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🗺️ Discover the world challenge: A journey through books and bites

Here are the two lists of all the books as well as a list with foods and/or restaurants from my around the world challenge. I will add recommendations as I go.

If you have any recommendations please add them here: book recommendations or/and food recommendations.

Thank you!

Reading the World - My List

What I’ve read so far

🇦🇫 Afghanistan

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

🇦🇱 Albania

  • Sworn Virgin - Elvira Dones

🇦🇲 Armenia

  • Y del cielo cayeron tres manzanas - Narine Abgaryan

🇦🇷 Argentina

  • Rosaura at 10 O’Clock (Rosaura a las diez) - Marco Denevi

🇧🇷 Brazil

  • The Alchimist - Paulo Coelho

🇨🇾 Cyprus

  • The Island of Missing Trees - SHAFAK, Elif (This is a Turkish/British author so it might not qualify for Cyprus but with the story being so well written and taking into account the history of the island I will leave it here for now)

🇩🇰 Denmark

  • Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living - Meik Wiking

🇩🇪 Germany

  • Sansibar oder der letzte Grund - Alfred Andersch

🇯🇵 Japan

  • Los misterios de la taberna Kamogawa - Kashiwai, Hisashi

🇲🇩 Moldova

  • Moldavian Autumn - Ion Drutse

🇵🇪 Peru

  • The Dream of the Celt - Mario Vargas Llosa
  • In The Shadow of the Mountain: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

🇷🇴 Romania

  • Morometii - Marin Preda
  • Forest of the Hanged - Liviu Rebreanu

🇪🇸 Spain

  • La noche que nos escuchamos - Albert Espinosa
  • The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

🇸🇪 Sweden

  • The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

  • Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson (British–Ghanaian writer and photographer)

🇺🇸 United States

  • Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
  • Moon Palace - Paul Auster

🇻🇪 Venezuela

  • The Sickness - Alberto Barrera Tyszka

Want to Read

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić

🇺🇦 Ukraine

  • The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan

🇳🇴 Norway

  • The Ice Palace - Tarjei Vesaas

🇨🇱 Chile

  • The Poetry of Pablo Neruda - Pablo Neruda

🇧🇾 Belarus

  • Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Svetlana Alexievich

Might Read

🇮🇪 Ireland

  • Ulysses - James Joyce

🇵🇹 Portugal

  • Blindness - José Saramago (started this one but never finished)

Eating the World - My List

Will be updated soon.

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