Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your nominations here for the April group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading a selection set in the United Arab Emirates, a book set on an island in the South Europe, and a book from African descent who is from a minority population in their country of residence.

World Tour*:
Nominate a book set in the United Arab Emirates:
UAE Book List: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
UAE Bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Islands
Nominate a book set on an island belonging to one of the following southern European countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, the East Thrace portion of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Malta, or Slovenia. This can be an island country, territory, or island belonging to a larger country.

Minority Author
Nominate a book written by an author of African descent who lives in a country where they are part of a minority or marginalized population.

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: Previously Read Group Read Books

*For our featured world country selection (this month it is United Arab Emirates): If the book selected by popular vote is not written by a native or resident author of at least 1 year, the book written by a native/resident author with the highest votes will also be selected, resulting in two book selections for that country.

For book set on an island in southern Europe, I nominate Death in Cyprus

For UAE, I nominate: Escape from Dubai

Islands: L. Sciascia Sicilian Uncles (Sicily, Italy)

UAE: M. Gargash The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai

UAE: The Romance of Antar

Minority author: if it qualifies, I would like to nominate The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

For Islands (Crete) I nominate:
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.

For minority author I nominate:
Jazz by Toni Morrison.

Iris wrote: "Minority author: if it qualifies, I would like to nominate The Famished Road by Ben Okri."

He definitely qualifies.

Nominations are now closed.