I’m back! I’ve been unable to use my blog for weeks but think everything is okay now. Bloggers know how frustrating this can be. I haven’t used my blog as much as Instagram these past few years because I wasn’t able to use my own photos. I still haven’t entirely fixed that problem but did manage to get this one on here so there is hope.
On September 1st I embarked on a new challenge. I’m calling it Reading the World and I’m going to attempt to read a fiction AND nonfiction book from every country in the world.
I’ve been toying with the idea for a few years and finding a few people attempting to read one book from each country on Instagram gave me the push I needed. I’m going to use the current UN list of 193 countries, but am opening to reading the territories too if books are recommended, but it’s not a priority.
I need your help! The rule (made this up myself) is that the author must be from the country and the book must be set in the country. There’s wiggle room for sci-fi or fantasy where the setting is fluid. Please recommend favorite books! I combed my shelves and pulled out this stack, once I have one fiction and one nonfiction from a county it gets read. The only one I had to start was Israel, so I’m currently reading there.
Send me any recommendations and especially these since I already have one book. I need nonfiction books for these countries. I’m partial to memoirs, but anything is fine.
Canada, Afghanistan, Japan, Poland, Nigeria, Sweden, S Korea, Trinidad &Tobago. I need fiction options from Sierra Leone and Pakistan. I’m open to kids books too, sometimes those are my favorites!
I’ll be on here more since I’ll be tracking my progress. I’m excited for this challenge and excited to blog more. I’ve missed it.
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Stacy, good to see a post from you. That being said, I’ve been on a break for a couple of months, but will soon post again. What a challenge for you! Good luck with it. I don’t read much non-fic, but I do read fiction from other countries. You’ve made it more challenging by wanting the author to also be from the country. As I said, good luck! Hope you and your guys are doing well!
So fun to see challenges still a thing! Welcome back!
Trail of Crumbs is a memoir by Kim Sunee that I read years ago but has always stuck with me. She was born in Korea, adopted by an American couple and raised in New Orleans. A writer, chef, cookbook author and world traveler. She does return to Korea to see where she’s from, in a poignant search for self. So, it’s not necessarily set in Korea, but her native country does play an important part in her memoir. I love to recommend this book to people, I found it fascinating.