I managed to travel virtually to 26 countries during 2013 via the books that I
read. Here's the breakdown, with the full list of titles and links to reviews below.
27: United States
12: Ireland
8: England
5: Australia, Scotland
4: Germany
3: France, Iceland, Italy
2: China, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden
1: Korea, Thailand, Norway, Wales, Greece
12: More than one country (Austria, Burma, Cambodia, England, Germany, Ireland, Laos, Mexico, Poland, Thailand, Ukraine, USA)
3: Fictional
10: Non-fiction
Australia
Black
Wattle Creekby Geoffrey McGeachin ***.5
Diggers
Rest Hotelby Geoffrey McGeachin ****.5
Roll
With It by Nick Place ***.5
The
Low Roadby Chris Womersley ****
White
Dog by Peter Temple *****
China
A
Loyal Character Dancer by Qui Xiaolong ***
The
Eye of Jade by Diane Wei Liang ***
England
A
Private Business by Barbara Nadel ****
All
the Lonely People by Martin Edwards ***.5
Broken
Dreams by Nick Quantrill ***
Dead
Man's Time by Peter James ***
Icelight
by Aly Monroe ****.5
Last
Rights by Barbara Nadel ***
The
Reckoning by Jane Casey ***.5
The
Riot by Laura Wilson ***.5
France
A
Death in Bordeaux by Allan Massie ***
Bed
of Nails by Antonin Varenne ****
The
Dark Angel by Dominique Sylvain ***
Germany
Stettin
Station by David Downing ***.5
The
Good German by Joseph Kanon ****
The
Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel ***
Tretjak
by Max Landorff ***.5
Greece
The
Silver Stain by Paul Johnston ****
Iceland
Season of the Witch by Arni Thorarinsson **.5
Strange
Shores by Arnaldur Indridason ***
Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath ***
Ireland
Bogmail
by Patrick McGinley ***.5
Crocodile
Tears by Mark O'Sullivan ****.5
Echoland
by Joe Joyce ***
I
Hear Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty ****
Irregulars
by Kevin McCarthy ****.5
Little
Criminals by Gene Kerrigan *****
Once
in Another World by Brendan John Sweeney *****
Ratlines
by Stuart Neville *****
The
Deal by Michael Clifford ***
The
Devil I know by Claire Kilroy ****
The
Guts by Roddy Doyle ***.5
The
Lost by Claire McGowan ***.5
Italy
Blood
from a Stone by Donna Leon ***
Liar
Moon by Ben Pastor ****
The
Dance of the Seagull by Andrea Camilleri ***.5
Korea
Jade
Lady Burning by Martin Limon ****
Norway
Norwegian
by Night by Derek B Miller ****
Russia
The
Twelfth Department by William Ryan ****
Zugzwang
by Ronan Bennett ***
Scotland
Laidlaw
by William McIlvanney *****
The
Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt by Douglas Lindsay ***
The
Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcom Mackay ***
The
Sea Detective by Mark Douglas-Home *****
The
Woman Who Walked into the Sea by Mark Douglas-Home ***
South Africa
Ishmael
Toffee by Roger Smith *****
Thirteen
Hours by Deon Meyer ****.5
Spain
Death
of a Nationalist by Rachel Pawel ***
The
Maze of Cadiz by Aly Monroe ***.5
Sweden
Black
Seconds by Karin Fossum ****
Exposed
by Liza Marklund ****
Thailand
A
Nail Through the Heart by Tim Hallinan ***
USA
Beautiful,
Naked and Dead by Josh Stallings ****
Black
Irish by Stephan Talty ***.5
City
of Heretics by Heath Lowrance ***.5
Countdown
City by Ben Winters ***.5
Cripple
Creek by James Sallis ***.5
Die
a Little by Megan Abbott ****
Frank
Sinatra in a Blender by Matthew McBride ***
Go
With Me by Castle Freeman ****.5
Graveland
by Alan Glynn *****
Hard
Bite by Anonymous-9 *****
Home
Invasion by Patti Abbott *****
Outerborough
Blues by Andrew Cotto ****.5
Pale
Horses by Nate Southard *****
Penance
by Dan O'Shea ****
Piggyback
by Tom Pitts ****.5
Ready
Player One by Ernest Cline *****
Screwed
by Eoin Colfer ***.5
Severance
Package by Duane Swiercynski ****.5
The
Big Gold Dream by Chester Himes ***
The
Devil Doesn't Want Me by Eric Beetner ****.5
The
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley ***.5
The
Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye ****
The
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler ***
The
Perfect Crime by Les Edgerton ***.5
The
Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt ****
The
Thicket by Joe Lansdale *****
The
Third Rail by Michael Harvey **.5
Wales
Rubbernecker
by Belinda Bauer *****
More than one country
A
Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr *** (Germany, Poland)
The
City of Strangers by Michael Russell ***** (Ireland, USA)
Down
Among the Dead Men by Ed Chatterton **** (England, USA)
Hour
of the Cat by Peter Quinn **** (USA, Germany)
In
Search of Klingsor by Jorgi Volpi **** (Germany, USA)
Love
Songs from a Shallow Grave by Colin Cotterill ***** (Laos, Cambodia)
Missing
in Rangoon by Christopher G. Moore ***.5 (Thailand, Burma)
Ostland
by David Thomas ***** (Germany, Ukraine)
Six
Bad Things by Charlie Huston **** (Mexico, USA)
The
Darkling Spy by Edward Wilson ****.5 (England, Germany)
Then
We Take Berlin by John Lawton ***.5 (England, Germany)
Waiting
for Sunrise by William Boyd *** (Austria, England)
Fictional
Snuff by Terry Pratchett ****
The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke ***
The Polka Dot Girl by Darragh McManus ****
Non-Fictional
Landscape and Society in Contemporary Ireland by Brendan McGrath ***.5
Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb ****
The Master Switch by Tim Wu ****
Dresden by Frederick Taylor ****
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver ****
Behind the Battle by Ralph Bennett **
The Spy Who Loved by Clare Mulley ****.5
Big Data by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier **.5
Too Big to Know by David Weinberger ***.5
Information: A Very Short Introduction by Luciano Floridi ****
3 comments:
Well done Rob
A very interesting way of thinking about the books read - really enjoyed your wide-ranging travels.
That is a great list, Rob. Exactly what I want to do, read all over the world. I will bookmark this for a reference.
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