So the last update got stuck in the drafts and backdated after the fact; this one had better go live on time! A bit of a slow month since I spent a lot of time gaming, but oh well.
Italicized titles are possible TBRs that I have located copies of. Question marks are books exist that I want to read but have not found a copy of yet, titles noted elsewhere. Blank is yet to be found. Underlined is read but review/notes not written up and linked properly yet.
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Per the idea borrowed from Merle, the goal is to "travel the world" by reading one book set in every country of the world as listed below with preference given to books by a native author.
List format is also borrowed from Merle. :)
9 out of 200 countries = 4.5%
North America and the Caribbean
1 out of 24 countries = 4%
Canada: ?
United States: Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts
Mexico: ?
Belize:
Nicaragua:
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Panama
Antigua & Barbuda:
Barbados:
Cuba: Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria
Dominica:
Dominican Republic:
Haiti: ?
Jamaica:
Puerto Rico:
Bahamas
Grenada
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinidad & Tobago
South America
0 out of 12 countries = 0%
Argentina:
Brazil:
Chile: Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar? / My Documents by Alejandro Zambra?
Colombia:
Peru:
Uruguay:
Venezuela:
Bolivia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Suriname
Africa
1 out of 54 countries = 2%
Algeria:
Egypt: The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
Libya:
Morocco:
Tunisia
Cape Verde:
Ghana:
Guinea:
Ivory Coast:
Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper?
Mali:
Nigeria: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin?
Senegal:
Sierra Leone:
Togo:
Benin
Burkina Faso
Gambia
Guinea-Bissau
Mauritania
Niger
Cameroon:
Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver?
Sao Tome & Principe:
Central African Republic
Chad
Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Ethiopia:
Kenya: Find Me Unafraid by Kennedy Odede
Rwanda:
Somalia:
Sudan:
Tanzania:
Uganda:
Burundi
Djibouti
Eritrea
South Sudan
Botswana:
Mauritius:
Mozambique:
South Africa:
Zambia:
Zimbabwe:
Angola
Comoros
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Namibia
Seychelles
Swaziland
Europe
2 out of 49 countries = 4%
France: Marivaux?
Germany:
Greenland:
Iceland:
Ireland: Colm Toibin?
Italy:
Netherlands:
Spain: Manolito Gafotas?
Sweden: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Switzerland:
United Kingdom: The Dead Duke, His Missing Wife, and the Secret Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malta ?
Monaco
Norway
Portugal
San Marino
Vatican City
Albania:
Azerbaijan:
Bulgaria:
Chechnya:
Croatia:
Georgia:
Greece: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis?
Hungary:
Montenegro:
Romania:
Russia:
Serbia:
Ukraine:
Armenia
Belarus
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Czech Republic
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Middle East
0 out of 16 countries = 0%
Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi? / Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani?
Iraq:
Israel:
Kuwait:
Lebanon:
Qatar:
Palestine:
Saudi Arabia: In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A. Ahmed?
Turkey:
Yemen: Henna House by Nomi Eve?
Bahrain
Cyprus
Jordan
Oman
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Asia
5 out of 31 countries = 16%
Afghanistan: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg? / In My Father's Country by Saima Wahab
Kazakhstan:
Kyrgyzstan:
Tajikistan:
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Bangladesh:
India: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Nepal:
Sri Lanka: A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman?
Pakistan:
Bhutan
Maldives
China: Leaving Mother Lake by Yang Erche Namu, Christine Mathieu? / Four Sisters of Hofei by Annping Chin?
Japan: Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Mongolia:
North Korea: In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
South Korea: The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim?
Taiwan:
Tibet:
East Timor:
Indonesia:
Malaysia:
Myanmar: The Lady and the Peacock by Peter Popham?
Philippines: Monstress by Lysley Tenorio?
Singapore: Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu?
Thailand:
Vietnam: The Novice by Thich Nhat Hanh
Brunei
Cambodia: First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
Laos
Australia and the Pacific
0 out of 14 countries = 0%
Australia:
New Zealand:
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu