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Welcome to the challenge, Arpit! Bon Voyage!
Countries visited in 2017
Switzerland, India, Nepal, Canada, Sierra Leone, USA, Sweden, Iran, Ghana, Pakistan, Netherlands, France
Africa Algeria - Angola - Benin -
Antarctica
Asia
Armenia -
Caribbean
Anguilla - Antigua & Barbuda - Aruba - Bahamas -
Europe
Latin America
The Middle East
North America
Oceania
Suggest a good book set in - Cambodia/Vietnam/Laos
peru/chile/bolivia/colombia
Morocco/spain/portugal/Italy
Arpit wrote: "Suggest a good book set in - Cambodia/Vietnam/Laos
peru/chile/bolivia/colombia
Morocco/spain/portugal/Italy"
Here are a few I have enjoyed:
Cambodia: In the Shadow of the Banyan
Laos: The Coroner's Lunch
Peru: Deep Rivers
Chile: The House of the Spirits
Colombia: Of Love and Other Demons
Morocco: The Sheltering Sky
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind
Portugal: The Double
Italy: The Leopard
Thanks Diane and Mome. I will surely try these books.
Starting With Switzerland
- Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho - 2 star
Canada - Dance of the happy shades by Alice Munro - 3 star
Sierra Leone- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Sweden- A man called Ove - 5star
Books read in 2018 1. Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2. Poland - Man's Search for Meaning
3. Germany - Night
4. Israel - Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
5. Mexico - The Pearl
6. Jordan- I Remember Beirut
Japan - 1. Strange Weather in Tokyo - 5 star
2. Kitchen - 4 star
3. The Housekeeper and the Professor - 4 star
4. The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales - 4 star
5. ikigai - 3 star
Countries/Regions Visited in 2019 1. Australia - The Rosie Project
2. Antarctica - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
3. Japan -
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Kitchen -
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
ikigai
4. Scotland - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
5. USA –
Before We Were Yours
Educated
6. Sweden - Us Against You
visited 22 countries in 2020
Countries/Regions Visited in 20201. Japan
Sputnik Sweetheart
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
2. Barbados
A Caribbean Mystery
3. Nigeria
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Zikora
4. Polynesia
Kon-Tiki
5. Turkey
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
6. Ghana
Transcendent Kingdom
7. Israel
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
8. USA
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Where the Crawdads Sing
Becoming
Verity
9. Sweden
Anxious People
10. China
In Xanadu: A Quest
11. England
The Graveyard Book12
12 Kyrgyzstan
Jamilia
13. South Africa
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
14. Somalia
Infidel
15. Russia
A Gentleman in Moscow
16. Bulgaria
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
17. Lithuania
Between Shades of Gray
18. Morocco
A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
19. Greece
Olympus
Circe
20 .Brazil
Hippie
21. Colombia
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
22. India (Home Country)
Nine Lives
Yupi 65
My Favourite Nature Stories
As Sweet as Honey
Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
Boo Aur Anya Kahaniyan
10 Judgements That Changed India
The Rupa Laughter Omnibus
The Land of Moonlit Snows: & Other Real Travel Stories from the Indian Himalaya
सत्यजित राय की कहानियां
मेरी गीता
Panther's Moon and Other Stories
बनारस टॉकीज Banaras Talkies
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
Funny Side Up
Nellie Bly goes around the world in 80 days (72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, 14 seconds, precisely) as a subplot in the Goodreads 11th best baseball novel ever. The Baseball Book Group has made it their January selection and the ebook is 99 cents until Dec. 28. At The Bat: The Strikeout That Shamed America
2021 Country reads1. The Little Prince - France
2. One of Us Is Lying - USA
3. Flowers for Algernon - USA
4. The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden - Sweden
5. A Promised Land - USA
6. Convenience Store Woman - JAPAN
7. The Guest List - Ireland
8. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - Albania
9. Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish - Morocco
10. The Rules Do Not Apply - Mongolia
11. Walking the Nile - Egypt
12. Lost Horizon - Tibet, China
13. Beka Lamb - Belize
14. The Heart's Invisible Furies- Ireland
15. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well - Denmark
16. Never Let Me Go - England
17. A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax - Switzerland
18. The First Teacher - Kyrgystan
19. Whereabouts - Italy
20. Clap When You Land - Dominica
21. About a Boy - England
22. A Ladder to the Sky - Ireland
23. India
2022 Reads 1. . Norwegian Wood - JAPAN
2. The Devotion of Suspect X - JAPAN
3. I Must Betray You - ROMANIA
4. The Four Winds - USA
5. The Winners - SWEDEN
6. The Nightingale - FRANCE
7. INDIA
Country Tour - 20231. Small Things Like These - Ireland
2. Just Mercy - USA
3. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - North Korea
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain - USA
5. How Do You Live? - Japan
6. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War - Russia
7. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Japan
8. Long Walk to Freedom - South Africa
9. Rebecca - Monaco
10. Malice - Japan
11. The Color Purple - USA
12. Death on the Nile - Egypt
13. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Mexico
14. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Japan
15. INDIA
2024 Journey so far...1. Sweet Bean Paste - Japan
2. The Guest Cat - Japan
3. Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth - Kenya
4. Ali and Nino: A Love Story - Azerbaijan
5. Men Without Women - Japan
6. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha - COLOMBIA
7. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - Japan
8. The Women - VIETNAM
9. Solito - El Salvador
10. The Penguin Lessons – Argentina
11. Angels & Demons – Vatican City
12. A History of Loneliness – Ireland
2024 journey continued --13. The fountain of Silence - SPAIN
15. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Vietnam
The journey continues in 2025..1. The Stationery Shop of Tehran - Iran
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Around the World in 80 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Stationery Shop of Tehran (other topics)Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz (other topics)
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Jamilia (other topics)
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Here is my book journey as on date :
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I have visited following countries/regions so far. I will keep updating it as I visit more countries.
★☆★☆★☆★☆ Asia ★☆★☆★☆★☆
Afghanistan
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Bhutan
- Married to Bhutan by Linda Leaming
- The Living Road by Ajit Harsinghani
Iran
- The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
- The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Israel
-Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar
Japan
- Strange Weather in Tokyo
- Kitchen -
- The Housekeeper and the Professor
- The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
- ikigai
Jordan
- I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
Nepal
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
North Korea
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Pakistan
- Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
★☆★☆★☆★☆ Africa ★☆★☆★☆★☆
Botswana
- Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
Egypt
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Ghana
-Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Nigeria
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sierra Leone
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
★☆★☆★☆★☆ Caribbean ★☆★☆★☆★☆
Cuba
-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
★☆★☆★☆★☆ Europe ★☆★☆★☆★☆
England
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
France
- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Germany
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lithuania
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma
Netherlands
- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Poland
-Night by Elie Wiesel
-Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Portugal
- The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
Scotland
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Sweden
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
- Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Switzerland
-Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
★☆★☆★☆★☆North America ★☆★☆★☆★☆
Canada
- Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
Mexico
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
US of America
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
- Love Story by Erich Segal
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Educated by Tara Westover
★☆★☆★☆★☆OCEANIA ★☆★☆★☆★☆
Australia
- The Rosie Project
★☆★☆★☆★☆ANTARCTICA ★☆★☆★☆★☆
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage