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ATW in 80 Books World Challenge
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Diane - Trekker 2013
AFRICA
36. Eritrea: A Painful Season & a Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Mother
37. Sudan: Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
38. Egypt: Justine AND Balthazar AND Cleopatra: A Life
39. Libya: The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya AND Homeless Rats
40. Algeria: The Stranger
41. Western Sahara: Sufferings in Africa
42. Morocco: The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
124. Seychelles: The Seychelles Affair
125. Mauritius: The Rape Of Sita
126. Madagascar: Over the Lip of the World
127. Mozambique: Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique
128. Swaziland: Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland
129. South Africa: July's People
130. Botswana: Twenty Chickens For A Saddle: The Story Of An African Childhood
131. Zimbabwe: King Solomon's Mines
132. Zambia: A Cowrie of Hope
133. Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
134. Tanzania: Our House in Arusha
135. Burundi: How a Boy Survived Genocide: Living with Hope
136. Rwanda: An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
137. Congo (DRC): A Bend in the River
138. Congo (Republic): Little Boys Come from the Stars
139. Cameroon: Man No Be God: Bushdoctor in Cameroon
140. Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun
141. Chad: Every Woman's Right: An Emotional Account of a Lifesaving Visit to Africa by a Welsh Nurse
ASIA
6. Japan: The Tale of Genji
7. South Korea: Your Republic Is Calling You
8. North Korea: Escape from Camp 14
9. China: Empress Orchid AND Empire of the Sun
10. Tibet: Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography
11. Mongolia: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
12. Kazakhstan: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
13. Kyrgyzstan: Roaming Kyrgyzstan: Beyond the Tourist Track
14. Uzbekistan: A Collection of Uzbek Short Stories
15. Afghanistan: The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
16. Pakistan: The Wandering Falcon
18. Azerbaijan: The Colonel's Mistake
19. Armenia: Bosphorus Nights: The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian
20. Georgia: My Dear Son
106. Taiwan: Dumpling Days
107. Macau: The Forbidden Kingdom
108. Vietnam: Dispatches
109. Philippines: Ilustrado
110. Brunei: Tribute to Brunei and Other Poems
111. Singapore: The Singapore Wink
112. Indonesia: The Forbidden Kingdom
113. Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists
114. Thailand: The Orchid House
115. Cambodia: The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
116. Laos: Thirty-Three Teeth
117. Burma: Elephant Run
118. Bangladesh: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
119. India: Midnight's Children AND Six Suspects
120. Bhutan: Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
121. Nepal: Peak
122. Sri Lanka: Reef
123. Maldives: Uncharted
ANTARCTICA
87. At the Mountains of Madness
AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
89. Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn's Island
90. French Polynesia: The Bungalow
91. Kiribati: Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
92. Tuvalu: Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society
93. American Samoa: Pago Pago Tango
94. Samoa: Afakasi Woman
95. Fiji: A Remarkable Rotuman Woman
96. Tonga: Tales of the Tikongs
97. New Zealand: The Colour
98. Australia: The Light Between Oceans
99. Vanuatu: The Coconut War: Vanuatu and the Struggle for Independence
100. Papua New Guinea: Mister Pip
101. Solomon Island: Solomon's Island
102. Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
103. Micronesia: Nowhere Slow: Eleven Years in Micronesia
104. Marshall Islands: Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
105. Guam: The Island Calls: A True-Life Novel about a Chamorro Daughter Finding Her Way Back Home
CARIBBEAN
55. Virgin Islands: On the Hard in Paradise
56. St. Martin: The Making of an Island: St. Martin
57. Anguilla: A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
58. Saba: Saba Sā-bə
59. Saint Eustatius: A Notable Occupation
60. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Rum Punch Regrets
61. Montserrat: At Home with Miss Vanesa
62. Antigua: A Small Place
63. Guadeloupe: The Zabime Sisters
64. Dominica: The Autobiography of My Mother
65. Martinique: School Days
66. Saint Lucia: White Egrets
67. Barbados: It So Happen
68. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Between Two Worlds: A Narrative
69. Grenada: Tales from the Isle of Spice: A Collection of New Caribbean Folk Tales
70. Aruba: Does This Island Go To The Bottom?
71. Bonaire: Diving Bonaire
72. Curacao: Superfecundation
73. Trinidad and Tobago: The Enigma of Arrival
EUROPE
4. Svalbard: The Solitude of Thomas Cave
5. Russia: War and Peace
43. Madeira: Last April Fair
44. Portugal: The Double
45. Spain: The Club Dumas
46. Basque Country: Obabakoak: Stories from a Village
47. France: The Three Musketeers AND Swann's Way AND Within a Budding Grove AND The Guermantes Way AND Sodom and Gomorrah AND The Captive
48. Wales: Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
49. England: Bleak House AND The Casual Vacancy AND Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
50. Scotland: Trainspotting
51. Ireland: Ulysses AND A Monster Calls
52. Northern Ireland: Home Is the Sailor: An Irish Country Doctor Story
53. Iceland: Reply to a Letter from Helga AND Journey to the Center of the Earth
142. Italy: The Name of the Rose
143. Switzerland: Daisy Miller
144. Austria: Chess Story
145. Hungary: The White Stag
146. Slovakia: Siren of the Waters
147. Czech Republic: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
148. Poland: The Devil's Arithmetic
149. Germany: The Book Thief
150. Sweden: Faceless Killers
151. Finland: The Summer Book
152. Norway: Sophie's World
LATIN AMERICA
74. French Guiana: Common Human Flesh
75. Suriname: Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
76. Guyana: A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
77. Venezuela: The Sickness
78. Colombia: Our Lady of the Assassins
79. Ecuador:The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
80. Peru: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
81. Chile: The Stories of Eva Luna
82. Bolivia: Andean Journeys: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Bolivian Poetry
83. Paraguay: No Lasting Home: A Year In The Paraguayan Wilderness
84. Brazil: The Passion According to G.H.
85. Uruguay: The Shipyard
86. Argentina: Ficciones
88. Easter Island: Life and Solitude in Easter Island
MIDDLE EAST
17. Iran: The Bathhouse: A Novel
21. Turkey: Snow
22. Cyprus: Gregory: and Other Stories AND Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
23. Syria: The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith
24. Lebanon: The Prophet
25. Israel: Barabbas
26. Palestine: Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
27. Jordan: Appointment with Death
28. Iraq: Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel
29. Kuwait: Dear Jawaher
30. Saudi Arabia: Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia
31. Bahrain: Crowded With Voices: Thirteen Years In The Middle East
32. Qatar: From Dunes to Dior
33. United Arab Emirates: Dubai Wives
34. Oman: Letters from Oman
35. Yemen: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
NORTH AMERICA (for US reads,see my posts in my US Reading Roadtrip) 
2. Canada: The Shipping News AND Anne of Avonlea AND Ru: A Novel AND Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd AND Requiem AND Mrs. Mike AND Juliet in August AND Never Cry Wolf AND The Stone Diaries AND Alias Grace AND Fall on Your Knees AND The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
1. USA: Cane
3. Greenland: Smilla's Sense of Snow
54. Bermuda: Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Started from home in Georgia, USA.1. USA:
Cane by Jean ToomerCountries Read: 1
Regions Read: 1
Books Read: 1
3. Greenland:
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter HøegBook is mostly set in Denmark, but the latter part was set in Greenland. There were also many references to Greenland throughout the book. It was a very engaging and well-written book. However, I think the end could have been better and it could have been a bit shorter.
3 Countries
1 Region
3 Books
3. Svalbard and Jan Mayen:
The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina HardingEnjoyable historical fiction about a man surviving a winter on the Arctic island of Svalbard (you can see it at the very top of my map), a territory of Norway. Why anyone would choose to rough it in the harsh cold is completely beyond me, but it makes for interesting reading.
Next up: Russia!
4 Countries
2 Regions
4 Books
5. Russia:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.Wow! What an amazing book! I thought it would be just 1200 pages of war, but it wasn't. The hardest part (in the beginning) was trying to get down all the characters and their long Russian last names. I highly recommend it!
Next up: Japan!
5 Countries
2 Regions
5 Books
6. Japan:
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuNot the easiest book to read, but very interesting. Hard to believe that this was written almost 1000 years ago.
I am really loving the trekking option. I don't know what took me so long to do it.
6 Countries
3 Regions
6 Books
8. North Korea:
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine HardenAmazing story.
Next stop: China!
8 Countries
3 Regions
8 Books
9. China:
Empress Orchid by Anchee MinI just love Chinese historical fiction! A very favorable portrayal of a woman popularly viewed to be ruthless and harsh.
Next stop: Tibet!
9 Countries
3 Regions
9 Books
10. Tibet:
Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography by Diki TseringThe life story of the Dalai Lama's mother, an amazing woman who had much hardship and suffering in her life. I can't imagine letting my 4 year-old child leave me to live in a monastery. The book provided a nice look into Tibetan culture.
Next stop: Back to China!
10 Countries
3 Regions
10 Books
Back through China on my way to Mongolia.China:
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (uncounted)Semi-autobiographical novel about an British expatriate boy in China during WWII. It is one of the 1001 books you must read before you die.
Next stop: Mongolia!
10 Countries
3 Regions
10 Books
11. Mongolia:
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack WeatherfordNext stop: Kazakhstan!
11 Countries
3 Regions
12 Books
13. Kyrgyzstan:
Roaming Kyrgyzstan: Beyond the Tourist Track by Jessica JacobsonNext stop: Uzbekistan!
13 Countries
3 Regions
14 Books
14. Uzbekistan:
A Collection of Uzbek Short Stories by Mahmuda SaydumarovaNext stop: Afghanistan!
14 Countries
3 Regions
15 Books
15. Afghanistan:
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland by Saira ShahThe author was raised in the UK and only knew of Afghanistan from her father's descriptions, which depicted it as a beautiful and almost magical place. She got to finally go to Afghanistan as an adult while working as an undercover reporter. The Afghanistan she found was much different than the Afghanistan of her father's stories and recollections.
Next stop: Pakistan!
15 Countries
3 Regions
16 Books
16. Pakistan:
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil AhmadA collection of short stories set in the FATA, the tribal lands where Pakistan meets the borders of Afghanistan and Iran.
Next stop: Iran!
16 Countries
3 Regions
18 Books
18. Azerbaijan:
The Colonel's Mistake by Dan MaylandNext stop: Armenia!
18 Countries
4 Regions
20 Books
Armenia:
Bosphorus Nights: The Complete Lyric Poems of Bedros Tourian by Bedros Tourian.Considered to be one of the best Armenian poets despite his short life (He was 21 when he died of tuberculosis). His poetry is beautiful, lyrical, and full of the pain of one who is dying young, experiencing unrequited love, and writing about a country that had recently undergone horrible violence and persecution. I wish I could read Armenian to know the original words as Tourian had written them.
Next stop: Republic of Georgia!
19 Countries
4 Regions
21 Books
20. Georgia:
My Dear Son by Keke JughashviliBiography of the young Joseph Stalin, as written by his mother.
Next stop: Turkey!
20 Countries
4 Regions
22 Books
21. Turkey:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk.I didn't think I was going to like this book, but I did. Very interesting subject matter. This is my first book by Pamuk, and I really enjoyed his writing style.
Next stop: Cyprus!
21 Countries
4 Regions
24 Books
22. Cyprus:
Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M.C. Beaton and
Gregory: and Other Stories by Panos Ioannides.I read the Agatha Raisin book first and guilted myself into reading the Ioannides book.
Next Stop: Syria!
22 Countries
4 Regions
26 Books
23. Syria:
The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith by Barbara Brown TaylorBeautifully-written memoir about the author's experiences in Syria during her time there as a Fulbright scholar.
Next stop: Lebanon!
23 Countries
4 Regions
27 Books
24. Lebanon:
The Prophet by Kahlil GibranThis book has been on my TBR list forever. I am glad to have finally read it.
Next stop: Israel!
24 Countries
4 Regions
28 Books
25. Israel:
Barabbas by Pär LagerkvistKind of lackluster book. Not sure if this is a result of the writing or the translation.
Next stop: Palestine!
25 Countries
4 Regions
29 Books
26. Palestine:
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan KanafaniWell-written novella and short stories. Lots of symbolism.
Next stop: Jordan!
26 Countries
4 Regions
30 Books
28. Iraq:
Sweet Dates in Basra: A Novel by Jessica JijiNext stop: Kuwait!
28 Countries
4 Regions
32 Books
30. Saudi Arabia:
Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin.I actually liked this book quite a bit. If you are looking to find out more about Osama Bin Laden, you won't find much about him in this book. She had very little interaction with him. This book was a good look into Saudi culture and the role of women, as seen from a European-raised woman who married into a Saudi family. I would be interested to hear a memoir from a women of a less affluent or influential family to see how much similarity there is. Although the author's life during her time in Saudi Arabia was very restricted, she had a lot of perks that a poor woman would not have.
Next Stop: Bahrain!
30 Countries
4 Regions
34 Books
31. Bahrain:
Crowded With Voices: Thirteen Years In The Middle East by Katherine ChaudhriNext stop: Qatar!
31 Countries
4 Regions
35 Books
32. Qatar:
From Dunes to Dior by Mohanalakshmi RajakumarI enjoyed this memoir about the author's experiences as an expat in Qatar as a woman of Indian descent moving into a job usually held by men in that country.
Next stop: United Arab Emirates!
32 Countries
4 Regions
36 Books
33. United Arab Emirates:
Dubai Wives by Zvezdana RashkovichNext Stop: Oman!
33 Countries
4 Regions
37 Books
35. Yemen:
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer SteilThe author of this book is a good writer. The book held my interest the whole way. The ending however, made me take a whole star off the rating.
Next stop: Eritrea!
35 Countries
4 Regions
39 Books
36. Eritrea:
A Painful Season & a Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Mother by Abeba TesfagiorgisNext stop: Sudan!
36 Countries
5 Regions
40 Books
37. Sudan:
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir.Next stop: Egypt!
37 Countries
5 Regions
40 Books
38. Egypt:
Justine by Lawrence DurrellEgypt:
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
Cleopatra: A Life by Cleopatra: A LifeNext stop: Libya!
38 Countries
5 Regions
44 Books
39. Libya:
The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya by Ibrahim al-KoniNext stop: Algeria!
39 Countries
5 Regions
45 Books
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