About the World Books Challenge; Maps

As far as I know, there are three of us doing the world challenge. We aren't reading the same books, but when we see interesting books on each others' goodreads lists or updates, we sometimes read them, too. I've just become a member of a goodreads group that's reading a book for every African country, and I'll join them on some of those. However, some of their choices are about the country rather than by a person who lived there, and I'm reading only the latter (with folktales, a national epic, anthropologist-collected narrative, or tale by a long-term but not-native resident permitted if necessary).

It's interesting to compare a map of where I've been to where I've read. I've obviously read more broadly than I've traveled, but my travel map also demonstrates a distinct northern hemisphere preference, and probably could be mapped onto "relatively peaceful regions" as well. This will be even more true after I take a Baltic cruise sometime next summer, adding several northern countries. Thailand is the most southern country in my travel plans for the year, though there is still a slim chance I'll get to Laos. Perhaps I'll post both maps for comparison.