Around the World in 80 Books discussion

ATW Never Ending Challenge. Started in 2016. Ongoing.

In 2016, I read books from the following 27 countries: US, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Brazil, Great Britain, Denmark, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Laos, Lebanon, the Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Sudan, Switzerland and Thailand.

Continuing in 2017, I revisited Sudan:

Africa, Sudan, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (finished 16January)

Europe, Scotland, In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

Europe, France, Bird in a Cage by Frédéric Dard

Europe, Sweden, Borkmann's Point by Håkan Nesser

North America, United States, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

Europe, Great Britain, Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

North America, United States, Passing by Nella Larsen

Europe, Sweden, Who Watcheth by Helene Tursten

Asia, Pakistan, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Asia, Laos, Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill

Asia, Japan, The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura

Asia, Japan, In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

North America, U.S., The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Europe, England, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

North America, U.S., The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain

North America, U.S., The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Asia, Russia, How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

North America, United States, March: Book One by John Lewis

North America, United States, March: Book Two by John Lewis

North America, United States, March: Book Three by John Lewis

Europe, Greece, A Separation by Katie Kitamura

North America, United States, Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Middle East, Israel, The English Teacher by Yiftach Reicher Atir.

South America, Peru, Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez

Europe, Czech Republic, Prague Pictures: A Portrait of the City by John Banville

North America, United States, Quicksand by Nella Larsen

Africa, Egypt, The Night of the Dog by Michael Pearce

Europe, Ireland, The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

Europe, Switzerland, The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

North America, United Stafes, August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones

Africa, Egypt, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma by Naguib Mahfouz

Africa, Egypt, In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif

Latin America, Mexico, Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

Africa, Nigeria, Chike and the River by Chinua Achebe

Asia, Japan, Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto

Asia, Pakistan, The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam

Asia, India, Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

Asia, India, Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain

North America, U.S., Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze

Europe, Scotland, The Long Drop by Denise Mina

Asia, Pakistan, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Asia, Japan, Confessions by Kanae Minato

Asia, Indonesia, The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût (my first visit to Indonesia)

North America, U.S., Drive by James Sallis.

North America, U.S., The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Asia, Russian Federation, Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev

Europe, Poland, Entanglement by Zygmunt Miłoszewski (first visit to Poland)

Europe, Czech Republic, Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal

Europe, Great Britain, Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson