Books with special settings: 1

132. Europe/Italy/Veneto: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (read 02/08/13)

Books: 44
Countries: 21
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
German States: 4
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

133. Europe/Germany/North Rhine-Westphalia: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll (read 11/08/13)

Books: 45
Countries: 21
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

134. Europe/France/Languedoc-Roussillon: Silk by Alessandro Baricco (read 12/08/13)

Books: 46
Countries: 22
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 2
French Regions: 1
Books with special settings: 1

135. Europe/France/Brittany: Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight by Italo Calvino (read 05/01/14)

136. Africa/Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (read 21/08/13)

Books: 48
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 3
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

137. Europe/Spain/Madrid: The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (read 27/08/13)

Books: 49
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 3
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

I just reduced the number of list books I read after finding out that Fahrenheit 451 isn't a list book (which I was sure it was) and that The Shadow of the Wind is only on the international version of list.

138. United States: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (read 09/09/13)

Books: 50
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 2
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 3
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

139. Europe/Great Britain/Berkshire: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (read 09/09/13)

Books: 51
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 3
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 3
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

140. Europe/Italy/Puglia: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (read 25/09/13)

Books: 52
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 3
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 4
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

141. Europe/Italy/Lombardia: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff (read 27/09/13)

Books: 53
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 3
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 5
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

142. Europe/England/Essex: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (read 02/10/13)

Books: 54
Countries: 23
US States: 6
UK Counties: 3
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 5
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

143. Latin America/Paraguay: Candide by Voltaire (read 09/10/13)

Books: 55
Countries: 24
US States: 6
UK Counties: 3
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 5
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 1

144. Europe/England/Norfolk: The Accidental by Ali Smith (read 12/10/13)

Books: 56
Countries: 24
US States: 6
UK Counties: 4
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 5
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 2

145. Europe/Ukraine: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (read 19/10/13)

Books: 57
Countries: 25
US States: 6
UK Counties: 4
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 5
French Regions: 2
Books with special settings: 2

146. Europe/France/Ile de France: The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet (read 20/10/13)

Books: 58
Countries: 25
US States: 6
UK Counties: 4
German States: 5
Irish Counties: 1
Italian Regions: 5
French Regions: 3
Books with special settings: 2