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May 15, 2017 09:00PM
Decided to do the trekker challenge again this year. Going to try not to read any of the same countries as last year except for starting in the United States.
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North America1. United States - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
2. Mexico - Day of the Dead by Kitty Williams and Stevie Mack
Latin America3. Belize - The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize by Thomas H. Guderjan
4. Guatemala - Hollow Bones by C.J. Lyons
5. El Salvador - Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya
6. Honduras - Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure by Christopher S. Stewart
Caribbean 7. Haiti - After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti by Edwidge Danticat
8. Dominican Republic - Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson
9. Puerto Rico - The Dame by Richard Stark
10. St. Lucia - A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
11. Barbados - FIRE IN THE CANES-C by Glenville Lovell
12. St. Vincent and the Grenadines - St. Vincent and the Grenadines by Mike Toy
13. Grenada - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
14. Bonaire - Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Bonaire by Tim Rock
15. Curaçao - Contemporary Curacao: A Caribbean Community by Wim Kamps
16. Aruba - Yoga Girl by Rachel Brathen
Latin America17. Venezuela - The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
18. Guyana - The Radio Detectives in the Jungle by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
19. Suriname - Monkey Love and Murder by Edith McClintock
20. French Guiana - The Jungle and the Damned by Hassoldt Davis
21. Brazil - Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
22. Bolivia - How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America by Peter Allison
23. Paraguay - The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel by Anne Enright
24. Argentina - The Clouds by Juan José Saer
25. Uruguay - The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
26. Falkland Islands - Penguin Summer by Eleanor Rice Pettingill
27. Easter Island - The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry Hunt
Oceania28. Pitcairn Island - Pitcairn Island by David Silverman
29. French Polynesia - Twenty Blue Devils by Aaron Elkins
30. Kiribati - The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
31. Marshall Islands - Missile Paradise by Ron Tanner
Asia32. Japan - The Monster on the Road Is Me by J.P. Romney
33. North Korea - Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
34. South Korea - The Ville Rat by Martin Limón
35. Taiwan - Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns by Elise Anne DeVido
Oceania36. Guam & Wake - The Long and the Short and the Tall: Marines in Combat on Guam and Iwo Jima by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
37. Micronesia - Homesick in Paradise: A Ponape Story - 1965-1967 by Jean Braden
38. Palau - Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil S. Hylton
Asia39. Philippines - All the Conspirators by Carlos Bulosan
40. Hong Kong - White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
41. Vietnam - The Quiet American by Graham Greene
42. Laos - The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
43. Cambodia - The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
44. Bangladesh - Revenge by Taslima Nasrin
45. Sri Lanka - Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
46. Maldives - Maldives by Roseline Ngcheong-Lum
Great progress! I'll have to look up some of your books from Oceania.
Africa47. Seychelles - Journey to Death by Leigh Russell
48. Mauritius - Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons by Gerald Durrell
49. Reunion Island - Bourbon Island 1730 by Lewis Trondheim
50. South Africa - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
51. Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
52. Zimbabwe - King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
53. ZambiaSafari by Parnell Hall
54. Democratic Republic of Congo - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
55. Central African Republic - Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer by Dorothy Gilman
56. Cameroon - Kindred Beings: What Seventy-Three Chimpanzees Taught Me About Life, Love, and Connection by Sheri Speede
57. Nigeria - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
58. Benin - Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin by Philip McCutchan
59. Togo - Cord of Blood: Possession and the Making of Voodoo by Nadia Lovell
60. Ghana - Death by His Grace by Kwei Quartey
Africa continued61. Burkina Faso - Folktales from the Moose of Burkina Faso by Alain-Joseph Sissao
62. Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) - Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman
63. Guinea - The Dark Child by Camara Laye
64. Senegal - He Sleeps: A Novel by Reginald McKnight
65. Canary Islands - Onslaught by Nick Oldham
Europe66. Gibraltar - Uneasy Relations by Aaron Elkins
67. Monaco - Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig
Europe ctd.68. Sardinea - Reeds in the Wind by Grazia Deledda
69. Sicily - Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism: A Novella by Mike Mignola
70. Malta - Sign of the Cross by Thomas Mogford
71. Slovenia - Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
72. Croatia - Zagreb, Exit South by Edo Popović
73. Bosnia & Herzegovina - People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
74. Serbia - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
75. Montenegro - The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
76. Kosovo - Elegy for Kosovo: Stories by Ismail Kadare
77. Macedonia - My Father's Books by Luan Starova
78. Albania - Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
Middle East79. Cyprus - Rendezvous In Cyprus by Barbara Toy
80. Syria - The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novel by Barbara Hodgson
Congrats on completing the challenge, Rachel! Doubly impressive that you did it as a Trekker. Not an easy feat!
Wow -- congratulations on you trek around the world in 2017! That's quite an impressive track you took through Africa!
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