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1. Region: North America Country: United States (Washington, DC)
Title: The Smithsonian Institution A Novel
Author: Gore Vidal
Total Regions: 1
Total Countries: 1
2. Region: Latin AmericaCountry: Panama (Sugatupu, Kuna Yala)
Title: Seducing the Spirits
Author: Louise Young
Total Regions: 2
Total Countries: 2
3. Region: EuropeCountry: England (London)
Title: The Witch of Portobello
Author: Paulo Coelho
Total Regions: 3
Total Countries: 3
4. Region: EuropeCountry: Denmark (Frederikshavn)
Title: To Siberia
Author: Per Petterson
Total Regions: 3
Total Countries: 4
5. Region: AsiaCountry: Japan (Uta-Jima)
Title: The Sound of Waves
Author: Yukio Mishima
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 5
6. Region: EuropeCountry: Germany (Lachstetten)
Title: Knulp
Author: Hermann Hesse
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 6
7. Region: AsiaCountry: India (Samana)
Title: Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 7
8. Region: AsiaCountry: Tibet
Title: The Secret of Tibet
Author: William Dixon Bell
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 8
9. Region: AsiaCountry: Thailand, formerly Siam (Khwae Yai River)
Title: The Bridge Over the River Kwai A Novel
Author: Pierre Boulle
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 9
10. Region: EuropeCountry: Russia, formerly Soviet Union (Siberia)
Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 10
11. Region: Latin AmericaCountry: Peru (Lima)
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author: Thornton Wilder
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 11
12. Region: North AmericaCountry: Mexico
Title: Like Water for Chocolate A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Author: Laura Esquivel
Total Regions: 4
Total Countries: 12
13. Region: AfricaCountry: Olinka (a fictional conflation of many African states)
Title: Possessing the Secret of Joy
Author: Alice Walker
Total Regions: 5
Total Countries:13
14. Region: North AmericaCountry: Canada (Killick-Claw, Newfoundland)
Title: The Shipping News A Novel
Author: Annie Proulx
Total Regions: 5
Total Countries: 14
15. Region: AfricaCountry: Kenya (Laikipia)
Title: I Dreamed of Africa
Author: Kuki Gallmann
Total Regions: 5
Total Countries: 15
16. Region: AfricaCountry: Algeria (Algiers)
Title: The Stranger
Author: Albert Camus
Total Regions: 5
Total Countries: 16
17. Region: Middle EastCountry: Iran (Tehran)
Title: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 17
18. Region: EuropeCountry: Italy (Urbino)
Title: Quattrocento
Author: James McKean
Total Regions: 6
Total Countries: 18
19. Region: CaribbeanCountry: Trinidad and Tobago
Title: The Swinging Bridge
Author: Ramabai Espinet
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 19
20. Region: EuropeCountry: Poland (Auschwitz)
Title: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 20
21. Region: CaribbeanCountry: Cuba (Havana)
Title: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Author: Carlos Eire
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 21
22. Region: EuropeCountry: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)
Title: People of the Book
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 22
23. Region: Middle EastCountry: Syria
Title: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Author: Tom Robbins
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 23
24. Region: AsiaCountry: China (Beijing, formerly Kanbalu)
Title: The Travels of Marco Polo
Author: Marco Polo
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 24
25. Region: EuropeCountry: Belgium, formerly Southern Netherlands (Antwerp)
Title: Rubens
Author: Kristin Lohse Belkin
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 25
26. Region: EuropeCountry: Guernsey (St. Peter Port)
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 26
27. Region: AfricaCountry: Nambula (fictional state in North Africa)
Title: Cause Celeb
Author: Helen Fielding
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 27
28. Region: AsiaCountry: Nepal (Mt. Everest)
Title: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Author: Jon Krakauer
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 28
29. Region: AfricaCountry: Tanzania, formerly German Central Africa (Ulanga River)
Title: The African Queen
Author: C.S. Forester
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 29
30. Region: CaribbeanCountry: Haiti
Title: Tell My Horse
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Total Regions: 7
Total Countries: 30
31. Region: Oceania/AustraliaCountry: Australia (Queensland)
Title: A Town Like Alice
Author: Nevil Shute
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 31
32. Region: Latin AmericaCountry: Argentina
Title: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
Author: Jacobo Timerman
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 32
33. Region: EuropeCountry: Spain (Pamplona)
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 33
34. Region: AsiaCountry: Burma
Title: Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel
Author: Amy Tan
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 34
I've decided to continue the challenge, adding to my list from last year.35. Region: Caribbean
Country: Dominican Republic
Title: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Author: Julia Alvarez
36. Region: Africa
Country: Uganda
Title: The Last King of Scotland
Author: Giles Foden
37. Region: Latin America
Country: Colombia
Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 37
38. Region: EuropeCountry: Sweden
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 38
39. Region: AsiaCountry: Vietnam
Title: Going After Cacciato
Author: Tim O'Brien
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 39
40. Region: EuropeCountry: Hungary
Title: The Invisible Bridge
Author: Julie Orringer
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 40
41. Region: EuropeCountry: France
Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author: Muriel Barbery
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 41
42. Region: EuropeCountry: Ukraine
Title: Everything Is Illuminated
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 42
43. Region: EuropeCountry: Norway
Title: Out Stealing Horses
Author: Per Petterson
44. Region: Europe
Country: Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia (Prague)
Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Author: Milan Kundera
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 44
45. Region: EuropeCountry: Ireland (Dublin)
Title: The Van
Author: Roddy Doyle
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 45
46. Region: EuropeCountry: Austria (Vienna)
Title: The Artist's Wife
Author: Max Phillips
Total Regions: 8
Total Countries: 46
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