Sunday, November 2, 2008

Reading Globally

I realised that my reading tends to be set in the UK or the USA, and since I don't have the time nor the money to travel the world, I thought I'd expand my reading horizons.

So far as I can recall my reading travels in the past have taken me to these countries:
Africa
Uganda - Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Botswana - No 1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith
Morocco - Hideous Kinky by Ester Freud

Asia
Tokyo - Norwegian Wood by Hanuki Murakami
Singapore - The Third Brother by Nick McDonell
Thailand - The Third Brother by Nick McDonell and The Beach by Alex Garland
India - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Life of Pi by Yann Martel and God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Europe
Austria - The Third Man by Graham Greene
Germany - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Norway - Naive Super by Erlend Loe
Sweden - Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
Prague - The Unbearable Lightness of Being and other books by Milan Kundera
Sicilly - The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
France - The Outsider by Albert Camus and Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
Russia - Dynamo by Tariq Goddard, The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Ukraine - Death and the Pengiun & Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov and A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka
Spain - Homage to a Firing Squad by Tariq Goddard
Hungary - Under a Frog by Tibor Fischer
Poland - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Ireland - The Gathering by Anne Enwright and The Sea by John Banville

South America
Cuba - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama - all visited in The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara


visited 31 states (13.7%)
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