Finding a book set in Botswana gave me the idea for this challenge. The countries are not fixed, but merely serve as a suggestion. If I end up reading a book set in the Ukraine or Jamaica or some such, I will swap it out for one of the others. I simply like the idea of reading books set across the world. The books can be fiction or non-fiction or even a children’s book. It all counts! (apart from travel guides!)
Let me know if you are travelling around the world in 80 books as well! I would love to see more people doing this. 🙂
- Afghanistan – When the Moon is Low (Nadia Hashimi)
- Algeria – A Bookshop in Algiers (Kaouther Adimi)
- Antarctica – A Polar Affair (Lloyd Spencer Davis)
- Argentina – The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Mariana Enriquez)
- Australia – Flames (Robbie Arnott)
- Austria
- Belgium
- Botswana – Botswana Time (Will Randall)
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burundi – Small Country (Gaël Faye)
- Canada – Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger)
- Chile – Selected Poems (Pablo Neruda)
- China – The Moon in the Palace (Weina Dai Randel)
- Croatia
- Cyprus – The Island of Missing Trees (Elif Shafak)
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic – Dominicana (Angie Cruz)
- England – Persuasion (Jane Austen)
- Egypt – Nefertiti (Michelle Moran)
- France – The Summer Queen (Elizabeth Chadwick)
- Germany – The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
- Ghana – Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
- Greece –Corelli’s Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres)
- Hungary – Memento Park (Mark Sarvas)
- Finland
- Iceland – All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
- India – Little Maryam (Hamid Baig)
- Indonesia
- Iran – The Stationery Shop (Marjan Kamali)
- Iraq – A Lullaby in the Desert (Mojgan Azar)
- Ireland – Treading the Uneven Road (L M Brown)
- Italy – Times New Roman (Martha Miller)
- Israel – Black Foam (Haji Jabir)
- Japan – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mexico
- Mongolia – Rough Magic (Lara Prior-Palmer)
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands – Dutch Girl (Robert Matzen)
- New Zealand
- Nigeria – My Sister, The Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
- Northern Ireland
- North Korea – The Girl With Seven Names (Hyeonseo Lee)
- Norway
- Palestine – In The Presence of Absence (Mahmoud Darwish)
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia – Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Romania
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland – Never Greener (Ruth Jones)
- Singapore – Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
- Slovenia
- South Africa – Born A Crime (Trevor Noah)
- South Korea – The Bird (Oh Jung-hee)
- Spain – The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden – A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey – The Architect’s Apprentice (Elif Shafak)
- Uganda
- Ukraine – The Overcoat and Other Stories (Nikolai Gogol)
- United States – To The Promised Land (Michael K Honey)
- Uzbekistan – Samarkand (Amin Maalouf)
- Vietnam – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
- Wales – A Cottage by the Sea (Carole Matthews)
- Yemen
- Zambia – Midwinter (Fiona Melrose) the flashbacks are set here
Lola Et La Vie 