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January

 

When Broken Glass Floats - Growing up under the Khmer Rouge: Chanrithy Him (Cambodia)

Devil, Devil: GW Kent (Solomon Islands)

The Auschwitz Violin: Maria Angels Anglada (Poland)

Cry Havoc: Simon Mann (Equatorial Guinea)

Love Anger Madness: Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Haiti)

 

February

 

Last Train from LIguria: Christine Dwyer Hickey (Italy)

The Sounds of a Wild Snail Eating: Elizabeth Tova Bailey (US)

Mosquito - Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka)

Rosie's War - Rosemary Say (France)

Delirium - Lauren Oliver (US)

 

March

 

Hypothermia - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland)

Chronicle in Stone - Ismail Kadare (Albania)

Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver (US)

Drums on the Night Air - Veronica Cecil (Congo)

My Autobiography - Charles Chaplin (England)

What the Day Owes the Night - Yasmina Khadra (Algeria)

In the Midst of Life - Jennifer Worth (England)

Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace (Zimbabwe)

 

April

 

The Land of Later On: Anthony Weller (United States)

Purge: Sofi Oksanen (Estonia)

Running the Rift: Naomi Benaron (Rwanda)

The Greenhouse: Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Iceland)

 

May

 

Revenge of the Tide - Elizabeth Haynes (England)

Ali and Ramazan - Perihan Magden (Turkey)

Never Mind (Melrose Novels 1) - Edward St Aubyn (England)

Partitions - Amit Majmundar (Pakistan)

Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier (Portugal)

 

June

 

Witness the Night - Kishwar Desai (India)

The Panoptican - Jenni Fagan (Scotland)

The Consequences of Love - Sulaiman Addonia (Saudi Arabia)

Signs of Life - Anna Raverat (England)

The Door - Magda Szabo (Hungary)

Me Before You - Jojo Moyes (England)

Heart Shaped Bruise - Tanya Byrne (England)

Outrage - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland)

Divergent - Veronica Roth (US)

Isles of Scilly Guidebook (Friendly Guides) - Neil Reid (England)

 

July

 

Insurgent - Veronica Roth (US)

Inside Job - Charles Ferguson (US)

Perfect People - Peter James (UK)

The Appointment - Herta Muller (Romania)

Fatal Tango - Wolfram Fleischhauer (Germany/Argentina)

 

August

 

Boy Racer - Mark Cavendish (Isle of Man)

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (Sweden)

Stones For My Father - Trilby Kent (South Africa)

The Secret Olympian: The Inside Story of the Olympics - Anon

Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (Mexico)

 

September

 

Delirium - Laura Restrep (Colombia)

A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Christopher Aslan (Uzbekistan)

 

October

 

Fracture - Megan Miranda (US)

The Conductor - Sarah Quigley (Russia)

The Hills is Lonely - Lillian Beckwith (Scotland)

The Vanishing Act: Matte Jacobsen (Denmark)

 

November

 

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World: Jean Sasson (Saudi Arabia)

The Snow Child - Aowyn Ivey (US)

The Summer Book - Tove Janssen (Finland)

Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt - Jean Naggar (Egypt)

Somewhere Home - Nara Awar Jarrar (Lebanon)

 

December

 

The Cypress Tree - Kamin Mohammadi (Iran)

Taliban: Rashid Ahmed (Afghanistan)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (Ukraine)

Here Lies Bridget - Paige Harbison (US)

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life - Sari Nusseibeh (Palestine)

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  • 4 months later...

Halfway through the year already and so far I have read 36 books, which for me is not bad, the 37th will hopefully be finished later on today. 6 books have been non fiction, with the remaining 30 fiction from a total of 24 different countries.

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I am currently around 50 percent through my 53rd book of the year, so working on the average for the year of one book every 5-6 days should be able to get through another 8 or 9 before the year is out, which should take me to around 61 or 62 books. This is at least a 100 percent increase on last year, so not bad at all.

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  • 1 month later...

At what is almost the end of 2012, I have chalked up a total of 63 books, which for me is not bad at all. All but one of these (a travel guide to the Isles of Scilly) have been in Kindle form as opposed to paper books, with 16 non fiction books (about one quarter) - mostly various forms of biographies and/or travelogues, and 47 fiction.

 

I have read books from (or set in) a a total of 42 countries so am making good progress with the Around the World Reading Challenge, and next year hope to read a few more.

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