Welcome to our Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge. I love to travel but with a family of 5, it costs us a small fortune. So I started this reading challenge with Fictional 100 and Guiltless Reading to encourage book lovers to read books from other countries and cultures. Whether you are traveling to an exotic island or to a country on the opposite side of the world, it’s easy and frugal to travel the world in books with us! The best part of our challenge is there are no rules…you choose your own adventure!
The Goal
Travel the world in books, of course! Expand your horizons and read books set in or written by authors from countries and cultures Visit as many different countries in books as you wish.
The “Rules”
And the “rules” are simply this…YOU choose your own adventure! These are your goals but you can change them any time. Here are some ways you can participate and share your wonderful worldwide reads with us.
1. Determine length of time you will participate in the challenge. Just one month, An entire season, a year or 5 years?
2. Determine how many countries you would like to read about during your adventure. What criteria are you using to determine the number of countries you read about (ex. book setting, author background or both)?
3. How will you track the countries you visited in books? You could create a map in Google Maps, track on your blog or on a Goodreads shelf.
4. Determine your book list or genre if you like. Will you be listing specific books you would like to read? Do you aim to read fiction, nonfiction or a mixture of both?
5. Link up your posts. Linkies are available for sign up/goals, wrap up, and a linky for each continent for you to add your book reviews whenever you are done reading, add them here:
Sign up and share your goals! Need some inspiration? Here are my goals and what I’ve read since starting this challenge.
Antarctica Book Reviews Link Up
Australia and New Zealand Book Reviews Link Up
North America Book Reviews Link Up
South America Book Reviews Link Up
Book Maps and Reading Summaries Linkup
6. Sign up for our Travel the World in Books Newsletter so you can keep informed of our monthly events, discussions and news!
Events
We’re here to encourage you to read around the world with us. Here are the events we’ve had so far and we’ve got some great ideas for 2017!
2014
Sept 2014 – Travel the World in Books Readathon
November 2014 – Waiting for Snow in Havana Readalong (Cuba)
2015
January 2015 –Poisonwood Bible Readalong (Belgian Congo/Zaire)
February 2015 – Foodie February – read books featuring the world’s best food!
March 2015 – The Shadow of the Wind Readalong (Spain)
June 2015 – The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Readalong (set in England mostly and a little in Australia, by an Australian author)
July/August 2015 – The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Readalong (Chile)
October 2015 – Travel the World in Books Readathon #2
November 2015 – Nonfiction November
2016
February 2016 – And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Readalong (Afghanistan, France, USA, Greece)
March 2016 – An African In Greenland Readalong (Greenland, West Africa)
April 2016 – Read the Nobels – read a Nobel Prize winning author’s work from around the world.
May 2016 – Travel in Books to Russia
June 2016 – Island Adventure – read any book(s) set on any island from around the world
2017
January 2017 – Baby, It’s Cold Outside! Cozy up with a Wintry Read from Around the World and Goodreads group discussion
February 2017 – Classics and Historical Fiction in Goodreads group
March 2017 – North Africa setting and North African authors and Goodreads March 2017 group discussion
April 2017 – Read the Nobels and Goodreads April 2017 discussion
Summer 2017 – Read Big Books and Goodreads summer 2017 discussion
September 2017 – Magic, Murder and Mayhem and Goodreads Sept 2017 discussion
2018
Stay tuned!
That’s it, are you ready to travel the world in books with us? Grab the button below, say “arrivederci”, “bon voyage”, “sayonara” and enjoy your travels in books!
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This looks like such a fun challenge. Traveling around the world in our minds is such an inexpensive way to learn about other places. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful idea.
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This is a great challenge and what a way to save money haha. Great post!
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Better believe it, I can travel the world without leaving my couch or bed. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by Foirell!
What a fun idea! I’m always looking for fiction book inspiration. I’ll have to keep the challenge in mind and see where all I can go 🙂
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I hope you do Meredith. I love talking good books with people so let me know what and where you or your kids are reading! I make my kids travel the world in books too especially when our readathon comes up and all I get from the library for them are books about other cultures. Happy travels and thanks for stopping by.
Hi there,
I happened upon your blog through the SITS GIRLS’ Link Up Party.
I saw the word “book”, “world”, and “reading” and that was all I needed.
I love telling people about great books I have read and love to hear about what others have read.
Just finished “I am Malala.” GREAT BOOK!
Are you starting this reading challenge up again?
Cheers,
Meena
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It’s an ongoing challenge so you can join us anytime Meena! We are currently reading And the Mountains Echoed in February. The link is under the Events section of this post. Follow the link and get all the details and join our Goodreads group where we are voting for a book to read in March. Would love to have you join us!
I’m going to prepare a post for this and invite everyone to my three easy themes, too! I love noting where my reading takes me all of the time and there are other groups for this but I’m unsure they’re flexible. I see I may count anything I read as of your start date, July 1. Did you say we could count more than that? I’ll see you in the reviews and will add you at Goodreads. 🙂 http://cmriedel.wordpress.com/riedel-challenges-2015/
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Hi Tanya!
As I told you earlier, I’m in!
Here is my post: https://fromisi.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/literary-challenges-for-2015/
I’m already reading a book set in northern Europe, yay!
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All signed up! Adjusted Sign Up Post.
Tanya: Thanks for pointing me in your direction. I’d love to participate–but I’ve traveled so far on the Around the World challenge (I knew her site was down–but kept going anyway). I’ve already got 36 countries under my belt and am not sure that I want to start over. I’ll think about how I might adjust my travels and goals to fit it in here. I’ll be back…
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Oh you don’t need to start over. Just add our button to what you’ve started already. You can link up your post and then your book reviews by continent. Our challenge is pretty low key, we just enjoy encouraging others to read about different cultures/countries and want a great linkup where people can come and get good book recommendations!
Tanya: That sounds wonderful! Thanks! I will get a suitable post together tonight.
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Fantastic. With all the books you’ve read already, I am sure you have some great recommendations for us!
Great idea! I am definitely up for joining in, though I’m currently deciding on what my time limit/number of books will be. I might just keep it more open and go with the flow. Who knows!?! Brilliant post though 🙂
Rachel
Sure, keep it as open as you like and state that in your goals. 🙂 We just want to encourage reading around the world and share book reviews of great books to recommend to others ! Glad to have you join us, I look forward to seeing where your reading journey takes you!
Love this! I’m trying to add your Travel the World Reading Challenge to my blog but it’s not working – any idea why?
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What’s not working? A link or the blog button?
I think I’ve fixed it now Sahar and added the code in a grab box. Can you please try again? Thanks! Glad to have you join us and share our love of books from around the world!
It works! But with a small change – the URL was https://momssmallvictories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Travel-the-World-in-Books-Reading-Challenge-200×200.jpg which was broken; so I looked around your website and found this one: https://momssmallvictories.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Travel-the-World-in-Books-Reading-Challenge-300×300.jpg. Tada! (I’m impressed I managed to figure that out lol)
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Great! Thanks for your persistence! Where was the broken one?
This is very interesting and challenging.
I have followed the hosts’ twitter and will soon post my plan.
What a clever idea! Am glad I stumbled upon this via the SITS Girls and #sitsblogging today!
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Thanks Amy, I do hope you will join us! Great way to discover new books and countries!
What a great idea!
Thanks Nicole, would love to have you join us!
This challenge looks good.
I’m thinking about it 🙂
I do hope you join us Michelle!!
Such a fun idea! Once I get through my current reading list I’ll have to be intentional to do something like this 🙂 Thanks for sharing on Book Notes
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It would be great to have you join us Victoria!