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ATW in 80 Books World Challenge
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Laurie - Rogue Traveler 2015
Europe:France
Bruno, Chief Of Police by Martin Walker
First time to read this author. Not bad and I did not guess the ending beforehand so that's always a good sign.
31 books
Read in 7th grade.....my favorite of all time. Put me on a reading bi ge for everything about the Civil War.
Anne wrote: "Read in 7th grade.....my favorite of all time. Put me on a reading bi ge for everything about the Civil War."I am glad I finally read it. I loved it and now I want to see the movie again as it has been many years since I saw it. Definitely one of my favorite books now.
Read Zhivago many years ago....loved it but think it merits a reread. Might get more out of it as an adult.
Anne wrote: "Read Zhivago many years ago....loved it but think it merits a reread. Might get more out of it as an adult."I really enjoyed it. I kept comparing it to the 1965 movie which I have seen several times, and of course it was very different. But a very good book.
Europe:England
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller
47 books
Asia:Vietnam
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Pakistan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
51 books
Asia:North Korea
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom by Blaine Harden
53 books
Europe:England (author's country of origin)
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
56 books
North America:USA (author's country of origin and most studies cited in the book were in the US)
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan
59 books
Oceania:Tonga
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
61 books
This book can be used for many locations, but I am using it for Tonga since it is the group read for this country.
Europe:France
The Valley of Heaven and Hell - Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette by Susie Kelly
68 books
North America:USA
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
This is the transcript of a commencement speech that David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College in Ohio, so I am placing the location there.
75 books
Around the World in 80 Books
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Africa:
Nigera: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Europe:
Denmark: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
England:
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Xingu by Edith Wharton
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
France:
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ireland:
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Russia:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
North America:
Canada:
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
USA:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Crazy, VA by Shannon Hill
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
29 books