The Global Challenge

Welcome to the reenergized Global Challenge!

Founded in 2010, the Global Challenge is a place to track your reading from countries around the world and, if you wish, try to complete the original challenge of reading five books from every country (see details below). Feel free, however, to customize the challenge however you wish. It's up to you!

There are currently 193 member states of the United Nations, but 208 sovereign states are recognized. Some Global Challenge participants have added even more countries or broken some large countries into subsections. See the pinned post A New Country List for ideas.

You might also want to check out the sister group, Reading Globally. This year there is also an African Novel Challenge.

Happy Reading!



Here is the original challenge as created by fmgee: to read a book that is set or about (at least in part) as many countries as possible. This is an ongoing challenge (not limited to a year) and you can use any books you have read in the past as your base.

The rules (and scoring) are simple.

-You can read and list up to five books per country.
-Each book is worth one point.
-All books can only be listed once! If you are reading a travel book that goes through Africa you need to choose which country you want to put it in (BUT ONLY ONE!).
-Fiction or Non-Fiction (Novels, Lonely Planet, even Children's Books if you need a fifth from Rwanda!)
-193 Countries and 5 books each is a maximum of 965 points.

OnderwerpOnderwerpBerichtenNieuwste bericht 
VastgezetWhere in the World are You Reading Now? pt 2108 ongelezen / 108labfs39, maart 14
VastgezetMESSAGE BOARD20 ongelezen / 20chlorine, woensdag 1:58pm
VastgezetA NEW COUNTRY LIST1 ongelezen / 1labfs39, maart 2022
chlorine's world reads41 ongelezen / 41chlorine, woensdag 1:57pm
Places Tess has read70 ongelezen / 70labfs39, woensdag 12:28pm
Willoyd's Read Around the World72 ongelezen / 72Willoyd, zaterdag 4:14pm
Dilara's World Tour135 ongelezen / 135labfs39, maart 17
labfs39 reads around the world243 ongelezen / 243labfs39, maart 14
Cecilturtle's world tour156 ongelezen / 156Cecilturtle, maart 3
Liz_M Reads Around the World95 ongelezen / 95ELiz_M, maart 2
rocketjk's goes forward and back26 ongelezen / 26rocketjk, februari 28
RidgewayGirl Reads Around the World68 ongelezen / 68RidgewayGirl, februari 1
starbox's attempt at 2014 challenge (to update as I go)36 ongelezen / 36starbox, januari 15
Beth's Global Challenge51 ongelezen / 51BLBera, januari 11
MissBrangwen travels on the pages88 ongelezen / 88MissBrangwen, januari 5
Annie travels the world in books45 ongelezen / 45kjuliff, januari 3
labfs39 reads around the world - 2024 edition8 ongelezen / 8labfs39, december 31, 2023
2024 Bookish Travels (L-Anne)10 ongelezen / 10MissBrangwen, december 31, 2023
Streamsong's Global Reading189 ongelezen / 189streamsong, december 2023
BooksandMovies World Tour19 ongelezen / 19BooksandMovies, december 2023
Jackie's global reading challenge94 ongelezen / 94Jackie_K, november 2023
rachbxl reads around the world22 ongelezen / 22JellyBelly1213, oktober 2023
Where in the World are You Reading Now?224 ongelezen / 224Tess_W, april 2023
The Country List6 ongelezen / 6ELiz_M, december 2021
Ritacate's World Tour40 ongelezen / 40ritacate, augustus 2021
EllaTim reading tour43 ongelezen / 43EllaTim, december 2018
Orbasan's Virtual Voyage Part II7 ongelezen / 7Orbasan, december 2017
Zozette's World Tour22 ongelezen / 22starbox, december 2017
Orbasan's Virtual Voyage52 ongelezen / 52Orbasan, september 2017
fmgee's travels48 ongelezen / 48fmgee, maart 2017
Cinnamon Heart's Journey So Far...9 ongelezen / 9starbox, mei 2016
Benny's Global Challenge21 ongelezen / 21benuathanasia, februari 2015
starbox's world tour2 ongelezen / 2starbox, januari 2014
Great idea!4 ongelezen / 4bchaplin, augustus 2010
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