Around the World in 8 Months: Orbis Terrarum Reading Challenge

Welcome to Orbis Terrarum 2010!!!

This is year 3 of our big adventure. There are some different things going on this year, so read up.

Orbis Terrarum 2010 Challenge Rules:

*The Orbis Terrarum Challenge begins April,1st 2010(you are welcome to join later) through the month of November.
*For the challenge each reader is to choose 8 books (for the 8 months of the challenge).
*Each book must from a different country, I have decided to go by the country of origin of the author, or the country he/she lives in is fine as well-meaning NOT the country the book is set in!!
*You don’t have to have a list, that means you can change your mind at any time. As long as there are 8 books you have completed the challenge.

This year the challenge will be moved (again! I know annoying!) But I am done messing with blogger and I think you will like what you see over at the new place!!

Click here to go to the: New (and hopefully improved) Orbis Terrarum Reading Challenge Blog

Do you have suggestions?? Give 'em to me! :P

December (last month) Links to Your Books Reviews

This is the last month of the OT challenge!!! Post all your reviews for this month below, you can also post the links to your wrap up posts on this Mr. Linky.

As always, be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Thank you all SO MUCH for joining in on this Orbis Terrarum Challenge this year, I have loved interacting with you all!!!

Blessings in this wonderful Christmas season to you and your families.

November Book Links!

Post your reviews for the month of November below. I can't wait to see where you have traveled this month!!

As always, be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

Kristin Lavransdatter Readalong

Dear Orbis Terrarum Challenge Readers:

Since Emily from Evening All Afternoon and I are hosting a Kristin Lavransdatter Readalong from October through December, Bethany has asked me to post something about the readalong here in case any of you are interested in joining us.  Full details can be found at Emily's blog here or my blog here, but basically we'll be reading one book a month from Sigrid Undset's 1920-1922 trilogy (above, photo by Emily) as part of a shared read with a friendly group of readers--sort of an online book group.  While Undset's status as a Nobel Prize winner may provide a bit of an intellectual incentive for some of you, the rest of you should rest easy in knowing that Kristin Lavransdatter is wildly acclaimed by many people who just like a good read!  As an added bonus for Orbis Terrarum Challenge participants, Undset can count as either a Norwegian author (based on where she lived much of her life) or as a Danish author (where she was born).  Anyway, I hope you'll consider reading along with us as the last readalong that many in the Kristin Lavransdatter crew participated in was so much fun that we decided to carry on with our online book group thing one more time!

Best,

Richard

P.S. Orbis Terrarum host Bethany is just one of several O.T. challengers reading along with us.  Feel free to stop by everybody's blogs even if you don't have the time to participate!  Bethany has also created a group for the Kristin Lavransdatter Readalong over at the Book Blogs Ning here.

September Reviews for Orbis Terrarum Travelers!

Post your reviews for the month of September below. I can't wait to see where you have traveled this month!!

As always, be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)


Mister Linky is back up!!!!

Who am I? Guessing Game for a book!!!

Time for a GIVEAWAY!!!!!

I am going to copy what Richard did for his giveaway and give one clue each day until the book is figured out. I want you to guess the author and the book in order to win.

I will just edit this post with a new clue daily until someone gets it!!

Clues:

1.) International fiction writer.
2.) The writer is Female.
3.) She is from California.
4.) Born to first generation immigrants.
5.) Won the National Book Award

HAVE FUN PLAYING, You may guess in the comments to win, but I will only answer yes or no. Enjoy!
(you must be a part of the Orbis Terrarum Challenger to play)

August Reviews!!

Hey international traveler peeps!
So this is our 6th month, and so you should be working on your 6th book in August.

To add in a little excitement I have a great book to giveaway this month. It is one of my favourite reads, so stay in touch.

Post your reviews in the comments, Mr Linky is still down, I think I will give up on it.

Be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

Enjoy your reading travels.

EDIT: Mister Linky is BACK!! Just when I had given up! :)

July Reviews!!

How is the summer treating you? Do you read more during the summer or less? So far for me it has been so much less this time around with my husband graduating with his masters and my sister getting married, plans go to Spain in September for a visit to my parents....you know all fun stuff, but still completely distracting. Happy reading peeps!

Here is the Mr. Linky for July, where you can post your links to the reviews you have written the month for the OT challenges. I am going to post one mr. linky for all of the OT challenges so make sure that you specify in your review what challenge (or challenges if there is overlap) you are posting the review for.

Be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

Mr. Linky (where you put your links) is down right now, just post the url to your review, along with Country,Author, Book in the comments. THANKS!

Reviews for June

Here is the Mr. Linky for June, where you can post your links to the reviews you have written the month for the OT challenges. I am going to post one mr. linky for all of the OT challenges so make sure that you specify in your review what challenge (or challenges if there is overlap) you are posting the review for.

Be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

Mr. Linky (where you put your links) is down right now, just post the url to your review, along with Country,Author, Book in the comments. THANKS!

Reviews for May!!!

Here is the Mr. Linky for May, where you can post your links to the reviews you have written the month for the OT challenges. I am going to post one mr. linky for all of the OT challenges so make sure that you specify in your review what challenge (or challenges if there is overlap) you are posting the review for.

Be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

Mr. Linky (where you put your links) is down right now, just post the url to your reivew, along with Country,Author, Book in the comments. THANKS!

Thank you!

Hey OT folks!

I want to thank you for all the commenting you have been doing on each other's blogs, and checking out the OT reviews that the other members have posted!! You all are really helping me out. My initial goal was to comment on every OT review, and I guess it is a good sign, but I keep falling way behind. You all are crackin' out those international reviews like crazy. So, keep up the good reviewing and the commenting. I love the community feel that it breeds. LOVE IT! Keep it up. Thank you all so much.


Stay posted, I will host a giveaway, Guess that Author game soon ( thanks Richard for the idea from your Juan Rulfo giveaway). So keep checking, I'll get it up in the next couple days!

Juan Rulfo

Congratulations to One Swede Read, who correctly guessed that Mexico's own Juan Rulfo (above, with pre-columbian friend) was the name of the author in this week's trivia contest! Rulfo (1917 or 1918-1986) is primarily famous for two works, his 1953 short story collection El llano en llamas (The Burning Plain) and his 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, but he's almost universally revered in Latin American literary circles for his contributions to the craft of writing. Jorge Luis Borges, for example, called Pedro Páramo one of the best novels ever written, and Gabriel García Márquez has claimed that reading that same novel helped him break the writer's block he was suffering early on in his own career--a breakthrough that would soon lead to the creation of García Márquez' own classic Cien años de soledad (100 Years of Solitude). Rulfo has lately begun to receive a lot of posthumous attention for his wonderful photography, and photographic compilations of his work are now available in both English and Spanish as well as online. The Prize: One Swede Read, please get in touch with me to claim your prize: a copy of El llano in llamas (The Burning Plain) or Pedro Páramo in either Spanish or English. One final note: OT host Bethany somehow managed to guess the author's identity on the very first day of the contest, but she took herself out of the running so that others could have a chance at the prize. How about a round of applause for her sportsmanship? Thanks to everybody who participated in the trivia contest--we'll do another one down the road if you thought it was fun!

A Spanish-language version of Rulfo's classics

An English version of the novel

One of Rulfo's more ethereal photographs: two dancers on a plain in Mexico

"Guess the Name of the Author" Book Giveaway Contest

To help get April's Orbis Terrarum reading off to a fun start, I'm giving away a free paperback (author and title to be revealed later) to the first OT challenger who can guess the name of the mystery man above (no resemblance to the actual author, of course!). All OT contestants are welcome to play, and the only rule is that you should limit yourself to one guess a day (no anonymous entries) in the comments box until the writer's identity is revealed. I'll provide a new clue here daily until a winner is declared, but here are three to start you out. P.S. Given that these clues may apply to more than one person, don't get too mad if you guess the "wrong" writer based on a similar description. I know who the right one is!

• The author in question, one of the most influential of his times by many accounts, was a writer and a photographer.
• English was not the author's native language.
• A son of the author is a filmmaker.
• (Bonus clue) Jorge Luis Borges, no stranger to talent himself, was a huge fan of this writer's work.
• (Latest clue) Although this celebrated short story writer and novelist did write in Spanish, he wasn't born in either South America or Spain.

Can you guess the name of this author?

April OT Books Read:

Here is the Mr. Linky for April, where you can post your links to the reviews you have written the month for the OT challenges. I am going to post one mr. linky for all of the OT challenges so make sure that you specify in your review what challenge (or challenges if there is overlap) you are posting the review for.

Be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides or resided or if you are choosing to go with where the author was born) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to each other's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

National Poetry Month! Want to join in?

April is National poetry month and I wanted to be sure and mention it so that you'd each have a chance to bust out some good international poetry to read. We have the good Orbis Terrarum Poetry Mini Challenge and this would be a great month to focus on that if you are signed up. That is what I am going to do at least. (although any other month would be great too :)



Katrina gave us this good little tid bit:
For people that want to read 5 different poems, On this page. Their are audio's of all the poems we study in England for GCSE's the poems specifically have to come from a different culture. Copies of each poem are easily found on line as well if you google the title.

What international poets are you going to read for this Poetry Mini-Challenge??

Post links to your March OT reviews!!

I will put up a new mr. linky every month where you can post your links to the reviews you have written that month for the OT challenges. I am going to one mr. linky for the main OT challenge and the Mini-challenges so make sure that you specify in your review what challenge (or challenges if there is overlap) you are posting the review for.

Be sure to include the nation of origin (or where he/she resides) of the author, as well as the title of the book. For example: (Absent by Khedairi- Iraq)or (Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigeria)

Make sure you head over to eachother's reviews to comment! We all love comments :)

may the journey begin!!

Today is the 1st of March, and the beginning of:

The Orbis Terrarum Challenge
The Orbis Terrarum Film Challenge
The Orbis Terrarum Bilingual Challenge
The Orbis Terrarum Poetry Challenge

Which country are you visiting in first!? I am torn. I have several really good options. I put together (with the help of several of you amazing volunteers) a list of the books read last year and links to what other bloggers thought of those books. If you email me links as we go I can just add them. Make sure to remember that I list them by the author's nation of origin, I know sometimes it isn't the best fit, but I think over all it is the best way of doing things.

Are you ready to start???

And the Winner Is...

Beastmomma, you have just won a copy of The Best of Youth on DVD. I'll be in touch soon to get your mailing address, but for now happy day one of the Orbis Terrarum Challenge to you and to all the other giveaway participants.

Orbis Terrarum Film Mini-Challenge Giveaway

Dear Orbis Terrarum 2009 Challenge Participants:

With Bethany's approval, I'll be sponsoring a DVD giveaway in early March to help kick off this year's Orbis Terrarum Film Mini-Challenge. One lucky winner will receive a copy of director Marco Tullio Giordana's 2003 The Best of Youth (original title: La meglio gioventù), a six-hour Italian epic that follows the fortunes of brothers Matteo and Nicola Carati through almost forty years of recent history in the bel paese. Everybody I've shown this movie to has been blown away by it, so I hope I can continue the streak with you if you turn out to be the giveaway winner!

Although the DVD winner will be determined by a random drawing, you can increase your chances to earn up to five raffle entry points by doing one or more of the following: 1) Comment on this post to let me know that you're interested in being entered into the drawing. 2) For a bonus point, let me and Bethany know what three of your all-time favorite foreign films are in the course of your comments. 3) For three bonus points, sign up for the Orbis Terrarum Film Mini-Challenge using Mister Linky by the end of the month. I plan on holding the drawing on March 1st, the official start of the main OT Challenge and all the mini-challenges this year, so please comment and/or sign-up by the end of February to be eligible to win.

One last thing: This Best of Youth DVD is a region one DVD, which means it will only play on U.S. and Canada DVD players unless you have a multi-region DVD player or program. If you win the contest but aren't sure if you're able to play U.S. DVDs on your system, let me know if you'd prefer that I send you a copy of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's 1958 novel The Leopard (Il gattopardo) instead. Ciao!

Reviewed by OT Challengers

Africa

• Algeria – Algiers
• The Plague - Albert Camus (Algeria) raidergirl3
  
• The Plague by Albert Camus (Algeria) Katrina
  
• Angola – Luanda
• Benin – Porto-Novo (seat of government at Cotonou)
• Botswana – Gaborone
• Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou
• Burundi – Bujumbura
• Cameroon – Yaoundé
• Cape Verde – Praia
• Central African Republic – Bangui
• Chad – N'Djamena
• Comoros – Moroni
• Congo, Democratic Republic of (also known as Congo-Kinshasa) – Kinshasa
• Congo, Republic of (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) – Brazzaville
• Côte d'Ivoire (also commonly known as Ivory Coast) – Yamoussoukro (seat of government at Abidjan)
• Djibouti – Djibouti
• Egypt – Cairo
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Eygpt) Katrina
  
• The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) Rachel
  
• In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt) Eva
• The Map of Love - Ahdaf Souief (Egypt)
• Equatorial Guinea – Malabo
• Eritrea – Asmara
• Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
• Gabon – Libreville
• Gambia – Banjul
• Ghana – Accra
• Guinea – Conakry
• Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
• Kenya – Nairobi
• Lesotho – Maseru
• Liberia – Monrovia
• Libya – Tripoli
• In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar (Libya) raidergirl3
  In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar (Libya) Pratima
  
• Madagascar – Antananarivo
• Malawi – Lilongwe
• Mali – Bamako
• Mauritania – Nouakchott
• Mauritius – Port Louis
• The Rape of Sita -Lindsey Collen (Mauritius) Lynda
  
• Mayotte (overseas territory of France) – Mamoudzou
• Morocco – Rabat
• This Blinding Absense of Light - Ben Jelloun, Tahar (Morocco) raidergirl3
  
• Mozambique – Maputo
• Namibia – Windhoek
• Niger – Niamey
• Nigeria – Abuja
• Things Fall Apart - Chiua Achebe (Nigeria)raidergirl3
• Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigeria) 3M
• No Longer At Ease - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) Rajik
  Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Adichie (Nigeria) Pratima
  Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)Tammy
  Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) Ramya
  
• Half of A Yellow Sun by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)Bookbath
• Half of A Yellow Sun by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) Trish
  
• The Famished Road - Ben Okri (Nigeria) Nymeth
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• Réunion (overseas department of France) – Saint-Denis
• Rwanda – Kigali
• Saint Helena (overseas territory of the United Kingdom; including the territories of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) – Jamestown
• Sao Tome and Principe – São Tomé
• Senegal – Dakar
• Seychelles – Victoria
• Sierra Leone – Freetown
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah- (Sierra Leone)Trish
  
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone) Mrs. B
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• Somalia – Mogadishu
• Maps - Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) Beastmomma
  
• South Africa – Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein
  
• The Writing Circle by Rozena Maart (South Africa) Bethany
  
• Sudan – Khartoum
• The Translator - Daoud Hari (Sudan) Tanabata
• The Translator - Daoud Hari (Sudan) Trish
  
• Swaziland – Mbabane (administrative), Lobamba (royal and legislative)
• Tanzania – Dodoma (seat of government at Dar es Salaam)
• Togo – Lomé
• Tunisia – Tunis
• Uganda – Kampala
• Western Sahara^{[note 1]} – El Aaiún (unofficial)
• Zambia – Lusaka
• Zimbabwe – Harare

Asia

• Afghanistan – Kabul
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afganistan)Myrthe
  The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - (Afghanistan) Veens
  
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) Bethany
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) Leya
  
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (Afganisthan)Bookworm
  
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) Pratima
• Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez (Afghanistan) Juli
• Armenia^{[note 2]} – Yerevan
• Penelope by Goar Markosyan-Kasper - (Armenia)Myrthe
• Azerbaijan^{[note 2]} – Baku
• Bahrain – Manama
• Bangladesh – Dhaka
• Brick Lane - Monica Ali (Bangledash) Rajik
  
• Bhutan – Thimphu
• British Indian Ocean Territory (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)^{[note 3]}
• Brunei – Bandar Seri Begawan
• Cambodia – Phnom Penh
• The Road to Lost Innocence - Somly Mam (Cambodia) Veens
  
• China, People's Republic of – Beijing
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -Dai Sijie- (China) Tricia
  Shanghai Baby by Zhou Wei Hui (China) Lynda
  
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolou Guo (China) Joanna
  
• Sky Burial by Xinran (Tibet) Medb
• Sky Burial - Xinran (China) Bart
• China, Republic of (commonly known as Taiwan) – Taipei
• Christmas Island (overseas territory of Australia)^{[note 4]}
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (overseas territory of Australia)^{[note 4]}
• Cyprus^{[note 2]} – Nicosia
• Georgia^{[note 2]} – Tbilisi
• Hong Kong (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)
• India – New Delhi
• Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni(India) Corinne
  
• Sister of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (India) Pratima
  The Mistress by Anita Nair-(India) Ramya
  The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (India) 3m
• The White Tiger - Adiga Aravind (India) - Karen
• Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women - (India) Lynda
  Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri (India) Veens
  Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri-(India) Tricia
  
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India) Juli
  The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (India) Leya
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (India) Trish
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (India) Joanna
  
• The Talkative Man by R. K. Narayan (India) Rajk
• What the Body Remembers - Shauna Singh Baldwin (India) Beastmomma
  
• The Zigzag Way - Anita Desai (India) Nymeth
• Indonesia – Jakarta
• Iran – Tehran
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Iran) Corinne
  
• Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (Iran) Bart
  Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (Iran) Beastmomma
  Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi (Iran) Tricia
  
• Persepolisby Marjane Satrapi (Iran) Tiny Librarian
• Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan (Iran) Katrina
  Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Iran) Ramya
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• Iraq – Baghdad
• I'jaam - Sinon Antoon (Iraq) Beastmomma
  
• Absent by Betool Khedairi (Iraq) Corinne
  Maqamat [The Assemblies of Al-Hariri: Fifty Encounters with the Shaykh Abu Zayd of Seruj], Al-Hariri of Basra,(Iraq) Richard
• The Assemblies of Al-Hariri - Al-Hariri of Basara (Iraq) – R-Lo
• My Father's Paradise - A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq - Ariel Sabar (Iraq and Israel) Ramya
  
• Israel – Jerusalem
• Don't Call it Night - Amos Oz (Israel) Myrthe
• Japan – Tokyo
• Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe (Japan)Raidergirl3
• All She Was Worth, Miyuki Miyabe,( Japan)Richard
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami (Japan) BookCrazy
  After Dark - Haruki Murakami (Japan)Pratima
• After Dark – Haruki Murakami (Japan) - Karen
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Japan) Ramya
  
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Japan)Tanabata
• Kafka On the Shore - Haruki Murakami (Japan) Joanna
  
• X-Ka by Asami Tohjoh (Japan) 3m
  
• Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse (Japan) Tanabata
  
• Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) Trish
• Strangers - Taichi Yamada (Japan) Nymeth
  Good Bye - Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Japan) Bart
  
  
• Jordan – Amman
• Kazakhstan – Astana
• Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (commonly known as North Korea) – Pyongyang
• Korea, Republic of (commonly known as South Korea) – Seoul
• Kuwait – Kuwait City
• Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek
• Laos – Vientiane
• Lebanon – Beirut
• Fashionably Late – Nadine Dajani (Lebanon) – Tiny Librarian
• Macau (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)
• Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur (seat of government at Putrajaya)
• Evening is the Whole Day - Preeta Samrasan (Malaysia) – Bee Bee
• Maldives – Malé
• Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar
• Myanmar (also commonly known as Burma) – Naypyidaw
• The Jacaranda Tree - Burma
• Nepal – Kathmandu
• Oman – Muscat
• Pakistan – Islamabad
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Mahammed Hanif (Pakistan) - Rajani
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammad Hanif (Pakistan)Raidergirl3
  
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan) LizzySiddal
  The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (Pakisatan) Pratima
  
  
• Palestinian territories (collectively the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip)
• Philippines – Manila
• Qatar – Doha
• Saudi Arabia – Riyadh
• Singapore – Singapore (city-state)
• Sri Lanka – Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
• The Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (Shi Lanka)Ramya
• Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai (Sri Lanka) Rajik
  
• Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Sri Lanka) Bethany
  
• Syria – Damascus
• The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami (Syria)Myrthe
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• Tajikistan – Dushanbe
• Thailand – Bangkok
• Timor-Leste (also commonly known as East Timor) – Dili
• Turkey^{[note 2]} – Ankara
• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (Turkey ) Ramya
  
• The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak (Turkey) Pratima
• Turkmenistan – Ashgabat
• United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi
• Uzbekistan – Tashkent
• Vietnam – Hanoi
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Vietnam) Juli
  
• Yemen – Sana'a

Europe

• Albania – Tirana
• Andorra – Andorra la Vella
• Austria – Vienna
  The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni ( Austria) Veens
  
• Embers by Sandor Marai ( Austria) Ramya
  
• Belarus – Minsk
• Belgium – Brussels
• The Book of Proper Names - Amelie Nothomb (Belgium)Tanabata
• Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo
• Sarajevo Marlboroby Miljenko Jergovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)Bethany
  
• Bulgaria – Sofia
• The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov (Bulgaria) Monix
  
• Croatia – Zagreb
• Czech Republic – Prague
• Denmark – Copenhagen
• Estonia – Tallinn
• Faroe Islands (overseas territory of Denmark) – Tórshavn
• Finland – Helsinki
• France – Paris
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - (China/France) Tricia
  The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery - (France) Veens
  Là-Bas [The Damned or Down There], J.-K. Huysmans, (France)Richard
  Snow by Maxence Fermine (France) 3m
  A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti (France)Corinne
• The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino (Italy/France) Nymeth
  
• The Scortas' Sun (The House of Scorta) by Laurent Gaude' (France)Tanabata
  
• A Very Long Engagement by Sebastian Japrisot (France) Eva
  
• Three Shadows - Cyril Pedrosa (France) Bart
• Lorraine Connection - Dominique Manotti (France) Lizzy
• Germany – Berlin
• The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers (Germany)That's the Book
  
• The Golden Pot by E.T.A. Hoffman (Germany)Corinne
  Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(Germany) Lynda
  Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Germany) Tammy
  
• Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen (Germany) Lizzy
  
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind (Germany) Tanabata
• Perfume - Patrick Suskind (Germany)
• Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (Germany) - Tammy
  A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (Germany) - Tricia
• Gibraltar (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Gibraltar (city-state)
• Greece – Athens
• Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy (Greece/Ireland) Tiny Librarian
  
• Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzkis (Greece) Trish
  
• Guernsey (British crown dependency) – Saint Peter Port
• Hungary – Budapest
• Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz (Hungary) 3m
  We Are On Our Own by Mariam Katin (Hungary) Corinne
  
• Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungary) Ramya
• Iceland – Reykjavík
• Voices - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland)
• Ireland – Dublin
• The Secret Scriptures - Sebastian Barry (Ireland)Raidergirl3
• The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton (Ireland)Joanna
  P.S., I Love You -Cecelia Ahern (Ireland) Tricia
  The Gathering by Anne Enright (Ireland)Myrthe
  
• The Gathering - Anne Enright (Ireland) Veens
  The Gathering by Anne Enright (Ireland) 3m
  
• Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer (Ireland)Samantha
  
• "paddy clarke ha ha ha" by Roddy Doyle (Ireland)Nymeth
• Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy (Ireland)Tiny Librarian
  
• Under the Net - Iris Murdoch (Ireland) BookCrazy
• Country of the Grand - Gerard Donovan (Ireland) LizzySiddal
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Ireland) Trish
  
• Isle of Man (British crown dependency) – Douglas
• Italy – Rome
• The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri (Italy)Raidergirl3
• The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri (Italy)Reading Fool
  Gomorra[Gomorrah], Roberto Saviano, (Italy) Richard
  
• Silk - Alessandro Baricco (Italy) Bart
  Silk - Alessandro Baricco (Italy)Tiny Librarian
  
  Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Italy)3m
• The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino (Italy/France) Nymeth
  I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis (Italy)Juli
  
• 
  
• Jersey (British crown dependency) – Saint Helier
• Kosovo – Pristina
• Latvia – Riga
• Liechtenstein – Vaduz
• Lithuania – Vilnius
• Luxembourg – Luxembourg
• Macedonia – Skopje
• Malta – Valletta
• Moldova – Chişinău
• Monaco – Monaco (city-state)
• Montenegro – Podgorica
• Netherlands – Amsterdam (seat of government at The Hague)
• The Vanishing - Tim Krabbe (The Netherlands) Joanna
• Norway – Oslo
• Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (Norway)Raidergirl3
  Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norway) 3m
  
• Poland – Warsaw
• Portugal – Lisbon
• The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (Portugal) Leya
  
• Romania – Bucharest
• Night by Elie Wiesel - (Romania)Mrs. B
  
• Russia^{[note 5]} – Moscow
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Russia) 3m
  
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Russia) Pratima
  The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine (Russia)Corinne
  Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov (Russia)Myrthe
  Night Witches - Bruce Myles (Russia)Lynda
• Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk - Boris Akunin (Russia)Reading Fool
  Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin (Russia) Rachel
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia) Ramya
  
• San Marino – San Marino
• Serbia – Belgrade
• Slovakia – Bratislava
• Slovenia – Ljubljana
• Spain – Madrid
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)Myrthe
• Don Quixote 2nd part - Miguel de Cervantes (Spain) Myrthe
  El invierno en Lisboa [Winter in Lisbon], Antonio Muñoz Molina, (Spain) Richard
  
• Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol (Spain)Lizzy
• Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Spain) Ramya
  
• Sweden – Stockholm
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Sweeden)3m
• The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell (Sweden)Lizzy
• Switzerland – Berne
• Blue Pills - Fredrik Peeters (Switzerland)Bart
• 
  
• Ukraine – Kiev
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (Ukraine)Bethany
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka(Ukraine)Tricia
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (Ukraine)Tini Librarian
• 
  
• United Kingdom – London
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (England) Myrthe
• The Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith (England)
  
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philipa Gregory- (England)Tricia
  Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (England) Pratima
  
• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (UK)Ramya
  She, H. Rider Haggard,( U.K.)Richard
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (UK)3m
  
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (England/Ukraine)Bethany
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka(England/Ukraine)Tricia
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (England/Ukraine)Tini Librarian
• Small Island - Andrea Levy ( England)Bookbath
  
• Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson (England)Beastmomma
  On Beauty - Zadie Smith (England)Tiny Librarian
  
• When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer (UK) Juli
  
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding (UK) Bee Bee
  Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis (UK) Mrs. B
  The Waves - Virginia Woolf (UK) Myrthe
  Be Near Me - Andrew O'Hagan (Scotland)Bookbath
• Romanno Bridge - Andrew Greig (Scotland) LizzySiddal
• A Prisoner of Birth – Jeffrey Archer (UK) - Rajani
  Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri (UK) - Tricia
  Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding (UK) - Pratima
  Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith (Scotland) Tricia
  Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (Wales) - Tammy
• 
  
• Vatican City – Vatican City (city-state)
• 
  

North America

• Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – The Valley
• Antigua and Barbuda – Saint John's
• Aruba (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) – Oranjestad
• Bahamas – Nassau
• Barbados – Bridgetown
• Belize – Belmopan
• Bermuda (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Hamilton
• British Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Road Town
• Canada – Ottawa
• Microserfs by Coupland -(Canada) Katrina
• Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland (Canada) Nymeth
  Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canada)Tammy
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Canada)3m
  The Birth House by Ami McKay - (Canada) Mrs. B
  The Birth House by Ami McKay (Canada)Lynda
• The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood (Canada)Trish
  
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (Canada)Joanna
• A Dreaming Place - Charles de Lint (Canada) Bart
  Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay (Canada) LizzySiddal
• The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (Canada) Karen
• 
  
• Cayman Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – George Town
• Clipperton Island (overseas territory of France)
• Costa Rica – San José
• Cuba – Havana
• Where the Flame Trees Bloom by Alma Flor Ada (Cuba) Corinne
  
• Dominica – Roseau
• Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - (U.S.A/Dominican Republic)Tricia
• El Salvador – San Salvador
• Greenland (overseas territory of Denmark) – Nuuk
• Grenada – Saint George's
• Guadeloupe (overseas department of France) – Basse-Terre
• Guatemala – Guatemala City
• Haiti – Port-au-Prince
• Honduras – Tegucigalpa
• Jamaica – Kingston
• Martinique (overseas department of France) – Fort-de-France
• Mexico – Mexico City
• Like water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - (Mexico) Veens
  
• Los de abajo [The Underdogs], Mariano Azuela, (Mexico) Richard
• Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo (Mexico) Nymeth
  
• Montserrat (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Plymouth (seat of government at Brades)
• Navassa Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Netherlands Antilles (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) – Willemstad
• Nicaragua – Managua
• Panama – Panama City
• Puerto Rico (overseas territory of the United States) – San Juan
• Saint Barthélemy (overseas territory of France) – Gustavia
• Saint Kitts and Nevis – Basseterre
• Saint Lucia – Castries
• Saint Martin (overseas territory of France) – Marigot
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (overseas territory of France) – Saint-Pierre
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Kingstown
• Trinidad and Tobago – Port of Spain
• Turks and Caicos Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Cockburn Town
• United States – Washington, D.C.
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - (U.S.A/Dominican Republic)Tricia
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (U.S.A)Katrina
  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (U.S.A.)Tammy
  
• The Farmworker's Daughter by Rose Castillo Guilbault (U.S.A)Bethany
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (United States)Beastmomma
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (United States)Bookbath
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick (USA) Bart
  
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman - (USA)Mrs. B
• Monique and the Mango Rains - Kris Holloway (USA) Mrs. B
  The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (USA) Mrs. B
  Peony In Love - Lisa See (USA) Mrs. B
• Peony In Love by Lisa See -(USA)Katrina
• The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn (USA)Mrs. B
  Indie Girl - Kavita Daswani (USA) Tiny Librarian
• Day of Confession by Allan Folsom (USA)Lynda
• Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitgerald (USA) - Tammy
  The Runoff - Mark Coggins (USA) Rajani
  Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (USA) – Bee Bee
  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez (USA) - Tricia
• The Story of A Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer (USA) Lizzy
  
• United States Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United States) – Charlotte Amalie

South America

• Argentina – Buenos Aires
• The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara (Argentina) Katrina
  Cicatrices, Juan José Saer, (Argentina)Richard
  The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez (Argentina) 3m
  
• Bolivia – Sucre (seat of government at La Paz)
• Brazil – Brasília
• The Devil and Miss Prym by Coehlo (Brazil)Katrina
• The Devil and Miss Prym - Paolo Coelho (Brazil) Joanna
  The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (Brazil)Reading Fool
  
• Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - Jorge Amado (Brazil) Leya
• Chile – Santiago
• Estrella distante [Distant Star], Roberto Bolaño, (Chile)Richard
• Colombia – Bogotá
• No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia)Corinne
  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)Tammy
• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia) Beastmomma
  
• Ecuador – Quito
• Falkland Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Stanley
• French Guiana (overseas department of France) – Cayenne
• Guyana – Georgetown
• Paraguay – Asunción
• Peru – Lima
• Who Killed Palimino Molero? - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)Raidergirl3
• Suriname – Paramaribo
• Uruguay – Montevideo
• Venezuela – Caracas

Oceania:

• American Samoa (overseas territory of the United States) – Pago Pago (seat of government at Fagatogo)
• Australia – Canberra
• A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz (Australia)Raidergirl3
• The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak- (Australia)Tricia
• The Book Thief - Mark Zusak (Austrailia) BookCrazy
  
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Germany)Ramya
  Breath by Tim Winton (Australia) 3m
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Australia)Beastmomma
• Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey (Australia)Tiny Librarian
  
  Incurable - John Marsden (Austrailia) Bart
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• Baker Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Cook Islands (territory in free association with New Zealand) – Avarua
• Fiji – Suva
• French Polynesia (overseas territory of France) – Papeete
• Guam (overseas territory of the United States) – Hagåtña
• Howland Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Jarvis Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Johnston Atoll (overseas territory of the United States)
• Kingman Reef (overseas territory of the United States)
• Kiribati – South Tarawa
• Marshall Islands – Majuro
• Micronesia – Palikir
• Midway Atoll (overseas territory of the United States)
• Nauru – no official capital (seat of government at Yaren)
• New Caledonia (overseas territory of France) – Nouméa
• New Zealand – Wellington
• Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones (New Zealand)Raidergirl3
• Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones- (New Zealand)Katrina
• The Whale Rider - (New Zealand)Lynda
• Niue (territory in free association with New Zealand) – Alofi
• Norfolk Island (overseas territory of Australia) – Kingston
• Northern Mariana Islands (overseas territory of the United States) – Saipan
• Palau – Melekeok
• Palmyra Atoll (overseas territory of the United States)
• Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby
• Pitcairn Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Adamstown
• Samoa – Apia
• Solomon Islands – Honiara
• Tokelau (overseas territory of New Zealand) – no official capital (each atoll has its own administrative centre)
• Tonga – Nukuʻalofa
• Tuvalu – Funafuti
• Vanuatu – Port Vila
• Wake Island (overseas territory of the United States)
• Wallis and Futuna (overseas territory of France) – Mata-Utu

Antarctica

• Bouvet Island (overseas territory of Norway)
• French Southern Territories (overseas territory of France)
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands (overseas territory of Australia)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)^{[note 6]}