I read a lot of books. I try to read approximately 70 to 80 books every year. You can find my book reviews underneath this header. Coincidentally, I also love to travel. You can find my posts about travel, everywhere on this blog really 🙂
I have decided today that I want to read books from all over the world. This page will track how many countries I’ve already covered. I only count books by authors that have been born (and raised) in the country they have written about. The books are also about that particular country.
Don’t expect this number to rise fast. I read based on what I feel like, so I won’t be rushing to finish this world map this year or the next.
Number of countries I’ve read from: 30 out of 193 UN Member States (16%)
Africa: 5 out of 55 Countries
Nigeria: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah (read in 2017), Ayọ̀bámi AdĂ©báyọ̀ – Stay With Me (read in 2018), Chigozie Obioma – The Fishermen (read in 2018), Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister, the Serial Killer (read in 2019).
South Africa: Trevor Noah – Born a Crime (read in 2019)
Burundi & Rwanda: GaĂ«l Faye – Small Country (read in 2018)
Ethiopia: Maaza Mengiste – The Shadow King (read in 2020)
Asia: 7 out of 48 Countries
North Korea: Masaji Ishikawa – A River in Darkness (read in 2020)
Japan: Haruki Murakami – What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart (3 books)
India: Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger (read in 2009), Jeet Thayil – Narcopolis (read in 2012)
Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns (2 books)
Malaysia: Tan Twan Eng – The Garden of Evening Mists (read in 2012)
Turkey: Elif Shafak – The Bastard of Istanbul (read in 2015)
Pakistan: Malala Yousafzai – I am Malala (read in 2020)
Europe: 10 out of 43 Countries
Belgium: Griet Op De Beeck – Kom hier dat ik u kus (read in 2015)
The Netherlands: Favourite authors: Esther Verhoef, Ronald Giphart.
France: Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers (2 books)
Germany: Ferdinand von Schirach – The Collini Case (read in 2012)
Italy: Roberto Saviano – Gomorrah, Elena Ferrante – Neapolitan series
Spain: Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn – Cemetery of Forgotten Books series
Sweden: Stieg Larsson – Millennium trilogy, Fredrik Backman – Anxious People (read in 2020)
Norway: Jo Nesbø – Harry Hole series
UK: Favourite authors: Mo Hayder, Victoria Hislop, Ken Follett (Wales), Graeme Macrae Burnet (Scotland), Irvine Welsh (Scotland)
Ireland: John Boyne – The Heart’s Invisible Furies (read in 2018)
North America: 6 out of 23 Countries
USA: Native American: Stephen Graham Jones – The Only Good Indians (read in 2020), Tommy Orange – There There (read in 2020). Other USA: Favourite authors: Laura Hillenbrand, Stephen King, Kristin Hannah.
Canada: Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace (read in 2017)
Jamaica: Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings (read in 2017)
Dominican Republic: Junot DĂaz – This Is How You Lose Her (read in 2013)
Cuba: Fidel Castro – My Life (read in 2017)
South America: 1 out of 12 Countries
Colombia: Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez – Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of Love and Other Demons, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (5 books)
Oceania: 1 out of 14 Countries
Australia: Jane Harper – The Dry, Force of Nature, Lost Man (3 books)
