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To Boldly Go - 2023

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active. You must choose a goal for the challenge.
2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update.
The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.
Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!
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Participants:
Agnieszka - 16 / 20
Alison - 24 / 30
Allie - 35 / 30
Amy (msg 9) - 30 / 40
AnnaG - 0 / 30
Anu - 3 / 76
Brittany - 12 / 15
Caraina - 0 / 20
Carmen - 163 / 180
Carol - 77 / 40
Carri Carey - 41 / 40
Chrissie - 22 / 22
Christina - 0 / 10
Cosmic - 0 / 20
Diane L - 0 / 24
Exokiwi - 16 / 10
Gail W - 36 / 25
Gretchen - 2 / 10
Hina - 2 / 10
Insiyah - 0 / 25
Izajen - 5 / 36
Jenn - 44 / 249
Jennifer - 1 / 23
JenniferJ - 0 / 20
Jess - 11 / 25
Joy D - 24 / 24
Karen - 10 / 10
Karin - 19 / 20
Kendra - 82 / 50
Kristin - 12 / 15
Kristina - 47 / 45
Kylie - 3 / 20
Laurie - 36 / 23
Lina - 35 / 30
Linda - 8 / 5
Lisa - 27 / 10
Lorraine - 50 / 50
Lucy-Bookworm - 12 / 12
Manda - 14 / 18
Margie - 84 / 75
Marissa - 11 / 20
Marta - 11 / 40
Martha - 0 / 24
Meera - 2 / 12
Melissa - 15 / 15
Michelle - 0 / ?
Nat - 0 / 30
Nicole - 17 / 15
P'cola - 7 / 24
Patricia - 2 / 12
QueenEternity - 0 / 20
Rachael - 7 / 25
Raluca - 0 / 16
ReGina - 14 / 12
Rina - 20 / 20
Roevardotter - 20 / 20
S - 0 / 25
Sara - 8 / 10
Sarah (msg 27) - 0 / 50
Sarah (msg 28) - 28 / 28
SarahKat - 35 / 30
Shalini - 24 / 24
Shari - 27 / 50
Sheila - 20 / 25
Sherri - 45 / 10
Suman - 2 / 15
Suzanne - 0 / 30
Tania - 2 / 80
Terry - 0 / 24
TerryJane - 66 / 40
Ursula - 24 / 24
Valerie (msg 29) - 40 / 40
Valerie (msg 54) - 0 / 20
Zeejane - 2 / 20

To Boldly Go
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2023
Progress: 14/20
Canada
1. Mass Effect: Revelation by Drew Karpyshyn (2/3)
England
1. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (4/22)
2. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (4/23)
France
1. A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley (1/29)
Ireland
1. Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (2/28)
2. Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch (5/15)
Italy
1. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (4/9)
Japan
1. Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda (1/3)
Mexico
1. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (5/5)
Pakistan
1. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (5/17)
Sweden
1. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (10/19)
United States
1. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (1/6)
2. Lucky Caller by Emma Mills (1/22)
Wales
1. The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage (2/14)

Progress: 0/24
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Americas:
Asia:
Europe:
Antarctica & Oceania:

Books:
1. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - London, England (Read 02-Jan-2022)
2. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary - London, England (Read 03-Jan-2022)
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (Read 23-Jan-2023)
4. Maurice - E.M. Forster - London, England
5. Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence - England
6. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - France
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - Germany
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Countries:
1. England - Open Water, The Flatshare
2. US - Breakfast at Tiffany's
3. France
4. Germany - All Quiet on the Western Front
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Challenge completed! (extras listed at the bottom)
Reading Progress by # of books: 40/40 finished 7/1/23
# of extra countries/books: 37 for a total of 77 books in all
EXTRA COUNTRIES/BOOKS COMPLETED as of 12/4/23
Countries Visited: 20/20
Total countries by continents (20 total):
Africa: 2/2
Kenya
Nigeria
Americas: 5/5
Brazil
Canada
Dominican Republic
Honduras
USA
Asia: 2/2
Japan
Turkey
Europe: 10/10
Bulgaria
France
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
UK
Antarctica & Oceania: 1/1
New Zealand
Planned list of books by country (20/20 total countries completed)
Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage - finished 4/30/23
The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish - finished 4/6/23
Dobry by Monica Shannon - finished 2/2/23
The Zakhov Mission by Andrey Gulyashki - finished 3/24/23
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny - finished 1/5/23
Night's Child by Maureen Jennings - finished 4/7/23
Sins in the Sun by Claude Bouchard - finished 7/1/23
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht - finished 3/22/23
The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - finished 1/23/23
Just Follow The Money by Jinx Schwartz - finished 1/31/23
Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece by Friedrich Hölderlin - finished 1/3/23
Murder in Mykonos by Jeffrey Siger - finished 4/29/23
The Voice Inside My Head by S.J. Laidlaw - finished 1/12/23
The Hieroglyphic Staircase by Marjorie Thelen - finished 4/8/23
The Good Master by Kate Seredy - finished 4/3/23
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai - finished 5/13/23
The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum - finished 1/25/23
Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien - finished 2/12/23
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth - finished 3/26/23
The Dragon Scroll by I.J. Parker - finished 4/4/23
Deadly Safari by Karin McQuillan - finished 4/5/23
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton - finished 2/5/23
The Black Mountain by Rex Stout - finished 1/8/23
The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš - finished 6/26/23
A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda van Stockum - finished 5/2/23
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - finished 6/5/23
Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh - finished 1/30/23
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh - finished 4/10/23
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best - finished 2/3/23
Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle - finished 3/30/23
Hunger by Knut Hamsun - finished 1/2/23
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth - finished 5/9/23
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - finished 1/7/23
Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski - finished 4/14/23
The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat
Somer - finished 1/1/23
Greenmantle by John Buchan - finished 4/20/23
The Rose and the Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott - finished 1/4/23
The Man of Feeling by Henry MacKenzie - finished 1/11/23
Conversations with Rabbi Small by Harry Kemelman - finished 1/6/23
Dog Gone Lies by Ted Clifton - finished 1/6/23
EXTRA COUNTRIES/BOOKS:
1. Lithuania (Europe) - Stalemate by Icchokas Meras - finished 7/11/23
2. United States Minor Outlying Islands AKA Pacific Remote Islands -specifically Wake Island (Oceania) - To Wake Island and Beyond : Reminisces by BGen Woodrow M. Kessler USMC-R - finished 7/12/23
3. Cayman Islands (Americas) - Grand Cayman Slam by Randy Wayne White - finished 7/13/23
4. Guam (Oceania) - Guam by William Lutz - finished 7/14/23
5. Caribbean Netherlands - Sint Eustatius (Americas) - St. Eustatius: A short history of the island and its monuments by Y Attema - finished 7/19/23
6. Bermuda (Americas) - Bermuda Grass by Keith Miles - finished 7/25/23
7. Wallis and Futuna (Oceania) - Where's Wallis? by Brian Thacker - finished 8/3/23
8. Marshall Islands (Oceania) - Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll by James P. Delgado - finished 8/9/23
9. Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Oceania) - Fourteen Men; the Story of the Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island by William Arthur Cn Scholes - finished 8/17/23
10. Papua New Guinea (Oceania) - Maiba, a Papuan Novel by Russell Soaba - finished 8/18/23
11. Niue (Oceania) - History & Traditions of Niue by E.M. Loeb - finished 8/23/23
12. Aland Islands (Europe) - The Ice Cage by Olivier Nilsson-Julien - finished 8/24/23
13. Tokelau (Oceania) - Ethnology of Tokelau Islands by Gordon MacGregor - finished 8/25/23
14. Cook Islands (Oceania) - Nightdancer by Garry Kilworth - finished 8/27/23
15. Norfolk Island (Oceania) - A Ring Through Time by Felicity Pulman - finished 8/31/23
16. Macedonia (Europe) - The Day the Earth Shook. by Jacqueline Cervon - finished 9/3/23
17. Sint Maarten (Americas) - History of Sint Maarten and Saint Martin by J. Hartog - finished 9/4/23
18. St. Martin (Americas) - National Symbols of St. Martin - A Primer by Lasana M. Sekou - finished 9/7/23
19. American Samoa (Oceania) - Natural History Guide to American Samoa by P. Craig - finished 9/10/23
20. Turks and Caicos Islands (Americas) - Blood and Belonging by Vicki Delany - finished 9/11/23
21. Aruba (Americas) - Tropical Kiss by Jan Coffey - finished 9/13/23
22. St. Helena (Africa) - Saint Helena, little island / translated from the Russian of M.A. Aldanov by A.E. Chamot. 1924 Leather Bound by -. Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich - finished 9/14/23
23. Bhutan (Asia) - Samu-Shamu: The Sonam Stories by Suzie Sims-Fletcher - finished 9/15/23
24. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Americas) - Ghost Stories of Old: A Villagers Tail by H.I. Ithamar Charles - finished 9/15/23
25. Andorra (Europe) - Andorra by Peter Cameron - finished 9/17/23
26. Estonia (Europe) - The Conspiracy & Other Stories by Jaan Kross - finished 9/17/23
27. Comoros (Africa) - Comoros Islands - A travelogue by Sean McGrath - finished 9/18/23
28. Falkland Islands (Americas) - Falkland Islanders at War by Graham Bound - finished 9/22/23
29. Guadeloupe (Americas) - Devil's Dance by Gisèle Pineau- finished 9/22/23
30. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park - finished 11/15/23
31. Curacao (Americas) - The Cay by Theodore Taylor - finished 11/18/23
32. Ocean Island and Nauru; Their Story by Albert Fuller Ellis - finished 11/21/23
33. Djibouti by Elmore Leonard - finished 11/24/23
34. Christmas Island - The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time by J. Haggas - finished 11/28/23
35. Pitcairn's Island by Charles Bernard Nordhoff - finished 11/30/23
36. Tanna Times: Islanders in the World by Lamont Lindstrom - finished 12/02/23
37. The Cocos Islands Mutiny by Noel Crusz - finished 12/04/23

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Countries:
1. United States-- The Floating World (Americas)
2. Mexico-- Authentically Mexican: A Family History in Six Dishes (Americas)
3. England-- Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (Europe)
4. Sweden-- The Man Who Smiled (Europe)
5. Thailand-- Happiness for Humans (Asia)
6. France-- Where The Wild Cherries Grow (Europe)
7. Canada-- It Happened One Christmas (Americas)
8. Poland-- The Kites (Europe)
9. The Bahamas-- Wherever the Wind Takes Us (Americas)
10. Spain: The Sun Also Rises (Europe)
11. Moldava: The Sisters of the Winter Wood (Europe)
12. Japan: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel (Asia)
13. Haiti (Tortuga): Second Star to the Left (Americas)
14. Korea: The Comeback (Asia)
15. Greece: Greeks Bearing Gifts (Europe)
16. Democratic Republic of Congo: Dis' Taste (Africa)
17. Scotland: The Missing Years (Europe)
18. Chile (Robinson Crusoe Island): Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (Americas)
19. Guyana: Vendetta (Africa)
20. New Zealand: Knitted and Knifed (Antarctica & Oceania)
21. India: Girls Burn Brighter (Asia)
22. Germany: A Ladder to the Sky (Europe)
23. Uganda: Billionaire Blend (Africa)
24. Israel: The Family Tabor (Asia)
25. Wales: A Secret History of Witches (Europe)
26. Jordan: Educated (Asia)
27. Jamaica: Black Cake (Americas)
28. Italy: A Room with a View (Europe)
29. Belgium: The Animal Gazer (Europe)
30. Algieria: Trapeze (Africa)
Africa: 3/58
Americas 8/55
Europe: 12/53
Asia: 6/51
Antarctica & Oceania: 1/32

37 / 25 .......... 28 distinct countries
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Read up to two books per country based on the location and/or the author’s nationality
AFRICA -5
☀ Mauritius: The Last Brother
☀ Nigeria: My Sister, the Serial Killer
☀ Rwanda: All Your Children, Scattered
☀ Rwanda: Consolata
☀ Tanzania: The Lioness
AMERICAS -8
☀ Antigua: A Small Place
☀ Argentina: Who Is Vera Kelly?
☀ Canada: Swann
☀ Canada: The Maid
☀ Honduras: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
☀ Peru: The Bedlam Stacks
☀ United States: The Violin Conspiracy
☀ United States: Sabrina & Corina
ASIA -6
☀ India: The Daughters of Madurai
☀ India: Midnight at Malabar House
☀ Israel: The Testament of Mary
☀ Korea: The Old Woman with the Knife
☀ Myanmar (Burma): Night Birds and Other Stories
☀ Singapore: The Frangipani Tree Mystery
EUROPE -15
☀ Belgium: A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories (author's place of birth- book takes place in Paris, written while he was living in the US)
☀ Bulgaria: A Ballad for Georg Henig
☀ England: Bleeding Heart Yard
☀ England: Monk's Hood
☀ Finland: The Summer Book
☀ France: One Hundred Twenty-One Days
☀ France: The Friend of Madame Maigret
☀ Greece: What Strange Paradise
☀ Ireland: Home Stretch
☀ Ireland: The Guest List
☀ Norway: Norwegian by Night
☀ Scotland: The Living Mountain
☀ Scotland: The Geometry of Holding Hands
☀ Sweden: Roseanna
☀ Ukraine: The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
ANTARTICA AND OCEANIA -3
☀ Australia: Exiles
☀ Australia: The Mother-in-Law
☀ New Zealand: The Whale Rider

1. United States (starting with my home country)
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene - 1/4/23 - 4* - My Review
2. UK (England)
Last Orders by Graham Swift - 1/5/23 - 3* - My Review
3. Poland
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 1/6/23 - 4* - My Review
4. Ireland
Haven by Emma Donoghue - 1/9/23 - 4* - My Review (7th century)
5. Syria
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
6. France
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
7. Pakistan
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad - 1/14/23 - 3* - My Review
8. Austria
Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese - 1/20/23 - 3* - My Review
9. UK (Scotland)
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford - 1/18/23 - 4* - My Review
10. Iraq
The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller - 1/23/23 - 5* - My Review
11. New Zealand
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton -1/24/23 - 4* - My Review
12. Japan
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi - 1/25/23 - 3* - My Review
13. Israel
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories by Omer Friedlander - 1/30/23 - 4.5* - My Review
14. Switzerland
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner - 2/2/23 - 4* - My Review
15. Peru
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 2/12/23 - 5* - My Review
16. Ghana
Solo by Kwame Alexander - 2/19/23 - 4* - My Review
17. India
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi - 2/20/23 - 3* - My Review
18. Italy
The Detour by Andromeda Romano-Lax - 2/24/23 - 3* - My Review
19. Australia
The Strays by Emily Bitto - 2/25/23 - 4* - My Review
20. Iran
The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel by Dalia Sofer - 2/28/23 - 4* - My Review
21. Canada
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper - 3/2/23 - 3* - My Review
22. UK (Northern Ireland)
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy - 3/3/23 - 3* - My Review
23. China
Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng - 3/17/23 - 3* - My Review
24. Germany
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - 3/20/23 - 4* - My Review
25. Sweden
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell - 3/22/23 - 3* - My Review
26. Liberia
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene - 3/27/23 - 3* - My Review
27. Nigeria
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo - 4/10/23 - 4* - My Review
28. North Korea
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - 4/16/23 - 4* - My Review
29. Iceland
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson - 4/19/23 - 4* - My Review
30. Philippines
The Tesseract by Alex Garland - 5/1/23 - 3* - My Review
31. Hungary
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein - 5/5/23 - 3* - My Review
32. Greece
A Separation by Katie Kitamura - 5/18/23 - 3* - My Review
33. Portugal
Still I Miss You by Inês Pedrosa - 5/21/23 - 4* - My Review
34. South Africa
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review
35. Turkey
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker - 6/11/23 - 4* - My Review
36. Netherlands
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom - 6/12/23 - 4* - My Review
37. Chile
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar - 6/17/23 - 4* - My Review
38. Mexico
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - 6/18/23 - 4* - My Review
39. Brazil
A Far Country by Daniel Mason - 6/25/23 - 3* - My Review
40. Bolivia
Women Talking by Miriam Toews - 6/26/23 - 4* - My Review
41. Yemen
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers - 6/28/23 - 4* - My Review
42. Panama
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough - 7/2/23 - 4.5* - My Review
43. Barbados
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer - 7/9/23 - 5* - My Review
44. Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa - 7/18/23 - 5* - My Review
45. Laos
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon - 7/20/23 - 4* - My Review
46. Palestine
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad - 7/25/23 - 4* - My Review
47. Libya
In the Country of Men: A Novel by Hisham Matar - 8/3/23 - 4* - My Review
48. Ukraine
Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin - 8/25/23 - 3* - My Review
49. Czechia
The Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer - 9/14/23 - 4* - My Review
50. Russia
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko - 10/10/23 - 4* - My Review
51. Spain
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom - 10/15/23 - 4* - My Review
52. Trinidad and Tobago
The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul - 10/20/23 - 3* - My Review
53. Tibet (no longer a country but worth noting)
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My Review
54. Belgium
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell - 10/28/23 - 4* - My Review
55. Sudan
River Spirit by Leila Aboulela - 11/1/23 - 4* - My Review
56. Sápmi (Lapland) - not a country but worth noting
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My Review
57. Antarctica (not a country but worth noting):
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever - 11/8/23 - 5* - My Review
58. Malaysia
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng - 11/11/23 - 4* - My Review
59. Suriname
The Boy Between Worlds by Annejet van der Zijl - 11/16/23 - 4* - My Review
60. Vietnam
Absolution by Alice McDermott - 11/21/23 - 4* - My Review
61. Uganda
A History of Burning by Janika Oza - 11/27/23 - 4* - My Review
62. Mauritania
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith - 12/10/23 - 2* - My Review
63. Vanuatu
The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar - 12/21/23 - 3* - My Review
64. Denmark
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - 12/23/23 - 4* - My Review

0/20
Africa:
The Elephant Girl by James Patterson
China:
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Cuba:
A Planet for Rent by Yoss
England:
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
France:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Greece:
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Greenland:
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Indonesia:
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
Japan:
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Scotland:
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
South Korea:
The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee

1.) Australia
Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood
2.) Russia
Winterland by Rae Meadows

Africa:
Angola: Book of Chameleons
South Africa: Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
South Africa: The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
Americas:
Bolivia: Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
Canada: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Ecuador: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Haiti: The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
USA: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
USA: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Asia:
Macau: Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Indonesia (Dutch East Indies): The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
Japan:
Japan:
Turkey: Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Europe:
France: Grim Lovelies by Megan Shepherd
Finland: The Year of the Hare
Greece: Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
Greenland: Migrations
Hungary: The Door by Magda Szabó
Ireland: The Ginger Man
Italy: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Russia: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Russia: City of Thieves by David Benioff
UK: S.T.A.G.S by M.A. Bennett
UK: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Oceania:
Australia: Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik

I am going to try for 30 countries to start
Progress 35/30
Africa: 3/58
1 Zambia Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
2 South Africa A Beautiful Place to Die
3. Nigeria Lightseekers
Americas: 9/54
1 United States Fangirl
2 Mexico The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
3 Argentina Our Share of Night
4 Cuba Next Year in Havana
5 Canada Monday Mourning
6 Brazil The Ways of Evil Men
7. Barbados A Caribbean Mystery
8. Panama The Tailor of Panama
9. Columbia Clear and Present Danger
Asia: 6/51
1 Japan The Aosawa Murders
2 Meroe Island, India Reckless Girls
3 Laos The Woman Who Wouldn't Die
4 China A Loyal Character Dancer
5 Jordan Appointment with Death
6 North Korea The Manchurian Candidate
Europe: 14/53
1 England The Twist of a Knife
2 Ireland The Secret Place
3 France The Forbidden
4 Italy Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride
5 Austria A Death in Vienna
6 Sweden The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793
7 Russia Black Knight in Red Square
8 Spain Red Queen
9 Germany Then We Take Berlin
10 Norway Norway Travel Guide: The Most Up-to Date Pocket Guide to Discover Norway’s Hidden Treasure Travel Making the Most of Your Time and Plan the Nicest Trip to Land of midnight Sun
11 Romania Reckless Magic
12 Denmark The Collector
13. Switzerland The Sanatorium
14. The Netherlands Rick Steves Pocket Amsterdam
Antarctica & Oceania: 3/32
1. Australia The Dry
2. Fiji A Disappearance in Fiji
3. New Zealand The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
Books
1. Meroe Island, India Reckless Girls
2. Japan The Aosawa Murders
3. United States Fangirl
4. England The Twist of a Knife
5. Ireland The Secret Place
6. France The Forbidden
7. Mexico The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
8. Italy Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride
9 Austria A Death in Vienna
10. Sweden The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793
11. Laos The Woman Who Wouldn't Die
12. Russia Black Knight in Red Square
13. Spain Red Queen
14. China A Loyal Character Dancer
15. Argentina Our Share of Night
16. Australia The Dry
17 Zambia Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
18 Cuba Next Year in Havana
19 Canada Monday Mourning
20 Norway Norway Travel Guide: The Most Up-to Date Pocket Guide to Discover Norway’s Hidden Treasure Travel Making the Most of Your Time and Plan the Nicest Trip to Land of midnight Sun
21 Germany Then We Take Berlin
22 Jordan Appointment with Death
23 Romania Reckless Magic
24 Brazil The Ways of Evil Men
25 South Africa A Beautiful Place to Die
26 Fiji A Disappearance in Fiji
27. Denmark The Collector
28. Switzerland The Sanatorium
29. North Korea The Manchurian Candidate
30. New Zealand The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
31. Barbados A Caribbean Mystery
21. The Netherlands Rick Steves Pocket Amsterdam
33. Nigeria Lightseekers
34. Panama The Tailor of Panama
35. Columbia Clear and Present Danger

Progress: 20/30
NA:
Cuba: A Planet for Rent
Guatemala: The Price of Escape
SA:
Bolivia: Affections
Brazil: The Silence of the Rain
Europe:
Bulgaria: The Green Hat
Portugal: Blindness
Serbia: The Fourth Circle
Ukraine: Vita Nostra
Asia:
India: The Satanic Verses
The White Tiger
Pakistan: The Return of Faraz Ali
Sri Lanka: The English Patient
Africa:
Ethiopia: Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 66/40 Books | 52 Countries
My member's corner TO BOLDLY GO tracking post

30/30
Europe
✅ France - Anna and the French Kiss
✅ Germany - All Quiet on the Western Front
✅ Greece - Medea
✅ Italy - Enemies Abroad
✅ Malta - Cunningham: The Greatest Admiral Since Nelson
✅ Netherlands - Humankind: A Hopeful History
✅ Norway - Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings
✅ Poland - Schindler's Ark
✅ Romania - Dragon's Egg
✅ Russia - Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
✅ Sweden - The Warlord's Wife
✅ UK- The Lost King: The Search for Richard III
✅ Ukraine - Midnight at Chernobyl
North America
✅ USA - Wild Rising
✅ Mexico - The Beach
✅ Costa Rica - The Lost World
✅ Cuba - The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
✅ Canada - Dragons Don't Eat Meat
South America
✅ Columbia - Ha'ven's Song
✅ Venezuela - Delivering Evil for Experts
Asia
✅ China (Hong Kong) - Abducted By My Father's Best Friend
✅ China (Mainland) - Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
✅ Iran - History of Iran: An Enthralling Overview of Iranian History, Starting from the Ancient Persians through the Persian Empire to Modern Iran
✅ Israel - The Apostles: A Captivating Guide to the Twelve Disciples in Christianity, the Apostolic Age, and the Role of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Christian History
✅ Lebanon - Antifragile
✅ Turkmenistan - Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
Africa
✅ Egypt - Seduced by Death
✅ Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ali: A Life
✅ Guinea - Diamonds Are Forever
✅ Somalia - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
✅ South Africa - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
✅ Tanzania - The Last Slave Market
Oceania:
✅ Australia - Trent

Countries visited: /10
Africa - 0/58:
Americas - 0/55:
Asia - 0/51:
Europe - 0/53:
Antarctica & Oceania - 0/32:

COMPLETED!!!
Goal: 15 Countires
Progress: 15/15
United Kingdom: North and South by Elizabeth Haskell and Night Music by JoJo Moyes
France: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley and The Keeper of Happy Endings
United States: So Long Chester Wheeler by Catherine Ryan Hyde and Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
Australia: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
Chile: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Poland: Irena's War
India: The Orphan Keeper by Cameron Wright
Ireland: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Vienna: Night Angels by Weina Dai Randel
Ireland: The Letter Home by Rachael English
Germany: Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
Mexico: The Murmer of Bees by Sofia Segovia

12/15
Countries Visited:
Shanghai, China -

USA -

England -

Canada -

Ireland -

Scotland -

France -

Portugal -

Greece -

Germany -

Vatican -

Russia


Goal: 12/12 (only counting 1/country!)
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Progress: 41/40 - COMPLETED!
✔️ Afghanistan -

✔️ Argentina -

✔️ Australia #1 -

✔️ Australia #2 -

✔️ Brazil -

✔️ Canada #1 -

✔️ Canada #2 -

✔️ Denmark -

✔️ Egypt #1 -

✔️ Egypt #2 -

✔️ El Salvador -

✔️ Falkland Islands -

✔️ France #1 -

✔️ France #2 -

✔️ Gambia -

✔️ Germany #1 -

✔️ Germany #2 -

✔️ Great Britain #1 -

✔️ Great Britain #2 -

✔️ Greece -

✔️ Hungary -

✔️ India -

✔️ Israel -

✔️ Italy -

✔️ Japan -

✔️ Lebanon -

✔️ Malaysia -

✔️ Mexico -

✔️ New Zealand -

✔️ Norway -

✔️ Philippines -

✔️ Sierra Leone -

✔️ South Korea #1 -

✔️ South Korea #2 -

✔️ Spain -

✔️ Sweden #1 -

✔️ Sweden #2 -

✔️ Switzerland #1 -

✔️ Switzerland #2 -

✔️ Tonga -

✔️ Zimbabwe -


CHALLENGE COMPLETED
Progress by number of books: 28/28
Number of countries visited: 22/22
✅1. Egypt
✅2. Kenya
✅3. Morocco
✅4. United States of America
✅5. Mexico
✅6. Argentina
✅7. Canada
✅8. Cuba
✅9. El Salvador
✅10. Jamaica
✅11. China
✅12. India
✅13. Pakistan
✅14. Israel
✅15. England
✅16. Scotland
✅17. Wales
✅18. Northern Ireland
✅19. Spain
✅20. Iceland
✅21. Australia
✅22. New Zealand
Total number by continents:
~Africa: 3/3
~Americas: 7/7
~Asia: 4/4
~Europe: 6/6
~Antarctica & Oceania: 2/2
List of books by country:
Egypt (Africa)
✅The Princess of Egypt Must Die (2/2/23)
Kenya (Africa)
✅The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya (14/11/23)
Morocco (Africa)
✅Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (2/10/23)
United States of America (Americas)
✅Where the Red Fern Grows (1/7/23)
✅My Name Is Lucy Barton (1/10/23)
Mexico (Americas)
✅The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (27/11/23)
✅More Than You'll Ever Know (27/12/23)
Argentina (Americas)
✅Kiss of the Spiderwoman (3/7/23)
✅Canada (Americas)
Sea of Tranquility (1/9/23)
✅Cuba (Americas)
When We Left Cuba (29/11/23)
✅El Salvador (Americas)
Solito (23/10/23)
✅Jamaica (Americas)
Augustown (1/12/23)
China (Asia)
✅Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (14/2/23)
India (Asia)
✅The Marriage Bureau for Rich People (4/6/23)
Pakistan (Asia)
✅All My Rage (16/11/23)
Israel (Asia)
✅Once More with Chutzpah (5/10/23)
England (Europe)
✅Three Kings (29/9/23)
✅Mr. Darcy's Diary (29/8/23)
Scotland (Europe)
✅Outlander (31/10/23)
✅The Body Snatcher (11/4/23)
Wales (Europe)
✅Eve Green (4/7/23)
✅Boy: Tales of Childhood (13/2/22)
Northern Ireland (Europe)
✅The Edge of the Union (29/4/23)
✅The Marriage Portrait (26/8/23)
Spain (Europe)
✅Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives Of Katherine Of Aragon And Juana, Queen Of Castile (6/4/23)
Iceland (Europe)
✅The Little Book of the Hidden People: Twenty Stories of Elves from Icelandic Folklore (28/1/23)
Australia (Oceania)
✅Three Wishes (25/3/23)
New Zealand (Oceania)
✅Dawn Raid (1/10/23)


January 01 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 47/45
Count me in for 40 to start!
*Africa - 7/7
✅ Algeria - The Stranger by Albert Camus
✅ Tanzania - River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
✅ Egypt - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
✅ Egypt - Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
✅ Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
✅ Morocco - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
✅ Nigeria - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
✅ Nigeria - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅ Sudan - Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
*Americas - 5/5
✅ Argentina - Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
✅ Canada - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
✅ Jamaica - Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
✅ Mexico - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
✅ Mexico - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
✅ United States of America - The Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
✅ United States of America - A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy
*Asia - 8/8
✅ China - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
✅ Cyprus - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
✅ Iraq - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
✅ Iraq - The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
✅ Japan - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
✅ Philippines - Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II by Allan Bérubé
✅ Russia - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
✅ Turkey - Neuromancer by William Gibson
✅ Vietnam - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
*Europe - 15/15
✅ Denmark - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
✅ Denmark - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
✅ England - Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
✅ England - To Love a Thief by Julie Anne Long
✅ France - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
✅ France - Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
✅ Germany - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
✅ Greece - The Odyssey by Homer
✅ Greenland - Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
✅ Guernsey - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
✅ Ireland - In the Woods by Tana French
✅ Italy - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
✅ Italy - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
✅ Poland - Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
✅ Poland - Night by Elie Wiesel
✅ Portugal - The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
✅ Portugal - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
✅ Romania - Dracula by Bram Stoker
✅ Scotland - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
✅ Spain - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
✅ Sweden - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

Please sign me up for 10 :)
Africa: 1/58
❖ Nigeria: Stay with Me / A Spell of Good Things
Americas: 2/55
❖ Canada: The Monsters in our Shadows
❖ USA: Kindred / Recitatif / Lovely Girls / The Color Purple / Suburban Monsters
Asia: 1/51
❖ China: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Europe: 3/53
❖ England: The One / The Marriage Act
❖ Italy: The Love Hypothesis
❖ Poland: Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Antarctica & Oceania: 0/32

I am combining some of this yearly challenge with the Magical Mystery Tour yearly challenge
🌐🧳🎉
24 /30 books read...as of 3/17/2023
**I am upping my book total to 30
Countries Visited:
Africa: 4/58
🧳 Zambia: Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
🧳 Saudi Arabia: Finding Nouf
🧳 Eswatini (Swaziland): When the Ground Is Hard
🧳 Botswana: Tears of the Giraffe
--Madagascar: Beyond the Rice Fields
--Ghana: The Missing American
--Egypt: Crocodile on the Sandbank
Americas: 5/55
🧳 Quebec, Canada (North America): A Trick of the Light
🧳 Haiti (North America...Caribbean): Krik? Krak!
--Mexico: The Murmur of Bees
🧳 Argentina (South America): Elena Knows
🧳Trinidad and Tobago (North America...one of the Caribbean Islands): Mycroft Holmes
🧳 United States (North America)...City of New York: Reliquary
Asia: 6/51
🧳 Singapore: The Frangipani Tree Mystery
--Bali, Indonesia (Southeast Asia): A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul
--Iraq (Western Asia): Murder in Mesopotamia
🧳 Laos, Cambodia: Thirty-Three Teeth
🧳 India: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
🧳 North Korea: A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
🧳 Saudi Arabia: Finding Nouf
🧳 Israel (West Asia): Green Kills by Avi Domoshevizki who is from Israel
Europe: 5/53
--Bulgaria: The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
--Cambridge, England: For the Sake of Elena
🧳 Scotland (Outer Hebrides): The Blackhouse
🧳 England: Murder at the Vicarage
🧳 Sweden: Hidden in Snow
🧳 Greenland: The Ice Star
🧳 Russia: The State Counsellor: A Fandorin Mystery
🧳 Luxembourg: The Expats
Antarctica & Oceania: 3/32
🧳 Antartica: In Cold Pursuit: A Mystery from the Last Continent
🧳 Soloman Islands: Devil-Devil
--Austrailia:
🧳 Tahiti: South Sea Tales
--New Guinea: Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

I'll visit 12 countries.
Progress: 0/24

Number of books and countries still in the planning stages. I should have concrete goals in a week or two.


DONE!!
UPDAATE 1: 25 , with at least 4 in each region
UPDATE 2: bumping up my goal to 50, with at least 5 in each region
Progress so far: 82/50
Africa: 9 /6 Americas: 20 /6 Asia: 25 /6 Europe: 23 /6 Antarctica & Oceania: 5 /5
Africa: 9/ 6
✅ Cameroon - I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
✅ Cote D'Ivoire - Alpha. Abidjan-Gare du Nord
✅ Egypt - A Master of Djinn
✅ Morocco - Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
✅ Morocco - A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night
✅ Nigeria - Noor
✅ Nigeria - Tani's New Home: A Refugee Finds Hope and Kindness in America
✅ South Africa - Yoshi's Big Swim: One Turtle's Epic Journey Home
✅ Tanzania - Light a Candle / Tumaini pasipo na Tumaini
Americas: 20 / 55
✅ Indigenous - Cherokee - When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky
✅ Indigenous - Cowlitz - White Magic
✅ Indigenous - Lakota - Grandma's Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story
✅ Indigenous - Muscogee - Rain Is Not My Indian Name
✅ Indigenous - Navajo Healer of the Water Monster
✅ Indigenous - Ojibwe - Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend
✅ Indigenous - Urban (U.S.) - White Horse
✅ U.S. - Last Night at the Telegraph Club6
✅ Argentina - Tender is the FleshOur Share of Night
✅ Argentina - Eartheater
✅ Bolivia - Woven in Moonlight
✅ Canada - Helem
✅ Canada - Fauna
✅ Colombia - Waiting for the Biblioburro
✅ Colombia - Neverforgotten
✅ Cuba - Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
✅ Dominican Republic - You Had Me at Hola
✅ Dominican Republic - Frizzy
✅ Mexico - Onion Skin
✅ Mexico - The Hacienda
Asia: 25/51
✅ China - Watercress
✅ China - Babel
✅ India - Apsara Engine
✅ India - A Necessary Evil
✅ India - The Bandit Queens
✅ Indonesia - Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide
✅ Indonesia - Witchy, Volume 1
✅ Iran - Azar on Fire
✅ Iraq - The Golden Bull
✅ Japan - Life Ceremony
✅ Japan - The Memory Police
✅ Lebanon - A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
✅ Malaysia - Nothing But Blackened Teeth
✅ Malaysia - The Girl and the Ghost
✅ North Korea - Brother's Keeper
✅ Oman - In the Empty Quarter
✅ Pakistan - Nura and the Immortal Palace
✅ Philippines - His Hideous Heart
✅ Phillippines - Dauntless
✅ Singapore - Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide
✅ South Korea - The Law of Lines
✅ South Korea - Grass
✅ Syria - The Cat Man of Aleppo
✅ Vietnam - The Magic Fish
✅ Vietnam - She Is a Haunting
Europe: 23 / 53
✅ Czech Republic - A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
✅ Denmark - The Corpse Flower
✅ Denmark - Hamlet is Not OK
✅ England - The Essex Serpent
✅ England - The Lantern Men
✅ France - One for All
✅ Greece - Lore Olympus: Volume One
✅ Germany - The Heart of Thomas
✅ Hungary - Ingrid and the Wolf
✅ Hungary - Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karikó and the Race for the Future of Vaccines
✅ Iceland - Last Rituals
✅ Iceland - Elska
✅ Ireland - The Guest List
✅ Ireland - The Dos and Donuts of Love
✅ Italy - Strega Nona
✅ Netherlands - We Had to Remove This Post
✅ Portugal - Pardalita
✅ Romania - I Must Betray You
✅ Russia - For the Shrew
✅ Scotland - The Bequest
✅ Ukraine - Deaf Republic
Antarctica & Oceania: 5 /32
✅ Australia - Exiles
✅ Australia - Birds
✅ Fiji - The Night Guest
✅ Hawai'i - Ask the Brindled
✅ New Zeland - The Moth Keeper

This looks like a fun challenge. Starting with 10 books, I think.
23/22
Africa: 3
Egypt - Akram El-Bahay, Fabula - Das Portal der dreizehn Reiche ✓
Algeria - Albert Camus, Der Fremde ✓
Libya - Stone Blind – Der Blick der Medusa by Natalie Haynes ✓
Americas: 2
United States of America - The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera ✓
Canada - Pascale Quiviger, Eckstein: Die Kunst des Schiffbruchs ✓
Asia: 4
Japan - Zariya Ranmaru, Coyote 4 ✓
Taiwan - Kichiku Neko (part of GuiltPleasure), In these words 04 ✓
Kazakhstan - Mikita Franko, Die Lüge ✓
India - George Orwell, Orwell Collection: Animal Farm & 1984 ✓
Europe: 14
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Saša Stanišić, Vor dem Fest ✓
Iceland - Verschwiegen by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir ✓
Sweden - Alex Schulman, Die Überlebenden ✓
United Kingdom (Scotland) - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan ✓
Norway - Die Nacht gehört den Schatten: Norwegen-Thriller by Daniela Arnold ✓
Germany - Dirk Gieselmann, Der Inselmann ✓
Austria - Franzobel, Einsteins Hirn: Roman ✓
Russia - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita ✓
Greece - Ilias by Homer ✓
Switzerland - Das Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse ✓
Belgium - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Die elementaren Strukturen der Verwandtschaft ✓
Ireland - Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying ✓
Vatican City - Das Geheimnis des Alchemisten by Marc Freund & Jonas Maas ✓
France - Victor Jestin, Der Tanzende ✓
Antarctica & Oceania:

✔ Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
✔ England - Middlemarch, by George Eliot
✔ France - Madam Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
✔ Egypt - The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
✔ India - A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
✔ China - The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham
✔ Ireland - Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace
✔ Singapore - How We Disappeared, by Jing-Jing Lee
✔ Congo - The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad

9/10
Africa:
1. Egypt: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution 8/2
2. Nigeria: My Sister, the Serial Killer 3/3
Americas:
1. The USA: A Light in the Forest 1/1
2. Canada: Moon of the Crusted Snow 7/1
Asia:
1. India: Falling in Love Again 22/2
2. Vietnam: She Is a Haunting
Europe:
1. France: The Paris Apartment 1/2
2. The UK: Margaret the First 1/21
Antarctica & Oceania:
1. Antarctica: Where'd You Go, Bernadette 1/1
2. French Polynesia: Something in the Water 5/1

Progress: 84/75
Africa - 18
Algeria: The Art of Losing
Benin: Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi
Democratic Republic of Congo: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Egypt: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Egypt: Woman at Point Zero
Ethiopia: Unbury Our Dead With Song
Guinea: The Dark Child
Lesotho (author): Chaka
Madagascar: The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
Morocco: A Significant Year
Nigeria: And After Many Days
Nigeria (author): A Stranger's Pose
Réunion: Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Rwanda: All Your Children, Scattered
São Tomé and Príncipe: Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
South Africa: Blessed Are the Dead
South Africa: The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
Togo: Descent into Night
Zimbabwe: Rotten Row
Americas - 13
Argentina: Things We Lost in the Fire
Canada: A World of Curiosities
Canada (author): VenCo
Colombia: Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
Colombia: The Night Will Be Long
El Salvador: What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Greenland: The Sea Road
Grenada: Tell No-One About This
Mexico: Witches
Paraguay: Zama
Saint Barthélemy: Murder In St. Barts
US: Braiding Sweetgrass
US: Sinister Graves
Asia - 26
Bahrain: The Peacock and the Sparrow
British Indian Ocean Territory: An Impossible Return
China: Crossing the Desert of Death
China: Empire of the Sun
Hong Kong: The Borrowed
India: A Mumbai Murder Mystery
India: The Kolkata Conundrum: An Orko Deb Mystery
Indonesia: The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Iraq: I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir
Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness
Japan: All the Lovers in the Night
Japan: The Pachinko Parlor
Jordan: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Kuwait: Mama Hissa's Mice
Kyrgyzstan: The Ascent of Mount Fuji: A Play
Macau: The Red Pole of Macau
Malaysia: The Age of Goodbyes
Nepal: Tilled Earth : Stories
Palestine: Passage to the Plaza
Philippines: In the Country
Qatar: Love From A to Z
Singapore: The Great Reclamation
Sri Lanka: Brotherless Night
Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Turkey: Stone and Shadow: A Novel
Yemen: Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
Europe - 19
Croatia: We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day
France: Giovanni's Room
France: The Paris Diversion
Germany: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
Germany: Reunion
Gibraltar: Uneasy Relations
Greece: Apartment in Athens
Greece: Ill Met by Moonlight
Hungary: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
Ireland: The Searcher
Isle of Man: Safe House
Italy: The Forbidden Notebook
Russia: Eastbound
Russia: The Cossacks
Spain: Berta Isla
Spain: Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
UK - England: In Farleigh Field
UK - Wales: The Silent Quarry
Ukraine: The White Guard
Oceania & Antarctica - 7
Australia: Darkness for Light
Australia: Truth
Fiji: A Disappearance in Fiji
New Caledonia: The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Dewe Gorode
New Zealand: A Madness of Sunshine
Solomon Islands: Devil-Devil
Timor-Leste: Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor
Top of Challenge

6/24
1. United Kingdom The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, 17 Jan 2023
2. Hungary The White Stag by Kate Seredy, 21 Jan 2023
3. France Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen, 22 Jan 2023
4. Italy Three Hands in the Fountain by Lindsey Davis, 24 Jan 2023
5. Mexico The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell, 25 Jan 2023
6. Greece Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler, 6 Feb 2023
7. Ireland The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor, 26 Mar 2023
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TO BOLDLY GO
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 8/10
√The Congo: The Man Who Screams At Nightfall...and other stories - Rush Leaming
Egypt: Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth - John Coleman Darnell
√England: The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict
√France: The Girl Who Knew Death (Spider Green, #4) - Norm Harris
√India and Nepal: Titanian Warrior (Titanian Chronicles, #3) - Victoria Saccenti
√Italy: In The Shadow of The Apennines - Kimberly Sullivan
√Russia: The Lost Journals of Bud Wiper - A Middle Grade Adventure Kids Will Love: An Exciting Adventure Full of Life Lessons and a Healthy Dose of Potty Humor for Kids - S.M. Morgan
√Scotland: The Low Road (McLaren Mystery, #16) - Jo A. Hiestand
√United States: The Key to Circus-Mom Highway - Allyson Rice

Sorry Zeejane. I mixed up your message # with your goal. Fixed!

Africa: 0/58
Americas: 2/55
1. Wolf Gone Wild by Juliette Cross - Louisiana, USA
2. Don't Hex and Drive by Juliette Cross - USA
Asia: 0/51
Europe: 1/53
1. England - Never Rescue a Rogue by Virginia Heath
Antarctica & Oceania: 0/32

36/23 Read
Africa: 4
✔ Ghana - Transcendent Kingdom
✔ Botswana - Tears of the Giraffe
✔ Egypt - Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
✔ Egypt - The Elephant Girl
Americas: 7
✔ Cuba - Next Year in Havana
✔ Montserrat, Caribbean - Island Queen
✔ Canada - A Death at the Party
✔ Chile, Argentina, Norway, USA - Violeta
✔ Dominican Republic - In the Time of the Butterflies
✔ United States - Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
✔ United States - Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
Asia: 6
✔ Japan - The Travelling Cat Chronicles
✔ Japan - The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔ Nepal - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
✔ Korea - The Golden Orchard
✔ Syria - As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
✔ Iran - In the Time of Our History
Europe: 18
✔ France - The Women of Chateau Lafayette
✔ France - The Count of Monte Cristo
✔ Italy - One Italian Summer
✔ Italy - The Marriage Portrait
✔ England - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✔ England - The Ink Black Heart
✔ Sweden - The Winners
✔ Sweden - The Winners
✔ Spain - The Fountains of Silence
✔ Spain - A Long Petal of the Sea
✔ Scotland, England, France - Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
✔ Scotland - Death of a Gossip
✔ Netherlands - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
✔ Ukraine - The Diamond Eye
✔ Finland - The Summer Book
✔ Germany, France, USA - Woman on Fire
✔ Belgium, England, France, Netherlands - The White Lady
✔ Poland - The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story
Antarctica & Oceania: 1
✔ Australia - The Light Between Oceans

TO BOLDLY GO
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 2/12
Wales: The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh read 1/2/23
Iran: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi read 1/4/23


England
🌍North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell
🌍The Switch- Beth O'Leary
Scotland
🌍When He Was Wicked- Julia Quinn
Morocco
🌍The Storyteller of Casablanca- Fiona Valpy
Mauritius
🌍Almost a Bride- Jo Watson
Zimbabwe
🌍Every Breath- Nicholas Sparks
USA
🌍Let It Snow- Michelle Stimpson
🌍 7/25
Books mentioned in this topic
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Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (other topics)
Hot Ice (other topics)
The Kingdom of Sweets (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Kristin Hannah (other topics)Chelsea Handler (other topics)
John Colapinto (other topics)
Nora Roberts (other topics)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (other topics)
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January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
❄⛄❄⛄ ATTENTION: DECEMBER MESSAGE! ❄⛄❄⛄
We have completed all of the countries as a group! If you have an ongoing personal challenge to read books set in every country (or by authors from those countries), I suggest bookmarking this challenge so you have a huge list to refer to!
This year we are boldly traveling the world through books!
The instructions for this challenge are simple: read as many books as you can set in as many different countries as you can AND/OR books by authors from as many different countries as you can. You may count up to 2 books per country for this challenge.
For instance, you may count 2 books set in Japan, or 1 book set in Japan and 1 by a Japanese author, or 2 books by Japanese authors.
Note: There are differing opinions on the number of countries in the world. The number of countries used below is based on the program that allows for the map to be filled out as we visit, and the image easily shared.
Here is a link to the list of countries recognized on the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
I will be keeping track of how many countries we visit as a group here!
Countries Visited: 249/249
Africa: 58/58
List of Completed Countries:
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Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Cote d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Réunion
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
St. Helena
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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Americas: 55/55
List of Completed Countries:
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Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bonaire
Brazil
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico
Montserrat
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre et Miquelon
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, U.S.
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Asia: 51/51
List of Completed Countries:
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Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
British Indian Ocean Territory
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Macao
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Phillipines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
UAE
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
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Europe: 53/53
List of Completed Countries:
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Aland Islands
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Guernsey
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Jersey
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkmenistan
UK
Ukraine
Vatican City
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Antarctica & Oceania: 32/32
List of Completed Countries:
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American Samoa
Antarctica
Australia
Bouvet Island
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia and Tahiti
French Southern Territories
Guam
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Marian Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn
Samoa
Solomon Islands
South Georgia
Timor-Leste
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
US Minor Outlying Islands
Vanuatu
Wallis and Futuna
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Cellist of Sarajevo
Japan: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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