Reading the World discussion

Feb Theme: A Book that takes place in the Southern Hemisphere

Please nominate books to read in February that satisfy this theme.

There are 32 countries that exist completely in the southern hemisphere

1 Angola
2 Argentina
3 Australia
4 Bolivia
5 Botswana
6 Burundi
7 Chile
8 Comoros
9 East Timor
10 Eswatini
11 Fiji
12 Lesotho
13 Madagascar
14 Malawi
15 Mauritius
16 Mozambique
17 Nauru
18 New Zealand
19 Papua New Guinea
20 Paraguay
21 Peru
22 Rwanda
23 Samoa
24 Seychelles
25 Solomon Islands
26 South Africa
27 Tanzania
28 Tuvalu
29 Uruguay
30 Vanuatu
31 Zambia
32 Zimbabwe

I nominate

The Invisible Mountain
Carolina De Robertis
Uruguay

Road No Good
Bridget Isichei
Vanuatu

Nice: I'll nominate "Deep Rivers" by Jose Maria (Peru).

I'm hoping to use this book sometime this year for a couple of my BINGO spaces.

I nominate

July's People by Nadine Gordimer.
South Africa

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Argentina

Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Andrew Meldrum

A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels

All of the above are for Zimbabwe

I would like to nominate The Bone People which is New Zealand

Nominations are closed. Thank you all for your nominations.

The poll will be available this morning.