Read Around the World- Numbers Based

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4 participants (33 books)

15 Jun 2024—15 Jun 2027

Overview

Read one book that takes place in every UN member state, plus the two observer states (Palestine and the Holy See), as well as the following non-sovereign states or nations: 

Puerto Rico 
Hong Kong
Wales 
Northern Ireland 
England 
Scotland 
Greenland 
Bermuda 
First Nations of the USA 
Catalonia 
Quebec
Corsica
Sicily 
Tibet 
Taiwan 
Kosovo 
Antarctica 
Svalbard

Progress: 


Colombia: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Democratic Republic of Congo: Colbalt Red by Siddharth Kara
England*: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
France: A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead
Georgia: The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili
Ireland: The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Jamaica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Japan: Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Lithuania: Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros
Nigeria: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Northern Ireland*: Milkman by Anna Burns
Palestine*: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha
Russia: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Scotland*: The Baby Monitor  by Rosie Walker
South Korea: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Syria: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christine Lefteri
USA: The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Wales*: The Woman in My Home by CR Howell 

*Territory or country that is not a UN member, is not technically a country by itself, is part of the UN in association with other countries (ie United Kingdom is comprised of 4 separate countries, but they are amalgamated as one UN member state) or is a UN observer state 

Challenge Books

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The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

327 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

112 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced
Intervista col vampiro by Anne Rice

Intervista col vampiro

The Vampire Chronicles #1

Anne Rice

361 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror thriller dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Carmilla: La vampira e il detective dell'occulto by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla: La vampira e il detective dell'occulto

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

235 pages • first pub 1872 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious fast-paced
Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest by Kaho Nashiki

Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

Kaho Nashiki

144 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional mysterious medium-paced
Suite francese by Irène Némirovsky

Suite francese

Irène Némirovsky

415 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction classics historical sad slow-paced
Storia di una gabbianella e del gatto che le insegnò a volare by Luis Sepúlveda

Storia di una gabbianella e del gatto che le insegnò a volare

Luis Sepúlveda

144 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction childrens classics emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Il conte Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Il conte Luna

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

174 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative fast-paced
Il castello blu by Lorenza Ricci, L.M. Montgomery, Valeria Mastroianni

Il castello blu

Lorenza Ricci, L.M. Montgomery, Valeria Mastroianni

240 pages • first pub 1926 (editions)

fiction classics romance young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Il grande mare dei Sargassi by Jean Rhys

Il grande mare dei Sargassi

Jean Rhys

207 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced