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Goal: Read a Book From or About Every Country in the World

March 27, 2022 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

A new goal for me! I want to read at least one book set in, about or from every country. All the books I’ve already read will count toward this: fiction or nonfiction, juvenile, whatever!

World Map
Map from Tabulae Rudolphinae, by by Johannes Kepler (1627)

This page is a living document I’m using to keep track of my international reading. Because this is a living document I’ll be updating it for years to come as I expect it will take that long to get the books read, in case I ever do. It is a long-term ongoing project I’ll be working on.

You are welcome to copy and paste the country list to your own blog, taking out my book titles and replacing with your own.

There are a lot of international books I’ve already read, and it will take a while to get all the titles added to this document.

A

✓ Afghanistan
— A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini – I loved this novel. ★★★★★

Albania – TBR: Chronicle in Stone, by Ismail Kadare

✓ Algeria
— The Stranger, by Albert Camus – A short classic novel about a man who can’t seem to connect well with others. ★★★★★

Andorra

Angola

✓ Antarctica
— The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean – ★★★★★ – my review

Antigua and Barbuda – TBR: Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid

✓ Argentina
— Candide, by Voltaire – ★★★★★ – my review

Armenia

✓ Australia
— The Thornbirds, by Colleen McCullough – ★★★★★
— On the Beach, by Nevil Shute – ★★★★★

Austria

Azerbaijan

B

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

✓ Brazil
— The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon , by David Grann – ★★★★★ – my review

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

C

Cabo Verde

Cambodia

Cameroon

✓ Canada
— By Canoe and Dog Train: The Adventures of Sharing the Gospel with Canadian Indians, by Egerton Ryerson Young – ★★★★★ – my review

Central African Republic (CAR)

Chad

Chile

✓ China
— The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See – ★★★★★
— Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin – ★★★

✓ Colombia
— One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – ★★★★

Comoros

✓ Congo, Democratic Republic of the (formerly Belgian Congo)
— The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver – ★★★★★

Congo, Republic of the

Costa Rica

Cote d’Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czechia

D

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

E

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

F

Fiji

Finland

✓ France
— All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr – ★★★★★
— The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah – ★★★★★
— Thunder on the Right, by Mary Stewart – ★★★★★ – my review

G

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

H

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

I

✓ Iceland
— Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent – ★★★★ – my review

✓ India
— Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse – ★★★ – my review
— The Far Pavilions, by MM Kaye – ★★★★★
— The City of Joy, by Dominique Lapierre – ★★★★★ – my review

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

✓ Israel
— The Bible
— The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare

✓ Italy
— Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark Sullivan
— My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante – ★★★ – my review
— A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway – ★★★★
— A Voice in the Wind, by Francine Rivers – ★★★ – my review
— Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter – ★★★★★ – my review

J

Jamaica

✓ Japan
— Pachinko, by Lee Min-jin- ★★★★ – my review

Jordan

K

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

L

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

M

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

✓ Mexico
— American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins – ★★★★ – my review

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

N

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

✓ Nigeria
— Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe – ★★★★★ – my review

North Korea

North Macedonia

Norway

O

Oman

P

Pakistan

Palau

Palestine

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

✓ Peru
— Secret of the Andes, by Ann Nolan Clark – Juvenile novel – ★★★

Philippines

✓ Poland
— The Trumpeter of Krakow, by Eric P. Kelly – YA novel – ★★★ – my review

Portugal

✓ Puerto Rico
— American Familia, by David Morales – ★★★★★ – my review

Q

Qatar

R

Romania

✓ Russia
— Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy – ★★★★

Rwanda

S

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Scotland
— Wildfire At Midnight, by Mary Stewart – ★★★★★ – my review

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

✓ Singapore
— Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan – ★★★★ – my review

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

✓ South Korea
— If I Had Your Face, by Frances Cha – ★★★ – my review
— The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See – ★★ – my review
— The Vegetarian, by Han Kang – ★ – my review

South Sudan

Spain

Sri Lanka

✓ Sudan
— Passport through Darkness: A True Story of Danger and Second Chances, by Kimberly L. Smith – ★★★★

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

T

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

✓ Thailand
— A Wish in the Dark, by Christina Soontornvat – ★★★★★ – my review
— All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team, by Christina Soontornvat – ★★★★★ – my review

Timor-Leste

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

U

Uganda – TBR: A Girl is a Body of Water, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

✓ United Kingdom (UK)
— I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith – ★★★★★ – my review

✓ United States of America (USA)k
— so many! I’ll list a few later…

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

V

Vanuatu

Vatican City (Holy See)

Venezuela

Vietnam

Y

Yemen

Z

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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