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A Beautiful Place to Die
In Patagonia (Picador Books)
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
The Ice Beneath My Feet
Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family
Through Jaguar Eyes: Crossing the Amazon Basin
Lilies, Feathers & Frangipani
Holy City
By Night in Chile
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Pirate Latitudes
Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Havana Bay
The Chinese Maze Murders
Lucky Man
Guardian of the Horizon
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
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My parents instilled their love of reading in their children. We regularly visited the library from an early age and my first library card was a treasured possession.
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2021 666
1 Ireland - This is It’ by Conor Creighton
2 New Zealand - ’Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail’. by Danielle Hawkins
3 India - ‘The Broken Rules of Ten’ by Gay Hendricks
4 Taiwan - 'The Uninvited by Liz Jensen'
5 China - 'Dreaming in Chinese' by Deborah Fallows
6 Japan - 'The Phone Box at the Edge of the World' by Laura Imai Messina
7 UK - 'Tales From the Tail End; Adventures of a Vet in Practice' by Emma Milne
8 Netherlands - 'That One Patient; Doctors and Nurses’ Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever ' by Ellen de Visser
9 Romania - ‘Under the Blue' by Oana Aristide
10 Australia - ‘The Full Catastrophe: Stories From When Life Was So Bad It Was Funny’ by Sarah MacDonald
11 USA - ‘The Moth: This Is a True Story’ by Catherine Burns
12 Malaysia - ‘Falling is Flying: The Dharma of Facing Adversity' by Ajahn Brahm and Chan Master Guojun
13 Bulgaria - 'Angelology' (Angel Series Bk 1) by Danielle Trussoni
14 South Africa - 'The Silver Moon: Reflections on Life, Death and Writing' by Bryce Courtenay
15 Canada - ‘Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead’ by Emily Austin
2020 666
1/36 Asia/Japan Sweet Bean Paste. by Durian Sukegawa,
2/36 Europe/Denmark The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
3/36 Africa/South Africa Rolling with the Punchlines by Urzila Carlson
4/36 Europe/Gibraltar The End of the World Survivor’s Club by Adrian J. Walker
5/36 Asia/India The Dalai Lama's Cat and The Four Paws of Spiritual Success by David Michie
6/36 Europe/UK Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cowell
7/36 Pacific Life as a Casketeer by Francis Tipene and Kaiora Tipene
8/36 N.America Insomniac City. by Bill Hayes
9/36 Europe/France The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre
10/36 Pacific/Australia Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly and Rebecca Lister
2019 666
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault - Canada
Queens of the Kingdom; The Women of Saudi Arabia Speak by Nicola Sutcliff
The Haiku Apprentice- Memoirs of writing Poetry in Japan by Abigail Friedman
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins - New Zealand
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret - Israel
My Mother, a Serial Killer by Hazel Baron, (with Janet Fife-Yeomans ) Australia
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk - Poland
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell -Argentina
You Will Not Have My Hate - Leiris, Antoine - France
Rescued from ISIS- The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son - Dimitri Bontinck - Syria
The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep- Juliet Butler - Russia
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan - Jenny Nordberg
Beartown - Fredrik Backman - Sweden
East of Hounslow - Khurrum Rahman - England
2018-
2017 666 Challenge
15/36 Europe/Greece- The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian.
14/36 Pacific/Australia- The Dry by Jane Harper
13/36 Pacific/New Zealand- Marlborough Man by Alan Carter
12/36 North America/Canada- Juliet's Answer by Glenn Dixon
11/36 Asia/India- Mrs Funnybones; She's just like You and a lot like Me by Twinkle Khanna
10/36 Europe/England - The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
9/36 Pacific/Oceania/Marshall Islands (Ujae)- Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island by Peter Rudiak-Gould
8/36 North America/USA- Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell; A True Story of Violence, Corruption and the Soul of Surfing by Chas Smith
7/36 Asia/Tibet- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
6/36 North America/Mexico- Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright
5/36 Asia/Vietnam- Destination Saigon; Adventures in Vietnam by Walter Mason
4/36 Pacific Oceana/Micronesia- Micronesian Blues by Bryan Vila
3/36 Asia/Afghanistan- A Burqa and a Hard Place: Three Years in the New Afghanistan by Sally Cooper
2/36 Asia/Thailand- The Amok Runners by Colin Cotterill
1/36 Europe/Italy 1/36- The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
2016 666 Challenge
EUROPE
France - Paris Syndrome by Tahir Shah
Iceland- The Polar Bear Killing by Micahel Ridpath
OCEANIA PACIFIC
Australia - Reckoning by Magda Szubanski NF
AFRICA
South Africa - A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
2015 666 Challenge
SOUTH AMERICA (1)
Peru - 'Trail of Feathers' by Tahir Shah NF
NORTH AMERICA (6) done
Dominican Republic - "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez.
Haiti - 'A Wedding in Haiti' by Julia Alvarez NF
Honduras - 'My Amish Childhood: A True Story of Faith, Family, and the Simple Life' by Jerry S. Eicher NF
Mexico - Oh, Mexico! By Lucy Neville NF
USA - 'The Wild' by Cheryl Strayed - NF
Canada - 'I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
PACIFIC/OCEANIA (6) done
Papua New Guinea - Paradise: Solo Across New Guinea written by Chuck McAllister
Solomon Islands - Devil-Devil by GW Kent
Society Islands - All Good Things by Sarah Turnbull
Australia - 'The Mud House' by Richard Glover NF
New Zealand - 'As the Earth Turns Silver' by Alison Wong
'Grand Iles Crozet Islands - This Barren Rock; A True Tale of Shipwreck and Survival on the Southern Seas' by Sylvie Haisman NF
AFRICA (6) *done*
Ethiopia - 'In Search of King Solomon's Mines' by Tahir Shah NF
Congo - 'The Lights of Pointe-Noire' by Alain Mabanckou NF
Botswana - 'Tears of the Giraffe' by Alexander McCall Smith
Gabon - 'Wild Spirit' by Annette Hendersen NF
South Africa - 'A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar' by Pat Cavendish O'Neill NF
Kenya - 'A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa' by Nicholas Drayson
ASIA (6) *done*
Japan - 'Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye - A Journey' by Marie Mutsuki Mockett' - NF
Afghanistan - 'The Mother of Mohammed' by Sally Neighbour - NF
Iran - 'Good Muslim Boy' by Osamah Sami – NF
India – ‘Christine’s Ark’ by John Little - NF
N.Korea - Nothing to Envy: Life Love and Death in North Korea' by Barbara Demick NF
Philippines - 'The Trial of Maximo Bonga' by John Harris
EUROPE (6) *done*
Italy - 'The Four Corners of Palermo' by Guiseppe Di Piazza
Czechoslovakia - 'The Thing About Prague' by Rachael Weiss - NF
Norway - 'Norwegian By Night' by Derek B. Miller
Germany -'To Prussia With Love -Misadventures in Rural East Germany' by Roger Boyles - NF
UK - 'Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories' by Michel Faber
Spain - 'Seriously Mum, Where's My Donkey?' by Alan Parks NF
2014 666 Challenge
AFRICA (6)
Kenya – ‘The Camel Bookmobile’ by Masha Hamilton
South Africa – ‘Let the Dead Lie’ by Malla Nunn,
Sierra Leone – ‘A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier’ by Ishmael Beah,
Ghana – ‘Wife of the Gods' by Kwei Quartey
Mauritius- ‘Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons' by Gerald Durrell
Egypt - 'Guardian of the Horizon' by Elizabeth Peters
ASIA (6)
Philippines - ‘The Last Time I Saw Mother’ by Arlene J Chai
Occupied Territories – ‘Sharon and My Mother-in-Law’ by Suad Amiry,
Afghanistan – ‘Kabul Girls Soccer Club’ by Awista Ayub
Thailand - 'Bangkok Eight' by John Burdett
Laos - 'The Coroner's Lunch' by Colin Cotterill
China - 'The Chinese Maze Murders' by Robert Van Gulik
EUROPE (6)
Hungary – ‘Paprika Paradise: Travels in the Land of My Almost Birth’ by James Jeffrey
Sweden – ‘Exposed’ by Liza Marklund
France - 'Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes' by Elizabeth Bard,
The Netherlands - 'The Reunion' by Simone Van Der Vlugt
Bosnia/Herzegovina – ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’ by Steven Galloway
UK - 'Gypsy Bride' by Sam Skye Lee
NORTH AMERICA(6)
Mexico – ‘Sing and Don't Cry' a Mexican Journal by Cate Kennedy
USA - 'Heart in the Right Place' by Carolyn Jourdan
Canada – ''Lucky Man' by Michael J Fox
Trinidad - 'Archipelago' by Monique Roffey
Cuba - 'Havana Bay' by Martin Cruz Smith
Jamaica - 'Pirate Latitudes' by Michael Critchton
PACIFIC/OCEANIA(5)
Papua New Guinea- 'Boy He Cry- An Island Odyssey' by Roger Averill
Australia - Say It Out Loud: Journey of a Real Cowboy by Adam Sutton and Neil McMahon
Antarctica - 'Antarctica on a Plate by Alexa Thomson
Cook Islands – ‘Lilies, Feathers & Frangipani’ by Kate Llewellyn
New Zealand – ‘Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family’ by Helen Brown
SOUTH AMERICA (5)
Colombia – 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Columbian Jungle' by Ingrid Betancourt
Bolivia – 'Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail' by Rusty Young
Chile - ‘By Night in Chile’ by Roberto Balano
Argentina - 'Holy City' by Guillermo Orsi
Brazil -'Through Jaguar Eyes: Crossing the Amazon Basin' by Benedict Allen
Bookrings Started:
Calendar Girls Bookring
A Fortunate Life my contribution to the Great Australian Novel Bookring
Lovely Bones Bookring
Has now been released in the wild in Port Macquarie, NSW
Books released in the wild that have been journalled:
Second Wind
T'ai Chi - A Flowmotion Book
The Camomile Lawn
The Sishi
The Seven Dials Mystery
Watership Down
White Oleander
The Lovely Bones
The Poet
Ring
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
**HTML here is Thanks! to information/instructions that yvi-1, TexasWren and dawni have made available to BookCrossers.
www.worldatlas.com/
2021 666
1 Ireland - This is It’ by Conor Creighton
2 New Zealand - ’Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail’. by Danielle Hawkins
3 India - ‘The Broken Rules of Ten’ by Gay Hendricks
4 Taiwan - 'The Uninvited by Liz Jensen'
5 China - 'Dreaming in Chinese' by Deborah Fallows
6 Japan - 'The Phone Box at the Edge of the World' by Laura Imai Messina
7 UK - 'Tales From the Tail End; Adventures of a Vet in Practice' by Emma Milne
8 Netherlands - 'That One Patient; Doctors and Nurses’ Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever ' by Ellen de Visser
9 Romania - ‘Under the Blue' by Oana Aristide
10 Australia - ‘The Full Catastrophe: Stories From When Life Was So Bad It Was Funny’ by Sarah MacDonald
11 USA - ‘The Moth: This Is a True Story’ by Catherine Burns
12 Malaysia - ‘Falling is Flying: The Dharma of Facing Adversity' by Ajahn Brahm and Chan Master Guojun
13 Bulgaria - 'Angelology' (Angel Series Bk 1) by Danielle Trussoni
14 South Africa - 'The Silver Moon: Reflections on Life, Death and Writing' by Bryce Courtenay
15 Canada - ‘Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead’ by Emily Austin
2020 666
1/36 Asia/Japan Sweet Bean Paste. by Durian Sukegawa,
2/36 Europe/Denmark The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
3/36 Africa/South Africa Rolling with the Punchlines by Urzila Carlson
4/36 Europe/Gibraltar The End of the World Survivor’s Club by Adrian J. Walker
5/36 Asia/India The Dalai Lama's Cat and The Four Paws of Spiritual Success by David Michie
6/36 Europe/UK Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cowell
7/36 Pacific Life as a Casketeer by Francis Tipene and Kaiora Tipene
8/36 N.America Insomniac City. by Bill Hayes
9/36 Europe/France The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre
10/36 Pacific/Australia Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly and Rebecca Lister
2019 666
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault - Canada
Queens of the Kingdom; The Women of Saudi Arabia Speak by Nicola Sutcliff
The Haiku Apprentice- Memoirs of writing Poetry in Japan by Abigail Friedman
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins - New Zealand
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret - Israel
My Mother, a Serial Killer by Hazel Baron, (with Janet Fife-Yeomans ) Australia
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk - Poland
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell -Argentina
You Will Not Have My Hate - Leiris, Antoine - France
Rescued from ISIS- The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son - Dimitri Bontinck - Syria
The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep- Juliet Butler - Russia
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan - Jenny Nordberg
Beartown - Fredrik Backman - Sweden
East of Hounslow - Khurrum Rahman - England
2018-
2017 666 Challenge
15/36 Europe/Greece- The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian.
14/36 Pacific/Australia- The Dry by Jane Harper
13/36 Pacific/New Zealand- Marlborough Man by Alan Carter
12/36 North America/Canada- Juliet's Answer by Glenn Dixon
11/36 Asia/India- Mrs Funnybones; She's just like You and a lot like Me by Twinkle Khanna
10/36 Europe/England - The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
9/36 Pacific/Oceania/Marshall Islands (Ujae)- Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island by Peter Rudiak-Gould
8/36 North America/USA- Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell; A True Story of Violence, Corruption and the Soul of Surfing by Chas Smith
7/36 Asia/Tibet- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
6/36 North America/Mexico- Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright
5/36 Asia/Vietnam- Destination Saigon; Adventures in Vietnam by Walter Mason
4/36 Pacific Oceana/Micronesia- Micronesian Blues by Bryan Vila
3/36 Asia/Afghanistan- A Burqa and a Hard Place: Three Years in the New Afghanistan by Sally Cooper
2/36 Asia/Thailand- The Amok Runners by Colin Cotterill
1/36 Europe/Italy 1/36- The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
2016 666 Challenge
EUROPE
France - Paris Syndrome by Tahir Shah
Iceland- The Polar Bear Killing by Micahel Ridpath
OCEANIA PACIFIC
Australia - Reckoning by Magda Szubanski NF
AFRICA
South Africa - A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
2015 666 Challenge
SOUTH AMERICA (1)
Peru - 'Trail of Feathers' by Tahir Shah NF
NORTH AMERICA (6) done
Dominican Republic - "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez.
Haiti - 'A Wedding in Haiti' by Julia Alvarez NF
Honduras - 'My Amish Childhood: A True Story of Faith, Family, and the Simple Life' by Jerry S. Eicher NF
Mexico - Oh, Mexico! By Lucy Neville NF
USA - 'The Wild' by Cheryl Strayed - NF
Canada - 'I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
PACIFIC/OCEANIA (6) done
Papua New Guinea - Paradise: Solo Across New Guinea written by Chuck McAllister
Solomon Islands - Devil-Devil by GW Kent
Society Islands - All Good Things by Sarah Turnbull
Australia - 'The Mud House' by Richard Glover NF
New Zealand - 'As the Earth Turns Silver' by Alison Wong
'Grand Iles Crozet Islands - This Barren Rock; A True Tale of Shipwreck and Survival on the Southern Seas' by Sylvie Haisman NF
AFRICA (6) *done*
Ethiopia - 'In Search of King Solomon's Mines' by Tahir Shah NF
Congo - 'The Lights of Pointe-Noire' by Alain Mabanckou NF
Botswana - 'Tears of the Giraffe' by Alexander McCall Smith
Gabon - 'Wild Spirit' by Annette Hendersen NF
South Africa - 'A Chimpanzee in the Wine Cellar' by Pat Cavendish O'Neill NF
Kenya - 'A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa' by Nicholas Drayson
ASIA (6) *done*
Japan - 'Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye - A Journey' by Marie Mutsuki Mockett' - NF
Afghanistan - 'The Mother of Mohammed' by Sally Neighbour - NF
Iran - 'Good Muslim Boy' by Osamah Sami – NF
India – ‘Christine’s Ark’ by John Little - NF
N.Korea - Nothing to Envy: Life Love and Death in North Korea' by Barbara Demick NF
Philippines - 'The Trial of Maximo Bonga' by John Harris
EUROPE (6) *done*
Italy - 'The Four Corners of Palermo' by Guiseppe Di Piazza
Czechoslovakia - 'The Thing About Prague' by Rachael Weiss - NF
Norway - 'Norwegian By Night' by Derek B. Miller
Germany -'To Prussia With Love -Misadventures in Rural East Germany' by Roger Boyles - NF
UK - 'Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories' by Michel Faber
Spain - 'Seriously Mum, Where's My Donkey?' by Alan Parks NF
2014 666 Challenge
AFRICA (6)
Kenya – ‘The Camel Bookmobile’ by Masha Hamilton
South Africa – ‘Let the Dead Lie’ by Malla Nunn,
Sierra Leone – ‘A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier’ by Ishmael Beah,
Ghana – ‘Wife of the Gods' by Kwei Quartey
Mauritius- ‘Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons' by Gerald Durrell
Egypt - 'Guardian of the Horizon' by Elizabeth Peters
ASIA (6)
Philippines - ‘The Last Time I Saw Mother’ by Arlene J Chai
Occupied Territories – ‘Sharon and My Mother-in-Law’ by Suad Amiry,
Afghanistan – ‘Kabul Girls Soccer Club’ by Awista Ayub
Thailand - 'Bangkok Eight' by John Burdett
Laos - 'The Coroner's Lunch' by Colin Cotterill
China - 'The Chinese Maze Murders' by Robert Van Gulik
EUROPE (6)
Hungary – ‘Paprika Paradise: Travels in the Land of My Almost Birth’ by James Jeffrey
Sweden – ‘Exposed’ by Liza Marklund
France - 'Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes' by Elizabeth Bard,
The Netherlands - 'The Reunion' by Simone Van Der Vlugt
Bosnia/Herzegovina – ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’ by Steven Galloway
UK - 'Gypsy Bride' by Sam Skye Lee
NORTH AMERICA(6)
Mexico – ‘Sing and Don't Cry' a Mexican Journal by Cate Kennedy
USA - 'Heart in the Right Place' by Carolyn Jourdan
Canada – ''Lucky Man' by Michael J Fox
Trinidad - 'Archipelago' by Monique Roffey
Cuba - 'Havana Bay' by Martin Cruz Smith
Jamaica - 'Pirate Latitudes' by Michael Critchton
PACIFIC/OCEANIA(5)
Papua New Guinea- 'Boy He Cry- An Island Odyssey' by Roger Averill
Australia - Say It Out Loud: Journey of a Real Cowboy by Adam Sutton and Neil McMahon
Antarctica - 'Antarctica on a Plate by Alexa Thomson
Cook Islands – ‘Lilies, Feathers & Frangipani’ by Kate Llewellyn
New Zealand – ‘Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family’ by Helen Brown
SOUTH AMERICA (5)
Colombia – 'Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Columbian Jungle' by Ingrid Betancourt
Bolivia – 'Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail' by Rusty Young
Chile - ‘By Night in Chile’ by Roberto Balano
Argentina - 'Holy City' by Guillermo Orsi
Brazil -'Through Jaguar Eyes: Crossing the Amazon Basin' by Benedict Allen
Bookrings Started:
Calendar Girls Bookring
A Fortunate Life my contribution to the Great Australian Novel Bookring
Lovely Bones Bookring
Has now been released in the wild in Port Macquarie, NSW
Books released in the wild that have been journalled:
Second Wind
T'ai Chi - A Flowmotion Book
The Camomile Lawn
The Sishi
The Seven Dials Mystery
Watership Down
White Oleander
The Lovely Bones
The Poet
Ring
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
**HTML here is Thanks! to information/instructions that yvi-1, TexasWren and dawni have made available to BookCrossers.
