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Annie W - Circumnavigator
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Feb 19, 2013 04:45PM
In addition to my annual challenge (Frequent Flyer), I'm also starting up my never-ending Around the World challenge (Circumnavigator). I read many of these books a while ago, so I'm looking forward to mapping out where I've been and finding new countries to explore.
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Around the World Challenge - Circumnavigator
visited 111 states (49.3%)
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AFRICA
Algeria: The Plague by Albert Camus (2013)
Angola: The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa (2014)
Botswana: Maru by Bessie Head (2013)
Burkina Faso: Outlaw by Stephen Davies (2013)
Chad: Rain School by James Rumford (2014)
Congo (DRC): Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Egypt: Evel Knievel Days: A Novel by Pauls Toutonghi (2013)
Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Ghana: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (2013)
Guinea: The Dark Child by Camara Laye (2013)
Kenya: The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (2013)
Libya: In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (2013)
Madagascar: The Sapphire Sea: A Gemstone Thriller by John B. Robinson (2014)
Mali: Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway(2013)
Morocco: The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah (2013)
Mozambique: The Last Flight of The Flamingo by Mia Couto (2013)
Namibia: The Hour of the Jackal by Bernhard Jaumann (2014)
Niger: Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel by Jeffrey Tayler (2014)
Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
Rwanda: Running the Rift: A Novel by Naomi Benaron (2013)
Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (2013)
Sierra Leone: Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna (2014)
Somalia: A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout (2014)
South Africa: A Dry White Season by André P. Brink
South Sudan: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park (2013)
Sudan: The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (2013)
Tanzania: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway (2014);
Our House in Arusha by Sara Tucker(2014)
Zambia: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller (2014)
Zimbabwe: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
ANTARCTICA
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (2013)
ASIA
Afghanistan: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Azerbaijan: The Colonel's Mistake by Dan Mayland (2014)
Cambodia: In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (2012)
China: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
India: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (2012)
Indonesia: This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (2013)
Japan: The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama (2013)
Kazakhstan: Apples Are from Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbins (2013)
Korea, North: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2013)
Korea, South: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2013)
Laos: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (2014)
Malaysia: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Mongolia: The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag (2013)
Pakistan: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2013)
*Tibet (China): Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
Turkmenistan: The Leveling by Dan Mayland (2013)
Vietnam: Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried (2014) by Tim O'Brien
THE CARIBBEAN
Antigua & Barbuda: At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid (2013)
Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2012)
St. Kitts & Nevis: Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
Trinidad & Tobago: A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
EUROPE
Albania: Broken April by Ismail Kadaré (2013)
Austria: Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
Belgium: Cheese by Willem Elsschot (2013)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (2013)
Bulgaria: The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (4.8.2014)
*Chechnya (Russian Federation): A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (2014)
Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Denmark: Quicksand by Nella Larsen
England (UK): Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Estonia: Purge by Sofi Oksanen (2013)
Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (2013)
France: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Germany: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Greece: Aesop's Fables by Aesop
*Greenland (Denmark): Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Hungary: Embers by Sándor Márai (2013)
Iceland: Reply to a Letter from Helga by Bergsveinn Birgisson (2013)
Ireland: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Italy: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (2013)
Kosovo: The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley (2013)
Latvia: The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell (2013)
Liechtenstein: Ludmila A Story Of Liechtenstein by Paul Gallico (2014)
Lithuania: The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl (2013)
Monaco: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (2013)
Netherlands: The Dinner by Herman Koch (2013)
Norway: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Poland: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (2013)
Romania: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Russia: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Scotland (UK): The 39 Steps by John Buchan (2014)
Serbia: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (2013)
Slovenia: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (2013)
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sweden: The Christmas Oratorio by Göran Tunström
Switzerland: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Ukraine: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
LATIN AMERICA
Argentina: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (2013)
Bolivia: Andean Express by Juan De Recacoechea (2.22.2014)
Brazil: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Colombia: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (2014)
Ecuador: The Queen of Water by Laura Resau (2014)
Peru: The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa (2013)
Suriname: Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (2014)
Uruguay: The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis (2013)
THE MIDDLE EAST
Iran: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2013)
Israel: The Attack by Yasmina Khadra (2013)
Lebanon: The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
Saudi Arabia: Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (2013)
Turkey: Honor by Elif Shafak (2013)
Yemen: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (2014)
NORTH AMERICA
Canada: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
United States: U. S. A.: The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money by John Dos Passos
OCEANIA
Australia: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (2012); The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (2014)
*French Polynesia- Bora Bora (France): The Bungalow by Sarah Jio (2013)
New Zealand: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Papua New Guinea: The White Mary by Kira Salak (2014)
9 Regions
111 countries
62. ASIA: Kazakhstan: Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared by Christopher Robbins
Read 4.11.2013
63. AFRICA: Botswana: Maru by Bessie Headand The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Read 4.13.2013.
72. ANTARCTICA: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple and
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Read 5.17.2013 and 5.18.2013
76. AFRICA: South Sudan: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
Read 6.10.2013
86. AFRICA: Mali: Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway 
Read 12.11.2013
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