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message 1: by Sherri (last edited Feb 08, 2024 06:36PM) (new)

Sherri | 19 comments This is my plan. Broken into parts to make it easier to edit the dates into it. I'll add dates when I've read them.

Albania -
AFGHANISTAN - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 10/2/18, 4/5*
ALGERIA - Skye O'Malley by Bertrice Small, 6/28/22, 3/5*
American Samoa -
ANGOLA - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg or 19 With A Bullet
Antigua -
ANTARCTICA - To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson, 5/7/19, 3/5*
ANTIGUA - A Small Place
ARGENTINA - Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, 10/18/18, 4/5*
ARMENIA - An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, 6/3/19, 2/5*
AUSTRALIA - The Dry by Jane Harper, 11/2/18, 4/5*
AUSTRIA - The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 2/5*
AZERBAJIAN - Ali and Nino
BAHAMAS - An evening in Guanima: A treasury of folktales from the Bahamas by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
BAHRAN - The Pearl Diver
BELARUS - Wave of Terror by Theodore Odrach, 3/5*
BELIZE -Belize by Carlos Ledson Miller
BELGIUM - Resistance by Anita Shreve, 2/26/21, 3/5*
BERMUDA - Bermuda Schwartz by Bob Morris
BHUTAN - Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
BOLIVIA - Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail by Rusty Young
Borneo -
BOTSWANA - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, 10/31/18, 4/5*
BRAZIL - In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende, 8/25/19, 3/5*
British Virgin Islands -
BRUNEI - Devil of a State by Anthony Burgess
BULGARIA - Night Soldiers by Alan Furst, 5/30/22, 2/5*
BURMA - From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe, 5/11/22, 3/5*


message 2: by Sherri (last edited Feb 08, 2024 06:09PM) (new)

Sherri | 19 comments HAITI - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
HONDURAS - The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux, 11/4/18, 3/5*
HONG KONG -
HUNGARY - Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabó, 1/6/20, 2/5*
ICELAND - Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indriðason, 1/23/20, 3/5*
INDIA - Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao, 12/27/18, 3/5*
INDONESIA - Fearless by Fiona Higgins
IRAN- A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, 7/14/19, 4/5*
IRAQ - Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright, 5/5*, 2/23/24
IRELAND - The Likeness by Tana French, 9/23/18, 4*
ISRAEL - Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
ITALY - Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes, 10/15/18, 3/5*
JAMAICA - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 4/7/21, 3/5*
JAPAN -The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey, 9/25/18, 4/5*
JORDAN - Honor Lost: Love And Death In Modern Day Jordan by Norma Khouri
KAZAKHSTAN - Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared by Christopher Robbins, 9/23/18, 1/5*
KENYA - Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
Kingdom of Bahrain -
KIRIBATI - 76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa by Larry Alexander
KOREA - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson, 3/23/19, 4/5*
KOSOVO - Travels in Blood and Honey by Elizabeth Gowing
KURDISTAN - Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East by Quil Lawrence
KUWAIT - The Edge of War: Kuwaiti’s Underground Resistance, Khafji 1990-1991 by Alex Darwin
KYRGYZSTAN -


message 3: by Sherri (last edited Feb 08, 2024 05:46PM) (new)

Sherri | 19 comments OMAN - The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West by Christiane Bird or The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Nye
PAKISTAN - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto, 1/3/20, 3/5*
PALESTINE - Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, 6/23/19, 4/5*
Panama -
PAPAU NEW GUINEA -
PARAGUAY - The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck, 2/5*, 10/12/23
PANAMA - Beneath a Panamanian Moon by David Terrenoire
PERU - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
PHILIPPINES - We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman, 8/6/19, 3/5*
POLAND - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939�45 by Władysław Szpilman, 11/5/18, 4/5*
PORTUGAL - A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson, 2/5*
PUERTO RICO - Paradise Undercover by Fernando Fernández
QATAR - My Life in Doha: Between Dream and Reality by Rachel Hajar
Republic of Croatia -
Republic of Kiribati -
Rock of Gibralter -
ROMANIA - Dracula by Bram Stoker, 8/15/18, 3/5*
RUSSIA - Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, 11/28/18, 4/5*
RWANDA - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
SAMOA - American Somoa The Heart of a Giant by Betty Robles
SAUDI ARABIA - Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris, 10/14/18, 4/5
SCOTLAND - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 3/5*, 2/5/24
SENEGAL - So Long A Letter
SERBIA - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, 11/2/19, 5/5*
SIERRA LEONE - A Log Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
SINGAPORE - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, 4/5*, 1/26/24
SLOVAKIA - Rivers of Babylon by Peter Pišt’anek
SLOVENIA - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, 2/4/21, 3/5*
SOLOMAN ISLANDS - Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent, 3/5*, 2/29/23
SOMOLIA - Where Soldiers Fear to Tread: A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival by John S. Burnett, 3/5*, 4/16/23
SOUTH AFRICA - The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 by Donald R. Morris, 3/5*
SOUTH KOREA - Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons by Cullen Thomas, 8/6/19, 3/5*
SOUTH SUDAN - God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
SPAIN - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 3/5*, 7/18/23
SRI LANKA - Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
ST. DOMINGUE - Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende, 11/1/19, 4/5*
St. Barts -
St. Kitts -
ST. LUCIA - The St. Lucia Island Club by Brent Monahan
ST. THOMAS - The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
SUDAN - Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State by Richard Cockett
SWAZILAND - The Rattle of Seeds by Geoffrey Douglas
SWEDEN - The Nightmare by Lars Kepler, 9/10/18, 4*
SWITZERLAND - The Wayward Spy by Roger Croft or Heidi
SYRIA - The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, 1/7/20, 3/5*


message 4: by Sherri (last edited Feb 08, 2024 05:24PM) (new)

Sherri | 19 comments TAHITI - Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond
TAIWAN - Rose, Rose, I Love You by Wang Zhenhe or Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-yung
TAJIKISTAN - Hurramabad by Andreī Volo
TANZANIA - Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion
THAILAND - Bangkok 8 by John Burdett, 2/5*
TIBET - Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, 4/5*
Timor -
TOGO - Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
TONGA - Tales of the Tikongs
TRINIDAD and TOBAGO -
TUNISIA - The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai
TURKEY - The Pasha of Cuisine by Saygın Ersin, 6/15/22, 1/5*
TURKMENISTAN - The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar
UGANDA - Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
UKRAINE - The Child Thief by Dan Smith, 9/1/18, 5/5*
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Keepers of the Golden Shore: A History of the United Arab Emirates by Michael Quentin Morton or The Sand Fish by Maha Gargash
UNITED STATES - Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich, 9/15/18, 3*
URUGUAY - The Uruguay Amethyst by J. A. Jernay
UZBEKISTAN - Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell
VENEZUELA - The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany
VIETNAM - The Quiet American by Graham Greene, 5/4/22, 4/5*
VIRGIN ISLANDS - The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman, 3/5*, 3/29/23
WALES - Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham, 9/29/18, 4/5*
YEMEN - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday, 5/5*
YUGOSLAVIA - My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci, 7/1/22, 1/5*
ZAMBIA - Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
ZANZIBAR - The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West by Christiane Bird
ZIMBABWE - When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin


message 5: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments Welcome to the challenge, Sherri! Happy travels!


message 6: by Sherri (last edited Feb 08, 2024 06:40PM) (new)

Sherri | 19 comments CAMBODIA - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung, 1/9/19, 4/5*
CANADA - Still Life by Louise Penny, 9/25/18, 5/5*
CHAD - African Rice Heart by Emily Star Wilkens
CHECHNYA --
CHILE - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 4/27/21, 4/5*
CHINA - Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, read 9/8/18, 3*
COLOMBIA - Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, 3/5*, 3/29/23
CONGO -- Congo Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed by John Prendergast, 3/18/19, 4/5*
COSTA RICA - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, 6/27/22, 5/5*
COTE d'IVOIRE - The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan, 4/19/22, 4/5*
CROATIA - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan
CUBA - Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith, 1/5/20, 4/5*
CYPRUS -
CZECH REPUBLIC - The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia by William Mahoney or The Bloodletter's Daughter
CZECHIA -
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of the CONGO - Congo Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed by John Prendergast, 3/18/19, 4/5*
DENMARK - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen, 10/10/18, 4/5*
DOMINICA - Black and White Sands by Elma Napier
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, 1/30, 20, 3/5*
ECUADOR - Stealing History: A Wilson Salinas Mystery by Tom Larsen
ECUATORIAL GUINEA -
EGYPT - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters, 10/19/18, 4/5*
EL SALVADOR - The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya
ENGLAND - The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey, 9/24/18, 4/5*
Eritrea -
ESTONIA - War in the Woods: Estonia's Struggle for Survival, 1944-1956 by Mart Laar, 8/4/19, 3/5*
ETHIOPIA - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, 10/6/19, 3/5*
FIJI - The Trouble with Paradise by Jill Shalvis
FINLAND - A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William R. Trotter, 7/6/22, 4/5*
FRANCE - The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, 10/18/19, 4/5*
GERMANY - Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 by Paul Addison, 4/27/22, 4/5*
GEORGIA - Avulum by Otar Chiladze
GHANA -- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, 3/5*
GREECE - Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield, 3/5*, 4/14/23
Greenland -
GRENADA - Urgent Fury: The Battle For Grenada by Mark Adkin or The Bone Readers
Greenland -
GUAM - Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam by Robert F. Rogers
GUATAMALA - Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs, 3/26/22, 4/5*
GUINEA - The Human Cargo by Caroline Morehead
GUYANA -


message 7: by Sherri (last edited Feb 08, 2024 06:02PM) (new)

Sherri | 19 comments LAOS - Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos by Brett Dakin
LATVIA - The Earth is Singing by Vanessa Curtis or Soviet Milk
LEBANON - Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America by Fred Burton, 1/2/20, 3/5*
LESOTHO - Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
LIBYA - 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff, 5/22/19, 5/5*
LIECHTENSTEIN -
LITHUANIA - Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr, 7/19/19, 4/5*
Luxembourg -
Macau -
MADAGASCAR - Voices from Madagascar
MALAWI - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, 4/5*
MALAYSIA - A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint, 1/1/19, 3/5*
MALDIVES - The Maldive Mystery by Thor Heyerdahl
MALI - The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer, 4/5/19, 2/5*
Malta - An Improbable Friendship
Mariana Islands - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Gran
Martinique -
MAURITANIA - Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery by Samuel Cotton, 9/5/19, 3/5*
MEXICO - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, 3/19/22, 4/5*
MICRONESIA -
Moldavo - The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner
MONACO -
MONGOLIA - History of Mongolia by Baabar or The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag or The Secret History of Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford
MONTENEGRO -
MOROCCO - Tangerine by Christine Mangan, 3/5*, 7/8/23
MOZAMBIQUE - Blood on the Tracks: A Rail Journey from Angola to Mozambique by Miles Bredin, 5/13/22, 3/5*
NAMIBIA - The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by David Olusoga
NEPAL - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
NETHERLANDS - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 3/15/19, 4/5*
New Caledonia -
NEW ZEALAND - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
NIGERIA - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, 1/19/19, 4/5*
NORWAY - The Snowman by Jo Nesbø, 11/8/18, 4/5*


message 8: by Sherri (new)

Sherri | 19 comments Note to self: You're making progress. Relax.


message 9: by Rosemarie (new)

Rosemarie | 3906 comments I would agree with you, Sherri. You are making excellent progress.


message 10: by Sherri (new)

Sherri | 19 comments FINALLY updated my list. Note to self: update MORE OFTEN


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