The goal is to eventually read a book about/from 80 countries in the world. I'm beginning in 2007, when I began blogging about the books I read. Some will be new, some old, some fiction, some nonfiction; something to represent as many countries as I can. Books that have been read are linked to their reviews, and their countries are bolded.
2007: 23 countries visited
2008: 17 new countries visited
2009: 15 new countries visited: Mongolia, Channel Islands, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Egypt, Brazil, Lebanon, Indonesia, Hungary, Myanmar, Ghana, Tibet, North Korea, Cyprus
2010: Finland, Ethiopia
2011: Austria
Here's a link to all the countries:
http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
visited 55 states (24.4%)
Create your own visited map of The World
AFRICA 11/55
Algeria The Plague - Albert Camus 2008
Angola
Benin
Botswana The Kalihari School of Typing for Men - Alexander McCall Smith 2008
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo Brazzaville
Congo Kinshasa
Djibouti
Egypt -
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively 2009
The Yacoubian Building
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 2010
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana -
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey 2009
Guinea-Bissau
Guinee Conakry
Ivory Coast
Kenya The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton 2008
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar 2008
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali Monique and the Mango Rains - Kris Holloway (NF, suggested by shana)
Footprints in the Sand - Sarah Challis
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco This Blinding Absence of Light - Ben Jelloun, Tahar 2008
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2007
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 2008
Reunion
Rwanda Shaking Hands with the Devil - Romeo Dollaire
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Bael 2008
Somalia
South Africa The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee 2008
Sudan The Translator - Leila Aboulela 2007
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe
AMERICAS 8/51
Canada Cloud of Bone - Bernice Morgan 2007
Greenland
United States A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 2007
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Barbados
Bahamas
Belize
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Costa Rica
Cuba Dancing to Almendra - Mayra Montero 2009
Dominica - Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Grenada
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo 2007
Monserrat
Netherlands Antilles
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Turks and Caicos Islands
Trinidad and Tobago
Virgin Islands
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil -
December Heat - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza 2009
Chile -
Daughter of Fortune - Isabelle Allande 2009
Colombia -
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2009
Ecuador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru Who Killed Palomino Molero? - Mario Vargas Llosa 2008
Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thorton Wilder
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
ASIA 13/45 +Tibet
Afghanistan The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra 2007
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See 2008
East Timor
India
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 2007
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga 2008
Indonesia Map of the Invisible World - Tash Aw 2009
Iran
Persepolis 1 and 2 - Marjane Satrapi 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran -Azar Nafisi 2008
Iraq
Israel
A Woman in Jerusalem;
Literary Murder: A Critical Case - Batya Gur
Japan Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter) 2008
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon -
De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage 2009
Malaysia - The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
Maldives
Mongolia Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale (ancient Mongolia, fairy tale) 2009
Myanmar - The Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly 2009
Nepal
North Korea - Pyongyang -Guy Delisle 2009
Oman
Palestinian Authority
Pakistan A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammad Hanif 2008
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka Reef - Romesh Gunesekera 2007
South Korea
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet - Sky Burial - Xinran 2009
Turkey
Istanbul: Memories and the City - Orhan Pamuk 2007
Other Colors - Orhan Pamuk 2007
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC 3/24
American Samoa
Australia
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zukas 2007
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz 2008
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia, Federated States of
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand The Bone People - Keri Hulme 2007
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones 2008
Pitcairn Islands
Rarotonga & the Cook Islands
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Western Samoa
EUROPE 18 /51
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria -
The Little Book - Seldon Edwards
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zlata's Diary 2007
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway 2008
Bulgaria
Channel Islands The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - MaryAnn Shaffer 2009
Croatia
Cyprus -
Small Wars - Sadie Jones 2009
Czech republic Ignorance - Milan Kundera 2007
Denmark
Estonia
FaroeIslands
Finland -
Snow Angels - James Thompson 2010
France The Stranger - Albert Camus 2007
Georgia
Germany Night - Elie Weisel 2007
Gibraltar
Greece
Hungary The Rebels - Sandor Marai 2009
Iceland Silence of the Grave - Araldur Indridason 2008
Ireland Irish Stories for Christmas - John B Keane 2007
Italy
The Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri (translated by Stephen Sartarelli) 2007
The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino ( translated by Archibald Colquhoun) 2007
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Monaco
Netherlands On the Water - HM van den Brink 2007
Norway Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson 2008
Poland
Portugal Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali 2007
Romania
Russia House of Meeting - Martin Amis 2008
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith 2008
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coehlo 2007
Spain The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2006)
Sweden The Princess of Burundi - Kjell Eriksson 2007
Switzerland Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner 2008
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England:
Arthur & George - Julian Barnes 2007
Scotland:
One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson 2007
Wales:
Vatican City
