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2022 READING LIST
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READING CHALLENGE GROUP - 2022 CHALLENGE LINKS
Annual Reading Challenge
Annual - Bookworms Take Shelfies (#80)
Annual - Clear The Shelves (#20)
Annual - Hindsight is 2022 (#28)
Annual - Magical Mystery Tour (#24)

2022 Reading Challenge Group Quarterly and Monthly Themes

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PERSONAL CHALLENGES/THEMES
What: Listopia - 1001 Books
What: Magical Mystery Tour
What: Short Stories

When: Published 1900-1949
When: Published 1950-1979
When: Published 1980-1989

Where: Caucasus and Central Asia
Where: Spain - Spanish Civil War
Where: Place Profiles
Where: The Fall of the Ottomans and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Where: 2022 Globetrotter Part 1
Where: 2022 Globetrotter Part 2
Where: Ongoing Reading Around The World - Part 1 - Africa and Americas
Where: Ongoing Reading Around The World - Part 2 - Asia
Where: Ongoing Reading Around The World - Part 3 - Europe & Oceania

Who: Black Women - Zora Canon
Who: Black American Authors
Who: Women In Translation

Why: 2016 GR TBR Cleanup - Part 2
Why: Clear The Shelves - Kindle
Why: Clear The Shelves - Paper

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What: Listopia 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Progress: 15/30
1812 England/Ireland: The Absentee
1856 France: Madame Bovary
1880 Sweden: The Red Room
1917 US: Summer
1928 US/Denmark: Quicksand
1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
1950 Malaysia, Australia: A Town Like Alice
1950 US: I, Robot
1951-1975 England: A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement Vol 1-12
1957 Egypt: Justine
1958 England: The Once and Future King
1962 Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz
1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
1974 England: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season

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What: Magical Mystery Tour
#24

Progress: 42/42 - Chief of Police (7 cases in each category)

WHO: 7/7
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) in one of the below careers.
✔︎1. Law or Law Enforcement. Started Early, Took My Dog
✔︎2. Service Industry. Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials
✔︎3. Fine Arts, Theater, or Film. The Last Judgement (Art)
✔︎4. Science or Medicine. Blind Fish Don't Talk (Julie Fairchild #1)
✔︎5. Social Media or Technology. Monkeewrench
✔︎6. Clergy. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
✔︎7. Bookshop Owner or Librarian. Two Nights in Lisbon

WHAT: 7/7
✔︎1. Third or last book in a series.Murder at Kensington Palace
✔︎2. Combines multiple genres. The Conductors (Historical & paranormal)
✔︎3. Has a one-word title. Vendetta (Aurelio Zen #2)
✔︎4. Features a hobby/pastime. Deep Cut
✔︎5. Has a number in the title. Murder at Cape Three Points
✔︎6. Features a sleuth with a non-human "co-star." Synchronized Sorcery (Pig)
✔︎7. Related to the yearly, quarterly, or monthly theme (state theme). The Language of Secrets Theme: Mysteries of the World

WHEN: 7/7
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
✔︎1. In autumn. Spirits and Sourdough
✔︎2. In the 1800s or earlier. What the Devil Knows set 1814
✔︎3. While traveling or on vacation. A Morbid Taste for Bones
✔︎4. Between sunrise and sunset. Dying Fall
✔︎5. During a special event (festival, convention, party, etc.) Death in D Minor
✔︎6. In the season of your birthday month. A Fatal Winter
✔︎7. Reported (published) in 2022. The Verifiers

WHERE: 7/7
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
✔︎1. In a large city. The Return of Faraz Ali (Lahore)
✔︎2. In the suburbs. Bone Canyon
✔︎3. In a village or rural area. Murder in Provence (Maggie Newberry #3)
✔︎4. In or near an office building. Murder at Queen's Landing
✔︎5. Inside or on the premises of a public venue (hotel, restaurant, airport, etc.). A Quiet Teacher
✔︎6. In the Southern Hemisphere. Man Down (Rogue #2) - South Africa
✔︎7. In or near a forest. Lightning in a Mirror

HOW: 7/7
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
✔︎1. Knife: Let The Dead Lie (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #2)
✔︎2. Poison: The Postscript Murders
✔︎3. Strangulation: A Quiet Life in the Country
✔︎4.(view spoiler)[Persuasion to kill themselves (hide spoiler)] The Locked Room
✔︎5. Boiled The Janissary Tree
✔︎6. Struck by car: And Fire Came Down
✔︎7. Gunshot: The King of India: A Novel

WHY: 7/7
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
✔︎1. Your favorite mystery author or series. Who Speaks for the Damned
✔︎2. Your favorite mystery subgenre. Lost Hills (police procedural)
✔︎3. Appears in a Goodreads listopia (which one?). Every Reasonable Doubt (Mystery and detective novels by women of color)
✔︎4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (which one?). The Broken Shore CWA Gold Dagger Award 2007
✔︎5. Involves one of your favorite topics or places (what?). Secrets of the Nile (Egypt & Agatha Christie)
✔︎6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year). All This I Will Give to You
✔︎7. Average Goodreads rating higher than 4 stars. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BONUS CASES: 0/6
To earn the rank of INTERPOL Director of Cybercrime Operations, complete all 42 cases above plus solve a crime committed in six different capital cities outside your country of residence.
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What: Short Stories

A continuation of my 2021 effort to add short story collections to my TBR.

Progress: 6/12

2009 Bhutan: Tales in Colour: And Other Stories
2017 Poland: I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To translated from Polish
2017 UAE: Temporary People
2018 US: Friday Black
2021 Japan: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten translated from Japanese #WIT
2022 Ukraine: Lucky Breaks (translated from Russian) #WIT


Read In 2021
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1922 New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories
2011 Spain: Treasure of the Spanish Civil War
2012 Japan: March Was Made of Yarn
2013 South Sudan: There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
2013 US-WY: Cowboys and East Indians
2015 Spain: Come On Up translated from Spanish
2015 US: Single, Carefree, Mellow
2016 US: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
2016 Multiple: What is Not Yours is Not Yours
2018 Jamaica, US: How to Love a Jamaican
2018 Lebanon: Shatila Stories translated from Arabic
2018 South Africa: Intruders: Short Stories
2019 Armenia: The Door was Open translated from Armenian
2019 Cyprus: Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
2019 Singapore+: The Heartsick Diaspora and other stories
2019 US-CO: Sabrina & Corina: Stories
2019 US-TX: Lot: Stories
2020 Ethiopia: Addis Ababa Noir
2020 US: The Office of Historical Corrections
2020 US: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
2020 US, Syria: Alligator and Other Stories
2021 China: Land of Big Numbers
2021 US-CA: Afterparties
2021 US-FL: Milk Blood Heat
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When: Published 1900-1949 (Before, Between, During the Wars)

No specific goal - continuing reading from 2021.

Progress: 5
1917 US: Summer
1928 US/Denmark: Quicksand
1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
1939 Germany: The Passenger
1948 Japan: The Makioka Sisters

2021:
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1901 India: Kim
1902 England: The Hound of the Baskervilles
1905 US-NY: The House of Mirth
1907 England: The Secret Agent
1910 England: Howards End

1914 Japan: Kokoro (translated from Japanese)
1915 Germany: The Good Soldier
1918 England: The Return of the Soldier

1920 Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter (translated from Norwegian)
1922 New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories
1926 France/Spain: The Sun Also Rises
1928 Spain: Homage to Catalonia
1929 US-NY: Passing
1932 Austria: The Radetzky March (translated from German)
1934 Burma/Myanmar: Burmese Days
1934 England: The Nine Tailors

1939 US-CA: The Big Sleep
1940 Spain: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944 Spain: Nada
1945 Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus

1949 Austria: The Third Man
1949 England: Love in a Cold Climate
1949 England: Murder for Christmas
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When: Published 1950-1979

I'm least likely to select books from this period when I'm reading and would like to get a better sense of literature from these decades. This is a loose goal but intent is to lean into books published during this period when I'm choosing books for other goals/challenges.

Progress: 14/25
1950 Malaysia, Australia: A Town Like Alice
1950 US: I, Robot
1951-1975 England: A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement Volumes 1-12
1957 Egypt: Justine
1958 England: The Once and Future King
1962 Europe: The Guns of August
1962 Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz
1962 US: Cassandra at the Wedding
1968 US: The House of Dies Drear
1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
1974 Englad: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1976 US-MS: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1977 Wales: A Morbid Taste for Bones
1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season

2021 Reading List
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1952 Burma: Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
1958 Kyrgystan: Jamilia
1962 Spain: The Time of the Doves
1963 US: The Fire Next Time
1965 England: The Looking Glass War
1969 Botswana: When Rain Clouds Gather
1976 Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara
1976 DRC: Before the Birth of the Moon
1979 South Africa: Burger's Daughter
1979 Spain: Southern Seas
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When: Read The 80s

Read the 80s

This goal is continued from 2020.

Progress: 3/8
1982 US: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
1984 US: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
1986 Jersey: Night of the Fox


2020 & 2021 Reads:
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1. 1980 Italy: The Name of the Rose
2. 1980 US-MI: City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
3. 1980 South Africa: Waiting for the Barbarians
4. 1981 Colombia: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
5. 1981 India: Midnight's Children (2021)
6. 1981 Japan: Leaden Wings
7. 1981 South Africa: July's People
8. 1982 Greece: The Names
9. 1982 Japan/England: A Pale View of Hills
10. 1982 US-GA: The Color Purple
11. 1982 Chile: The House of the Spirits
12. 1983 US: Granta 8: Dirty Realism
13. 1984 England: Foreign Affairs (2021)
14. 1984 Fantasy: Neuromancer
15. 1984 Switzerland: Hotel du Lac (Booker 1984)
16. 1984 US-HI: Democracy
17. 1984 Vietnam: The Lover
18. 1985 Antigua: Annie John
19. 1985 US: Contact
20. 1985 England: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
21. 1985 US-CA: Reasons to Live
22. 1985 US-NY: The Normal Heart
23. 1985 US: White Noise
24. 1986 Japan: An Artist of the Floating World (2021)
25. 1986 St. Kitts and Nevis: A State of Independence (2021)
26. 1986 US: Anagrams
27. 1986 Anywhere (Kenya): Matigari
28. 1987 England: Moon Tiger (Booker 1987)
29. 1987 England: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections
30. 1987 Hungary: The Door
31. 1987 US: Crossing to Safety
32. 1987 US-NY: The Bonfire of the Vanities
33. 1987 US-NY: The New York Trilogy
34. 1988 England: Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
35. 1988 Italy: Ratking
36. 1988 Japan: Kitchen
37. 1988 Antigua: A Small Place
38. 1988 Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind (2021)
39. 1988 Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions
40. 1988 Cape Verde: The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
41. 1989 England: All Souls
42. 1989 Finland: Fair Play
43. 1989 Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate

Related Reading
39. 2011 US Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
40. 2017 US American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990

Other Stuff
Susan Sontag, "The Way We Live Now," The New Yorker, November 24, 1986

David Leavitt, "The Way I Live Now," New York Times, July 9, 1989,
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Where: Caucasus and Central Asia

Continuing my reading about this fascinating area.

Progress: 5/12

North Caucasus: Russian Federation - North Caucasian Federal District, Southern Federal District (includes Chechnya, Dagestan)

South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Neighbors: Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan

2008 North & South Caucasus: The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
2012 Afghanistan: Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
2020 Central Asia: Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppe
2021 Afghanistan: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
2021 Central Asia: Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

Read in 2021:
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North Caucasus: Russian Federation - North Caucasian Federal District, Southern Federal District (includes Chechnya, Dagestan)
1840 Russia: A Hero of Our Time translated from Russian
2004 Russia/Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechen Republic, Southern Caucasus: Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography
2012 Russia/Dagestan: The Mountain and the Wall translated from Russian
2013 Russia/Chechen Republic: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
1945 Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus translated from French
1996 Azerbaijan: Solar Plexus, A Baku Saga in Four Parts translated from Russian
2013: Armenia, Azerbaijan: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
2014 Georgia: The Eighth Life translated from German
2015 Georgia: All Lara's Wars translated from Polish
2017 Georgia: Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus with Over 80 Recipes
2019 Armenia: The Door was Open translated from Armenian

Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
1990 Central Asia: The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
2009 Central Asia: Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
2015 Central Asia: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
2016 Central Asia: Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus

2018 Kazakhstan: Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
1958 Kyrgyzstan: Jamilia translated from Russian
2009 Kyrgyzstan: Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan translated from Russian
2013 Tajikistan: Tajikistan: A Political and Social History
Turkmenistan:
2019 Uzbekistan: The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan

Neighbors: Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan
2000 Afghanistan, Central Asia: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
2004 Turkey: My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir translated from Turkish
2017 Turkey: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
2020 Iran: America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present
2020 Iran, Saudi Arabia: Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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Where: Spain - Spanish Civil War

Continuing reading about Spain/Spanish Civil War/Memory

Progress: 2/12

2003 Spain: The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
2016 All This I Will Give to You

2021 Reading List:
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Fiction
1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944 Nada (translated from Spanish)
1962 The Time of the Doves (translated from Catalan)
1979 Southern Seas (translated from Spanish)
2001 The Soldiers of Salamis (translated from Spanish)
2002 Fever and Spear Your Face Tomorrow #1 (translated from Spanish)
2004 Dance and Dream Your Face Tomorrow #2 (translated from Spanish)
2006 Winter in Madrid
2007 England, Spain: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (translated from Spanish)
2011 Treasure of the Spanish Civil War (translated from French)
2019 A Long Petal of the Sea (translated from Spanish)
2019 The Fountains of Silence

Non-Fiction
1938 Homage to Catalonia
2005 The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
2006 Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
2013 Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting
2018 Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography
2020 A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
2021 Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition

Other Books Set In Spain:
1926 The Sun Also Rises (also France)
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Where: Place Portraits

Continue 2021 goal of reading books that paint an interesting picture of a city or country (past or present). I'm looking for creative nonfiction rather than fiction with a strong sense of place or travel guides. For me the most successful books are some blend of memoir, history, travel, journalism.

Progress: 4/12

2003 Spain: The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
2020 Central Asia: Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppe
2020 North Macedonia: To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
2021 Pakistan: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

2021 Reading List:
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1. 1952 Burma (Myanmar): Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
2. 1976 Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara translated from Chinese
3. 2004 Vanuatu+: Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
4. 2006 Spain: Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
5. 2006 South Africa: Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
6. 2011 Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana): Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
7. 2012 Nigeria: Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
8. 2017 Republic of Georgia: Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus with Over 80 Recipes
9. 2017 Cuba: Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
10. 2018 Kazakhstan: Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
11 . 2018 Mexico: Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico translated from Spanish
12. 2019 Cyprus: Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
13. 2020 Pakistan: The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
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Where: The Fall of the Ottomans and the Making of Post-War Europe and the Modern Middle East (aka How Did We Get Here?)

Map: https://www.britannica.com/place/Otto...
Wide subject but I'm going to give it a start. I'm interested in the geopolitical changes to the area that was the Ottoman Empire at its peak beginning roughly with Greek Independence in 1830 through the recognition of Israel by the UN in 1949 (but expect I'll stumble on some books about earlier/later events.)

Subjects include Greek independence, Balkan Wars, WWI , establishment of Turkey as a republic, British and French Mandates, Israel/Palestine and Jordan/Lebanon/Syria. Books include nonfiction and fiction set in these times/places.

Progress: 10/25

2021 The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
2021 The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
2006 The Janissary Tree
1962 The Guns of August
2015 The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
2015 The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
2004 Birds Without Wings
2001 Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
2016 The Silence of Scheherazade
2006 Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey



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Place: Globetrotter 2022 (Part 1) Part 2 below

Books read by UN geoscheme region in 2022. Would like to read at least three books from each subregion. Ongoing list since 2019 here.

Progress: 80/57

Monthly Focus:
Africa: January - South, February - East, March - Middle/North/West
Americas: April - Caribbean, May - North/Central, June - South
Asia: July - East/Southeast, August - South/Central, September - West
Oceania/Europe: October - Oceania; November - North/South; December - East/West

AFRICA: 20
Africa - East (5)
2006 Kenya: Unbowed: A Memoir
2009 Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
2013 Zimbabwe: Sibanda and the Rainbird
2014 Seychelles: Stranded in the Seychelles: Teachers in Paradise
2016 Mayotte: Tropic of Violence: A Novel #WIT
2019 Zambia: The Old Drift

Africa - Middle (1)
2012 Angola: Transparent City translated from Portuguese

Africa - Northern (3)
1957 Egypt: Justine
2012 Egypt: The Queue translated from Arabic #WIT
2022 Egypt: Secrets of the Nile

Africa - Southern (7)
1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season
2007 Botswana: Heavens May Fall
2010 South Africa: Let The Dead Lie (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #2)
2013 South Africa: Man Down (Rogue #2) translated from Afrikaans #WIT
2017 South Africa: The Prey of Gods
2019 Namibia/South Africa: The Eternal Audience of One

Africa - Western (3)
2008 Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach
2010 Nigeria: Oil on Water
2014 Ghana: Murder at Cape Three Points (Darko Dawson #3)

African Diaspora - set primarily outside country of origin (not counted; for info only)
2016 US/Nigeria: Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American

AMERICAS: 12
Americas - Caribbean (4)
2013 Anguilla: The Night of the Rambler
2018 Sint Maarten: Blind Fish Don't Talk
2019 Bahamas: The Golden Hour
2019 Saba: Deep Cut

Americas - Central (4)
1962 Mexcio: The Death of Artemio Cruz translated from Spanish
2015 Mexico: Signal to Noise
2016 Honduras: 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance: Trece Colores de La Resistencia Hondurena translated from Spanish
2019 Guatemala: Harsh Times translated from Spanish

Americas - North (2)
2014 Canada: Cold Mourning
2016 CanadaThe Language of Secrets

Americas - South (2)
2018 Argentina: Portrait of an Unknown Lady translated from Spanish #WIT
2021 Ecuador: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

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Place: Globetrotter 2022 (Part 2)

ASIA: (23)
Asia - Central (2)
2020 Central Asia: Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppe
2021 Central Asia: Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

Asia - East (3)
1948 Japan: The Makioka Sisters (translated from Japanese)
2015 South Korea: The Law of Lines translated from Korean #WIT
2021 Japan: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten translated from Japanese #WIT

Asia - Southeast (2)
2014 Singapore: Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials
2018 Philippines: The Betrayed

Asia - South (6)
2000 Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost
2009 Bhutan: Tales in Colour: And Other Stories
2012 Afghanistan: Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
2021 Afghanistan: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
2021 Pakistan: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
2022 Pakistan: The Return of Faraz Ali

Asia - West (10)
2006 Turkey: The Janissary Tree
2013 Lebanon: An Unnecessary Woman
2015 Turkey+: The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (primarily Turkey but multiple countries in region)
2015 Turkey+: The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
2016 Turkey: The Silence of Scheherazade translated from Turkish #WIT
2017 Syria: Roundabout of Death translated from Arabic
2017 UAE: Temporary People
2021 Syria: Damascus Station
2021 Turkey: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
2022 Lebanon: The King of India: A Novel translated from Arabic

EUROPE: 21
Europe - East (5)
2008 Russia+:The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
2014 Belarus: Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad translated from Belarusian and Russian
2017 Poland: I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To translated from Polish
2017 Ukraine: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
2022 Ukraine: Lucky Breaks translated from Russia #WIT

Europe - North (5)
1879 Sweden: The Red Room translated from Swedish
1977 Wales: A Morbid Taste for Bones
1986 Jersey (UK): Night of the Fox
2006 Ireland: Darkfever
2017 Ireland: Death in D Minor

Europe - South (7)
1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
1990 Italy: Vendetta
2003 Spain: The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
2016 Spain: All This I Will Give to You translated from Spanish #WIT
2020 North Macedonia: To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
2021 Greece: The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
2022 Portugal: Two Nights in Lisbon

Europe - West (4)
1856 France: Madame Bovary translated from French
1939 Germany: The Passenger translated from German
1962 Europe: The Guns of August
2011 France: Murder in Provence (Maggie Newberry #3)


OCEANIA/ANTARCTICA: (4)
Antarctica

Australia & New Zealand (4)
1950 Australia: A Town Like Alice
2005 Australia: The Broken Shore
2017 Australia: And Fire Came Down
2020 Australia: Death Leaves the Station

Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia


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Where - Ongoing Reading Around The World (part 1)

Duration: January 1, 2019 to indefinitely

Location list based on United Nations Geoscheme (see wiki). I've excluded the French Southern Territories (no permanent inhabitants) and added Taiwan (ROC).

New Destinations Visited: 155/249
2019: 36/244
2020: 66/244
2021: 38/244
2022: 15/244

New in 2022
Africa:Malawi, Mayotte, Seychelles, Zambia, Liberia
Americas: Anguilla, Bahamas, Ecuador, Honduras, (Saba - Caribbean Netherlands), Sint Maarten
Asia: Bhutan
Europe Belarus, Jersey (UK), North Macedonia, Sweden
Oceania & Antarctica:

AFRICA 41/59(view spoiler)[
Northern Africa: 5/7
√Algeria: The Stranger, Our Riches
√Egypt: Miramar, The City Always Wins; The Yacoubian Building; A Master of Djinn; Slipping; The Last Watchman of Old Cairo; Justine; The Queue; Secrets of the Nile
📌Libya:
📌Morocco:
√Sudan: Thirteen Months of Sunrise
√Tunisia: This Tilting World
√Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara

Central Africa: 6/9
√Angola: Saudade; Transparent City
√Cameroon: Houseboy
√Central African Republic: A House Without Windows
📌Chad:
√Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Poisonwood Bible; Heart of Darkness; Before the Birth of the Moon
√Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda: A Novel
📌Gabon:
√Republic of the Congo: The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir
📌São Tomé and Príncipe:

East Africa: 16/21
📌British Indian Ocean Territory:
√Burundi: Small Country
📌Comoros:
√Djibouti: Transit
√Eritrea: Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
√Ethiopia: The Shadow King; Cutting for Stone; Addis Ababa Noir
√Kenya Matigari; Unbowed: A Memoir
📌Madagascar
√Malawi The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
√Mauritius Eve out of Her Ruins
√Mayotte: Tropic of Violence: A Novel
√Mozambique Sleepwalking Land
📌Réunion
√Rwanda The Barefoot Woman
√Seychelles: Stranded in the Seychelles: Teachers in Paradise
√Somalia: Links
√South Sudan: There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
√Tanzania Death in Zanzibar; Hard Rain
📌Uganda
√Zambia: The Old Drift
√Zimbabwe Nervous Conditions

West Africa: 9/17
📌Benin
√Burkina Faso: American Spy
√Cabo Verde: The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
√Côte d'Ivoire Aya: Love in Yop City
📌Gambia
√Ghana: Wife of the Gods; Remote Control; Children of the Street; Murder at Cape Three Points
📌Guinea
📌Guinea-Bissau
√Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach
√Mali God's Bits of Wood (+Senegal)
📌Mauritania
📌Niger
√Nigeria:Things Fall Apart; My Sister, the Serial Killer; Half of a Yellow Sun; Butter Honey Pig Bread; Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria; Lightseekers
📌Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
√Senegal: God's Bits of Wood (+Mali); So Long a Letter
√Sierra Leone: The Memory of Love
📌Togo

✔︎Southern Africa: 5/5
√Botswana The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency; When Rain Clouds Gather; A Question of Power; Heavens May Fall
√Eswatini (Swaziland) When the Ground Is Hard
√Lesotho Basali! Stories by and about Women in Lesotho
√Namibia The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo; The Purple Violet of Oshaantu; The Eternal Audience of One
√South Africa: Triangulum; The Lazarus Effect; Long Walk to Freedom; Coconut; Waiting for the Barbarians; The Blessed Girl;July's People; Cry, the Beloved Country; Diamonds, Gold, And War: The Making Of South Africa; Devil's Peak; A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid; Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa; Ancient Rites; The Score; Intruders: Short Stories; The Down Days; Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked; Burger's Daughter; The Prey of Gods; Man Down; A Dry White Season; Let The Dead Lie

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Caribbean: 16/28
√Anguilla: The Night of the Rambler
√Antigua and Barbuda Annie John; A Small Place
📌Aruba
√Bahamas: The Golden Hour
√Barbados The Star Side of Bird Hill
√Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Caribbean Netherlands): Diver's Paradise (Bonaire); Deep Cut (Saba)
√British Virgin Islands (UK): Epiphaneia
📌Cayman Islands
√Cuba: The Good Assassin; Our Man in Havana, Havana Blue, Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
📌Curaçao
√Dominica: Unburnable
√Dominican Republic: The Feast of the Goat
📌Grenada
📌Guadeloupe
√Haiti: Krik? Krak!;
√Jamaica: A Million Aunties, How to Love a Jamaican; Augustown; The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
√Martinique Texaco
📌Montserrat
📌Puerto Rico
📌Saint Barthélemy
√Saint Kitts and Nevis: A State of Independence
📌Saint Lucia
📌 Sint Maarten/Saint Martin (French part):
📌Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
√Sint Maarten (Dutch part): Blind Fish Don't Talk
√Trinidad and Tobago A Morning at the Office; Prospero's Daughter (Island of Chacachacare);
📌Turks and Caicos Islands
√Virgin Islands (US): The Lesson

Central American: 4/8
📌Belize
📌Costa Rica
√El Salvador: Slash and Burn
√Guatemala Human Matter: A Fiction; Severina; Harsh Times
√Honduras: 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance: Trece Colores de La Resistencia Hondurena
√Mexico Costalegre; Like Water for Chocolate; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Red Ants; Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country; Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico; Signal to Noise; The Death of Artemio Cruz
📌Nicaragua
📌Panama

Northern American: 4/5
√Bermuda: The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative (plus Turks & Caicos, Antigua, England); Resort to Murder
√Canada: Kingdom of the Blind; The Unquiet Dead; Moon of the Crusted Snow (indigenous OV); Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir; Polar Vortex; The Break; Cold Mourning; The Language of Secrets
√Greenland (Denmark): Last Night in Nuuk
📌Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France):
√USA (indigenous only): The Removed; Even As We Breathe; An American Sunrise; Winter Counts; Firekeeper's Daughter

South America: 10/16
√Argentina Optic Nerve, Fever Dream; Artforum; Include Me Out; Portrait of an Unknown Lady
📌Bolivia:
📌Bouvet Island:
√Brazil: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
√Chile: The House of the Spirits; The Remainder; Space Invaders; A Long Petal of the Sea; By Night in Chile; The Twilight Zone
√Colombia: Don’t Come Back, Fruit of the Drunken Tree; The Sound of Things Falling; Chronicle of a Death Foretold
√Ecuador: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
📌Falkland Islands
📌French Guiana
√Guyana Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge (also Suriname & French Guiana)
📌Paraguay
√Peru Lost City Radio
📌South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
√Suriname Oroonoko
√Uruguay Cantoras
√Venezuela It Would Be Night in Caracas
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Where - Ongoing Reading Around The World (part 2)

Duration: January 1, 2019 to indefinitely

ASIA 40/51(view spoiler)[
Central Asia: 5/5
Central Asia: The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia; Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
Central Asia: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus; Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present; Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppe

√Kazakhstan: Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
√Kyrgyzstan: Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan; Jamilia
√Tajikistan: Tajikistan: A Political and Social History
√Turkmenistan: Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country
√Uzbekistan: The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan

East Asia: 6/8
√China: Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Leaden Wings, Braised Pork; Death of a Red Heroine; Jade Dragon Mountain; Land of Big Numbers; She Who Became the Sun; The Force of Wind
📌China - Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region):
📌China - Macau (Special Administrative Region):
√China - Taiwan (ROC): Ghost Month; Notes of a Crocodile
√Japan: The Great Passage, Territory of Light, The Devotion of Suspect X
2020, Malice, The Memory Police; Kitchen, A Pale View of Hills; The Aosawa Murders; The Tale of Genji; I Am a Cat; Newcomer; The Pillow Book; Masks; A Tale for the Time Being; Memorial (+US); An Artist of the Floating World; Breasts and Eggs; Tokyo Ueno Station; Kokoro; Salvation of a Saint; March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown; There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job; The Makioka Sisters; Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
√Mongolia: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
√North Korea: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
√South Korea: The Vegetarian; At Dusk, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982; Wicked Fox; The Law of Lines


Southeast Asia: 8/11
📌Brunei Darussalam
√Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
📌Indonesia
√Laos: The Coroner's Lunch; Thirty-Three Teeth; Disco For The Departed; Curse of the Pogo Stick
√Malaysia: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder; Lake Like a Mirror; The Garden of Evening Mists
√Myanmar (formerly Burma): Burmese Days; Golden Earth: Travels in Burma; The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
√Philippines: Smaller and Smaller Circles; The Betrayed
√Singapore: Aunty Lee's Delights; The Heartsick Diaspora and other stories; Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials
√Thailand: Bangkok Wakes to Rain; What Could Be Saved
📌Timor-Leste
√Vietnam: The Quiet American, The Mountains Sing, The Lover, Paradise of the Blind

Southern Asia: 7/9
√Afghanistan: Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul; Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia; The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War; Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
√Bangladesh: A Golden Age
√Bhutan: Tales in Colour: And Other Stories
√India: The White Tiger; The God of Small Things; Kim; Murder in Old Bombay; A Fine Balance; Midnight's Children
√Iran: The Complete Persepolis; The Last Days of Café Leila; Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East; America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present; The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
📌Maldives
📌Nepal:
√ Pakistan: book: The Reluctant Fundamentalist; The Empty Room; The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious StateUnmarriageable; Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City; The Return of Faraz Ali
√Sri Lanka: Mosquito; Suncatcher; A Passage North; Anil's Ghost

West Asia: 14/18
√Armenia: Three Apples Fell from the Sky; The Door was Open
√Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus; Solar Plexus, A Baku Saga in Four Parts
📌Bahrain
√Cyprus: Small Wars; Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
√Georgia: Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus with Over 80 Recipes; All Lara's Wars; The Eighth Life
📌Iraq
√Israel The Book of Disappearance; Minor Detail; Central Station
√Jordan: The Language of Baklava: A Memoir (+US)
√Kuwait: Salt Houses (also Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon)
√Lebanon: Shatila Stories; An Unnecessary Woman; The King of India: A Novel
√Oman Celestial Bodies; Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
📌Qatar
√Saudi Arabia: Mansour's Eyes;
√State of Palestine: Minor Detail; Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics; The Lady from Tel Aviv; The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
√Syria The Map of Salt and Stars (Also Egypt, Libya, Spain, Italy); Death Is Hard Work; The Frightened Ones; Damascus Station; Roundabout of Death
√Turkey: Walking on the Ceiling (+France); Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World; My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir; The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East; The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923; The Silence of Scheherazade; The Janissary Tree
√United Arab Emirates: Letters to a Young Muslim; Temporary People
📌Yemen
Multiple: Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
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Duration: January 1, 2019 to indefinitely

EUROPE 33/53(view spoiler)[
Eastern Europe: 8/10
√Belarus: Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad
√Bulgaria: Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
📌Czechia (Czech Republic):
√Hungary: The Door
📌Moldova
√Poland: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To
√Romania: Bottled Goods
√Russia: The Tsar of Love and Techno, Disappearing Earth, A Terrible Country; Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets; A Constellation of Vital Phenomena; The Mountain and the Wall; Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography; A Hero of Our Time; The Year of the Comet; The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
√Slovakia: Seeing People Off
√Ukraine Independence Square; Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories; Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933; Lucky Breaks

Northern Europe: 12/18
📌Aland Islands (Finland)
√Denmark: The Keeper of Lost Causes
√England (UK): Not tracking
📌Estonia:
√Faroe Islands (Denmark): Island
√Finland: Fair Play; The Hummingbird
√Iceland: The Legacy
√Ireland: Normal People, When All Is Said; Christine Falls; Murder in G Major; Darkfever
√Jersey (UK): Night of the Fox
📌Latvia:
📌Lithuania:
√N. Ireland (UK): Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland; Milkman
√Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter
📌Sark (UK)
√Scotland (UK): One Good Turn, Blue Lightning (Shetland Islands), Three Junes (plus Greece & US), When Will There Be Good News?; A Pressing Engagement
📌Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands
√Sweden: The Red Room
√Wales (UK): All Cats Are Grey in the Dark; A Morbid Taste for Bones

Southern Europe: 7/16
√Albania Crossing
📌Andorra
√Bosnia and Herzegovina: Nowhere Man
📌Croatia:
📌Gibraltar
√Greece: The Names; Scorpionfish; The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
√Italy: A Room with a View; The Italian Teacher; The Dry Heart; The Shape of Water; The Enchanted April:Where Angels Fear to Tread; Ratking; The Imperfectionists; The Name of the Rose; Adua; The English Patient; A Farewell to Arms; Vendetta
📌Malta
📌Montenegro
√North Macedonia: To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
√Portugal: That Hair; Two Nights in Lisbon
📌San Marino
📌Serbia
📌Slovenia:
√Spain: This Too Shall Pass; Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past; The Sun Also Rises (plus France); The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction; Homage to Catalonia; Winter in Madrid; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography; Nada; The Soldiers of Salamis; Southern Seas; The Time of the Doves; The Fountains of Silence; Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting; Treasure of the Spanish Civil War; A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain; Poison, Shadow, and Farewell; The Carpenter's Pencil; Come On Up; Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition; The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War; All This I Will Give to You
📌Vatican City

Western Europe: 6/9
√Austria: The Third Man; The Radetzky March
📌Belgium
√France: French Exit; The Years; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; The Resistance Man; All the Devils Are Here; The Good Soldier; Disoriental; The Madonna of Notre Dame; Murder in Provence; Madame Bovary
√Germany: The Reader; The Passenger
📌Liechtenstein
√Luxembourg: The Candidate: A Luxembourg Thriller
📌Monaco
√Netherlands: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos; House on Endless Waters; The Tree and the Vine; Intimacies
√Switzerland: Swiss Vendetta; Hotel du Lac
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Australia & New Zealand; Antarctica: 2/6
√Australia: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos; The Mother-in-Law; The Dragon Man; The Yield; Resurrection Bay; A Town Like Alice; The Broken Shore; And Fire Came Down; Death Leaves the Station
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Heard Island & McDonald Islands
√New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories; Overkill
Norfolk Island

Melanesia: 2/5
Fiji
New Caledonia (France)
√Papua New Guinea: Euphoria
Solomon Islands
√Vanuatu: Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics

Micronesia: 1/7
Guam (USA)
√Kiribati: Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
Marshall Islands
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Nauru
Northern Mariana Islands (USA):
Palau

Polynesia: 1/10
American Samoa (USA)
Cook Islands (New Zealand)
√French Polynesia (France): Island of Shattered Dreams, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Niue (New Zealand)
Pitcairn Islands (UK):
Samoa
Tokelau (New Zealand)
Tonga
Tuvalu
Wallis and Futuna (France)

Antarctica: 1/1
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Who: Black Women Authors - ZORA Canon Listopia

Original article: https://zora.medium.com/100-best-book...

Progress: 12/12 - Complete

1928 Quicksand
1959 A Raisin in the Sun
1968 The House of Dies Drear
1976 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1982 Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
1984 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
1992 Waiting to Exhale
1993 Parable of the Sower
1998 Parable of the Talents
2010 The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2011 Salvage the Bones
2019 Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code


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Who: Black American Authors

Progress: 15/30
2006 US-CA: Every Reasonable Doubt
2014 Nigeria: Murder at Cape Three Points+
2015 US-IL: Negroland
2016 US/Nigeria: Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American+
2017 South Africa: The Prey of Gods
2018 US: Friday Black
1999 US: The Intuitionist
2017 US-CA: City of Saviors
2017 Ireland: Death in D Minor
2020 US: Legendborn
2021 US-PA: The Conductors
2021 US-PA: The Days of Afrekete
2022 Nigeria: Akata Woman
2022 US: Bloodmarked
2022 US: The Women Could Fly

+First generation American

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Who: Women In Translation

Progress: 10/25
2012 NOID (Egypt): The Queue (Arabic)
2013 South Africa: Man Down (Afrikaans)
2015 South Korea: The Law of Lines (Korean)
2016 Honduras: 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance: Trece Colores de La Resistencia Hondurena (Spanish)
2016 Mayotte: Tropic of Violence: A Novel (French)
2016 Spain: All This I Will Give to You (Spanish)
2016 Turkey: The Silence of Scheherazade (Turkish)
2018 Argentina: Portrait of an Unknown Lady (Spanish)
2021 Japan: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten (Japanese)
2022 Ukraine: Lucky Breaks (Russian)


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Why: 2016 GR Cleanup - Part 2

In 2021 I cleared half of the books added to my 2016 TBR. This year I'm starting with the remaining 52 books and would like to read 25. This is a very satisfying challenge!

Progress: 17/52 books cleared one way or the other

Read: 6/25
1. Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
2. Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
3. The Goblin Emperor
4. Madame Bovary
5. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
6. Signal to Noise

DNF: 3
Beloved Poison
Beautiful Ruins
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

Delete: 8
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Hunting Lila
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Long Way Home
The Double Game
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Truth and Other Lies

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Why: Clear The Shelves - Kindle

Progress: 26/48
A Brightness Long Ago
A Quiet Life in the Country
All This I Will Give to You
An Unnecessary Woman
Blind Fish Don't Talk
Emerald Blaze
Every Reasonable Doubt
Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
Justine
Lost Hills
Man Down
Monkeewrench
Murder in Provence
Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Salvage the Bones
Sibanda and the Rainbird
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The City of Brass
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
The Law of Lines
The Old Drift
The Once and Future King
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Why: Clear The Shelves - Paper

Progress: 10/36
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
A Dry White Season
A Question of Power
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
Madame Bovary
The Makioka Sisters
The Night of the Rambler
The Prey of Gods
The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
Transparent City

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January Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Southern/Eastern Africa
New locations: Zambia
Quarterly - Q1 Mother Earth
January - Reset, Relax and Refresh

Read:
1. 1928 US, Denmark: Quicksand
2. 1951 England: A Question of Upbringing (A Dance To The Music of Time #1)
3. 1962 Europe: The Guns of August
4. 1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
5. 1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season
6. 2003 Spain: The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
7. 2006 Kenya: Unbowed: A Memoir
8. 2007 Botswana: The Heavens May Fall
9. 2010 England: Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie #4)
10. 2010 South Africa: Let The Dead Lie (Emmanuel Cooper #2)
11. 2011 France: Murder in Provence (Maggie Newberry #3)
12. 2013 South Africa: Man Down (Rogue #2) #WIT
13. 2015 Asia West: The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
14. 2016 US/Nigeria: Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
15. 2016 US: Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
16. 2016 US: Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
17. 2017 South Africa: The Prey of Gods
18. 2018 US: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
19. 2018 US: Friday Black
20. 2019 Namibia/South Africa: The Eternal Audience of One
21. 2019 US/Fantasy: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
22. 2019 Zambia: The Old Drift
23. 2021 Afghanistan\US: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
24. 2021 England: Orwell's Roses
25. 2021 US: The Days of Afrekete
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(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Eastern Africa
New locations: Ecuador, Malawi, North Macedonia, Seychelles,
Quarterly - Q1 Mother Earth
February - Fandemonium

Read:
26. 1952 England: A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time #2)
27. 1993 US-CA: Parable of the Sower
28. 2009 Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
29. 2013 Zimbabwe: Sibanda and the Rainbird (Detective Sibanda #1)
30. 2014 Seychelles: Stranded in the Seychelles: Teachers in Paradise
31. 2015 Fantasy: The Goblin Emperor
32. 2019 England: Murder at Kensington Palace (Wrexford and Sloan #3)
33. 2019 Italy: A Brightness Long Ago
34. 2020 England: The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2)
35. 2020 England: Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr #15)
36. 2020 North Macedonia: To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
37. 2021 Ecuador: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
38. 2021 Pakistan: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
39. 2021 US-PA: The Conductors
40. 2022 US: The Verifiers
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March Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Northern, Middle, Western Africa
New locations: Liberia

Read:
41. 1948 Japan: The Makioka Sisters (translated from Japanese)
42. 1955 England: The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time #3)
43. 1957 Egypt: Justine
44. 1968 US: The House of Dies Drear
45. 1974 England: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
46. 2003 US-MN: Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench #1)
47. 2008 Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach
48. 2010 Africa: Redemption in Indigo
49. 2010 Nigeria: Oil on Water
50. 2014 Ghana: Murder at Cape Three Points (Darko Dawson #3)
51. 2015 Turkey: The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
52. 2017 Fantasy: The City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy #1)
53. 2017 Ukraine: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
54. 2020 England: Murder at Queen's Landing (Wrexford and Sloan #4)
55. 2021 Syria: Damascus Station
56. 2022 England: Dying Fall (Bill Slider #23)
57. 2022 US-WA: Lightning in a Mirror (Fogg Lake #3)
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April Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Americas - Caribbean
New locations: Anguilla, Jersey (UK), Mayotte

Read:
58. 1856 France: Madame Bovary translated from French
59. 1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
60. 1957 England: At Lady Molly's (A Dance to the Music of Time #4)
61. 1986 Jersey (UK): Night of the Fox
62. 1998 US: Parable of the Talents
63. 2006 Ireland: Darkfever
64. 2011 US-MS: Salvage the Bones
65. 2012 China: The Force of Wind (Elemental Mysteries #3)
66. 2012 England: A Fatal Winter (Max Tudor #2)
67. 2013 Anguilla: The Night of the Rambler
68. 2014 Canada: Cold Mourning
69. 2016 Mayotte: Tropic of Violence: A Novel translated from French #WIT
70. 2019 No ID: Unraveling
71. 2020 US: Legendborn (Legendborn #1)
72. 2021 Greece: The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
73. 2021 US: Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
74. 2022 Ukraine: Lucky Breaks translated from Russian #WIT
75. 2022 Canada, Moon: Sea of Tranquility
76. 2022 US/China: Portrait of a Thief
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May Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Americas - North and Central
New locations: Bahamas

77. 1960 England: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time #5)
78. 1977 Wales: A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #1)
79. 2010 US - WA: Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson #5)
80. 2012 England: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries #1)
81. 2015 US: Negroland
82. 2018 US: Dark Arts and a Daiquiri (The Guild Codex, Spellbound #2)
83. 2019 Bahamas: The Golden Hour
84. 2021 Scifi: Winter's Orbit
85. 2022 US: How High We Go in the Dark
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June Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Americas - South
New locations: None

Read:
86. 1950 US: I, Robot
87. 1962 England: The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time #6)
88. 1962 US-CA: Cassandra at the Wedding
89. 1982 US: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
90. 2006 Turkey, Greece: Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
91. 2016 England: A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #1)
92. 2019 Fantasy: The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy #2)
93. 2019 Guatemala: Harsh Times translated from Spanish
94. 2020 US-CA: Lost Hills (Eve Ronin #1)
95. 2022 Nigeria: Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts #3)
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July Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Asia - East, Southeast
New locations: None

Read:
96. 1812 England, Ireland: The Absentee
97. 1958 England: The Once and Future King
98. 1959 US-IL A Raisin in the Sun
99. 1964 England: The Valley of Bones (A Dance to the Music of Time #7)
100. 2004 Turkey: Birds Without Wings
101. 2016 England: Jane and the Waterloo Map
102. 2018 Argentina: Portrait of an Unknown Lady (translated from Spanish) #WIT
103. 2022 Pakistan: The Return of Faraz Ali
104. 2022 Portugal, US: Two Nights in Lisbon
105. 2022 Scotland: Death of a Green-Eyed Monster (Hamish Macbeth #34)
106. 2022 US: The Cartographers
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August Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Asia - Central, South
New locations: Bhutan, Honduras

Read:
107. 1966 England: The Soldier's Art (A Dance to the Music of Time #8)
108. 1999 US: The Intuitionist
109. 2000 Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost
110. 2009 Bhutan: Tales in Colour: And Other Stories
111. 2012 Afghanistan: Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
112. 2016 Honduras: 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance: Trece Colores de La Resistencia Hondurena translated from Spanish #WIT
113. 2016 Turkey: The Silence of Scheherazade translated from Turkish #WIT
114. 2017 US-CA: City of Saviors
115. 2018 England: The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock #3)
116. 2020 US-NY: Unseen City
117. 2020 US-TX: Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy #5)
118. 2021 Central Asia: Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
119. 2021 Japan: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten translated from Japanese #WIT
120. 2022 England: The Locked Room
121. 2022 US-NC: Book Lovers
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September Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Asia - West
New locations: Sint Maarten

Read:The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
122. 1917 US: Summer
123. 1968 England: The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time #9)
124. 1976 US-MS: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
125. 2006 Turkey: The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
126. 2010 US: The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
127. 2011 US-WA: River Marked (Mercy Thompson #6)
128. 2013 Lebanon: An Unnecessary Woman
129. 2016 Spain: All This I Will Give to You translated from Spanish #WIT
130. 2017 Syria: Roundabout of Death translated from Arabic
131. 2017 United Arab Emirates: Temporary People
132. 2018 Sint Maarten: Blind Fish Don't Talk
133. 2019 US: Two Witches and a Whiskey (The Guild Codex, Spellbound #3)
134. 2020 Central Asia: Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppe
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Q4

October Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Oceania
New locations: Sweden

Read:
135. 1879 Sweden: The Red Room translated from Swedish
136. 1950 Malaysia, Australia: A Town Like Alice
137. 1971 England: Books Do Furnish a Room (A Dance to the Music of Time #10)
138. 1984 US: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
139. 1993 France: The Last Judgement (Jonathan Argyll #4)
140. 2005 Australia: The Broken Shore
141. 2006 US-CA: Every Reasonable Doubt (Venetta Henderson #1)
142. 2008 Russia, Western Asia: The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
143. 2012 Egypt: The Queue translated from Arabic #WIT
144. 2015 Mexico: Signal to Noise
145. 2017 Australia: And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2)
146. 2017 Poland: I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To translated from Polish
147. 2020 Australia: Death Leaves the Station
148. 2020 South Korea: The Law of Lines translated from Korean #WIT
149. 2021 England: What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. Cyr #16)
150. 2021 US-CA: Synchronized Sorcery (A Witchcraft Mystery #11)
151. 2022 Lebanon: The King of India: A Novel translated from Arabic
152. 2022 US-TX: Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy #6)
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November Reading
(view spoiler)[Globetrotter: Europe - North, South
New locations: Saba (territory)

Read:
152. 1939 Germany: The Passenger translated from German
154. 1973 Italy/England: Temporary Kings
155. 1992 US: Waiting to Exhale
156. 2001 France: Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
157. 2013 US-WA: Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson #7)
158. 2016 Canada: The Language of Secrets
159. 2017 Ireland: Death in D Minor
160. 2019 Saba: Deep Cut
161. 2019 US: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
162. 2022 Egypt: Secrets of the Nile
163. 2022 US-GA: Spirits and Sourdough
164. 2022 US: The Women Could Fly
165. 2022 Multiple: Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
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December Reading
(view spoiler)[New locations: Belarus

Read:
166. 1962 Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz translated from Spanish
167. 1975 England: Hearing Secret Harmonies (A Dance To The Music of Time #12)
168. 1990 Italy Vendetta (Aurelio Zen #2)
169. 2012 Angola: Transparent City translated from Portuguese
170. 2014 Belarus: Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad translated from Belarusian and Russian
171. 2014 Singapore: Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials (Singaporean Mystery #2)
172. 2018 Philippines: The Betrayed
173. 2021 Turkey+: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
174. 2021 US-CA: Bone Canyon
175. 2022 England: The Raven Spell
176. 2022 US-PA: A Quiet Teacher
177. 2022 US: Bloodmarked (hide spoiler)]


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2023 Plans

Clear The Shelves #36
Magical Mystery Tour #38
To Boldly Go #44
Bookworms Take Shelfies #39:

Diversity: Black Authors - 0/15
Diversity: Women In Translation - 0/15
Genre: Short Stories - 0/5
Listopia: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 0/15
Place: Greece - 0/10
Travel: Travelogues, Road Trips, Adventures, Reportage - 0/5

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