
I wish I had kept better track of the places visited during my reading excursions during the year, and I also wish there had been more diversity in my book choices; but there's always next year, and with The 2014 Winter Olympics Reading Challenge, I'm sure to read more books from countries around the world.
My Reading World in 2011 {Year End Recap of The Places I've Visited While Reading}

The 1st map shows North & South America, and the 2nd map shows the rest of the World.
The Caribbean
- The Lunatic by Henry Winkler (Jamaica)
- Tide Running by Oonya Kempadoo (Tobago)
- The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke (Barbados)
Africa
- Mixed Blood by Roger Smith (Cape Town, South Africa)
- The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Nigeria)
Asia and The Pacific
- Aunt Dimnity Down Under by Nancy Atherton (New Zealand)
- The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama (India)
Europe
- Of Love and Evil by Anne Rice (California and Rome)
- The Millenium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire) by Stieg Larsson (Sweden)
- Slammer by Alan Guthrie (Scotland)
- This Is Not Civilization by Robert Rosenberg (Kyrgyzstan, Istanbul & Arizona)
- The Grey King by Susan Cooper (Wales)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Wales)
- The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (Yugoslavia)
- Blood Promise (Russia)
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (England and France)
- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (London, England)
- The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson (England)
- Kraken by China Mieville (England)
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (London, England)
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (London, England)
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (England)
- Triptych by JM Frey (England)
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (England)
- Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean (England)
- The Map of Time by Felix Padma (England)
The Americas
- Tales from the Town of Widows: And Chronicles Fom the Land of Men by James Canon (Columbia)
- This Is Not Civilization by Robert Rosenberg (Arizona (and Istanbul & Turkey
- True Evil by Greg Iles (Mississippi)
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (Ohio, USA)
- You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews (Virginia)
- Dime Store Magic, Kelley Armstrong (Massachusetts)
- Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong (Miami, FL)
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Montana)
- Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (Vermont)
- As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (North Carolina)
- The Wolves of Mercy Falls (Shiver, Linger & Forever) by Maggie Shiefvater (Minnesota)
- Frostbite (Idaho and Missouri)
- Delerium by Lauren Oliver (Maine)
- Stolen by Kelley Armstrong (Maine)
- Stolen by Kelley Armstrong (Maine)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Maryland)
- Kindred by Octavia Butler (California and Maryland)
- The 8th Confession by James Patterson (California)
- The Door to December by Dean Koontz (California)
- The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey (California)
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (West Virginia & New York)
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman (New York)
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead (New York)
- The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (New York)
- The Mortal Instrument Series by Cassandra Clare (New York)
- The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Illinois & New York)
- The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (New York)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (MN, SD, ND, WY, CA)
I didn't include books of short stories, and since I didn't track the countries read during the year - and all of the books were borrowed from the library - there might be a few books left off where I couldn't remember or locate the setting online.



















I really liked tracking my reading on google maps, it showed me where the gaping holes are in my "location reading". And, like you, I hope the olympics challenge will help me read about new places