2015 Around the World Reading Challenge

The Around the World 2015 Reading Challenge is hosted by Crini at It's All About Books.  Click the button above to go to her blog and find out the details and to sign up! :O)

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From All About Books, here are some mini-challenges:

Read one book for each continent

Europe (England) Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen

• North America (US/VA/Richmond) Devil in the Deadline by LynDee Walker 

Read one book for each state in the US

Virginia:  Murder in the Arboretum by Christa Nard 

• Maine:  Twisted Threads by Lea Wait
• Georgia (Macon):  Dying Before "I Do" by Judy Fitzwater
• New Jersey:  Big Mojo by Jack Getze
• New York:  The Schwarzschild Radius by Gustavo Florentin
• Arizona (Phoenix):  MacDeath by Cindy Brown

Read one book for each ocean (the character travels across the ocean, no matter how)

Atlantic Ocean - A Grave Inheritance by Kari Edgren

The mountaineering challenge: climb the Seven Summits

Three Poles Challenge: visit North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest

Visit a certain number of extreme points of Earth

Read a certain number of books set in capital cities 

Read a certain number of books set in at least 5 different places (e.g. road trip books)

The Brothers' Keepers by NLB Horton (Brussels, London, Venice, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Colorado)

Read a certain number of books that are set in two places from different continents

Read a certain number of books within a 100km/1.5 Mile radius of where you live

Visit a certain number of the most famous landmarks in the world

A to Z challenge: Find a place for each letter in the alphabet

Visit a certain number of countries.

Read books from authors from a certain number of different countries.

Read a certain number of books set in places you’ve visited yourself.

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Here's my map:

Here's my list of books:

1.  A Grave Inheritance by Kari Edgren (oceans mini-challenge)
2.  Murder in the Arboretum by Christa Nardi (US/VA)
3.  Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen (Europe/England)
4.  Twisted Threads by Lea Wait (US/ME)
5.  Dying Before "I Do" by Judy Fitzwater (US/GA/Macon)
6.  Big Mojo by Jack Getze (US/NJ)
7.  The Brothers' Keepers by NLB Horton (various - Brussels, France, Switzerland, Germany, Venice, Israel, Colorado)