“Every Foreign Country a Homeland, Every Homeland a Foreign Country”, is my life motto. And this article by Gordon W. Lothrop shaped my perspective when I was younger. Every time I travel to new place, learning new things, reading new books, I am asking the question:
“How do we treasure difference and yet find common values?”
Recently, from the book “Morningstar” by Ann Hood. I’ve found new favourite quotes, some of them are:
“These stories opened doors that led me out and ultimately away from home, fueled by the hope of glimpsing golden domes and rose windows of cathedrals; labyrinth streets and fields of wheat; of glimpsing this big, beautiful world that I began to imagine on my father’s knee, and then began to almost grasp with a book in my hands.”
“The sky. Endless and full of possibilities, the door to the past and to the future. Somehow I understood this as I read.”
So below is my list of all the possibilities for my year 2024 reading plan to travel around the world on wings of book. 66 countries.
- Algeria: What The Day Owes The Night – Yasmina Khadra
- Afghanistan: In the Sea There are Crocodiles – Fabio Geda
- Argentina: Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges
- Australia: The Moon Gate – Amanda Geard
- Austria: The Morning Gift – Eva Ibbotson
- Barbados: River Sing Me Home – Eleanor Shearer
- Bosnia: Black Butterflies – Priscilla Morris
- Botswana: The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon – Alexander McCall Smith
- Brazil: Dom Casmurro – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Canada: Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson - Chile: A Long Petal of the Sea – Isabel Allende
- China: Women in The Late Qing Dynasty And Modern China – Xia Xiaohong
晚清女性与近代中国 – 夏晓虹 - Congo: How Dare The Sun Rise – Sandra Uwiringyimana
- Croatia: Flights – Olga Tokarczuk
- Cuba: The Book of Lost Saints – Daniel José Older
- Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag – Eduard Mörike - Denmark: Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
- El Salvador: Solito – Javier Zamola
- France: Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
- Germany: The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
I Only See The Person in Front of Me – Hermann Vinke
Als ich ein kleiner Junge war – Erich Kästner - Ghana: North to Paradise – Ousman Umar
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi - Greece: Gates of Fire – Steven Pressfield
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Literary Walks – collection of articles
香港文学散步- 文集
Publish year 1991. It is before the transfer to China under “one country, two
systems” policy in year 1997. - Hungary: The Choice – Edith Eger
Satantango – László Krasznahorkai
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai - Iceland: Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night – Jon Kalman Stefansson
- India: Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Indonesia: Max Havelaar – Multatuli
- Iran: Half a Cup of Sand and Sky – Nadine Bjursten
The Stationery Shop of Tehran – Marjan Kamali - Iraq: The Last Pomegranate Tree – Bachtyar Ali
- Ireland: Paddy Clarke HA HA HA – Roddy Doyle
Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds - Israel: The Lemon Tree – Sandy Tolan
- Italy: The Neapolitan Quartet – Elena Ferrante
The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke - Jamaica: The Long Song – Andrea Levy
- Japan: Letters from Iwo Jima – Kumiko Kakehashi
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store – Keigo Higashino - Lithuania: The Just – Jan Brokken
Boy With a Violin – Yochanan Fein
Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys - Malaysia: Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith
- Mali: Segu – Maryse Conde
- Mexico: The Murmur of Bees – Sofía Segovia
Ramifications – Daniel Saldaña París
The Remains – Margo Glantz - Morocco: Night Train to Marrakech – Dinah Jefferies
- Netherlands: Kees The Boy – Theo Thijssen
Tulip Fever – Deborah Moggach
Code Name Kingfisher – Liz Kessler
The Girl with the Red Hair – Buzzy Jackson - New Zealand: The Bookseller at the End of the World – Ruth Shaw
Secrets of The Land – Kate Mahony - Nigeria: Daughters Who Walk This Path – Yejide Kilanko
- North Korea: A River in Darkness – Masaji Ishikawa
- Norway: The Unseen – Roy Jacobsen
Scenes from a Childhood – Jon Fosse
The Birds – Tarjei Vesaas - Palestine: I Shall Not Hate – Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Poland: The Pianist – Władysław Szpilman
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk. - Portugal: Night Train to Lisbon – Pascal Mercier
- Russia: The Brother Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Lost Pianos of Siberia – Sophy Roberts - Senegal: Beyond The Door of No Return – David Diop
- Singapore: How We Disappeared – Jing Jing Lee
- South Korea: My Brilliant Life – Ae Ran Kim
- Spain: The Shadow of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Sri Lanka: Chinaman – Shenan Karunatilaka
- Sudan: River Spirit – Leila Aboulela
Thirteen Months of Sunrise – Rania Mamoun - Sweden: A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs – Linda Olsson - Switzerland: Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
Heidi – Johanna Spyri - Syria: The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow – Zoulfa Katouh - Taiwan: The Thief of University – Huang Fan
大学之贼 – 黄凡 - Tanzania: Gravel Heart – Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Turkey: The Architects Apprentice – Elif Shafak
Kantika – Elizabeth Graver - UK: The Last Witch of Scotland – Philip Paris
Coventry – Helen Humphreys
Devorgilla Days – Kathleen Hart - Ukraine: She Came from Mariupol – Natascha Wodin
- USA: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- Venezuela: Motherland – Paula Ramón
- Vietnam: Inside Out And Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Best We Could Do – Thi Bui - Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Thank you very much! - I am planning to colour the map after reading the book from the country. I found this colouring world map and flags free to download on this website:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/article/world-coloring-map