“You may not even get an answer as to who was responsible for the crime in many of the books,” says Morgan. “Amazing stories,” Morgan says, “often told inside the head of people going through some quite extreme crises.” The crime novels were equally unsettling: Death in the Andes by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa includes a confounding number of culprits, from roving bands of terrorists to rumors of vengeful mountain spirits. In her selected readings from South America, Morgan encountered a number of characters in the throes of mental illness. “It’s incredible the breadth of perspective you get,” she says.Ĭlick on the red pins in the maps below to see all 196 recommended books. Morgan wrote a book about her literary journey now she hopes readers will chart their own journeys with the help of the interactive maps, below. Each country contains a book or an unpublished translation from her reading list, with a teaser review from Morgan. How did she find the books? Recommendations from locals, which came pouring in after she made an open plea on her blog. So in 2012 she set for herself an ambitious goal: Read one book from every country on earth in one year. From the rest of the world? “Hardly anything,” she says.
“I’d always thought that I was well-traveled,” says writer Ann Morgan (TED Talk: My year reading a book from every country in the world), but “actually, when I looked at my bookshelves, they told a very different story about me.” Her shelves were crowded with English-language books, mainly from English-speaking countries. Author Ann Morgan invites book lovers to follow her on a literary journey through 196 countries.
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