Less Challenging: 2011 Global Reading Challenge

My current global reading challenges asks both for authors from different countries, but also for books I can share with my kids.  This turns out to be hard, even if I count books I try and fail to share with my kids, and counting books when I can't tell where the author originates frustrates me.  Since my general approach to challenges is to avoid being actually challenged, I need a new list to use when books are useless for my read-American challenge (Where Are You Reading?).

Luckily the 2011 Global Reading Challenge fits right in.  At the Expert level, it asks for three novels from each continent, with an extra continent thrown in for those space-station kind of books.  I am of course back-dating all my reading so far, or at least the books that I consider real novels and that take place somewhere.  I'm going to try not to count books set in the US, so I hope Canada or Mexico come through for me.

Africa

• Baking Cakes in Kigali (Rwanda)
• Anna Hibiscus, Atinuke (probably Nigeria)
• Wife of the Gods, Kwei Quartey (Ghana)
• (Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba) Malawi, but not a novel

Asia

• Housekeeper and the Professor (Japan)
• The Commoner (Japan)
• The Duel (Israel)
• Space Between Us (India)
• One Man's Bible (China)

Australasia

• Guardian of the Dead (New Zealand)
• The Whale Rider (New Zealand)
• Stolen (Australia)
• Jasper Jones, (Australia)

Europe

• The Heir (England)
• The Game of Kings (Scotland)
• Don't Say a Word (Germany)
• Strange Blood (Wales)
• Toby Alone (France)

North America

• Victim Rights (Canada). Hey, I forgot to review this!
• Hammered (Canada: Ontario)
• Border Crossing, Maria Cruz (Mexico) (a real novel)
• Born to Run (Mexico)  (technically not a novel)

South America

• Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom, Tim Byrd (imaginary South American country)
• Boiling Point, K.L. Dionne (Chile)
• Stolen Lake, Joan Aiken (another imaginary South American country)

Seventh Continent

• Thendara House (Darkover)
• Do Unto Others (Govannon) 
• The House of the Stag (Baker fantasy world)
• Burndive (Austro space station) 
• Troubled Waters  (fantasy world)

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