There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away
Emily Dickinson

Sunday, February 27, 2011

GLOBAL READING CHALLENGE 2011 BOOKS

The Expert Challenge
Read three novels from each of these continents in the course of 2010:

Africa
Asia
Australasia
Europe
North America
South America (please include Central America where it is most convenient for you)
The Seventh Continent

Select novels from twenty-one different countries or states if possible. (For Australasia, selecting a different state for your last book will be acceptable)



Africa     Cutting for Stone   Abraham Verghese     Ethiopia
                 In All My Sad Dreaming    John Caulfield    South Africa
                 The Caterpiller Cop   James McClure




Asia        The Feng Shui Detective Case Book      Nuri Vittachi    Singapore
                 Bamboo and Blood  James Church  North Korea
                 Arabesk    Barbara Nadel   Turkey




Australasia    Forbidden Fruit      Kerry Greenwood  Melbourne
                          Gunshot Road    Adrian Hyland  Outback
                           A Town Like Alice    Nevil Shute


Europe    An Irish Country Christmas    Patrick Taylor   Ireland
                  The Spoke          Friedrich Glauser  Switzerland
                   Siren of the Waters       Michael Genelin  Slovakia


North America
                    Another Man's Moccasins   Craig Johnson  Wyoming
                    The Tennis Partner   Abraham Verghese  Texas
                     Stain on the Berry    Anthony Bidulka  Canada


South America   City Of Silver    Annamaria Alfieri   Peru
                                Ines Of My Soul  Isabel Allende  Chile
                                Every Bitter Thing  Leighton Gage  Brazil


The Seventh Continent  Fantasy Land for me    
                               The Hunger  Games  Suzanne Collins
                               The Lightning Thief    Rick Riordan
                                City of Bones    Cassandra Clare

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