Around the World Reading Challenge: The Results

Egads!  Where has the time gone?

Last year, I started an Around the World Reading challenge for fellow book bloggers.  The challenge is simple: to read at least one book from each of the six continents.  (I did not include Antarctica, but I was delighted to note that one person did a post on a book about Antarctica anyway.)

I was pleased with the number of people who rose to my challenge.  Below, I have compiled a list of all the challenge entries that were linked to my blog.  (If you linked a post, and I missed it, please know that it was inadvertent or that your link didn’t work.  Let me know, and I will rectify my mistake.)

I have to confess that I have not yet completed my own challenge.  (I have neglected my blog for many months, but I’m getting back on the horse, so to speak.) I have entries for North America, Asia, and Africa, but still need some for Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and South America.  I still have two more weeks left!

If you have joined the challenge, but haven’t finished yet, either, it’s not too late.  There are two more weeks to get er done!

Thanks so much to everybody who participated!

North America

•  John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath,
  https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/book-challenge-2-the-grapes-of-wrath/
• Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down Bear North
  https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-review-bear-down-bear-north-by-melinda-moustakis/

• Sarah Payne Stuart, Perfectly Miserable
  https://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/how-to-be-a-concord-new-englander/

• J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
  https://just5paragraphs.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/holden-caulfield-would-fail-my-class/

•  Liz Moore, Heft
• https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/februarys-wirt-heft/

• Yann Martel, Life of Pi
  http://abooksreview.com/2015/03/10/a-rational-look-at-life-of-pi/
• Joseph Boyden, The Orenda
  http://regroovenating.com/2015/03/the-orenda-can-we-have-more-history.html/
  
  
• Jeff Goins,The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do,  ARHtistic License    http://arhtisticlicense.com/2015/07/01/what-is-my-calling/

•  The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/book-review-the-snow-child/

• C. and Kristin Cast, Marked
  https://lifetimediaryproject.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/marked-p-c-kristen-cast/

• Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman
  https://notestiedonthesagebrush.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/everythings-not-black-or-white-in-go-set-a-watchman/

• Edith Wharton, Xingu
  https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/x-is-for-xingu/

• Andre Alexis, Fifteen Dogs
  http://albertsnewyork.com/2015/04/16/book-review-fifteen-dogs/

• L. James, Fifty Shades of Gray
  https://ansumani.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-the-road-often-travelled-to-the-library/

 

South/Latin America

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel
  http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/08/10/gabriel-garcia-marquez-minus magical-realism/#comment-284
  

• Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
  https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/book-review-like-water-for-chocolate/

• Pablo Neruda Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
  http://regroovenating.com/2015/10/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-4-the-essential-neruda-selected-poems.html/

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
  https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/around-the-world-book-challenge-4-one-hundred-years-of-solitude/

 Europe

•  S. Lewis, Mere Christianity from ARHtistic License
  http://arhtisticlicense.com/2015/12/13/nothing-mere-about-it/

•  Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/11/11/glassfuls-of-water-into-a-forest-fire-flight-to-arras/

•  Giogio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/around-the-world-reading-challenge-the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis/#respond
  
  
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
  https://suzettastone15.wordpress.com/

•  Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan
  http://albertsnewyork.com/2015/02/26/book-review-faithful-ruslan-2/

• Tim Moore, You are Awful (But I Like You)
  https://amandaafield.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/book-review-you-are-awful-but-i-like-you/
• Anne Morgan, Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer
  https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/around-the-world-reading-challenge-reading-the-world-confessions-of-a-literary-explorer/

• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
  https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/book-challenge-number-1-brave-new-world/

  Patrick Modiano, Missing Person. https://ansumani.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-the-road-often-travelled-to-the-library/

• Hannah Berry, Britten & Brulightly
  http://abooksreview.com/2015/03/03/britten-brulightly-a-secret-not-to-be-kept/

• Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
  https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/around-the-world-book-challenge-3-the-book-thief/

•  Halldor Laxness, The Atom Station
  https://inwhichhelen.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/can-you-sell-a-country-the-atom-station-review/

•  James Joyce, Ulysses.
  https://just5paragraphs.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/ulysses-by-james-joyce-huge-mistake/

•  Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  https://lifetimediaryproject.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/limprevedibile-viaggio-di-harold-fry-rachel-joyce/

• Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
  https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/book-reviewer-advisory-explicit-admiration/

•  Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince
  http://regroovenating.com/2015/11/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-5-le-petit-prince.html/

 Asia

• Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
  http://jackieregales.com/2015/02/18/around-the-world-challenge-review-in-the-shadow-of-the-banyan/

• Road To Damascusby Elaine Rippey Imady
  https://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/reminds-me-of-bethlehem/
• Haruki Murakami, IQ84
  https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/januarys-wirt-1q84

•  Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tusukuru Tazaki
  https://ansumani.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-the-road-often-travelled-to-the-library/

• Sun Tzu, Art of War
  https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/around-the-world-book-challenge-5-sun-tzus-the-art-of-war/

•  I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban.Malala Yousafzai
  http://arhtisticlicense.com/2015/09/05/can-your-story-change-the-world/

• Mo Yan, Cambiamenti (This blog is written in Italian, which I do not speak, so I do not know what the English translation of this book is titled.)
  https://lifetimediaryproject.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/cambiamenti-mo-yan/

• Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
  https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/around-the-world-reading-challenge-snow-country-by-yasunari-kawabata/

 Africa

• Nuruddin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight
  https://debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/hiding-in-plain-sight-by-nuruddin-farah/

• Nadine Gordimer, July’s People
  https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/book-review-julys-people-by-nadine-gordimer/

• We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/we-need-new-names-book-review/

• Alain Mabanckou, Broken Glass
  https://inwhichhelen.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/broken-glass-a-review/

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
  https://jabrushblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/around-the-world-book-challenge-6-purple-hibiscus/comment-page-1/#comment-676

Australia and New Zealand

• Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect
  https://notestiedonthesagebrush.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/the-around-the-world-reading-challenge-2015-the-rosie-effect/

•  Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
  https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/book-review-picnic-at-hanging-rock/
  

• David Malouf, Ransom
  http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/11/29/ransom/
  

• Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
  https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/around-the-world-reading-challenge-cloudstreet-by-tim-winton/
  

• Liane Moriarty, The Husband’s Secret
  https://theextrapounds.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/marchs-wirt-the-husbands-secret/
  

Antarctica

Walter Dean Myers, Antarctica:  Journey to the South Pole
https://donnainthesouth.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/around-the-world-antartic