I was really excited when I found this challenge and signed up for the Easy Challenge, which is one book from each continent. As you can see, I read a lot of books for most of the areas of the world, but did best with Africa and Asia! Doing this post was a great process for me since it meant going back through the past year's posts to see what fit where. I really did a lot of international reading!
What's even more amazing is that with all this reading, I still only managed to do the Easy Challenge since I only read one book from Australasia!
Asia: Shanghai Girls (Lisa See); Lemon Tree (Tolan); Unaccustomed Earth (Lahiri); Climbing the Stairs (Venkatraman); Between two Worlds (Salbi); Women of the Silk (Tsukiyama); The Blue Notebook (Levine); Sold (McCormick); The Writing on My Forehead (Haji); Persepolis 2 (Satrapi); Pride of Baghdad (Vaughan); Horoshima (Hersey); Mornings in Jenin (Abulhawa); Barefoot in Baghdad (Omar); Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (See); Sharing our Homeland (Marx); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini); I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Ali); Creating a World without Poverty (Yunus); Bamboo People (Perkins); Stones into Schools (Mortensen); Pyongyang (Delisle);
Australasia: Wandering Girl by Glenyse Ward
Europe: Thaw (Robyn); Hitler's Canary (Toksvig); The London Eye Mystery (Dowd); Milkweed (Spinelli); Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne); Private Peaceful (Morpurgo); A Family Secret (Heuvel); The Wall (Sis); Laika (Abadzis)
North and Central America: Enrique's Journey (Nazario); Code Talker (Bruhac); Reservation Blues (Alexie)
Multiple countries/continents: Half the Sky (Kristoff);
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I have to say I'm very impressed! So many different books from different continents around the world! Congrats Helen!
Darlyn--I had no idea that I had read quite so many "international" books. Pretty fun!
This sounds like a great challenge! You certainly read a lot of books!
Booksnyc--This was a really great challenge; I learned that I loved books with an international setting.
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