Around the World in 80 Books discussion
ATW in 80 Books World Challenge
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Jessica - Frequent Flyer 2014
1. Asia: Singapore - Memoirs of a DJ: Life in Progress by Vernetta Lopez (01/01/14)
Total Regions: 1
Total Countries: 1
2. Europe: Ireland - The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern (04/01/14)
Total Regions: 2
Total Countries: 2
5. Europe: England - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (13/01/14)
Total Regions: 2
Total Countries: 5
6. North America: USA - four sparks fall by T.A. Noonan (13/01/14)
Total Regions: 3
Total Countries: 6
7. Europe: Netherlands - Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (16/01/14)
Total Regions: 3
Total Countries: 7
9. Latin America: Colombia - Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez (29/01/14)
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 9
10. Europe: Greenland - Greenland for $1.99 - A brief (and illustrated) account of a journey inside the Arctic Circle by Richard Starks (29/01/14)
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 10
11. North America: USA - Almost Heaven by Chris Fabry (04/02/14)
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 10
12. Africa: Nigeria - The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (05/02/14)
Total Regions: 5
Total Countries: 11
13. Antarctica - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (07/02/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 12
15. North America: USA - Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal by Toni Bentley (13/02/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 12
16. North America: USA - An Amish Family Christmas by Murray Pura (22/02/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 12
17. Europe: Poland - Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust by Eoin Dempsey (23/02/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 13
20. North America: USA - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (05/03/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 13
22. North America: USA - Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon (12/03/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 14
23. Asia: Hong Kong - The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (16/03/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 15
24. North America: USA - The Help by Kathryn Stockett (22/03/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 15
25. North America: USA - The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen (25/03/14)
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 15
26. Caribbean: Grenada - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof (28/03/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 16
Also other Caribbean islands. Counting Grenada since the couple seemed particularly fond of the place.
28. North America: USA - When The Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (06/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 17
30. North America: USA - Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall (10/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
31. North America: USA - Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen (11/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
32. North America: USA - The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister (14/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
33. Europe: France - The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais (15/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
34. North America: USA - The Underside of Joy by Seré Prince Halverson (17/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
35. Europe: England - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (20/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
36. Europe: France - The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields (21/04/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
37. North America: USA - A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball (02/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
38. North America: USA - The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty (04/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
39. Europe: England - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (08/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 18
40. Asia: North Korea - I'll Cross the River by C. Hope Flinchbaugh (09/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 19
41. North America: Canada - Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (12/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 20
43. North America: USA - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (14/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 20
44. Europe: England - The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston (19/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 20
45. North America: USA - At Home on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball (26/05/14)
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 20
46. Oceania: Australia - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (29/05/14)
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 21
47. Europe: France - The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro (31/05/14)
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 21
48. Middle East: Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (08/06/14)
Total Regions: 9
Total Countries: 22
49. Europe: England - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (13/06/14)
Total Regions: 9
Total Countries: 22
Around the World in 80 Books
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Total Regions: 9
Total Countries: 31
Total Books: 70
Africa
11. Nigeria - The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
24. Uganda - Trailing: A Memoir
Antarctica
12. Antarctica - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Asia
30. China - The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
15. Hong Kong - The Painted Veil
8. India - The Inheritance of Loss | The Lowland
26. Japan - Kokoro
29. Malaysia - The Ghost Bride
19. North Korea - I'll Cross the River
1. Singapore - Memoirs of a DJ: Life in Progress
18. Thailand - Cross Currents
Caribbean
16. Grenada - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
Europe
5. England - The Ice Cream Girls | Jane Eyre | Mariana | The Night Watch | Pride and Prejudice | Three Men in a Boat | The Uncommon Reader | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | The Witch's Daughter
14. Estonia - Purge
4. France - The Age of Desire | Chocolat | The Hundred-Foot Journey | The Perfume Collector | Sweet Serendipity
28. Greece - My Family and Other Animals
10. Greenland - Greenland for $1.99 - A brief (and illustrated) account of a journey inside the Arctic Circle
17. Iceland - Burial Rites
2. Ireland - The Book of Tomorrow
23. Italy - Beautiful Ruins
7. Netherlands - Girl With a Pearl Earring
13. Poland - Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust
3. Russia - Infinitely More
27. Scotland - The Shadowy Horses
Latin America
9. Colombia - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
The Middle East
31. Iraq - The Grand Mirage
22. Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
North America
20. Canada - Lives of Girls and Women
6. USA - Almost Heaven | At Home on Ladybug Farm | The Center of Everything | Chasing Paris | four sparks fall | The Golem and the Jinni | The Help | The Lost Art of Mixing | Lost Lake | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | Rain Village | Same Kind of Different as Me | The Sugar Queen | The Underside of Joy | When The Emperor Was Divine | A Year on Ladybug Farm
Oceania
21. Australia - A Town Like Alice | Unpolished Gem | What Alice Forgot
25. French Polynesia - The Bungalow