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BOOKS READ:
36............... CURRENT YEAR - 2025
329 .......... TOTAL TO DATE
These numbers do not include any US books. Values coincide with my numbers for the Read Around the World challenge (RAWC) from https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.com/
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🌍 Completed: 19 / 54 countries
🌍 Algeria: Our Riches, -2025, translated
🌍 Angola: A General Theory of Oblivion. -2025, translated
BENIN:
BOTSWANA:
🌍 BURKINA FASO: So Distant from my Life, -2025, translated
BURUNDI:
🌍 CAMEROON : Behold the Dreamers, -2018
CAPE VERDE:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC:
CHAD:
COMOROS:
CONGO:
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUB OF:
DJIBOUTI:
🌍 EGYPT : What Strange Paradise, -2023
EQUATORIAL GUINEA:
ERITREA:
🌍 ETHIOPIA : Cutting for Stone, -2017
GABON:
GAMBIA :
🌍 GHANA : Homegoing, -2021
GUINEA, Republic of:
GUINEA-BISSAU:
🌍 IVORY COAST: Aya, -2025, translated
KENYA:
LESOTHO:
🌍 LIBERIA: The Dragons, the Giant, and the Women, -2024
LIBYA:
MADAGASCAR:
MALAWI:
MALI:
MAURITANIA:
🌍 MAURITIUS : The Last Brother, -2023, translated
🌍 MOROCCO : The Other Americans, -2020
MOZAMBIQUE:
🌍 NAMIBIA: The Purple Violets of Oshaantu, -2025, translated
NIGER:
🌍 NIGERIA: Stay with Me, -2022
🌍 RWANDA : All Your Children, Scattered, -2023, translated
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE:
SENEGAL:
SEYCHELLES:
SIERRA LEONE:
SOMALIA:
🌍 SOUTH AFRICA : Born a Crime, -2019
SOUTH SUDAN:
🌍 SUDAN: Something Evergreen Called Life, -2025, translated
🌍 SWAZILAND: A Beautiful Place to Die, -2024
TANZANIA:
TOGO:
TUNISIA:
UGANDA:
🌍 ZAMBIA: A Cowrie of Hope, -2024
🌍 ZIMBABWE : The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, -2016
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🌍 Completed: 28 / 49
🌍 AFGHANISTAN : Sea Prayer, -2018
🌍 ARMENIA: Three Apples Fell From the Sky, -2024, translated
🌍 AZERBAIJAN: Ali and Nino, -2025, translated
BAHRAIN:
🌍 BANGLADESH: The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, -2024, translated
BHUTAN:
BRUNEI:
CAMBODIA:
🌍 CHINA : Legend, -2016
🌍 GEORGIA: The Winter Queen, -2017, translated
🌍 INDIA : Fences, -2018, translated
🌍 INDONESIA : The Ten Thousand Things, -2016, translated
🌍 IRAN: Funny in Farsi, -2016
IRAQ:
🌍 ISRAEL : The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, -2016, translated
🌍 JAPAN : Before the Coffee Gets Cold, -2022, translated
JORDAN:
KAZAKHSTAN:
KUWAIT:
🌍 KYRGYZSTAN: Jamilia, -2024, translated
LAOS :
🌍 LEBANON : The Prophet, -1972
🌍 MALAYSIA: Evening is the Whole Day, -2016
MALDIVES:
MONGOLIA:
🌍 MYANMAR : Night Birds and Other Stories, -2023, translated
NEPAL:
NORTH KOREA:
🌍 OMAN : Celestial Bodies, -2020, translated
🌍 PAKISTAN : Exit West, -2017
🌍 PALESTINE : We Could Have Been Friends, my Father and I, -2024
🌍 PHILIPPINES : Smaller and Smaller Circles, -2020, translated
QATAR:
SAUDI ARABIA:
🌍 SINGAPORE : Crazy Rich Asians, -2021
🌍 SOUTH KOREA : The Old Woman with the Knife, -2023, translated
🌍 SRI LANKA: Anil's Ghost, -2016
SYRIA :
🌍 TAIWAN: Taiwan Travelogue, -2025, translated
TAJIKISTAN:
🌍 THAILAND: How to Pronounce Knife, -2024
TIMOR-LESTE:
🌍 TURKEY : The Stationery Shop, -2022
TURKMENISTAN:
🌍 United Arab Emirates (UAE): Lailah's Lunchbox, -2024
🌍 UZBEKISTAN: Mothersland, -2025, translated
VIETNAM:
🌍 YEMEN: A Land Without Jasmine, -2024, translated
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🌍 Completed: 29 / 49
ALBANIA:
ANDORRA:
🌍 AUSTRIA : Chess Story, -2016, translated
BELARUS:
🌍 BELGIUM : Pietr the Latvian , -2018, translated
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA:
🌍 BULGARIA : A Ballad for Georg Henig, -2023, translated
CROATIA :
🌍 CYPRUS: The Fury, -2024
CZECH REPUBLIC:
🌍 DENMARK : The Keeper of Lost Causes, -2022, translated
🌍 ENGLAND: Nine Lessons, -2024
ESTONIA:
🌍 FINLAND : The Summer Book, -2023, translated
🌍 FRANCE : The Mad Women's Ball, -2022, translated
🌍 GERMANY : The Little Paris Bookshop, -2017, translated
GREECE:
🌍 HUNGARY : Abigail, -2024, translated
🌍 ICELAND: Hotel Silence, -2025, translated
🌍 IRELAND : Foster, -2024
🌍 ITALY : Happiness, As Such, -2021, translated
KOSOVO:
LATVIA:
LIECHTENSTEIN:
LITHUANIA:
🌍 LUXEMBOURG: The Pleasure of Drowning, -2025, translated
MALTA:
MOLDOVA:
MONACO:
🌍 MONTENEGRO : The Apology and the Last Days, -2024, translated
🌍 NETHERLANDS : The Dinner, -2017
NORTH MACEDONIA:
🌍 NORTHERN IRELAND: The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe, -2016
🌍 NORWAY : Brightly Shining, -2024, translated
🌍 POLAND : Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, -2020, translated
PORTUGAL:
ROMANIA:
🌍 RUSSIA : White Shanghai, -2019
SAN MARINO:
🌍 SCOTLAND: A Study in Scarlet, -2025
🌍 SERBIA : The Tiger's Wife, -2017
🌍 SLOVAKIA: Seeing People Off, -2024, translated
SLOVENIA:
🌍 SPAIN : The Shadow of the Wind, -2024, translated
🌍 SWEDEN : Anxious People, -2021, translated
🌍 SWITZERLAND: Agnes, -2024
🌍 UKRAINE: Suite Francaise, -2009, translated
🌍 VATICAN CITY: In My Own Words by Pope John Paul II, -2025, translated
🌍 WALES: No Refuge, -2024
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🌍 Completed: 13 / 24
🌍 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA : A Small Place, -2023
🌍 BAHAMAS: Blind Sight, -2024
🌍 BARBADOS : The Woman Next Door, -2025, translated
BELIZE:
🌍 CANADA : Kingdom of the Blind, -2020
COSTA RICA:
CUBA :
🌍 DOMINICA: It Falls Into Place, -2024
🌍 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC : Islandborn, -2024
EL SALVADOR:
GREENLAND:
GRENADA AND CARRIACUOU:
GUATEMALA:
🌍 HAITI: Everything Inside, -2025
🌍 HONDURAS : Don't Be Afraid, Gringo, -2023, translated
🌍 JAMAICA : The Sun is Also a Star, -2017
🌍 MEXICO : The Murmur of Bees, -2021, translated
🌍 NICARAGUA: Ashes of Izalko, -2025, translated
PANAMA:
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS:
ST VINCENT:
ST. LUCIA:
🌍 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Golden Child, -2025
🌍 USA: The 1619 Project, -2022
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🌍Completed: 5 /14
🌍 AUSTRALIA : Force of Nature, -2022
🌍 FIJI: A Disappearance in Fiji, -2024
KIRIBATI:
MARSHALL ISLANDS:
MICRONESIA:
NAURU:
🌍 NEW ZEALAND : The Whale Rider, -2023
🌍 PALAU: The Paulaun Arts, -2024
PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
🌍 SAMOA: The Girl in the Moon Circle, -2025
SOLOMON ISLANDS:
TONGA:
TUVALU:
VANUATU:
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🌍 Completed: 7 / 14
🌍 ARGENTINA : Fever Dream, -2017
BOLIVIA:
🌍 BRAZIL : My Sweet Orange Tree, -2021, translated
CHILE :
🌍 COLOMBIA : Love in the Time of Cholera, -2014, translated
CURACAO:
🌍 ECUADOR: The Undocumented Americans, -2022
FRENCH GUIANA:
GUYANA:
PARAGUAY:
🌍 PERU: My Invented Country, -2021, translated
🌍 SURINAME: The Cost of Sugar, -2024, translated
URUGUAY:
🌍 VENEZUELA: It Would Be Night in Caracas, -2024, translated
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some of these books are based on the setting rather than the author's country of birth. As such they are then not included in the totals by continent
☀ AFGHANISTAN: Sea Prayer -2018
☀ AUSTRIA: Chess Story -2016. translated
☀ BELGIUM: Pietr the Latvian - 2018, translated
☀ CAMEROON: Behold the Dreamers -2018
☀ CHINA: White Shanghai -2019
☀ COLUMBIA: Love in the Time of Cholera -2014
☀ ETHIOPIA: Cutting for Stone Paperback -2017
☀ GEORGIA: The Winter Queen -2017
☀ GERMANY: The Little Paris Bookshop -2017, translated
☀ INDONESIA: The Ten Thousand Things -2016
☀ IRAQ: The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
☀ ISRAEL: The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem -2016, translated
☀ JAMAICA: The Sun Is Also a Star -2017
☀ KENYA: Out of Africa -2018
☀ MALAYSIA: Evening Is the Whole Day -2016
☀ NETHERLANDS: The Dinner -2017
☀ NORTHERN IRELAND: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -2016
☀ PAKISTAN: Exit West -2017
☀ PALESTINE: Salt Houses -2018
☀ SERBIA: The Tiger's Wife -2017
☀ SOUTH AFRICA: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood -2019
☀ SRI LANKA: Anil's Ghost -2016
☀ ZIMBABWE: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith -2016
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some of these books are based on the setting rather than the author's country of birth. As such they are then not included in the totals by continent
☀ CANADA: Kingdom of the Blind
☀ GREECE: Corelli's Mandolin
☀ MOROCCO: The Other Americans
☀ OMAN: Celestial Bodies, translated
☀ PHILIPPINES: Smaller and Smaller Circles, translated
☀ POLAND: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, translated
☀ RUSSIA: Daughters of the Night Sky
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some of these books are based on the setting rather than the author's country of birth. As such they are then not included in the totals by continent
☀ BRAZIL: My Sweet Orange Tree, translated
☀ CHILE: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile, translated
☀ GHANA: Homegoing
☀ INDIA: The Bombay Prince
☀ IRAN: The Stationery Shop
☀ ITALY: Happiness, as Such, translated
☀ MEXICO: The Murmur of Bees, translated
☀ NORWAY: Will and Testament, translated
☀ SINGAPORE: Crazy Rich Asians
☀ SWEDEN: Anxious People, translated
☀ SYRIA: Other Words for Home
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some of these books are based on the setting rather than the author's country of birth. As such they are then not included in the totals by continent
☀ AUSTRALIA: Force of Nature
☀ BARBADOS: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
☀ BURKINO FASO: American Spy
☀ CROATIA: Girl at War
☀ CUBA: Of Women and Salt
☀ DENMARK: The Keeper of Lost Causes, translated
☀ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Yo!
☀ ENGLAND : Nine Lessons
☀ FRANCE: The Mad Women's Ball, translated
☀ IRELAND: A Keeper
☀ JAPAN: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated
☀ LAOS: The Coroner's Lunch
☀ NIGERIA: Stay with Me
☀ SCOTLAND: The Quiet Side of Passion
☀ TURKEY: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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some of these books are based on the setting rather than the author's country of birth. As such they are then not included in the totals by continent
☀ Antigua/Barbuda: A Small Place
☀ Argentina: Who Is Vera Kelly?
☀ Bulgaria: A Ballad for Georg Henig, translated
☀ Egypt: What Strange Paradise
☀ Finland: The Summer Book, translated
☀ Honduras: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo, translated
☀ Mauritius: The Last Brother, translated
☀ Myanmar (Burma): Night Birds and Other Stories, translated
☀ New Zealand: The Whale Rider
☀ Peru: The Bedlam Stacks
☀ Rwanda: All Your Children, Scattered, translated
☀ South Korea: The Old Woman with the Knife, translated
☀ Tanzania: The Lioness
☀ Ukraine: The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
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........Total: 85 / 203
some of these books are based on the setting rather than the author's country of birth. As such they are then not included in the totals by continent
☀ Algeria: The Art of Losing, translated
☀ Armenia: Three Apples Fell from the Sky, translated
☀ Bahamas: Blind Sight
☀ Bangladesh: The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, translated
☀ Costa Rica: Where There Was Fire
☀ Cyprus: The Fury
☀ Dominica: It Falls Into Place: The Short Stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey
☀ Eswatini (Swaziland): A Beautiful Place to Die
☀ Fiji: A Disappearance in Fiji
☀ Guatemala: Daughter of Fire
☀ Hungary: Abigail, translated
☀ Kiribati: Food of Ghosts
☀ Kyrgyzstan: Jamilia, translated
☀ Laos: How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
☀ Liberia: The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
☀ Mali: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
☀ Montenegro: The Apology and the Last Days: A Novel, translated
☀ Palau: The Palauan Arts
☀ Slovakia: Seeing People Off, translated
☀ Spain: Garden by the Sea, translated
☀ Suriname: The Cost of Sugar, translated
☀ Switzerland: Hotel du Lac
☀ United Arab Emirates: Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story
☀ Venezuela: It Would Be Night in Caracas, translated
☀ Vietnam: The Women
☀ Wales: No Refuge
☀ Yemen: A Land Without Jasmine, translated
☀ Zambia: A Cowrie of Hope
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........Total books to date: 329
does not include any US books read, not all England books
☀ Algeria: Our Riches, translated
☀ Angola, A General Theory of Oblivion, translated
☀ Australia: G'Day to Die
☀ Australia: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
☀ Australia: Wild Dark Shore
☀ Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino: A Love Story, translated
☀ Barbados: The Woman Next Door
☀ Belarus: The Extinction of Irena Rey
☀ Burkina Faso: So Distant From My Life, translated
☀ Canada: Cut and Thirst
☀ Canada: The Maid's Secret
☀ China: A Study in Scarlet Women
☀ Congo: A Burnt-Out Case
☀ Cote de Ivoire: Aya, translated
☀ England: The Echoes
☀ Finland: The Man Who Died, translated
☀ Haiti: Everything Inside
☀ Haiti: Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
☀ Iceland: Hotel Silence, translated
☀ Iran: Everything Sad Is Untrue
☀ Iran: The House On Sun Street
☀ Ireland: Only The Stones Never Die
☀ Italy: The Little Virtues, translated
☀ Japan: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, translated
☀ Lebanon: A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return, translated
☀ Luxembourg: The Pleasure of Drowning, translated
☀ Morocco: The Dream Hotel
☀ Mozambique, Neighbours: The Story of a Murder, translated
☀ Namibia: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu, translated
☀ New Zealand: Death at the Bar
☀ Nicaragua: Ashes of Izalco, translated
☀ Pakistan: We Are Displaced
☀ Pakistan: The Last White Man
☀ Russia: Baba Dunja's Last Love, translated
☀ Samoa: The Girl in the Moon Circle
☀ Scotland: A Study in ScarletA Study in Scarlet ,
☀ S. Korea: Banned Book Club
☀ S. Korea: Years and Years, translated
☀ Sudan: Something Evergreen Called Life, translated
☀ Taiwan: Taiwan Travelogue, translated
☀ Trinidad and Tobago: Golden Child
☀ Uzbekistan: Mothersland, translated
☀ Vanuatu: Road No Good
☀ Vatican City: Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words
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COUNTRIES READ:
18 ............... CURRENT YEAR - 2025
102 / 204 .......... TOTAL TO DATE
see personal spreadsheet for details
I've switched mine up a bit. Although I will read books that are "set" in any of the countries, I'm only counting as completed those countries in which the author is born, regardless of the setting. Just attempting to make my reporting life easier...