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message 1: by Cheryl (last edited Jun 05, 2022 07:18AM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:53PM

Cheryl | 958 comments I'm moving the list of the books that I've read for my Circumnavigator Challenge here as I cannot add any more characters to my original post!

Started: 1/Nov/2017
Summary: 8 Regions, 164 Countries, Disputed Countries and Territories
* = not UN member/permanent observer states


message 2: by Cheryl (last edited Jun 28, 2024 08:47AM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:54PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Africa
• Algeria: A Dying Colonialism 2017; Morituri 2018; The Stranger 2022; The Meursault Investigation 2022; The Plague 2024
• Angola: Another Day of Life 2018
• Botswana: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2018
• Burundi: Small Country 2018
• Cameroon: Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon 2019
• Chad: African Rice Heart 2017
• Congo (DRC): The Poisonwood Bible 2017; King Leopold's Ghost 2019
• Congo (Republic): Tomorrow I'll be Twenty 2018
• Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast): As The Crow Flies 2018; Aya 2019
• Egypt: The Queue 2018; The Time and the Place: And Other Stories 2018; Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt 2019; Palace Walk 2020; Palace of Desire 2020; Sugar Street 2020; Woman at Point Zero 2021; Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know® 2022.
• Equatorial Guinea: Palm Trees in the Snow 2019; La Bastarda 2021
• Ethiopia: Sweetness in the Belly 2019
• Ghana: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born 2018; Homegoing 2019.
• Guinea-Bissau: The Ultimate Tragedy 2019
• Kenya: The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood 2018
• Lesotho: Basali! Stories by and about Women in Lesotho 2018
• Liberia: 6 For A Dozen 2018; Madame President 2019.
• Libya: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between 2018; In the Country of Men 2019
• Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 2019
• Mali: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts 2018; The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past 2019
• Mauritania: Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania 2019
• Mauritius: The Last Brother 2019
• Morocco: Horses of God 2018; Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World 2021
• Mozambique: Sleepwalking Land 2019
• Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun 2017; Americanah 2018; Under the Udala Trees 2018; Stay with Me 2019; Things Fall Apart 2020
• Rwanda: Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda 2018
• Senegal: Xala 2020
• Sierra Leone: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier 2018; The Heart of the Matter 2019
• Somalia: Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State 2018
• South Africa: Long Walk to Freedom 2017; Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 2018; Disgrace 2019.
• South Sudan: There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan 2018
• Sudan: The Translator: A Tribesman's Memory of Darfur 2018; The Red Pencil 2019
• Tanzania: Uhuru Street 2018
• Tunisia: The Colonizer and the Colonized 2018
• Uganda: Soldier Boy 2019
• Western Sahara*: Western Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate? 2018
• Zimbabwe: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa 2018; The Hairdresser of Harare 2020; House of Stone 2022


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Jul 11, 2019 05:56PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Antarctica

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message 4: by Cheryl (last edited Jun 17, 2024 01:39PM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:56PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Asia
• Afghanistan: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell 2018; The Breadwinner 2018; The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan 2019; Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History 2022
• Armenia: An Armenian Sketchbook 2018
• Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino 2017
• Bangladesh: I Remember Abbu 2019.
• Bhutan: The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan 2018
• Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2017
• China: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 2017; I'm Not Chinese: The Journey from Resentment to Reverence 2019; One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment 2020; China in Ten Words (2021)
• Georgia: Avelum 2018; A Hero of Our Time 2018; A Man Was Going Down the Road 2019; The Pear Field 2022; Flight from the USSR 2024
• Hong Kong: The Borrowed 2019.
• India: My Kind of Girl 2018; The God of Small Things 2019
• Indonesia: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 2018
• Japan: Memoirs of a Geisha 2018; A Tale for the Time Being 2019; The Nakano Thrift Shop 2020; Convenience Store Woman 2020; A True Novel 2021; The Fall of Language in the Age of English 2022
• Kazakhstan: The Faculty of Useless Knowledge 2018; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 2019
• Kyrgyzstan: Jamila 2018
• Laos: Another Quiet American: Stories Of Life In Laos 2018
• Malaysia: The Gift of Rain 2022
• Myanmar (Burma): A History of Modern Burma 2017; Miss Burma 2019
• Nepal: The City Son 2018
• North Korea: Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty 2018; In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom 2018; The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea 2019; Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 2020; The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters 2021; Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea 2021; North Korea Journal 2022; Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite 2023.
• Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 2017 and 2021;
• Philippines: Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir 2020
• Singapore: Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore 2018
• South Korea: Everything Belongs to Us 2018; The Hole 2019; Human Acts 2020; Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 2021; If I Had Your Face 2023
• Sri Lanka: Funny Boy 2018
• Taiwan: Notes of a Crocodile 2019
• Tajikistan: The Disobedient Wife 2019
• Thailand: Bright 2020
• Tibet*: From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and • Tibet 2018
• Turkmenistan: Nation-Building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan: The T�rkmenbaşy Phenomenon 2019
• Uzbekistan: Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966 2017; Cancer Ward 2019.
• Vietnam: The Lotus Eaters 2018; The Sorrow Of War: A Novel of North Vietnam (2021)


message 5: by Cheryl (last edited Dec 29, 2019 09:46AM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:57PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Caribbean
• Antigua: A Small Place 2017
• Bahamas: An Evening in Guanima: A Treasury of Folktales from The Bahamas 2018
• Barbados: The Star Side of Bird Hill 2018
• Cuba: Next Year in Havana 2018
• Dominica: Unburnable 2018
• Dominican Republic: In the Time of the Butterflies 2017
• Haiti: Comedians 2018
• Jamaica: Gloria: A Novel 2019
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Spirits in the Dark 2019.
• Trinidad and Tobago: The Year in San Fernando 2018


message 6: by Cheryl (last edited Sep 25, 2024 05:25AM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:57PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Europe
• Albania: Chronicle in Stone 2018; The Country Where No One Ever Dies 2019; Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History 2022
• Austria: Beware of Pity 2019; Alpine Ballad 2020
• Belarus: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko 2018; Belarus: Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future 2019
• Belgium: The coming of Joachim Stiller 2018
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Cellist of Sarajevo 2018; The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return 2019; Death in the Museum of Modern Art 2021; Catch the Rabbit 2022; Sarajevo Blues 2023
• Bulgaria: Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria 2020
• Croatia: How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed 2017; The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays 2019; We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day 2021; The Hotel Tito: A Novel 2023; Our Man in Iraq 2024
• Cyprus: The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know 2019
• Czech Republic: Disturbing The Peace 2017; Spaceman of Bohemia 2019
• Denmark: The Danish Girl 2018; The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country 2018
• England: Persuasion 2018; All Creatures Great and Small 2018; How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War 2019; Maurice 2020; Wham! George & Me 2020; A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 2020; A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 2020; A History of Britain: The Fate Of Empire 1776-2000 2020; Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit 2020; Radio 4's History Of Private Life 2020; Jane Eyre 2021; Fingersmith 2023; Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain 2024
• Estonia: The Compromise 2017
• Finland: The Core of the Sun 2018; The Healer 2019; Fair Play 2020
• France: The French Revolution in a Nutshell 2018; Her Father's Daughter 2019; Women 2021
• Germany: Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall 2018; German Autumn 2019; The Book Thief 2020; The Artificial Silk Girl 2021; Madonna in a Fur Coat 2021; The File: A Personal History 2023; Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany 2024
• Gibraltar*: Luna Benamor: A novel about Gibraltar 2018
• Greece: Greece: A History 2019
• Guernsey*: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 2018
• Hungary: Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution 2017; Please Sir! 2019; The Door 2020; Katalin Street 2022; Don't Ask My Name: A Hidden Child's Tale of Survival 2024
• Iceland: Out of Thin Air: The True Story of an Impossible Murder in Iceland 2018; Last Rituals 2019; Miss Iceland 2022
• Ireland: Angela's Ashes 2018; The Heart's Invisible Furies 2019; Normal People 2019
• Italy: A Room with a View 2018; My Brilliant Friend 2019; The Vatican Pimpernel: The World War II Exploits of the Monsignor Who Saved Over 6,500 Lives
• Kosovo*: Girl of Kosovo 2019
• Latvia: Soviet Milk 2018
• Liechtenstein: Tales of liechtenstein Then and Now 2019
• Luxembourg: Luxembourg as an Immigration Success Story: The Grand Duchy in Pan-European Perspective 2020.
• Macedonia: My Father’s Books 2018
• Malta: Children Come By Ship. A Novel from Malta 2019
• Moldova: The Good Life Elsewhere 2018
• Monaco: Loser Takes All 2018
• Montenegro: The Son 2019
• Netherlands: The Diary of a Young Girl 2017; The Ministry of Pain 2024
• Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace 2018; Milkman 2019; Say Nothing 2020
• Norway: A Doll's House 2018; The Ice Palace 2019
• Poland: The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale 2018; Nobody Leaves 2019; Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 2020; Swimming in the Dark 2024.
• Portugal: Pereira Declares: A Testimony, 2019.
• Romania: In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond 2018; Nostalgia 2019; They Were Counted 2022;
Life Begins on Friday 2023;
• Russia: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia 2018; Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 2018; Eugene Onegin 2018; Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 2018; Dead Souls 2018; The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia 2019; Crime and Punishment 2019; Final Meeting: Selected Poetry of Anna Akhmatova 2019; Heart of a Dog 2019; Doctor Zhivago 2019; Between Shades of Gray 2019; The Big Green Tent 2019; Omon Ra 2020; The Suitcase 2020; Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians 2020; Pushkin Hills 2020; The Master and Margarita 2020; Russian Folk-Tales 2020; Sacred Darkness (2021); Russia's Empires 2021; The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine 2021; Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War 2021; Oblomov (2021); Fathers and Sons 2022; Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea 2022; The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War 2022; Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West 2022; Gorbachev: His Life and Times 2023; The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin’s Power Gambit – and How to Fix It 2023; The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise 2023; Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? 2023; The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 2023; Not by bread alone by Vladimir Dudint͡s︡ev 2023; Nervous People and Other Satires 2023; The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 2023; Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State 2023; Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union 2024; Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2024
• Scotland: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 2018
• Serbia: Baltimore 2018; The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia 2021
• Slovakia: Samko Tále's Cemetery Book 2018; Seeing People Off 2023
• Slovenia: Yugoslavia, My Fatherland 2018; The Fig Tree 2021; Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (reread) 2024
• Spain: Moorish Spain 2017; The Shadow of the Wind 2019; Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator 2020; Nada 2022; Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past 2023; Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country 2024; Water Over Stones 2024
• Sweden: A Man Called Ove 2018
• Switzerland: Sweet Days of Discipline 2018
• Ukraine: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 2019.
• Wales: How Green Was My Valley 2018


message 8: by Cheryl (last edited Jul 10, 2024 05:23AM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:58PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Middle East
• Bahrain: The Pearl Thief 2018
• Iran: Rooftops of Tehran 2018; The Complete Persepolis 2018; Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature 2018; City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran 2019; Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic 2020; Khatami's Iran: The Islamic Republic and the Turbulent Path to Reform 2020; Iran Under Ahmadinejad: The Politics of Confrontation 2020; Disoriental 2020; I, Who Did Not Die 2021; Satan's Stones 2021; I'm Writing You From Tehran: A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Past and Their Country’s Future 2021; Space Between Us 2022; The Gardens of Consolation 2023; Foreigner 2023; Persian Girls 2024; The Heart's Desire 2024; Married to a Stranger 2024
• Iraq: The Gardener of Baghdad 2018; Frankenstein in Baghdad 2019; The Baghdad Clock: Winner of the Edinburgh First Book Award 2021; The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State 2023
• Israel: The Lemon Tree 2018; Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor 2019; A Tale of Love and Darkness 2020; Some Day (2021); Minor Detail 2022
• Jordan: Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan 2018; The Bride of Amman 2023
• Kuwait: The Hidden Light of Objects 2018
• Lebanon: An Unnecessary Woman 2017; I Remember Beirut 2019; Canceled Memories: A Novel 2021
• Oman: The Turtle of Oman 2018
• Palestine: Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine 2018
• Qatar: The Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant 2018; From Dunes to Dior 2019.
• Saudi Arabia: Under a Crescent Moon: Stories of Arabia 2018; Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening 2021
• Syria: My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution 2018; The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria 2019.
• Turkey: The Museum of Innocence 2018; key: On Two Feet and Wings 2020
• Yemen: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced 2018; A Land without Jasmine 2018; The Monk of Mokha


message 10: by Cheryl (last edited Jul 04, 2024 08:53AM) (new)
Jul 11, 2019 05:58PM

Cheryl | 958 comments Oceania
• Australia: The Thorn Birds 2018; The Good Sister 2024
• Fiji: Kalyana
• Micronesia: Micronesian Blues 2018
• Nauru: Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru 2018
• New Zealand: East in Eden 2019.
• Papua New Guinea: New Guinea Moon 2018


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