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I realize that many of these countries and localities can fall into more than one continent or geographical region. For the purposes of this challenge, I have the following 9 regions:

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✈The Middle East
✈North America
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Albania
Andorra
Austria
Azores
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Channel Islands (Guernsey) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Channel Islands (Jersey)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark The Danish Girl
England The Shock of the Fall
Estonia
Faeroe Islands
Finland
France War Horse
Germany The Book Thief
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland Jar City
Ireland (republic of) The Mammy
/ Northern Ireland
Italy (can also use Sardinia and Sicily separately)
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madeira
Malta
Moldova
Monaco (Monte Carlo) Driven: A High-Speed Thriller Set in the World of Formula One
Montenegro
Netherlands (Holland) The Diary of a Young Girl
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia Playing a Part
San Marino
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain (also Balearic Islands)
Sweden The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Switzerland
Ukraine
Vatican City
Wales

USA - 29 / 50 states

Alabama To Kill a Mockingbird
Alaska The Quality of Silence
Arizona
Arkansas
California Of Mice and Men
Colorado
Connecticut The Stepford Wives
Delaware
Florida Paper Towns
Georgia Real Murders
Hawaii The Descendants
Idaho
Illinois The Time Traveller's Wife
Indiana The Fault in Our Stars
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Louisiana Dead Until Dark
Maine The Tenth Circle
Maryland
Massachusetts The Handmaid's Tale
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi The Help
Missouri Gone Girl
Montana
Nebraska Eleanor & Park
Nevada
New Hampshire Nineteen Minutes
New Jersey
New Mexico Love Letters to the Dead
New York Reconstructing Amelia
North Carolina A Walk to Remember
North Dakota
Ohio Everything I Never Told You
Oklahoma
Oregon If I Stay
Pennsylvania The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Rhode Island My Sister's Keeper
South Carolina The Notebook
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas No Country for Old Men
Utah
Vermont House Rules
Virginia
Washington Twilight
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming Brokeback Mountain



Canada Station Eleven
Mexico Like Water for Chocolate

Argentina Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Easter Island
Ecuador
El Salvador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Galapagos Islands
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

Anguilla
Antigua
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda (we'll just call it Caribbean)
Bonaire
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
Saba
St. Barth's
St. Eustatius
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Maarten
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos
Virgin Islands (BVI & US)

Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Burma
Cambodia
China
East Timor
Georgia
Hong Kong
India The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Indonesia
Japan My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy: The Comic Book
Kazakhstan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

Australia The Rosie Project
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia (incl. Tahiti)
Guam & Wake
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Island
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

Algeria
Angola Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (also Mozambique & South Sudan)
Benin
Botswana - Larger Than Life
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Republic)
Congo (DRC) Endangered
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria Purple Hibiscus
Reunion
Rwanda Baking Cakes in Kigali
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa The Woman Next Door
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Afghanistan The Kite Runner
Bahrain
Cyprus
Iran If You Could Be Mine
Iraq
Israel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

Antarctica Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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* None of these are set in stone any suggestions you have will be appreciated.

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Egypt The Alchemist or The Chaos of Stars
Nigeria Americanah or Half of a Yellow Sun
South Africa Spud
Zimbabwe We Need New Names
Ghana Ghana Must Go
Morocco Hideous Kinky
Ivory Coast The Bitter Side of Sweet
Senegal Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African
Tanzania The Hunter's Wife
South Sudan A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Mozambique Chronicler of the Winds
Cameroon A Zoo in My Luggage
Mauritius Snow Beach
Kenya A Change in Altitude
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Japan Memoirs of a Geisha or Norwegian Wood or Who is Mr Satoshi?
Thailand The Beach The Risk of Infidelity Index: Vincent Calvino, an American P.I. in Bangkok Cockroaches
VietnamArtemis Fowl
Burma The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Saudi Arabia Girls of Riyadh The Night of the Mi'raj
Laos The Coroner's Lunch
Mongolia The Shadow Walker
South Korea (Korea, Republic of) Please Look After Mom
Cambodia Holiday in Cambodia
Nepal Bones on Ice
China Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up
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Cuba Our Man in Havana
Aruba Dangerous Girls
Haiti In Darkness
Jamaica Here Comes the Sun
BVI Swimming with the Dead
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Hungary Dracula**
Latvia The Dogs of Riga
Poland The Boy in the Striped Pajamas** or The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Romania Dracula**
Albania Broken April
Czech Republic Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Luxembourg The Expats
Slovenia Veronika Decides to Die
Norway The Snowman
Spain Small Damages The Shadow of the Wind Water-Blue Eyes
Netherlands Girl With a Pearl Earring
Finland The Summer Book
Italy One Thing Stolen, Death at La Fenice
Greece The Late-night News
Sicily The Shape of Water
Croatia Girl at War
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✈Latin America
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Belize Wanderlove**
Guatemala Wanderlove**
Argentina The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club
Brazil The Silence of the Rain Ways to Disappear
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✈The Middle East
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Pakistan I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban The Wish Maker No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 Trespassing
Yemen Salmon Fishing In The Yemen I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Sri Lanka Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Saudi Arabia A Girl Like That
Lebanon Oranges in No Man's Land
Jordan Appointment with Death
Iraq Murder in Mesopotamia
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✈North America
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Canada Forty Words for Sorrow
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Kiribati The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
New Zealand After the Fall See You In September
Fiji Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate
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Arizona The Andromeda Strain
Arkansas
Colorado
Delaware
Georgia The Underground Railroad
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas Dark Places
Maryland The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Michigan
Minnesota The Good Girl
Montana
Nevada Leaving Las Vegas
New Jersey
North Dakota The Round House
Oklahoma The Outsiders The Grapes of Wrath
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

Clare wrote: "Africa

Algeria
Angola Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (also Mozambique & South Sudan)
Benin
Botswana - Larger Than Life
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canary Islands
Cape ..."

Suggestion for Mali (if you're taking suggestions!): The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer.

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Ellen wrote: "Clare wrote: "Africa

Algeria
Angola Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (also Mozambique & South Sudan)
Benin
Botswana - Larger Than Life
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canary..."

I am totally looking for suggestions!
Thanks I'll look into that.

This is so awesome, Clare. You've inspired me to post my challenge here as well.

Clare, I'm using your subsections and country lists, thanks so much for sharing! And for posting a link to your map, that's so great. :)

Who knew there were SO MANY countries in the world?!?!

Cheri wrote: "Clare, I'm using your subsections and country lists, thanks so much for sharing! And for posting a link to your map, that's so great. :)

Who knew there were SO MANY countries in the world?!?!"

I know! Just what I need...to add hundreds of books to my already too-long "to be read" list. :)

This is definitely a lifelong project.

I can't remember where I got my list from but you are more than welcome to use it.

Cheri wrote: "Clare, I'm using your subsections and country lists, thanks so much for sharing! And for posting a link to your map, that's so great. :)

Who knew there were SO MANY countries in the world?!?!"

I am familiar with the names of many countries on the list, but there are MANY that I have not a clue where they are or anything about them. Doing a project like this will definitely improve my knowledge of geography!