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Around the World Challenge

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From Bill - (Thanks!)
From Ann - (Thanks, Ann!!!)

The object of this challenge is to read books that take place in 80 different countries of the world, of your choosing, starting with your home country. During your journey you would have to visit countries within the following 8 regions: North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania/Australia.

Reporting: Please start a new topic with your name. You will make all updates under your own thread. Please state the region (see #2), the country, the book title, and the author during each new post. Important: You must make a new post with each new addition, bringing your thread to the top of the list

North America:

Canada: The Testaments, Margaret Atwood, The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel


USA:

Alabama - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Alaska - The Unsinkable Greta James, Jennifer E. Smith
Arizona - The Host, Stephenie Meyer
Arkansas -
California - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, Vincent Bugliosi, The Mothers, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing HalfBrit Bennett, Hidden Bodies, Caroline Kepnes, The Girls, Emma Cline, It, Stephen King, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley, East of Eden, John Steinbeck, Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali, The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor, People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry,Counterfeit, Kirstin Chen, Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Colorado - Columbine, Dave Cullen, Misery, Stephen King, The Shining, Stephen King, The Stand, Stephen King
Connecticut - Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult, I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb, East of Eden, John Steinbeck, The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
Delaware -
District of Columbia - The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett, The Firm, John Grisham, The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, The Golden Couple, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Florida - 11/22/63, Stephen King, The Firm, John Grisham, Never Have I Ever, Joshilyn Jackson, Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown, The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel, People We Meet on Vacation Emily Henry
Georgia - Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Diana Gabaldon, An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, It, Stephen King, Mother May I, Joshilyn Jackson, The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Hawaii - From Here to Eternity, James Jones, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor
Idaho -
Illinois - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, It, Stephen King, The Paris Wife, Paula McLain, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor
Indiana - The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Iowa - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald
Kansas - Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dark Places, Gillian Flynn, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Kentucky - The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes, The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor
Louisiana - 11/22/63, Stephen King, The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett, An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Maine - 11/22/63, Stephen King, Cell,Stephen King, Pet Sematary, Stephen King, My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Carrie, Stephen King, The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson, It, Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot, Stephen King, Under the Dome, Stephen King, The Institute, Stephen King
Maryland - The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz
Massachusetts - Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman, Cell, Stephen King, Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon, Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman, It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali, Hour of the Witch, Chris Bohjalian, The Book of Magic, Alice Hoffman, Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
Michigan -
Minnesota - This Tender Land, William Kent , Krueger, The Good Girl, Mary Kubica, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor
Mississippi - A Time to Kill, John Grisham, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
Missouri - Dark Places, Gillian Flynn, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Montana - The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
Nebraska - Children of the Corn, Stephen King
Nevada - In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
New Hampshire - Peyton Place, Grace Metalious, The Broken Girls, Simone St. James, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Stephen King, Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
New Jersey - The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick, In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
New Mexico -
New York - Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman, A Good Marriage, Kimberly McCreight, An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon, Ask Again, Yes, Mary Beth Keane, The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, The Lost Girls of Paris, Pam Jenoff, The Perfect Mother, Aimee Molloy, The Flight Attendant, Chris Bohjalian, The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks, The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn, The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman, The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena, The Nest, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, It, Stephen King, The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr, Ruby, Cynthia Bond, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, Melanie Benjamin, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout, You, You, Caroline Kepnes , The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab, The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James, The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis, Later, Stephen King, An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, French Exit, Patrick deWitt, The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel, Monster, Walter Dean Myers, One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston, The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor, In Five Years, Rebecca Serle, Verity, Colleen Hoover
North Carolina - A Good Neighborhood, Therese Anne Fowler, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, All the Missing Girls, Megan Miranda, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon, The Last to Vanish, Megan Miranda
North Dakota - The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
Ohio - Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King
Oklahoma - The Outsider, Stephen King, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now, S.E. Hinton
Oregon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn, The Book of Cold Cases, Simone St. James
Pennsylvania - Christine, Stephen King, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon, Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, The Perfect Stranger, Megan Miranda, Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner, Imaginary Friend, Stephen Chbosky
Rhode Island - The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
South Carolina -Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd, The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy, North and South, John Jakes, The Institute, Stephen King, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor, Other Birds, Sarah Addison Allen
South Dakota -
Tennessee -Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson, The Rainmaker, John Grisham, The Firm, John Grisham, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
Texas - 11/22/63, Stephen King, The Outsider, Stephen King, Ruby, Cynthia Bond, The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
Utah - The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
Vermont - The Broken Girls, Simone St. James, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Virginia - Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews. Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
Washington - My Sister's Grave, Robert Dugoni, Merry and Bright, Debbie Macomber, Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, New Moon, Stephenie Meyer, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple, You Love Me, Caroline Kepnes
West Virginia - Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
Wisconsin - Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wyoming -



Mexico: American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins, The Pearl, John Steinbeck, Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia


Caribbean:

Anguilla:
Antigua and Barbuda:
Aruba:
Bahamas:
Barbados:
Cayman Islands: The Firm, John Grisham
Curacao: Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman
Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Dominica:
Dominican Republic: Voyager, Diana Gabaldon, Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Donald McCaig
Grenada: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
Guadeloupe:
Haiti: Voyager, Diana Gabaldon, Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Donald McCaig
Jamaica: Voyager, Diana Gabaldon
Martinique:
Saint Kitts and Nevis:
Saint Lucia:
Saint Martin:
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
Trinidad & Tobago:
Turks and Caicos:
Virgin Islands: The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman

Latin America:

Argentina:
Belize:
Bolivia:
Brazil:
Chile:
Colombia:
Costa Rica: Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
Ecuador:
El Salvador:
Guatemala:
Guyana:
Honduras:
Nicaragua:
Panama:
Paraguay:
Peru:
Suriname:
Uruguay:
Venezuela:

Oceania/Australia:

Antarctica: Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple

Australia: The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough, Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty, The Survivors, Jane Harper, A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Kiribati:
Fiji:
Nauru:
Marshall Islands:
New Zealand: The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
Palau:
Papua New Guinea:
Polynesia:
Samoa:
Solomon Islands:
Tonga:
Tuvala:
Vanuatu:

Europe:

Albania:
Andorra:
Austria: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Belarus:
Belgium: Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bosnia & Herzegovina:
Bulgaria: The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
Croatia: Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness, The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Denmark: Hamlet, William Shakespeare
England: The Last Tudor, Philippa Gregory, Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell, The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir, The Binding, Bridget Collins, The Other Queen, Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens, Philippa Gregory, The Virgin's Lover, Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess, Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool, Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory, The Once and Future King, T.H. White, The Lady of the Rivers, Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen, Philippa Gregory, The White Queen, Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen, Philippa Gregory, The King's Curse, Philippa Gregory, The White Princess, Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter, Philippa Gregory, The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman, The Burning Girls, C.J. Tudor
Estonia:
Finland:
France: Voyager, Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon, The Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell, The Lost Girls of Paris,Pam Jenoff, The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman, The Queen's Fool, Philippa Gregory, Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, The Lady of the Rivers, Philippa Gregory, Atonement, Ian McEwan, The Paris Wife, Paula McLain, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab, The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel, French Exit, Patrick deWitt, The Book of Magic, Alice Hoffman, Time's Convert, Deborah Harkness, Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor, The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley
Germany: The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel,
Greece: Circe, Madeline Miller
Hungary:
Iceland: Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
Ireland: The Searcher,Tana French, Normal People, Sally Rooney, The Witch Elm, Tana French, The Trespasser, Tana French, The Secret Place, Tana French, Faithful Place, Tana French, In the Woods, Tana French, Broken Harbour, Tana French, The Likeness, Tana French
Italy: Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi, One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle, The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
Kosovo:
Latvia:
Liechtenstein:
Lithuania:
Luxembourg:
Macedonia:
Malta:
Moldova:
Monaco: Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Montenegro:
Netherlands:
Northern Ireland:
Norway:
Poland: Schindler's List,Thomas Keneally, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris, Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi
Portugal:
Romania:
Russia: The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Arden, Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra, Helen Rappaport, Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith, The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis
San Marino:
Serbia:
Scotland: Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon, Voyager, Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon, Macbeth, Jo Nesbø, Three Sisters, Three Queens, Philippa Gregory, The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel, Winter Solstice,Rosamunde Pilcher
Slovakia: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
Spain: The Constant Princess, Philippa Gregory, The Paris Wife, Paula McLain, The Vacationers, Emma Straub, A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby, The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sweden: Anxious People, Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman, The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz
Switzerland: Me Before You, Jojo Moyes, The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Netherlands: The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova, The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel,
Ukraine:
United Kingdom: The Girl in the Ice, Robert Bryndza, Me Before You, Jojo Moyes, A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby, The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune, [[book:The Family Upstairs|43822820], Lisa Jewell,, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Lost Girls of Paris, Pam Jenoff, The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides, The Gown, Jennifer Robson, The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton, Sometimes I Lie, Alice Feeney, Before I Go to Sleep, S.J. Watson, Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling, Atonement, Ian McEwan, The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff, The Widow, The Widow, Fiona Barton, The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner, The Duke and I, Julia Quinn, The Rose Code, Kate Quinn, The Flatshare, Beth O'Leary, Victoria, Daisy Goodwin, Chain of Iron, Cassandra Clare, The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman,Julia Quinn, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson, A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute, Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie The Book of Magic, Alice Hoffman, Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher. The Burning Girls, C.J. Tudor, When You Are Mine, Michael Robotham, Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding,The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Agatha Christie
Vatican: The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough, Angels & Demons, Dan Brown,
Wales: I Let You Go, Clare Mackintosh, The Constant Princess, Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen, Philippa Gregory
Yugoslavia: Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

Africa:

Algeria:
Angola:
Benin:
Botswana:
Burkina Faso:
Burundi:
Cabo Verde:
Cameroon:
Central African Republic (CAR):
Chad:
Comoros:
Congo, DRC: The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Congo, Republic of: The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Cote d'Ivoire:
Djibouti:
Egypt: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, The Red Tent, Anita Diamant, Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Equatorial Guinea:
Eritrea:
Eswatini:
Ethiopia:
Gabon:
Gambia:
Ghana:
Guinea:
Guinea-Bissau:
Kenya:
Lesotho:
Liberia:
Libya:
Madagascar:
Malawi:
Mali:
Mauritania:
Mauritius: Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
Morocco:
Mozambique:
Namibia:
Niger:
Nigeria:
Rwanda:
Sao Tome & Principe:
Senegal:
Seychelles:
Sierra Leone:
Somalia:
South Africa: The Elephant Whisperer, Lawrence Anthony, The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
South Sudan:
Sudan:
Tanzania: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway
Togo:
Tunisia:
Uganda:
Zambia:
Zimbabwe:

Middle East:

Bahrain:
Cyprus:
Israel: The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Jordan:
Kuwait:
Lebanon:
Oman:
Palestine:
Qatar:
Saudi Arabia:
Syria: Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie, The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Turkey: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
United Arab Emirates: The Flight Attendant, Chris Bohjalian
Yemen:

Asia:

Afghanistan:
Armenia:
Azerbaijan:
Bhutan:
Brunei:
Cambodia:
China: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, Counterfeit, Kirstin Chen
East Timor:
Georgia:
India: Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Indonesia:
Iran: The Stationery Shop, Marjan Kamali
Iraq:
Japan:
Kazakhstan:
Kyrgyzstan:
Laos:
Malaysia: A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Maldives:
Mongolia:
Myanmar:
Nepal:
North Korea:
Pakistan:
Philippines:
Russia:
Singapore:
South Korea:
Taiwan:
Thailand: Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris
Sri Lanka:
Tajikistan:
Turkmenistan:
Uzbekistan:
Vietnam: The Lover, Marguerite Duras

Good luck and happy travels, Evyan!

I will definitely have to take a look at some of the ones you've completed.

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message 11: by Evyan Jan 31, 2021 08:27AM
Evyan Day | 2824 commentsAlondra wrote: "Good luck and happy travels, Evyan!

I will definitely have to take a look at some of the ones you've completed."

Thank you! This looks like fun.

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message 12: by Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator Feb 05, 2021 12:31PM
Alondra Miller | 14190 comments
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message 13: by Evyan Feb 05, 2021 04:16PM
Evyan Day | 2824 commentsAlondra wrote: "Remember, if you want comments or not; edit your title and put "Comments Okay" or "No Comments""

Done :)

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message 14: by Lea Feb 08, 2021 11:23AM
Lea (leaspot) | 7780 comments I forgot that Me Before You had that part in Mauritius! I'm going to add it to my list. I love how you've organized your books, hope that you enjoy your travels!

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message 15: by Evyan Feb 09, 2021 12:02PM
Evyan Day | 2824 commentsLea wrote: "I forgot that Me Before You had that part in Mauritius! I'm going to add it to my list. I love how you've organized your books, hope that you enjoy your travels!"

Thank you, I'm pretty sure I just stole it from Alondra. :)

Enjoy your reading voyage around the world.

Bill wrote: "Enjoy your reading voyage around the world."

Thank you. I am enjoying this challenge.