Around the World 2015 Challenge

Hosted by: All About Books

This challenge is just for fun and can be used as motivation to read more books with diverse settings. 

The “Rules”:

• There is no start and/or end date for when to join the challenge (latest date to enter a link is Dec 31th, 2015)
• A book counts if you’ve read it in 2015 (= started AND finished in 2015), no matter when you joined the challenge
• If characters travel to different places in the book, every place counts
  Tip: you can connect places on a google map! 
• One book can count for multiple mini challenges

The mini-challenges:

These mini-challenges are optional! The main goal is just to have a map full of dots that are hopefully spread all over the world. Some of these mini-challenges are rather easy, others not so much. For some you can set your own goal of books you want to read.

• Read one book for each continent
• Read one book for each state in the US
• Read one book for each ocean (the character travels across the ocean, no matter how)
• The mountaineering challenge: climb the Seven Summits
• Three Poles Challenge: visit North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest
• Visit a certain number of extreme points of Earth
• Read a certain number of books set in capital cities 
• Read a certain number of books set in at least 5 different places (e.g. road trip books)
• Read a certain number of books that are set in two places from different continents
• Read a certain number of books within a 100km/1.5 Mile radius of where you live
• Visit a certain number of the most famous landmarks in the world
• A to Z challenge: Find a place for each letter in the alphabet
• Visit a certain number of countries.
• Read books from authors from a certain number of different countries.
• Read a certain number of books set in places you’ve visited yourself.

Here is a google spreadsheet that can help you keep track of your progress for these mini-challenges. IMPORTANT: go to the Read Me tab first to learn how to use it! This is a read-only file. You have to make yourself a copy within your google docs to be able to use it. (via File>Make a copy)