I read for fun. I love the escapism reading brings but I also love how you can learn from all types of books, not just non-fiction. I don’t think that reading challenges are serious, they just allow me to track books I’ve read and perhaps think a little more about what I am going to read.
I’m also interested in reading a variety of books so I want to make sure that I’m not just concentrating on one genre.
In addition I thought it may be fun to try to read my way around the world and try to read a book for each letter of the alphabet. With this in mind I’ve decided to keep a list of the countries the books I read are based in. I’ll up date this as and when I have a new country or book to add.
So far I have read 61 books this year
Reading around the world…
Australia
The Dry
Botswana
Deadly Harvest
England
The Girl in the Red Coat (also partly based in the USA)
The Song Collector
A Christmas in Disguise
The Ballroom
Sweet Home
The Finding of Martha Lost
Mothering Sunday
In Her Wake
When She Was Bad (and partly set in the USA)
The Perfect Match
Daisy in Chains
Tastes Like Fear
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Death of a Diva
The Museum of You
The Unseeing
Wrote for Luck
The Secrets of Wishtide
The Butcher Bird
How to Find Love in a Bookshop
Ragdoll
The Beautiful Dead
Death in Profile
A Vintage Wedding
The Keeper of Lost Things
The Vanishing
Meet Me At Beachcomber Bay
Wildflower Bay
White Lies and Wishes
Watch Her Disappear
France
Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew
Her Father’s Daughter
Greece
An Octopus in my Ouzo
Hong Kong
The Last Days of Jack Sparks (also Italy, England and the USA)
Iceland
Nightblind
Italy
Falling in Love
The Waters of Eternal Youth
Norway
The Bird Tribunal
Poland
The Constant Soldier
Republic of Ireland
Unravelling Oliver
Lying in Wait
Closed Casket
South Korea
The Dog Who Dared to Dream
Sweden
Fever at Dawn
USA
Breakdown
Devil’s Bridge
Destroyer Angel
Fool Me Once
The One-in-a-Million Boy
Lab Girl
Lily and the Octopus
Last Light
Eligible
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The River at Night
The Book of Mirrors
Talking as Fast As I Can
Wales
The Missing Hours (and partly England)
(Unknown)
The Man I Became
