Stefi Rosca

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ 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 Iโ€™ve read so far (13)

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ซ Afghanistan

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

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Armenia

  • Y del cielo cayeron tres manzanas - Narine Abgaryan

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil

  • The Alchimist - Paulo Coelho

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ 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 )

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark

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

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany

  • Sansibar oder der letzte Grund - Alfred Andersch

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan

  • Los misterios de la taberna Kamogawa - Kashiwai, Hisashi

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ช Peru

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

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด Romania

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

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain

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

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden

  • The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom

  • Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson (Britishโ€“Ghanaian writer and photographer)

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States

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

Want to Read

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina

  • Rosaura at 10 Oโ€™Clock (Rosaura a las diez) - Marco Denevi

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile

  • The Poetry of Pablo Neruda - Pablo Neruda

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Moldova

  • Moldavian Autumn - Ion Drutse

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ Belarus

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

Might Read

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland

  • Ulysses - James Joyce

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portugal

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

Eating the World - My List

Will be updated soon.

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Stefi Rosca ยฉ 2024