ŷ������

The bonus is a non-point challenge. Books posted here can be also be posted in a point earning challenge (main challenge, monthly specials, and BINGO).

2025's bonus challenge is books set in a foreign country. Foreign would be outside the country you hold citizenship in. If you have multiple citizenships, choose the one that feels most like home to you.

The rules are basically:
- If the book is set in multiple countries, you can choose any of them. However, the plot has to advance itself in some way in that country. It can't just be mentioned as a passing spot on a journey. For example: A book could involve a trip to India, with a layover in Japan (I have no idea if that's how you get to India. Just go with it.) If Japan is just mentioned in passing, it doesn't count as a foreign setting for this challenge.
- You can only choose one country per book. However, if you later read another book in that country and want to change the country from an earlier book, that is allowed, as long as it follows the previous rule. Example: A book has several countries that could count, like France, Germany, and England. You choose France. Later, you read a book set only in France. You can add it to this challenge as long as you change the previous book to either Germany or England.
- A book can only be used once in this challenge. I may be stating the obvious, but I'm covering bases.

Ask questions if you have them!

Michael's Bonus Challenge: Foreign Country Settings:
1. (United States) Fort Starke Wade Everett 1/1/25
2. (England) Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World Miriam Darlington 2/24/25
3. (France) Murder à la Carte Susan Kiernan-Lewis 2/28/25
4. (Egypt) Liberty Stephen Coonts 3/26/25
5. (Greenland) Treasure Clive Cussler 4/16/25

Connie's Foreign Country Settings: (not Canada)

Egypt: What I Know About You by Éric Chacour 01/17
England: Your Story, My Story: A Novel by Connie Palmen 01/03
Italy: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 01/10
Norway: Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø 01/25
Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin 01/26
Scotland: Mind Game by Iris Johansen 01/05
Thailand: Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø 01/07
United States: The Rebel by Gerald Brandt 01/20

Wanda's Bonus Challenge - Foreign Country Settings:

1. Denmark - Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen
2. England - The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves
3. Netherlands- The Noose's ⁷Shadow by Graham Brack
4. Mexico - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
5. Czech Republic - Lying and Dying by Graham Brack
6. Nigeria - Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
7. Japan - The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
8. Scotland - Death of a Green-Eyed Monster by M.C. Beaton
9. Belgium - The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
10. Oman - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
11. Sweden - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Turtlefrog's Foreign Country Settings (Not USA)

1. Bermuda - Untamed 1/28
2. South Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 2/11
3. Canada - Calling Forever 3/9

Cathy's Foriegn settings ( not Canada

1.Hour of the Witch - (Boston) USA
2. The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill - England

Ann-Marie´s foreign settings (not Sweden)

1 - The Book of Witching (Orkney)
2 - Moon of the Crusted Snow (Canada)
3. Pengar på fickan (Denmark)
4. Vaka över henne (Italy)
5. Marseille 1940: Die große Flucht der Literatur (France)
6. Fristaden (Sweden)
7.

Gillis' foreign settings (not Belgium)

1. United Kingdom/Scotland: Stad vol geesten by Victoria E. Schwab - 1 Jan 2025
2. Poland: De Violist van Birkenau by Mike van Hoecke - 7 Jan 2025
3. United Kingdom/England: Lang leve Jane by Cynthia Hand - 10 Jan 2025
4. USA (Illinois-Chicago): Je bent prachtig by Ann Napolitano - 14 Jan 2025
5. Iran: Sneeuwvlokken in Teheran by Marjan Kamali - 21 Jan 2025
6. Sweden: Het Stockholm komplot by Colin Forbes - 27 Jan 2025
7. Colombia: Gevangen: De complete trilogie by Anna Zaires - 19 Mar 2025
8. Japan: Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean - 25 Mar 2025
9. Greece: Elektra by Jennifer Saint - 27 Mar 2025

Rhonda's foreign settings (not USA)

1. Switzerland: A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
2. UK: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
3. Norway: Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbø

Emily's Foreign Setting (not USA)

- Vietnam: The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Iraq: Home Front by Kristin Hannah
- France: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Italy: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Linda's Foreign Settings (Not USA)

Canada - The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
England - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8 by Beth Brower
France - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Italy - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Iran - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Ireland - The Women of Primrose Square by Claudia Carroll
mexico - A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs by Ben Garrod
Peru - Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Poland - The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Scotland - The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Lisa's Foreign Country Settings (Not USA)

1. Australia - Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
2. Scotland - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
3. Iran - Together Tea by Marjan Kamali
4. England - The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
5. Sweden - The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz
6. Russia - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Sam's Foreign Settings (not Wales)

1. USA - Shutter Island
2. England - Cold Blooded Evil: The true story of the 'Ipswich stranglings'
3. Scotland - Killing for Company: The case of Dennis Nilsen
4. Australia - The Graveyard Shift

CathyG's Foreign Settings (not USA)
1. Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Chile, Columbia)
2. Venezuela - It Would Be Night in Caracas
3. England - The Consequences of Fear
4. Ireland - The Choice
5. Viet Nam - Artemis Fowl
6. China - The Chase
7. Peru - The Recovery Agent
8. Russia - Reindeer Moon
9. Portugal - The Job

Carolyn's Foreign Settings

1. France: The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel
2. England: The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
3. Italy: The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner
4. Spain: A Bookseller in Madrid: A Novel by Mario Escobar
5. Canada: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
6. Indonesia: The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

Foreign country settings

1. 24. De dag van de Jakhals Frederick Forsyth 476 p. 25 march France
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 220 p. 28 march 2025 England
3. Met onbekende bestemming Agatha Christie 195 p. 31 march Casablanca and atlas gebergte
4. Mathilde 3 april 356 p. Morocco
5. BloedverwantStuart Neville 296 p. 8 aprilUSA
6. Moord op de golflinks Agatha Christie 208 p. 9 april
7. Nachtangst Ronald Giphart 182 p. 10 april
8. Odyssee Stephen Fry 368p. 17 april Greece
9. Eeuwige vriendschap Nele Neuhaus 20 april 578 p. Germany
10. Het boek der deuren Gareth Brown 431 p. 22 april USA