Friday 9 December 2011

2012 A Challenge: Around the World in 52 Books

I will be participating in a reading challenge called "Around the World in 52 Books" and decided to blog my journey.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/53809

Here are my selections so far.  Hover your mouse over the title of the book to reveal the author.  I may swap some books out as I go along.

1. Antarctica - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
2. Australia - A Town Like Alice
3. Austria - The Bells
4. Barbados - Caribbean
5. Bosnia - People of the Book
6. Burma - The Forgotten Highlander
7. Canada - Any Known Blood
8. Egypt - Crocodile on the Sandbank
9. England - The House at Riverton
10. Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone
11. France - The Tenth Chamber
12. Germany - The Book Thief
13. India - What the Body Remembers: A Novel
14. Iran - The Blood of Flowers
15. Ireland - The Secret Scripture
16. Israel - The Red Tent
17. Italy - The Glassblower of Murano
18. Japan - A Pale View of Hills
19. Kenya - Out of Africa
20. Korea - The Calligrapher's Daughter
21. New Zealand - The Bone People
22. Norway - The Snowman
23. Russia - The Bronze Horseman
24. South Africa - The Covenant
25. Spain - The Camino
26. Thailand - The Windup Girl
27. Turkey - The Oracle of Stamboul
29. United States - Honolulu
30. Vietnam - Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

Need to acquire:

31. Afghanistan - The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
32. Argentina - Tropical Night Falling
33. Brazil - The Seamstress
34. Chile - The House of the Spirits
35. China - Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg
36. Croatia - The Tiger's Wife
37. Cuba - The Island of Eternal Love
38. Denmark - We, the Drowned
39. Greece - Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus
40. Haiti - Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy
41. Iceland - Silence of the Grave
42. Mexico - Aztec
43. Netherlands - Lust for Life
44. Nigeria - Purple Hibiscus
45. Peru - The Green House
46. Pitcairn Islands - Pitcairn's Island
47. Poland - The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
48. Rwanda - Baking Cakes in Kigali
49. Scotland - The Legend of Lady MacLaoch
50. Sri Lanka - Anil's Ghost
51. Uruguay - The Invisible Mountain
52. Zimbabwe - The Grass Is Singing

Alternates:

Netherlands - Girl with a Pearl Earring
Spain - Incantation
Spain - The Painter of Battles: A Novel
Mexico - The Falling Woman
Wish me luck!

6 comments:

  1. Phew! You already got the book names there. Wow! I love the background..what a historical room you have got there. :)

    Can't wait to see how your journey moves.

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  2. I've always wanted to do a challenge like this - but I was so overwhelmed by the choices I never followed it through.

    A Town Like Alice is a great choice for Australia, I loved the book and the movie.

    I'll be waiting with baited breath to see how you find The Bronze Horseman. I read it several years ago then paid a rather large sum to have a copy of it sent to me when I moved to the Netherlands!

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  3. I've been dying to do a challenge like this I might just "borrow" some books from your list if you don't mind that is. :) I wish you the best of luck! Can't wait to see how it goes :D

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  4. Woohoo, now following your blog!

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  5. Oh I read the Blood of Flowers a few years ago, wonderful book!

    The True Story of Hansel and Gretel was delivered to me a few days ago, looking forward to that one too :)

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  6. Looks like we're both going to be reading Out of Africa for Kenya :)

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