The Bookworm Challenge

message 1: by Rhonda (last edited Dec 18, 2024 11:42AM) (new)

Dec 18, 2024 11:33AM

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The bonus is a non-point challenge. Books posted here can be also be posted in a point earning challenge (main challenge, monthly specials, and BINGO).

2025's bonus challenge is books set in a foreign country. Foreign would be outside the country you hold citizenship in. If you have multiple citizenships, choose the one that feels most like home to you.

The rules are basically:
- If the book is set in multiple countries, you can choose any of them. However, the plot has to advance itself in some way in that country. It can't just be mentioned as a passing spot on a journey. For example: A book could involve a trip to India, with a layover in Japan (I have no idea if that's how you get to India. Just go with it.) If Japan is just mentioned in passing, it doesn't count as a foreign setting for this challenge.
- You can only choose one country per book. However, if you later read another book in that country and want to change the country from an earlier book, that is allowed, as long as it follows the previous rule. Example: A book has several countries that could count, like France, Germany, and England. You choose France. Later, you read a book set only in France. You can add it to this challenge as long as you change the previous book to either Germany or England.
- A book can only be used once in this challenge. I may be stating the obvious, but I'm covering bases.

Ask questions if you have them!

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message 2: by Michael (last edited Oct 12, 2025 07:32PM) (new)

Dec 19, 2024 05:33AM

Michael's Bonus Challenge: Foreign Country Settings:
1. (United States) Fort Starke Wade Everett 1/1/25
2. (England) Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World Miriam Darlington 2/24/25
3. (France) Murder à la Carte Susan Kiernan-Lewis 2/28/25
4. (Egypt) Liberty Stephen Coonts 3/26/25
5. (Greenland) Treasure Clive Cussler 4/16/25
6. (Russia) Night Witches Kathryn Lasky 5/5/25
7. (Iraq) Zero Six Bravo: The Explosive True Story of How 60 Special Forces Survived Against an Iraqi Army of 100,000 Damien Lewis 5/13/25
8. (Philippines) The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942 - Volume 3 of set History of United States Naval Operations in World War Two Samuel Eliot Morison 5/29/25
9. (Ukraine) Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II Bruce Myles 7/5/25
10. (United Arab Emirates) Locked On Tom Clancy 8/24/25
11. (Guadalcanal) Claws of the Eagle E.V. Correale 10/11/25

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message 3: by Connie (last edited Jan 26, 2025 10:23AM) (new)

Dec 21, 2024 02:38PM

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Connie's Foreign Country Settings: (not Canada)

Egypt: What I Know About You by Éric Chacour 01/17
England: Your Story, My Story: A Novel by Connie Palmen 01/03
Italy: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 01/10
Norway: Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø 01/25
Rwanda: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin 01/26
Scotland: Mind Game by Iris Johansen 01/05
Thailand: Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø 01/07
United States: The Rebel by Gerald Brandt 01/20

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message 4: by Wanda (last edited 12 hours, 26 min ago) (new)

Dec 23, 2024 06:39AM

Wanda's Bonus Challenge - Foreign Country Settings:

1. Denmark - Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen
2. England - The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves
3. Netherlands- The Noose's ⁷Shadow by Graham Brack
4. Mexico - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
5. Czech Republic - Lying and Dying by Graham Brack
6. Nigeria - Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
7. Japan - The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
8. Scotland - Death of a Green-Eyed Monster by M.C. Beaton
9. Belgium - The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
10. Oman - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
11. Sweden - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
12. Botswana- The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
13. France - Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann
14. Korea - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
15. Tibet - The Lord of Death by Eliot Pattison
16. The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry

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message 5: by Turtlefrog (last edited Sep 13, 2025 02:50PM) (new)

Dec 24, 2024 07:38AM

Turtlefrog's Foreign Country Settings (Not USA)

1. Bermuda - Untamed 1/28
2. South Africa - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 2/11
3. Canada - Calling Forever 3/9
4. Poland, German, & France - Lilac Girls 7/17
5. Cancun, Mexico - The Fate Of A Marlowe Girl 8/8
6. England & Germany - The Night Circus 9/12

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message 6: by Cathy (last edited Jan 14, 2025 09:14AM) (new)

Dec 26, 2024 09:01AM