Reading is a way for someone to travel the world without leaving the comfort of their home. Books can showcase different cultures, adventures, and turmoils so you can view the world from a new perspective. After looking at other challenges and not really finding one that I was really liked, I created my own! This challenge is called An Adventurous Reading Challenge! There are 50 different countries and regions listed along with books that you can read that take place within their borders! I will update this page as I cross each book off my list and also post a link to their reviews. There is also a gorgeous graphic that you can print or pin so you can embark on this grand adventure as well!
A Grand Adventure Reading Challenge:
- Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Antarctica: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
- Argentina: Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
- Bahamas: An Evening in Guanima: A Treasury of Folktales from the Bahamas
- Bangladesh: A Golden Age
- Brazil: State of Wonder
- Canada: The Blind Assassin
- Cambodia: Temple of a Thousand Faces
- Chile: The House of The Spirits
- China: The Good Earth
- Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Congo: The Poisonwood Bible
- Dominican Rep: In the Time of the Butterflies
- Egypt: River God
- Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone
- Fiji: Fiji: A Novel
- France: The Nightingale
- Germany: The Alice Network
- Greece: The Song of Achilles
- Iceland: Burial Rights
- India: The Far Pavilions
- Indonesia: Stranger in the Forest
- Iran: The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
- Ireland: The Wonder
- Italy: Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- Jamaica: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Japan: The Suicide Forest
- Kenya: Circling the Sun
- Mexico: Under the Volcano
- Morocco: The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
- Myanmar: The Glass Palace
- Nepal: Palpasa Cafe
- Netherlands: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- New Zealand: The Luminaries
- Nigeria: Things Fall Apart
- Oman: The Turtle of Oman
- Pakistan: The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
- Peru: Lost City Radio
- Philippines: Avenue of Mysteries
- Russia: The Bear and The Nightingale
- Saudi Arabia: Girls of Riyadh
- South Africa: The Woman Next Door
- South Korea: Please Look After Mom
- Spain: The Shadow of The Wind
- Sweden: A Man Called Ove
- Thailand: The Beach
- Turkey: Istanbul Passage
- United Kingdom: Neverwhere
- United States: American Gods
- Vietnam: Matterhorn
