I’ve been making a series of videos where I share the books I read in 2017 that are set in countries around the world. The challenge I gave myself was to use countries that start with all the letters of the alphabet.

Click below to watch the previous videos

• Argentina: Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories /Mariana Enriquez
• Botswana: Rubbing Stones/Nancy Burkey
• Canada:  Hag-Seed /Margaret Atwood
• Dominican Republic:  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents /Julia Alvarez
• England: Shylock Is My Name /Howard Jacobson

• France: How to Behave in a Crowd /Camille Bordas
• Germany: The Book Thief /Markus Zuzak
• Haiti: The Dew Breaker / Edwidge Danticat
• India: The Windfall /Diksha Basu
• Japan:  A Tale for the Time Being /Ruth Ozeki
• Jamaica: A Brief History of Seven Killings /Marlon James

• Korea:  Human Acts /Han Kang
• Liberia: Dirty Wars and Polished Silver /Lynda Schuster
• Libya: In the Country of Men / Hisham Matar
• Mauritius: Eve Out of Her Ruins /Ananda Devi
• Nazareth: The Testament of Mary /Colm Toibin
• New Zealand: The Luminaries /Eleanor Catton
• Ophalese (fictional location): The Prophet/Khalil Gibran

And the latest installment in the series

• Philippines: In the Country
• Qatar: The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir
• Russia: Still Here: A Novel
• Sierra Leone: Radiance of Tomorrow
• Trinidad: A House for Mr. Biswas

Is this  a challenge you would like to take on in 2018? It’s not too late to start and if you are looking for recommendations, I can praise almost every book mentioned above. Reading books set in different countries can be like taking a trip around the world, soaking in the culture and learning a bit of the language and interacting with the natives, all without the hassle that can accompany actual travel.

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