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issybird · 12-17-2011, 10:00 AM

25 Books of 25 Lands:

England: Beasts and Super-Beasts, Saki
Egypt: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado
USA: Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scotland: Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson, William W. Starr
Bhutan: Married to Bhutan, Linda Leaning
Russia: The Eternal Husband, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Japan: Silence, Shusaku Endo
Cuba: Havana Blue, Leonardo Padura
France: Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends, Mary McAuliffe
Canada: Me Bandy, You Cissie, Donald Jack
Laos: Another Quiet American: Stories Of Life In Laos, Brett Dakin
Iceland: The Greenhouse, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Netherlands: The Assault, Harry Mulisch
Colombia: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Argentina: Needle in a Haystack, Ernesto Mallo
Germany: Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner
Hungary: In Praise of Older Women, Stephen Vizinczey
Albania: Chronicle in Stone, Ismail Kadare
China: In the Pond, Ha Jin
Turkey: Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk
Italy: The Surprise of Cremona, Edith Templeton
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Afghanistan: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby
Austria: The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig
Kenya: Someday I Will Write About This Place, Binyavanga Wainaina
Australia: Cocaine Blues, Kerry Greenwood
Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng

Laundry Basket Challenge (25 books from my paper TBR collection):

In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Under Gemini, Isabel Bolton
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War, Virginia Nicholson
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940, D.J. Taylor
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War, Neil Hanson
Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner
In Praise of Older Women, Stephen Vizinczey*
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939, Katie Roiphe
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Only My Dreams: An English Girlhood, Hilda Ann Salusbury
The Surprise of Cremona, Edith Templeton
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Andrew L. Knaut
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt
Memories of a Big Sky British War Bride, Irene Hope Hedrick
City of the Soul: A Walk in Rome, William Murray
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918, Martin Green
A Favourite of the Gods, Sybille Bedford
A Compass Error, Sybille Bedford
The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
South from Grenada, Gerald Brenan

I was comfortably past 100 books in 2011, so while I'll track 2012 reading at GR, it's not a goal for me.

12-17-2011, 10:00 AM	#12
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,039 Karma: 232487499 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	Goal: 25 books about different countries and 25 paper books from my TBR pile 25 Books of 25 Lands: *England: Beasts and Super-Beasts,* Saki Egypt: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado *USA: Tender is the Night,* F. Scott Fitzgerald *Scotland: Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson,* William W. Starr *Bhutan: Married to Bhutan,* Linda Leaning *Russia: The Eternal Husband,* Fyodor Dostoevsky *Japan: Silence,* Shusaku Endo *Cuba: Havana Blue,* Leonardo Padura *France: Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends,* Mary McAuliffe *Canada: Me Bandy, You Cissie, Donald Jack Laos: Another Quiet American: Stories Of Life In Laos, Brett Dakin Iceland: The Greenhouse, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Netherlands: The Assault, Harry Mulisch Colombia: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez Argentina: Needle in a Haystack, Ernesto Mallo Germany: Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner Hungary: In Praise of Older Women, Stephen Vizinczey Albania: Chronicle in Stone, Ismail Kadare China: In the Pond, Ha Jin Turkey: Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk Italy: The Surprise of Cremona, Edith Templeton Spain: The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón Afghanistan: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby Austria: The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig Kenya: Someday I Will Write About This Place, Binyavanga Wainaina Australia: Cocaine Blues, Kerry Greenwood Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng Laundry Basket Challenge* (25 books from my paper TBR collection): In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor Under Gemini, Isabel Bolton Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War, Virginia Nicholson Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940, D.J. Taylor Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War, Neil Hanson Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner In Praise of Older Women, Stephen Vizinczey* Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939, Katie Roiphe Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Only My Dreams: An English Girlhood, Hilda Ann Salusbury The Surprise of Cremona, Edith Templeton The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Andrew L. Knaut The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, George Howe Colt Memories of a Big Sky British War Bride, Irene Hope Hedrick City of the Soul: A Walk in Rome, William Murray The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918, Martin Green A Favourite of the Gods, Sybille Bedford A Compass Error, Sybille Bedford The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor South from Grenada, Gerald Brenan I was comfortably past 100 books in 2011, so while I'll track 2012 reading at GR, it's not a goal for me. Last edited by issybird; 01-01-2013 at 01:47 AM.