Read Around the World
Join us each month as we travel the world by book. Each month we select a book to represent a country. Books will qualify for a country if a) the author is from that country or b) the book takes place or is centered on that country. The areas shaded in on our map (above) represent the places travelled thus far. Feel free to join us by reading a book of your choice that matches the selected country. Below is a list of countries we have “visited” thus far.
Click on the country link to take you to the post.
ASIA
India. Book selected: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Israel.Book Selected: The Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Japan. Book Selected: Silence by Endo
Thailand.The Sad Part Was.
AFRICA
Botswana. Book selected: A Question of Power by Bessie Head
Egypt. Book Selected: Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
2nd Trip: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Nigeria. Book Selected: Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
The Republic of Guinea. Book Selected: The Dark Child by Camara Laye
South Africa. Book selected: July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
Zimbabwe. Book Selected: Nervous Conditions by Dagarembga
NORTH AMERICA
Canada. Book selected: Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Jamaica. Book selected: Here comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
SOUTH AMERICA
Columbia. Delirio by Laura Restrepo
Ecuador. The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes
EUROPE
Czech Republic. Book Selected: Selected works by Franz Kafka
England. Book Selected: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
Finland. Book Selected: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Epic Poem selected: The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot
Iceland. Multiple books selected.
Lithuania. Multiple books selected
Poland. Multiple books discussed
Spain. Multiple books selected
Ukraine. Multiple books discussed
Wales. Guest contributor with multiple book selections.
AUSTRALIA
ANTARTICA
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Nicole Del Sesto
The Reader's Room 
I’m also working my way around the world though using a slightly different rule where the book counts only if it’s written by an author for that country. It’s a great project because it forces me out of the comfort zone, even if not so the books have been great.
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I like that rule. I think for the most part we have stuck to that principle in selecting the primary book that we read each month, although it’s not definitely a hard and fast rule and I admittedly (perhaps unfairly) snuck in a recommendation for Ishiguro for our Japan month (who while born there didn’t really grow up there).
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