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Let's challenge ourselves to read books from all 7 continents this year.

In case you need a refresher here are the continents
Africa, South America, North America, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, Australia

Bronze: 7
Silver: 10
Gold: 15
Platinum: 20+ (Made a few changes on this one for the amount of books per level)

Ooooh I like this challenge! Are there any books written about Antarctica though?

Anastasia wrote: "Ooooh I like this challenge! Are there any books written about Antarctica though?"

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

http://www.ranker.com/list/books-abou...


http://www.coolantarctica.com/Shop/bu...

https://www.homeschoolingdownunder.co...

https://www.theadventurejunkies.com/b...

Thanks for the list. I sm was like, Antarctica? what am I gonna do with that!?! lol

I'm probably being really dense. How do you earn more than 7 points, e.g, one for a book read on each of the continents?

Carol wrote: "I'm probably being really dense. How do you earn more than 7 points, e.g, one for a book read on each of the continents?"

Their not points. Just how many books you are willing to read. You can read bronze which would be 7 book (one on each continent, or Silver is ten books, on of each continent and then 3 extra books which could be 2 more books that take place in Asia or wherever etc. Hope I answered your question. If not let me know.

Also here is a list of novels that take place in Antarctica on goodreads. And Here is one for Antarctica.

kisha wrote: "Carol wrote: "I'm probably being really dense. How do you earn more than 7 points, e.g, one for a book read on each of the continents?"

Their not points. Just how many books you are willing to rea..."

You did. thanks, Kisha!

I'll try for platinum.

Africa - (Sudan) Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (finished January); (Egypt) The Night of the Dog by Michael Pearce (finished April); (Egypt) The Journey of Ibn Fattouma by Naguib Mahfouz (finished April); (Egypt) In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif (finished April); (Nigeria) Chike and the River by Chinua Achebe (finished May); The Fig Tree Murder by Michael Pearce (finished August); (Morocco) The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne (finished September)

North America - (U.S.) The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (finished Feb); (U.S.) Passing by Nella Larsen (finished Feb); (U.S.) The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain (finished Feb); (U.S.) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (finished Feb); (U.S.) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (finished Feb); March: Book One by John Lewis (finished March); March: Book Two by John Lewis (finished March); March: Book Three by John Lewis(finished March); (U.S.) Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (finished April); (U.S.) Quicksand by Nella Larsen (finished April); (Mexico) Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (finished May); (United States) Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze (finished May); (U.S.) Drive by James Sallis (finished June); (U.S.) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (finished June); (U.S.) There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker(finished June); (U.S.) So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (finished June); (U.S.) In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes (finished July); (U.S.) The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie (finished August); (U.S.) Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (finished August); (U.S.)What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons (finished August); (U.S.) Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether (finished October); (U.S.) Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (finished October); (U.S.) The Long-Legged Fly by James Sallis (finished October); (U.S.) 61 Hours by Lee Child (finished November); (U.S.) American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse (finished November); (U.S.) Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing (finished November); (U.S.) The Midnight Line by Lee Child (finished December); (U.S.) Family by J. California Cooper (finished December); (US) Mood Indigo by Ed Ifkovic (finished December)

Europe - (France) Bird in a Cage by Frédéric Dard (finished January); (Great Britain) Five Children and It by E. Nesbit ( finished February); (Sweden) Borkmann's Point by Håkan Nesser (finished January); (Scotland) In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride (finished January); (Sweden) Who Watcheth by Helene Tursten (finished February); Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (finished March); (Greece) A Separation by Katie Kitamura (finished March); (Ireland) The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black (finished April); (Switzerland) The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (finished April); (Scotland) The Long Drop by Denise Mina (finished May); (Poland) Entanglement by Zygmunt Miłoszewski (finished June); (Czech Republic) Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal (finished June); (U.K.) Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson (finished June); (Serbia) The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto (finished July); (Greece) Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne (finished August); (Poland) A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miłoszewski (finished September); (Sweden) Unlucky Lottery by Håkan Nesser (finished September); (France) In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano (finished October); (Bosnia and Herzegovina) A Death in Sarajevo by Ausma Zehanat Khan(finished October); (England & Poland) Where the Devil Can't Go by Anya Lipska(finished October); (Sweden) The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten (finished November); (Switzerland) The Chinaman by Friedrich Glauser (finished November); (France) The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier (finished November); (England) A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (finished November); (Ireland) Smile by Roddy Doyle (finished December); (England) Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (finished December); (England) The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (finished December); (Iceland) The Legacy: A Thriller by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (finished December); (England) The Alphabet of Heart's Desire by Brian Keaney (finished December)

Australia:

South America: (Peru) Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez (finished April); (Uruguay) The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi (finished September); (Colombia) Three Minutes by Anders Roslund (finished October)

Asia - (Japan) The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura(finished Feb); (Laos) Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (finished Feb); (Japan) In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (finished Feb); (Pakistan) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (finished Feb); (Israel and an unnamed Arab country) The English Teacher by Yiftach Reicher Atir (finished April); (Japan) Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto (finished May); (Pakistan) The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam (finished May); (India) Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag (finished May); (India) Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain (finished May); (Pakistan) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (finished June); (Japan) Confessions by Kanae Minato (finished June); (Indonesia) The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût (finished June); (Japan) Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (finished July); (India) A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (finished July); (Indonesia) Yesterday by Maria Dermoût(finished July); (Iran)Refuge by Dina Nayeri (finished August); (Lebanon) Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani (finished August); (Uzbekistan) A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori (finished August); (Japan) Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe (finished in September); (Lebanon) The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh (finished in September); (Lebanon) An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (finished in September); (Japan) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima (finished in October); (China and Hong Kong) The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne (finished in October); (Israel)Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (finished in October); (Japan) Hotel Iris by Yōko Ogawa (finished November); (Japan) Audition by Ryū Murakami (finished November); (Japan) Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara (finished November); (Thailand) For the Dead by Timothy Hallinan (finished November); (Japan) Revenge by Yōko Ogawa (finished November); (Saudi Arabia) Kingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris (finished November); (Japan) In Black and White by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (finished December)


Antarctica:

I'm going to aim for platinum...

North America:
1. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
2. Push by Sapphire
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
4. Life of a Church Girl: When the Wolf Lives with Riding Hood by MelissaDavis
5. Sula by Toni Morrison
6. Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson
7. The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
8. Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
9. The Shack by William Paul Young
10. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
11. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
12. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
13. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
14. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
15. Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
16. A Piece of Mine: Stories by J. California Cooper
17. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
18. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
19. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
20. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
21. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
22. The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda
23. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
24. The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

South America:

Europe:
1. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
2. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

Africa:
1. Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
2. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Asia:
1. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Australia:

Antarctica:

I'm gonna try for Silver.

Africa. Beast of No Nation and Black Mamba Boy (Somalia)
North America. The Book of Night Women, and A Brief History of Seven Killings Jamaica
South America.
Europe. Jane Eyre, United Kingdom
Asia.
Australia.
Antarctica.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions.

Here's the widget if you're like me and prefer to use that: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Carol wrote: "I'll try for platinum.

Africa - (Sudan) Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (finished January); (Egypt) The Night of the Dog by [author:Mich..."

Super helpful lists, Thank you so much. I'm borrowing ideas here. Love the continents idea.

Carol wrote: "I'll try for platinum.

Africa - (Sudan) Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (finished January); (Egypt) The Night of the Dog by [author:Mich..."

Great list. Now to figure out where to start....

Joy wrote: "Carol wrote: "I'll try for platinum.

Africa - (Sudan) Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (finished January); (Egypt) The Night of the Dog b..."

Anywhere! That's the most freeing part ....