Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Any other planners out there who have mapped out what they will read in 2013?

Here is my tentative list for 2013.


Afghanistan: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
Albania: The Three-Arched Bridge
Algeria: The Last Summer of Reason
Anguilla: A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
Antarctica: At the Mountains of Madness
Antigua: A Small Place
Argentina: Ficciones
Australia: A Town Like Alice
Austria: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Bangladesh: The Home and the World or Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Barbados: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
Belize: Beka Lamb
Botswana: A Question of Power or Twenty Chickens For A Saddle
Brazil: Dom Casmurro
Burma: Burmese Days
Cambodia: The Disappeared
Canada: Fall on Your Knees
Canary Islands: More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
Chile: Inés of My Soul
China: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China or Empress Orchid
Colombia: The Autumn of the Patriarch
Congo(DRC): A Bend in the River
Congo (RC): African Psycho
Croatia: On the Edge of Reason
Cuba: Beautiful Maria of My Soul or Monkey Hunting
Czech Republic: Ignorance
Denmark: The Boy in the Suitcase
Ecuador: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Egypt: Palace Walk or Miramar
England: Bleak House or The Portrait of a Lady or Emma
Estonia: Professor Martens' Departure
Ethiopia: Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
Finland: The Summer Book
France: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Madame Bovary or The Three Musketeers or The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Germany: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum or The Glass Bees
Ghana: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Greece: The Penelopiad
Guadeloupe: The Bridge of Beyond
Guam: And No Birds Sing: A True Ecological Thriller Set in a Tropical Paradise
Haiti: The Kingdom of This World
Hungary: Fatelessness
Iceland: The Saga of the Volsungs
India: A Suitable Boy
Indonesia: Lost in Shangri-la or This Earth of Mankind
Iran: The Saffron Kitchen or Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir or The Blood of Flowers
Iraq: Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel
Ireland: Ulysses
Italy: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis or I'm Not Scared or Under the Tuscan Sun
Israel: The Attack or Barabbas or The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
Jamaica: Abeng or The Pirate's Daughter
Japan: Almost Transparent Blue or Fear and Trembling or Norwegian Wood
Jordan: Appointment with Death
Kenya: The River Between or Matigari
Korea (North): Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Laos: Thirty-Three Teeth
Liberia: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Macau: Night of Many Dreams: A Novel
Madagascar: The Aye-Aye and I
Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Malaysia: Almayer's Folly
Mali: The Epic of Askia Mohammed
Martinique: School Days
Mexico: The Underdogs or The Conquest of New Spain
Morocco: This Blinding Absence of Light or Hideous Kinky or Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits or The Sheltering Sky
Mozambique: The Last Flight of The Flamingo
New Zealand: Bliss and Other Stories or The Colour
Nigeria: The Thing Around Your Neck or Half of a Yellow Sun
Norway: The House with the Blind Glass Windows or Nemesis or Growth of the Soil
Oman: Sandstorm
Pakistan: The Wish Maker
Papua New Guinea: Mister Pip
Peru: In Praise of the Stepmother
Philippines: Ilustrado
Poland: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman or The Zookeeper's Wife
Qatar: If the Sun Doesn't Kill You, the Washing Machine Will
Romania: The Appointment or The Bald Soprano and Other Plays
Russia: War and Peace
Rwanda: An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Senegal: God's Bits of Wood
Scotland: Ivanhoe or The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
South Africa: July's People or The Conservationist or Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Spain: Soldiers of Salamis or The Sun Also Rises or Captain Alatriste
Sudan: Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Sweden: Faceless Killers
Switzerland: Hotel du Lac or Daisy Miller
Syria: The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith
Tanzania: By the Sea
Taiwan: Dumpling Days
Trinidad and Tobago: The Suffrage of Elvira
Turkey: Snow
Uganda: Child of Dandelions or Snakepit: A Novel
Uruguay: The Shipyard
Vietnam: The Lover
Wales: On the Black Hill or How Green Was My Valley
Yemen: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Zambia: A Cowrie of Hope
Zimbabwe: King Solomon's Mines or Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

Wow... that's quite a list! I haven't quite gotten around to compiling for next year but here's what I have earmarked for this challenge. May attempt a few before the year is out.


Afghanistan: The Patience Stone
Algeria: Beau Geste
Australia: The Potato Factory
Austria: The Salzburg Connection
Bulgaria: Solo
Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Canary Islands: Too Much Trouble in Paradise
China: A Good Fall
Egypt: The Map of Love
Estonia: Diary of a Blood Donor
Guatemala: Red Glass
India: A Suitable Boy
Japan: Kafka on the Shore
Turkey: From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
USA: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Yemen: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

Great lists! I doubt I'll be making a reading plan as I don't follow them very well. I tend to read whatever catches my fancy and sometimes I can't resist the temptation to read a book from a repeat country!

Here are some books that are on my tbr list for this challenge:

Afghanistan: Beneath The Pale Blue Burqa
Bangladesh: A Golden Age
Brazil: Bonded In Brazil
Canada: More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
China: Old Town
Congo: The Witch Doctor's Wife
Denmark: In the Company of Angels: A Novel
England: The Pillars of the Earth
Egypt: The Alexandria Quartet
Fiji: Fiji: A Novel
France: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Germany: The Blindness of the Heart
Greece: Chrysalis
Guernsey: The Soldier's Wife
Hungary: Valeria's Last Stand: A Novel
Iran: Rooftops of Tehran
Iraq: One Hundred and One Nights
Ireland: Molly Fox's Birthday
Israel: Michal's Window
Italy: An Italian Journey
Japan: The Samurai's Garden
Kenya: Malaika
Korea (North): The Orphan Master's Son
Laos: Another Quiet American: Stories Of Life In Laos
Malaysia: The Rice Mother
Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate
Mongolia: The Blue Sky
Morocco: The Road from Morocco
Myanmar: The Glass Palace
Namibia: East Wind: a True Story
Nepal: Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
New Zealand: The Colour
Nigeria: Purple Hibiscus
Russia: Song for Katya
Saudi Arabia: The Ruins of Us
Scotland: To the Lighthouse
Serbia: The Tiger's Wife
Singapore: All broken up and dancing
South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country
Thailand: Next Life in the Afternoon: A Journey Through Thailand
Turkey: Secrets of a Summer Village
Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind
USA: The Language of Flowers

Jessica wrote: "Great lists! I doubt I'll be making a reading plan as I don't follow them very well. I tend to read whatever catches my fancy and sometimes I can't resist the temptation to read a book from a repea..."

I can vouch for The Cellist of Sarajevo and The Elegance of the Hedgehog. These are two of my favourite books. Hope you enjoy them. I hope to give them a re-read myself sometime soon.

Sanz wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Great lists! I doubt I'll be making a reading plan as I don't follow them very well. I tend to read whatever catches my fancy and sometimes I can't resist the temptation to read a b..."

I agree. Cellist is an awesome book.

I don't have reading plans, I am not able to decide which book I will read and decide it only in the last moment.

Only one question seen that I am quiet new to the group: can my ATW in 80 books challenge of 2011/2012 become "circumnavigator" of 2013?

Sanz wrote: "Wow... that's quite a list! I haven't quite gotten around to compiling for next year but here's what I have earmarked for this challenge. May attempt a few before the year is out.


Afghanistan: Th..."

I have loved "Solo"! Gave it 5 stars, was an amazing book.

Diane, for Italy I have liked a lot The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, it is a good read.

dely wrote: "I don't have reading plans, I am not able to decide which book I will read and decide it only in the last moment.

Only one question seen that I am quiet new to the group: can my ATW in 80 books ch..."

Yes

It really depends on how far I make it on my current path by the end of the year and what books I can actually find, but some things I would like to read next year would be:

Afghanistan- The Thousand Rooms of Dreams and Fear
Australia- Remembering Babylon
Bosnia- Death and the Dervish
Cambodia- Sacred Vows
Canada- Daughters Of Copper Woman
China- Soul Mountain, Rickshaw Boy, or Half of Man Is Woman
Egypt- Midaq Alley or Miramar
Estonia- Diary of a Blood Donor
Finland- The Year of the Hare
Greece- Z
Indonesia- Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Iraq- Dreaming of Baghdad
Iran- Touba and the Meaning of Night
Jamaica- Abeng
Kyrgyzstan- The White Ship
Laos- A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
Latvia- Tit for Tat and Other Latvian Folk Tales
Libya- In the Country of Men
New Zealand- Nights In The Gardens Of Spain or Faces In The Water
Oman- Sultan In Oman
Palau- Being a Palauan
Pakistan- The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
Paraguay- I, the Supreme
Philippines- Three Filipino Women
Russia- Mother
Samoa- Where We Once Belonged
Sri Lanka- Funny Boy
Syria- A Hand Full of Stars
Tonga- Tales of the Tikongs
USA- The City and the Pillar
Uzbekistan- Cancer Ward
Vietnam- Dumb Luck

Sanz and Diane: great! I have Cellist of Sarajevo on my mind for this year's challenge. Tiger's Wife will probably be a holiday read for my year-end trip. The other books will most likely be in next year's challenge.

Susan wrote: "It really depends on how far I make it on my current path by the end of the year and what books I can actually find, but some things I would like to read next year would be:

Afghanistan- The Thous..."

Wow, awesome selections, Susan! There are just so many great books out there set in every part of the world. I wish I could read them all! I just need to read faster and more often!

I agree with Susan! There are so many good books to read and never enough time. And I enjoy thinking about a book when I am not reading. To me, that is the sign of a good book. I am enjoying this book club because it connects me with books that I have not heard of. I am always behind in my reading but always reading.

My tentative international reading list for the remainder of 2012 and also 2013 is as follows:

(Highlighted in bold are 'first time' countries, the others are revisits)

Algeria: The Stranger (READ)
Antarctica: The Worst Journey in the World
Botswana: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Brunei: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (READ)
Canada: The Robber Bride
China: The Joy Luck Club; The Art of War
Colombia: Love in the Time of Cholera
England: The King's Rose; Katherine; Drood; The Pillars of the Earth; David Copperfield; Crash; The White Queen; The Woman in White; A Question of Upbringing; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mansfield Park; Lucky Jim; Lady Chatterley's Lover; Agnes Grey
Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone
France: Les Misérables (CURRENTLY-READING); The Kindly Ones; The Elegance of the Hedgehog; The Three Musketeers; Casino Royale
Germany: Doctor Faustus; Fatherland; Slaughterhouse-Five
Hong Kong: The Piano Teacher (CURRENTLY-READING)
Iceland: Journey to the Center of the Earth
India: A Suitable Boy; A Fine Balance; The Mango Season; The Satanic Verses
Ireland: The Gathering
Iran: Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Italy: The Name of the Rose; The Comfort of Strangers
Japan: Kafka on the Shore (READ); Kokoro
Mexico: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen; Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West; 2666
Micronesia: Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Mongolia: Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Morocco: Sweetness in the Belly; Naked Lunch
Netherlands: The Diary of a Young Girl
North Korea: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Pakistan: Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan
Poland: Fugitive Pieces
Portugal: The Prestige
Russia: Doctor Zhivago; War and Peace; The Idiot
Rwanda: An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Saudi Arabia: Mother of the Believers
Scotland: The Crow Road
Sudan: The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Trinidad & Tobago: The Enigma of Arrival
Ukraine: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (READ)
USA: Alaska: Into the Wild
USA: Arizona: Infinite Jest
USA: California: The Black Dahlia; I Am Legend: And Other Stories
USA: Delaware: Fight Club
USA: Florida: Their Eyes Were Watching God
USA: Georgia: The Color Purple; Everything That Rises Must Converge
USA: Massachusetts: Walden, or Life in the Woods; The Death And Life Of Charlie St. Cloud; The Bell Jar
USA: Nevada: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
USA: New Jersey: The Lightning Thief
USA: NYC: Billy Bathgate; American Psycho; Invisible Man; A Home at the End of the World; The Age of Innocence
USA: Oklahoma: The Grapes of Wrath
USA: Pennsylvania: Rabbit, Run
USA: Texas: Vernon God Little
USA: Utah: Escape
USA: Washington: Boneshaker
Vatican: Destiny
Venezuela: Measuring the World

Hi Diane,

I really like your group and would like to participate with my own tour around the world, but I am not sure where to start. I mean, my plan (yes, I love lists too!) is of trekker kind, not missing any country on route (whenever possible of course), sometimes with two or three books in the same country (meaning I would like to spend some more time there :) ), and for United States, Canada and UK I wish to explore every state. In short my plan consists of about 145 countries (states and counties excluded) and 360 books so far. That would take five years of reading at minimum! What do you think? Where should I post my thread?

P.S. Sorry if this is not an appropriate thread for this question :/

Zeljka wrote: "Hi Diane,

I really like your group and would like to participate with my own tour around the world, but I am not sure where to start. I mean, my plan (yes, I love lists too!) is of trekker kind, n..."

Zeljka, sounds perfect for the circumnavigator option. There are no time limits so you can travel at your own pace.

Diane wrote: "Zeljka, sounds perfect for the circumnavigator option. There are no time limits so you can travel at your own pace."

Thanks for quick response! I'll post then in ATW in 80 Books folder, as other circumnavigators :) Excited as a child with a new toy now :D

I didn't do as well in 2012 as I hoped - mostly because I decided that I wasn't going to count countries that I had already visited in 2010-2011...and i'm going to do the same for this year. so my goal is going to be 40 new countries for the year

Here is my tentative list (started in 2012 to be completed I hope in 2013). It's in trekker order even though I'm flitting here and there on the list. I'm partial to fiction, but I've also included some memoirs and other nonfiction. I included a few light-weight books for relief, basically, but I'm becoming more and more dissatisfied with them and have regretted some of them. One final note-I've tried not to include more than one title from the same author.
1. U.S.- Then We Came to the End
2. Canada-The Stone Diaries
3. Iceland-The Fish Can Sing
4. Ireland-The Sea (Banville )or Angela’s Ashes
5. Wales-Framed
6. England-An Autobiography (A. Christie)
7. Scotland- My Temporary Life
8. Norway-The Faster I Walk, The Smaller…
9. Finland-Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name or Burnt-out Town of Miracles
10. Sweden-You & You & You
11. Denmark-Babette’s Feast
12.Germany-The Book Thief
13. Netherlands-Coffee Trader or Good Thief’s Guide
14. Belgium-Master of Shadows: Rubens
15. France- Sarah’s Key
16. Switzerland-Hotel du Lac
17. Italy-The Imperfectionists
18. Austria- The Salzburg Connection
19. Czech Republic-The Fifth Servant
20. Poland-Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
21. Ukraine-Everything is Illuminated
22. Hungary-The Invisible Bridge (Orringer)
23. Romania-The Appointment
24. Russia-The Lady with the Dog (Chekhov)
25. Japan-An Artist of the Floating World
26. Korea-Still Life with Rice or Somebody’s Daughter
27. China-Beijing Coma or Lost on Planet China
28. Vietnam-Beauty of Humanity or Paradise of the Blind
or possibly The Things They Carried
29. Philippines-When the Elephants Dance
30. Indonesia-Eat, Pray, Love
31. Papua New Guinea- The White Mary
32. Tahiti-The Moon and Sixpence (Maugham)
33. New Zealand-The Whale Rider
34. Australia-Sarah Thornhill (Grenville)
35. Malaysia-The Sunlit Ambush
36. Thailand-Sing to the Dawn
37. Bangladesh-A Golden Age
38. India-Secret Daughter or Midnight’s Children
39. Pakistan-Broken Verses
40. Afghanistan-A Thousand Splendid Suns
41. Iran-Rooftops of Tehran
42. Yemen-Behind the Veils of Yemen
43. Saudi Arabia- Finding Nouf
44. Iraq-Late for Tea at the Deer Palace or In the Shadow of Babylon
45. Jordan-Leap of Faith
46. Israel-A Tale of Love and Darkness
47. Lebanon-A Girl Made of Dust
48. Turkey- Istanbul Passage
49. Greece-My Brother Michael
50. Bosnia-Herzegovina-The Cellist of Sarajevo
51. Egypt-He Shall Thunder in Sky or Seeing a Large Cat
52. Algeria-Empires of Sand or Donkey Heart, Monkey Mind
53. Morocco-Secret Son
54. Spain-The Sun Also Rises
55. Portugal-The Double
56. Ghana-Wife of the Gods
57. Nigeria-Things Fall Apart
58. South Africa-No Future Without Forgiveness
59. Botswana-Morality for Beautiful Girls
60. Zimbabwe-Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
61. Mozambique-Secrets in the Fire or Band-aid for a Broken Leg
62. Tanzania-Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey
63. Kenya- Love, Life and Elephants
64. Antarctica-Fraser’s Penguins
65. Argentina-The Honorary Consul
66. Chile-Of Love and Shadows
67. Peru-Bel Canto
68. Brazil- Memoir from Antproof Case
69. Colombia-One Hundred Years of Solitude
70. Venezuela-Lost Steps
71. Barbados-Captain Blood
72. Guadeloupe-Circle of Bones
73. Haitians in Dominican Republic-Farming of Bones
74. Cuba-Telex from Cuba
75. Jamaica- A High Wind in Jamaica or The Long Song
76. Costa Rica-The Scent of Jade
77. Honduras-The Mosquito Coast
78. El Salvador-The Weight of All Things
79. Guatemala-Love in a Fearful Land (Nouwen)
80. Mexico-The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

When I joined this group I made a spreadsheet of ATW ideas. It is quite lenghthy now as I have been borrowing ideas from others who have posted as well as searching the library.

In 2013 I don't have a concrete plan but I want to visit at least 25 new countries and focus on finding books for my other challenge that do not repeat countries as often. I have enjoyed my trek so far this year and am sure I will be finding some great books next year.


Hope everyone enjoys their travels in 2013!!!!

since i'm starting to get to less than 10-15 countries left on some continents - I am going to make it a goal to finish up reading all of Asia (14 countries left to read), Latin/South America (11 countries left to read), and the Middle East (6 countries left to read) - I don't know if it will happen, but i'm going to try

As I started the 2012 challenge half-way into the year, I didn't get nearly as far along as I would have liked...and I was a bit overwhelmed! For 2013, I think I'm going to continue on with the same list, thus becoming a circumnavigator.

I went through the books I'm already planning to read next year for groups, other games/challenges, etc., and there are 20+ different countries represented. So I think I'll use these as the base for an attempt at the new (and awesomely convenient!) challenge level that was added for 2013, "Tourist"/24 stops.

Of the books I currently have planned for my Tourist run, 18 of them are "new" to me - not visited in 2012 - and are thus eligible to count on my circumnavigation journey. (I think I have those rules right.) I feel like the Tourist level is doable for me, and I feel like I can actually finish it and add some more stops to my larger Circumnavigator challenge.

Here's what I'm planning to read on my journey as a Circumnavigating Tourist:


1. Argentina: Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
2. Belgium: Villette - Charlotte Brontë
3. Canada: The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
4. China: The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
5. Columbia: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marzuez
6. England: A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark (plus many additional books)
7. Finland (Lapland): The Golden Compass/Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
8. France: A Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin, or ?? (group choice for February)
9. Germany: The Trial - Franz Kafka
10. Hungary: The Bridge at Andau – James Michener
11. Iraq: The Mirage - Matt Ruff
12. Israel: Lamb - Christopher Moore
13. Japan: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (plus several additional books)
14. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
15. Monaco: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
16. Portugal: Blindness - José Saramago
17. Romania: The Land of Green Plums - Herta Müller
18. Russia: We – Yevgeny Zamyatin (plus several additional books)
19. Spain: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
20. Sweden: Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
21. Tibet: Freedom in Exile - Dalai Lama XIV
22. United States: Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow (plus many additional books)
23. Vietnam: The Lover – Marguerite Duras
24.

Can't wait for 2013 to come as I recently wasn't able to add another country to my list ;)

So.. I'm not gonna finish my challenge.. no way, BUT luckily 1001-travels don't have time limit. So I will be continueding my travels very slowly and hoping that after these French classics I will be travelling around the world a little bit quicker.

Here's my tentative list for 2013:

1. Germany: Schwüle Tage by Eduard von Keyserling
2. Antarctica: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
3. France: Suite Française by Irène Nemerovsky
4. India: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5. Japan: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Gold
6. Russia: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. Denmark: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
8. Ukraine: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
10. Austria: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
11. Switzerland: Green Henry by Gottfried Keller
12. Australia: The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
13. New Zealand: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
14. Solomon Islands: Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent
15. Vietnam: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
16. Laos: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
17. Thailand: The Beach by Alexa Garland
18. South Africa: Portrait With Keys: The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked by Ivan Vladislavic
19. Nigeria: No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
20. Brazil: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargos Llosa
21. Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
22. Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
23. Canada: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
24. United States: On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
25. China: Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
26. Sweden: Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand by Jonas Jonasson
27. Ireland: The Gathering by Anne Enright
28. Belgium: Pallieter by Felix Timmermans
29. Venezuela: The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
30. Egypt: Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfuz
31. Algeria: The Stranger by Albert Camus
32. Kenia: Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
33. Netherlandes: Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
34. Syria: The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schmai
35. Portugal: Blindness by José Saramago
36. Argentinia: Las Noches de Flores by César Aíra
37. Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
38. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
39. England: The Line of Beauty by Allen Hollinghurst
40. Turkey: The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
41. Iceland: Eiseskälte by Anrnaldur Indridason
42. Spain: The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
43. Italy: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
44. Czech Republic: The Trial by Franz Kafka
45. Poland: The Book About Blanche and Marie: A Novel by Per Olov Enquist
46. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
47. Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabell Allende
48. Malaysia: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
49. Tibet: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
50. Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
51. Pakistan: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamad
52. Columbia: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquéz
53. Congo: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
54. Monaco: Rebecca by Daphne du Murrier
55. Norway: Hunger by Knut Hamsun
56. Greece: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
57. Hungary: Embers by Sándor Márai
58. Rumania: Dracula by Bram Stoker
59. Bulgaria: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
60. Indonesia: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
61. Scotland: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
62. Sierra Leone: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
63. Slovenia: Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho
64. Surinam: Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
65. Trinidad and Tobago: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
66. Uganda: In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
67. Zimbabwe: King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
68. Botswana: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
69. Ethiopia: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
70. Somalia: Maps by Nuruddin Farah
71. North Korea: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
72. Burma: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
73. Georgia: A Hero of Our Time by Mikail Lermontov
74. Kazachstan: The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
75. Philippines: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
76. Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
77. Palestina: Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh
78. Panama: The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
79. French Guiana: Papillon by Henri Charrière
80. Singapore: The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
81. Nepal: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
82. Peru: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
83. Iran: Softcore by Tirdad Zolghadr
84. Andorra: Andorra by Max Frisch
85. Arctis: The Terrors Of Ice And Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr
86. Namibia: Daniel by Henning Mankell
87. Morocco: The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
88. Mosambique: Chronicler of the Winds: A Novel by Henning Mankell
89. Sambia: The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell
90. Haiti: The Comedians by Graham Greene
91. Wales: The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken
92. Estonia: The Czar's Madman by Jaan Kross
93. Tadjikiszan: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
94. Channel Islands: We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold
95. Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetis
96. Vatican: Pope Joan by Donna Cross
97. Albania: The Siege by Ismail Kadaré
98. Iraq: Vathek by William Beckford
99. Croatia: Die rote Zora und ihre Bande by Kurt Held
100. Yemen: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen by Paul Torday
101. Tanzania: Lioness by Katherine Scholes

My goal for 2013 is to continue my Circumnavigating Challenge, and hit more countries than I did last year, as well as start over with the Frequent Flyer challenge, and actually FINISH it this year.

I don't have a definite reading plan, although I have been stockpiling some books from different countries to read after the start of the new year. As part of my goal, I am determined to read the ones I already own before I go get any more from the library or buy any more. (Okay....unless there is a really intriguing one....or ones.....that I just have to read immediately!!)

Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge 2009-2012 

I have 120 of these on my tbr shelf so time to clear them out and make room for 2013 books.

So many books and so much to learn in 2013.

I am impressed with the lists some people have put together. I am, unfortunately, not quite so organised. There are some really good suggestions on here though.

I'm doing Around the World as a Trekker. I'm currently "in" Algeria.
Next up (in order):
Mali: Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold by Marq de Villiers
Niger: Still Waters in Niger by Kathleen Hill
Nigeria: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: A Novel by Lola Shoneyin
Cameroon: The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti
Gabon: Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
Congo: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Angola: The Book of Chameleons: A Novel by José Eduardo Agualusa
Namibia: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
South Africa: many choices
Botswana: A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
Zimbabwe: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Zambia: Foreign Flowers An African Journey by Peggy Rogers

Deedee wrote: "I'm doing Around the World as a Trekker. I'm currently "in" Algeria.
Next up (in order):
Mali: Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold by Marq de Villiers
Niger: Still Waters in Niger by Kathle..."

I really enjoyed both The Poisonwood Bible (my favorite book ever) and Tropic Moon.

Diane wrote: "Deedee wrote: "I'm doing Around the World as a Trekker. I'm currently "in" Algeria.
Next up (in order):
Mali: Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold by Marq de Villiers
Niger: Still Waters in ..."

I really enjoyed both The Poisonwood Bible (my favorite book ever) and Tropic Moon

I've had The Poisonwood Bible on my TBR for years, so 2013 will be the year I finally get to it!

Such impressive lists!! Mine is going to be short to start, but it should hopefully grow as the year goes by........

The Cold Light of Mourning - Wales
What Angels Fear - England
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle - Trinidad
Wide Sargasso Sea - Dominica
Looking for Alibrandi - Australia
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Japan
The Red Scarf - Siberia
The Color of Tea: A Novel - Macau, China
Murder in Mykonos: An Inspector Kaldis Mystery - Greece
The Goat Woman of Largo Bay: A Novel - Jamaica
Dolci di Love - Italy
The Sun Also Rises - Spain
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - England

I will be continuing my Circumnavigator tracking, and for 2013 I am going to take on the Tourist level (24 countries) challenge. My current reading plan for the Tourist challenge is listed below. I may list a few extra books to give more flexibility.

1. England: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
2. Scotland: 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
3. Channel Islands: A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George
*4. Netherlands: Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies
5. Switzerland: The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
*6. Monaco: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
*7. Albania: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
8. Germany: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
*9. Russia: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
*10. Czech Republic: The Castle by Franz Kafka
11. Ghana: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
12. Nigeria: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
13. Zambia: Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman
14. Zimbabwe: We Need New Names: A Novel by NoViolet Bulawayo
15. Burundi: Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder
16. South Africa: Coconut by Kopano Matlwa
17. Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
18. Egypt: The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
19. Israel: First Light by Bodie Thoene
20. Syria: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
*21. Saudi Arabia: In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta A. Ahmed
*22. India: A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
23. China: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
24. Burma: Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
25. Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
26. Australia: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
27. Canada: Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
28. Guatemala: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
*29. Costa Rica: The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
30. Chile: Inés of My Soul by Isabelle Allende
31. Paraguay: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
*32. Brazil: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
*33. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Adventure At Brimstone Hill by Carol Ottley-Mitchell
34. Haiti: Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
35. Jamaica: Timeswimmer by Gerald Hausman

For fun, I've arranged the books in the order of an imaginary trip around the world that I might take. I won't actually be reading the books in that order, though, and the list may be subject to change throughout the year - just a starting point for reading ideas!

Since I started in late 2012 I'll just continue into 2013 . I'm doing this as a frequent flyer circumnavigator.

I was wondering if I should list the books I read from the same country? For instance I'm reading a couple more books from Great Britain. When I'm done reading them should I add them to my list of books read or not bother because they don't count towards the challenge?

Yvonne wrote: "Since I started in late 2012 I'll just continue into 2013 . I'm doing this as a frequent flyer circumnavigator.

I was wondering if I should list the books I read from the same country? For inst..."

It is entirely up to you.

Good to know. I'll just list them then. I'll try to read books set in a variety of places, but do feel like I'll end up repeating some like Great Britain, Italy and France.

Yvonne wrote: "Good to know. I'll just list them then. I'll try to read books set in a variety of places, but do feel like I'll end up repeating some like Great Britain, Italy and France."

It is almost impossible not to repeat in those countries.

So far I have 3 books lined up:
London The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman
India Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Egypt Hippopotamus Marsh by Pauline Gedge

I have revamped my original list. Here is the updated list for 2013:

Afghanistan:
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

Albania:
Broken April
The Three-Arched Bridge

Algeria:
The Last Summer of Reason

Angola:
The Book of Chameleons

Anguilla:
A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean

Antarctica:
At the Mountains of Madness
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

Antigua:
A Small Place

Argentina:
Ficciones

Australia:
The Light Between Oceans
The Secret River
A Town Like Alice

Austria:
Chess Story
Dream Story
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Bangladesh:
The Home and the World
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Belarus:
Pack of Wolves

Belgium:
Cheese

Belize:
Beka Lamb

Bolivia:
Andean Journeys: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Bolivian Poetry

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
S.

Botswana:
A Question of Power
Twenty Chickens For A Saddle

Brazil:
Dom Casmurro

Burma:
Burmese Days

Burundi:
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

Cambodia:
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Cameroon:
The Poor Christ of Bomba

Canada:
Fall on Your Knees
The Shipping News

Central African Republic:
They Called Me Mama

Channel Islands:
The Soldier's Wife (Guernsey)

Chile:
Inés of My Soul

China:
Empire of the Sun
Empress Orchid
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Colombia:
The Autumn of the Patriarch

Congo(DRC):
A Bend in the River

Congo (RC):
African Psycho

Cote d'Ivoire:
Allah Is Not Obliged

Croatia:
On the Edge of Reason

Cuba:
Monkey Hunting

Czech Republic:
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Denmark:
The Boy in the Suitcase

Djibouti:
Djibouti

Dominican Republic:
Drown

Ecuador:
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Egypt:
Justine
Miramar
Palace Walk

England:
Bleak House

Estonia:
Professor Martens' Departure

Ethiopia:
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel

Faeroe Islands:
Barbara

Finland:
The Summer Book

France:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Three Musketeers

French Polynesia:
The Bungalow

Gabon:
One Dry Season

Germany:
The Glass Bees
The Invention of Curried Sausage
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Ghana:
The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

Greece:
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
The Penelopiad

Guadeloupe:
The Bridge of Beyond

Haiti:
The Kingdom of This World

Hungary:
Fatelessness

Iceland:
The Saga of the Volsungs

India:
A Suitable Boy

Indonesia:
Lost in Shangri-la
This Earth of Mankind

Iran:
The Blood of Flowers
The Saffron Kitchen
Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir

Iraq:
Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel

Ireland:
Ulysses

Italy:
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
I'm Not Scared

Israel:
The Attack
The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

Jamaica:
Abeng
The Pirate's Daughter

Japan:
Norwegian Wood
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Jordan:
Appointment with Death

Kenya:
Matigari
The River Between

Korea (North):
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Laos:
Thirty-Three Teeth

Lebanon:
Sabra Zoo

Liberia:
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Libya:
The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya

Macau:
Night of Many Dreams: A Novel

Madagascar:
The Aye-Aye and I

Malawi:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Mali:
The Epic of Askia Mohammed

Malta:
The Great Siege: Malta 1565

Martinique:
School Days

Mauritius:
The Rape Of Sita

Mexico:
The Conquest of New Spain
The Underdogs

Mongolia:
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Morocco:
This Blinding Absence of Light
Hideous Kinky
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Mozambique:
The Last Flight of The Flamingo

Netherlands:
Rituals

New Zealand:
Bliss and Other Stories
The Colour

Niger:
Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past

Nigeria:
Half of a Yellow Sun

Norway:
Growth of the Soil
The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Nemesis

Pakistan:
The Wandering Falcon
The Wish Maker

Palestine:
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

Papua New Guinea:
Mister Pip

Peru:
In Praise of the Stepmother

Philippines:
Ilustrado

Poland:
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

Portugal:
Blindness
Pereira Declares: A Testimony

Puerto Rico:
Call Me Maria

Qatar:
Qatari Women: Past & Present

Sri Lanka:
Reef

Romania:
The Appointment
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays

Russia:
War and Peace

Rwanda:
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

Saint Eustatius:
The Perfidious Parrot

Saint Lucia:
The Prodigal: A Poem

Samoa:
The Adventures of Vela
Where We Once Belonged

Saudi Arabia:
Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia

Senegal:
God's Bits of Wood

Scotland:
Trainspotting

Sierra Leone:
Tarzan of the Apes

South Africa:
The Conservationist
July's People
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Spain:
Captain Alatriste
Soldiers of Salamis

Sudan:
The Four Feathers
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur

Suriname:
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest

Sweden:
Faceless Killers

Switzerland:
Daisy Miller
Hotel du Lac
Homo faber

Syria:
The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith

Tanzania:
By the Sea

Taiwan:
Dumpling Days

Tibet:
Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography

Trinidad and Tobago:
The Suffrage of Elvira

Turkey:
Ali & Ramazan
Snow

Uganda:
Child of Dandelions
Snakepit: A Novel

Uruguay:
The Shipyard

Vietnam:
Dispatches
The Lover

Wales:
Decline and Fall
On the Black Hill

Yemen:
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

Zambia:
A Cowrie of Hope

Zimbabwe:
King Solomon's Mines
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

Okay, I'm now thinking that I'll just start a Rogue thread for 2013 to list everywhere I visit, and in a few months maybe break it down into a new Frequent Flyer challenge, and transform the old one to a Circumnavigator. I like the concept of having a "central hub" for recording all the books I read with a geographical setting - and I know I'm going to be thinking of new mini-challenges as I go.

Some that sound interesting which I may read this year:

all of the group reads I've missed

Nigeria: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Ghana: The Sun by Night by Benjamin Kwakye
Sierra Leone: The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna

India: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bangladesh: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Malaysia: The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

Cuba: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
Barbados: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
Trinidad & Tobago: Salt: A Novel by Earl Lovelace

Andrea wrote: "Hi Diane,

You will love A Suitable Boy and 33 Teeth. Have you read The Coroner's Lunch? That's the first in the series -- Cotterill is fantastic!"

I read Coroner's lunch this year and really liked it. I love Cotterill's writing style. I really want to attempt Suitable Boy. It will be quite an undertaking. It is probably the biggest book I own. I think it is a few inches thick!

This is my first Around the World in 80 Books challenge, and I'm so excited! I have a tentative list together, but will be browsing everyone's list here for more ideas! I do plan on blogging & mapping my journey here too: http://joyreads2013.tumblr.com/

So excited!