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Around the world in 80 days challenge


Time limit: 80 days from when you start

Around The World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It was published in 1873. It is about a scientist Phileas Fogg. He and his new valet Passepartout go around the world in 80 days to win a 20,000 pounds wager made by his friends at the Reform Club.

In this challenge you have to read books:
1. which are set in the countries through which Fogg and Passepartout travel.
OR
2.About the history or culture of the countries through which Fogg and Passepartout travel.
OR
3.Written by the authors born in the countries through which Fogg and Passepartout travel.

List of countries:
England
France
Italy
Egypt
India
Singapore
China
Japan
U.S.A
Ireland

Happy Reading!!

Alexw
Jess
Miriam

Great challenge- I accept and am reading Leonardo Da Vinci by Isaacson which qualifies as Italy.

I'm in. I'll start on May 1st.

I am reading (in translation) 'The Little Virtues' a series of essays about Italy by the Italian author, Natalia Ginzburg. Here's her short bio.

Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories, and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize.

Welcome to the challenge, ladies!

So far I've done

France - The Last Day of a Condemned Man 16/05
U.S.A. - The Rosary Girls 20/05
England - Frozen Charlotte 22/06
Japan - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 10/07/20