Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Oceania 1
Australia: The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Europe 4
England: The Private Patient by P.D.James
France: The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater
Germany: A Different Kind Of Courage: Gretel's Story by Claudia Strachan and Gretel Wachtel
Ireland: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

America 2
US: Julius Winsome: A Novel by Gerard Donovan
Chili: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabelle Allende

Africa 1
Mali: Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years by with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway

Asia 1
Iran: Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi

Welcome to the challenge, Danielle!

Diane wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Danielle!"

Thanks Diane!

Does Scotland count as a seperate country?

Danielle wrote: "Diane wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Danielle!"

Thanks Diane!

Does Scotland count as a seperate country?"

You can count all the countries of the UK separately, as well as territories, islands, etc. It is not necessary for the areas claimed to be UN recognized countries. You can count whatever you want.

Oh well, than I can add more books!

Europe 5 countries and 9 different areas

England:
The private patient by P.D.James - Dorset
The Clocks by Agatha Christie - Sussex
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Essex

France:
The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater - The Provence
Maigret and the Old Lady by Georges Simenon - Haute Normandie (Etretrat)

Germany:
A different kind of courage: Gretel's story by Claudia Strachan and Gretel Wachtel - Hamburg
Pavel & I by Dan Vyleta - Berlin

Ireland: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - Limerick
Runa, The Outer Hebrides (Scotland): Written in Bone by Simon Beckett


America 2 countries and 4 areas

USA:
Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan - Maine, New England
Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett - Knoxville, Tennessee
No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay - Milford, Connecticut

Chile: My Invented Country by Isabelle Allende

The rest is still the same

So I got 10 countries, spanning the 5 continents and 16 different areas

I'm going to use a different lay-out next time, as this is not so very clear.

An update:

AUSTRALIA
M.L. Stedman - The Light Between the Oceans
Kate Grenville - The Secret River
Craig Silvey - Jasper Jones

EUROPE - 11 countries
1: Sam Easland - Eye of the Red Tsar - Russia
Robert Harris - Archangel - Russia
2: Henning Mankell - The Dogs of Riga - Latvia
3: Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers - Sweden
4: Georges Simenon - A Man's head - Paris - France
Carol Drinkwater - The Olive Season - The Provence - France
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Old Lady - La Haute Normandie - France
Georges Simenon - The Yellow Dog - Concarneau - Bretagne - France
Salley Vickers - The Cleaner of Chartres - Eure et Loire - France
5 French regions
5: Philip Kerr - The One from the Other- Munich - Germany
Claudia Strachan and Gretel Wachtel - A different kind of courage - Hamburg - Germany
Dan Vyleta - Pavel & I - Berlin - Germany
3 German regions
6: Reginald Hill - The Woodcutter - Cumbria - England
Judith Cutler - The Keeper of Secrets - Warwickshire - England
Agatha Christie - The Clocks - Sussex - England
Agatha Christie - Mysterious Affair at Styles - Essex - England
P.D.James - The Private Patient - Dorset - England
J.B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls - North Midlands - England
C.J. Sansom - Dominion - London - England
P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness - East Anglia - England
Simon Beckett - Chemistry of death - Manham, Norfolk - England
Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair - Milford, Surrey - England
Simon Beckett - Calling of the Grave - Dartmoor, Devon - England
11 English regions
7: Simon Beckett - Written in Bone - Runa, The Outer Hebrides Scotland
Stuart MacBride - Cold Granite - Aberdeen - Scotland
2 Scottish regions
8: Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes - Limerick - Ireland
Nuala Ní Chonchúir - You - Dublin - Ireland
2 Irish regions
9: C.J.Sansom - Winter in Madrid - Madrid - Spain
10: Barry Unsworth - The Ruby in Her Navel - Sicily - Italy
11: Charlotte Brontë - The Professor - Brussels - Belgium

NORTH AMERICA
Linwood Barclay - No Time for Goodbye - Milford, Connecticut - USA
Gerard Donovan - Julius Winsome - Maine, New England - USA
Simon Beckett - Whispers of the Dead - Knoxville, Tennessee - USA
Dave Eggers - Zeitoun - New Orleans, Louisiana - USA
Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child - Alaska - USA
John E. Williams - Butcher's Crossing - Kansas - USA
James Scott - The Kept - rural New York - USA

SOUTH AMERICA - 2 countries
1: Isabelle Allende - My Invented Country - Chile
2: Philip Kerr - A quiet flame - Argentina

MIDDLE EAST - 2 countries
1: John Buchan - Greenmantle - Turkey
2: Shirin Ebadi - Iran Awakening - Iran

ASIA - 6 countries
1: Dana Sachs - The house on Dream Street - Hanoi - Vietnam
Graham Greene - The Quiet American - Saigon - Vietnam
2: Jan Wong - Red China Blues - China
Xinran - The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices - China
3: Malala Yousafzai - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Swat district - Pakistan
4: Akira Yoshimura - Shipwrecks - Japan
5: Sabine Kuegler - Call of the Jungle - New Guinea - Indonesia
6: George Orwell - Burmese Days - Myanmar

AFRICA - 6 countries
1: Fauziya Kassindja - Do they hear you when you cry - Togo
2: Kris Holloway - Monique and the Mango Rains - Mali
3: Henning Mankell - The white Lioness - South Africa
Rachel Zadok - Gem Squash Tokoloshe - South Africa
4: Nadifa Mohamed - Black Mamba Boy - Eritrea
5: Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing - Zimbabwe
6: Yasmina Khadra - What the Day Owes the Night - Algeria

CARIBBEAN - 1 country
1: Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat- The Dominican Republic

I guess I have covered 16 countries now.

18 countries

I covered 19 countries so far.

The books I read in 2013 were:

My books of 2014:

24 countries

Not a lot of new countries so far.

27 countries; actually 26 since I'm just at the beginning of Call of the Jungle

Books for 2015:

regions:

countries: