Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Around the World in Books Never Ending Circumnavigator Reading Challenge (including all 50 states)
Beginning: 8/27/12

* Fantasy settings are not included here.

United States:


Florida ~~ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Completed 5/10/13)
Kansas ~~ Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (Completed 11/6/12)
Louisiana ~~ Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris (Completed 9/11/12)
Maine ~~ Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Completed 2/13/13)
Michigan ~~ Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey (Completed 3/4/13)
Mississippi ~~ Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr. (Completed 10/14/12)
Missouri
~~ Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Completed 2/6/13)
~~ The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Completed 3/2/13)
Nevada
~~ Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women by Alexa Albert (Completed 3/28/13)
~~ Traps by (MacKenzie Bezos (Completed 7/8/13)
New Hampshire ~~ The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (Completed 1/22/13)
New York ~~ Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (Completed 2/27/13)
North Carolina
~~ Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (Completed 12/23/12)
~~ Serena by Ron Rash (Completed 11/18/13)
Pennsylvania ~~ The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (Completed 3/20/13)
South Carolina ~~ The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Completed 8/31/12)
South Dakota ~~ The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber (Completed 9/26/12
Tennessee ~~ Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by Bill Bass (Completed 8/18/13)
Texas ~~ Shattered Trust by Lynda Bailey (Completed 10/14)
Utah ~~ Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage by Joe Darger (Completed 7/3/13)
Virginia ~~ The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Completed 9/3/13)
Washington D.C. ~~ Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Completed 3/25/13)

Europe:


Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
~~ The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Completed 5/26/13)
~~ Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (Completed 6/5/13)
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
~~ The Butterfly Cabinet: A Novel by Bernie Mcgill (Completed 1/29/13)
~~ The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins (Completed 2/20/13)
Italy
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
~~ A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Completed 6/10/13)
Poland
Portugal
San Marino
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
*Wales ~~ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Completed 9/6/12)
*London ~~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Completed 10/6/12)
*London ~~ The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (Completed 1/20/13)
*London ~~ Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Completed 3/12/13)
*Scotland ~~ The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Completed 5/4/13)
*England ~~ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Completed 4/15/13)
*England ~~ The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Completed 4/3/13)
*England ~~ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Completed 11/20/13)

Africa:


Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Republic)
Congo (DRC)
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
~~Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Completed 11/27/13)
Reunion
Rwanda
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
~~A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Completed 02/03/14)
Somalia
~~Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie (Completed 7/31/13)
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Latin America (Central and South America):


Argentina
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
~~ The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo (Completed 7/15/14)
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
~~ Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez (Completed 2/3/15)
French Guiana
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Mexico
~~The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo: A Novel by F.G. Haghenbeck (Completed 10/9/13)
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

Asia:


Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
~~ Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family, and Finding Yourself by Ann Mah (Completed 3/7/15)
India
~~The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine (Completed 10/30/13)
~~The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (Completed 11/11/13)
Indonesia
Japan
~~The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Completed 12/1/13)
~~ In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami (Completed 2/10/15)
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam

Middle East:


Azerbaijan
Afghanistan
~~The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Completed 9/15/12)
Bahrain
Cyprus
Georgia
Iran
~~ Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Completed 3/8/14)
Iraq
Israel
~~ The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (Completed 9/11/14)
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
~~Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo (Completed 11/26/12)
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
U.A.E.
Yemen

Caribbean:


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)

Russia and Eastern Europe:


Albania
Andorra
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
~~Purge by Sofi Oksanen (Completed 4/4/14)
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine

Australia/Oceania:


Australia
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

Antarctica:

Canada:

Welcome to the challenge, Kim! Enjoy your journey!