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Reading Round the World 2014

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global reading challenge 2014 blueBooks read for the 2014 Global Reading Challenge

Africa

  1. A Beautiful Place to Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1) by Malla Nunn (South Africa)
  2. Nairobi Heat (Ishmael and O #1) by Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Kenya)
  3. Dead at Daybreak by Deon Meyer (Zimbabwe)

Asia

  1. Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
  2. Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (Japan)
  3. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco (Philippines)

Australia/Oceania

  1. The White Dog (Jack Irish #4) by Peter Temple (VIC, Australia)
  2. The Dragon Man (Inspector Challis #1) by Garry Disher (South Australia)
  3. Gunshot Road (Emily Tempest series) by Adrian Hyland (Northern Territories, Australia)

Europe

  1. I Will Have Vengeance (Commissario Ricciardi #1) by Maurizio de Giovanni (Italy)
  2. In Matto’s Realm (Sergeant Studer #2) by Friedrich Glauser (Switzerland)
  3. You’d Better Believe It (Harpur & Iles #1) by Bill James (England)

North America

  1. An Easy Thing ( Héctor B. Shayne #1) by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico)
  2. L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole #8) by Robert Crais (California)
  3. Havana Blue (Mario Conde #1) by Leonardo Padura (Cuba)

Central & South America

  1. Alone in the Crowd (Inspector Espinosa #7) by Luiz Alfredo Garcia Roza (Brazil)
  2. Needle in a Haystack (Inspector Lascano #1) by Ernesto Mallo (Argentina)
  3. The Neruda Case (Cayetano Brulé #6) by Roberto Ampuero (Chile)

The 7th choice – Speculative Fiction/Sci-fi

  1. The City & the City by China Miéville (Besźel/Ul Qoma)
  2. The Caves of Steel (Baley & Olivaw #1) by Isaac Asimov (Futuristic NYC)
  3. The Surrogates by Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele (Central Georgia Metropolis year 2054)

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