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

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

Where: Caucasus and Central Asia
Where: Balkans
Where: Greece
Where: North Africa
Where: Spain
Where: Place Portraits
Where: The Fall of the Ottomans and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Where: 2024 Globetrotter Part 1
Where: 2024 Globetrotter Part 2
Where: Reading Around The World - Part 1 - Africa
Where: Reading Around The World - Part 2 - Americas
Where: Reading Around The World - Part 3 - Asia
Where: Reading Around The World - Part 4 - Europe and Oceania

Who: Black American Authors
Who: Black Women Authors - Zora Cannon
Who: Women in Translation

Why: 2017 Goodreads TBR Cleanup
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: 16/15

1794 England: Caleb Williams
1884 US: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885 Africa: King Solomon's Mines
1899 Ireland: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
1930 US: The Maltese Falcon
1935 France: The House in Paris
1938 Italy: Cause for Alarm
1946 Greece: Zorba the Greek
1970 US: The Bluest Eye
1973 US: Sula
1979 England: Smiley's People
1988 India: The Shadow Lines
1990 Greece: The Daughter
1990 Vietnam: The Things They Carried
1992 Denmark, Greenland: Smilla's Sense of Snow
1995 Greece: The Late-Night News

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What: Short Stories

Ongoing effort to read more short story collections.

Progress: 9/5
2017 Nigeria+: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
2018 Libya: Catalogue of a Private Life #WIT
2022 Australia: This All Come Back Now
2022 Canada: Arboreality
2023 Italy: Roman Stories
2023 Israel: West Jerusalem Noir
2023 Botswana: Call and Response
2023 US: Never Whistle at Night
2023 Zimbabwe: Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

Read in 2021-2023:
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1922 New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories
2005 New Caledonia: The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Dewe Gorode translated from French
2007 Nepal: Tilled Earth : Stories
2009 Bhutan: Tales in Colour: And Other Stories
2011 Spain: Treasure of the Spanish Civil War
2012 Japan: March Was Made of Yarn
2012 Multiple: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
2013 South Sudan: There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
2013 US-WY: Cowboys and East Indians
2015 Argentina: Things We Lost in the Fire translated from Spanish
2015 Philippines: In the Country
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
2016 Zimbabwe: Rotten Row
2017 Poland: I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To txl from Polish
2017 UAE: Temporary People
2018 Grenada: Tell No-One About This
2018 Jamaica, US: How to Love a Jamaican
2018 Lebanon: Shatila Stories translated from Arabic
2018 South Africa: Intruders: Short Stories
2018 US: Friday Black
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 Japan: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten translated from Japanese #WIT
2021 US-CA: Afterparties
2021 US-FL: Milk Blood Heat
2022 Ukraine: Lucky Breaks (translated from Russian) #WIT
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When: Published 1900-1949 (Before, Between, During the Wars)

No specific goal - continuing from 2021.

Progress: 9
1930 US: The Maltese Falcon
1933 Germany: The Oppermanns translated from German
1935 France: The House in Paris
1936 Poland: The Brothers Ashkenazi translated from Yiddish
1937 Egypt: Diary of a Country Prosecutor translated from Arabic
1938 Germany Address Unknown
1938 Italy: Cause for Alarm
1939 Turkey+: A Coffin for Dimitrios
1946 Greece: Zorba the Greek translated from Greek

2021-2023:
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1901 Germany: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family translated from German
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
1917 US: Summer
1918 England: The Return of the Soldier

1920 Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter translated from Norwegian
1922 New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories
1923 Ukraine: The White Guard translated from Russian
1924 US: There Is Confusion
1925 South Africa: Chaka
1926 France/Spain: The Sun Also Rises
1926 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
1928 Germany, France: All Quiet on the Western Front (translated from German)
1928 Spain: Homage to Catalonia
1928 US/Denmark: Quicksand
1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
1929 US-NY: Passing
1932 Austria: The Radetzky March translated from German
1934 Burma/Myanmar: Burmese Days
1934 England: The Nine Tailors

1939 Germany: The Passenger translated from German
1939 US-CA: The Big Sleep
1939 US: The Grapes of Wrath
1940 Spain: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944 Spain: Nada translated from Spanish
1945 Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus translated from French
1945 England: Brideshead Revisited
1945 Greece: Apartment in Athens

1946 Greece: Three Summers translated from Greek
1948 England: The Heat of the Day
1948 Japan: The Makioka Sisters translated from Japanese
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. Loose goal is to lean into books published during this period when I'm choosing books for other goals/challenges.

Progress: 6

1953 US: Maud Martha
1956 England: We Made a Garden
1969 Spain: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
1970 US: The Bluest Eye
1973 US: Sula
1979 England: Smiley's People

2021-2023 Reading List
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1950 Greece (Crete): Ill Met by Moonlight
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
1952 Burma: Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
1952 Italy: Forbidden Notebook
1954 Guinea: The Dark Child
1956 France: Giovanni's Room
1956 Paraguay: Zama
1957 Egypt: Justine
1958 England: The Once and Future King
1958 Kyrgystan: Jamilia
1962 England: Cover Her Face
1962 Europe: The Guns of August
1962 Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz
1962 Spain: The Time of the Doves
1962 US: Cassandra at the Wedding
1963 US: The Fire Next Time
1965 England: The Looking Glass War
1968 US: The House of Dies Drear
1969 Botswana: When Rain Clouds Gather
1971 Germany: Reunion
1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
1973 Kyrgzystan: The Ascent of Mount Fuji: A Play
1974 Englad: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1976 DRC: Before the Birth of the Moon
1976 US-MS: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara
1977 Egypt: Woman at Point Zero
1977 Hong Kong+: The Honourable Schoolboy
1977 Wales: A Morbid Taste for Bones
1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season
1979 South Africa: Burger's Daughter
1979 Spain: Southern Seas
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When: Read the 80s

No specific goal - continued from 2020.

Progress: 6

1983 El Salvador: Salvador
1983 US: Nights in Aruba
1988 Europe multiple: Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers #1)
1988 India: The Shadow Lines
1989 Bangladesh: I Remember Abbu
1989 Morocco: Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition

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1980 Canada: Basic Black with Pearls
1980 Italy: The Name of the Rose
1980 US-MI: City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
1980 South Africa: Waiting for the Barbarians
1981 Colombia: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1981 India: Midnight's Children
1981 Japan: Leaden Wings
1981 South Africa: July's People
1981 US: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
1982 Greece: The Names
1982 Japan/England: A Pale View of Hills
1982 US: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
1982 US-GA: The Color Purple
1982 Chile: The House of the Spirits
1983 US: Granta 8: Dirty Realism
1984 China: Empire of the Sun
1984 England: Foreign Affairs
1984 Fantasy: Neuromancer
1984 Switzerland: Hotel du Lac (Booker 1984)
1984 US: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
1984 US-HI: Democracy
1984 Vietnam: The Lover
1985 Antigua: Annie John
1985 US: Contact
1985 US: Lonesome Dove
1985 England: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1985 US-CA: Reasons to Live
1985 US-NY: The Normal Heart
1985 US: White Noise
1986 Japan: An Artist of the Floating World
1986 Jersey (UK): Night of the Fox
1986 St. Kitts and Nevis: A State of Independence
1986 US: Anagrams
1986 Anywhere (Kenya): Matigari
1987 England: Gallows View (Inspector Banks #1)
1987 England: Moon Tiger (Booker 1987)
1987 England: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections
1987 Greece: The Jaguar translated from Greek
1987 Hungary: The Door
1987 Timor-Leste: Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor
1987 US: Crossing to Safety
1987 US-NY: The Bonfire of the Vanities
1987 US-NY: The New York Trilogy
1988 England: Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
1988 Italy: Ratking
1988 Japan: Kitchen
1988 Antigua: A Small Place
1988 Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind
1988 Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions
1988 Cape Verde: The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
1989 England: All Souls
1989 Finland: Fair Play
1989 Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate
1989 Turkey, Israel, Palestine: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East


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

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

Ongoing since 2021

Progress: 4/4
2015 Russia (Dagestan): Bride and Groom
2015 Tajikistan: The Disobedient Wife
2022 Uzbekistan: The White Mosque
2024 Georgia: Hard by a Great Forest

Read in 2021-2023:
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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
1863 Russia: The Cossacks translated from Russian
2004 Russia/Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechen Republic, Southern Caucasus: Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography
2008 Russia & South Caucasus: The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
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 Armenia: Three Apples Fell from the Sky translated from Russian
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
2012 Central Asia: Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
2015 Central Asia: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
2016 Central Asia: Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus
2017 Central Asia:Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
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

2018 Kazakhstan: Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
2019 Kazakhstan: A Shadow Intelligence
1958 Kyrgyzstan: Jamilia translated from Russian
1973 Kyrgzystan: The Ascent of Mount Fuji: A Play 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
2006 Turkmenistan: Unknown Sands
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
2012 Afghanistan: Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
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
2021 Afghanistan: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
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Where: Balkans (New)
This is a complex region and there is not universal agreement about which countries constitute the Balkans. I'm starting with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Progress: 6/6
1960 Romania: The Great Fortune
1986 Bosnia: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
2000 Balkans: The Balkans: A Short History
2018 Bosnia: Catch the Rabbit translated from Serbian
2021 Albania: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
2023 Bulgaria: Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

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Where: Greece

I've accumulated a long TBR related to Greece. I'm particularly interested in modern (not ancient) Greece via fiction or nonfiction.

Progress: 5/5
1946 Zorba the Greek translated from Greek
1990 The Daughter translated from Greek (Occupation)
1995 The Late-Night News translated from Greek (Crime, contemporary)
2008 A Short Border Handbook translated from Greek (Immigration)
2024 A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Immigration)

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1946 Three Summers translated from Greek - life between the wars
1950 Ill Met by Moonlight (WWII)
1982 The Names
1987 The Jaguar translated from Greek
1992 Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture translated from Greek
2010 Spies of the Balkans (WWII)
2012 The Green Shore (1960s military dictatorship)
2013 The Book of Katerina (Contemporary) translated from Greek
2015 Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
2020 Scorpionfish
2021 The Wrong End of the Telescope (Contemporary, Immigration)
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Where: North Africa (New)

Progress: 7/6

1937 Egypt: Diary of a Country Prosecutor translated from Arabic
1989 Morocco: Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition translated from Arabic #WIT
2006 Libya: In the Country of Men
2018 Libya: Catalogue of a Private Life translated from Arabic
2019 Algeria: The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody translated from Arabic
2022 Egypt: If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
2023 Sudan: River Spirit

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Algeria:
Our Riches
The Art of Losing
The Stranger

Egypt:
A Master of Djinn
Covert in Cairo
Justine
Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
Miramar
Secrets of the Nile
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Slipping
The City Always Wins
The Queue
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
The Lost Americans
The Yacoubian Building
Woman at Point Zero

Libya:

Morocco:
A Significant Year

Sudan:
Thirteen Months of Sunrise
Who Fears Death

Tunisia:
This Tilting World

Western Sahara:
Stories of the Sahara
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Where: Spain

Books set in Spain or by Spanish authors; fiction or nonfiction.

Progress: 4/4
1969 Spain: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
2019 Spain: When I Sing, Mountains Dance translated from Catalan
2022 Spain: The Last Days of Terranova translated from Galician
2023 Spain: Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

2021-2023 Reading List:
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Fiction
1926 The Sun Also Rises (also France)
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
1992 A Heart So White 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 Poison, Shadow, and Farewell Your Face Tomorrow #3 translated from Spanish
2011 Treasure of the Spanish Civil War translated from French
2015 City of Good Death
2015 Red Queen translated from Spanish
2016 All This I Will Give to You translated from Spanish
2018: Berta Isla translated from Spanish
2019 A Long Petal of the Sea translated from Spanish
2019 The Fountains of Silence

Non-Fiction
1938 Homage to Catalonia
2003 The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
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
2016 Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
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
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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: 7/5
1969 Spain: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
1983 El Salvador: Salvador
1998 South Georgia: Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
2017 US: South and West: From a Notebook
2022 Uzbekistan: The White Mosque
2023 Bulgaria: Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
2023 Central African Republic: Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

2021-2023 Reading List:
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1952 Burma (Myanmar): Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
1976 Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara translated from Chinese
1993 Balkans: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
1998 China - Taklamakan Desert: Crossing the Desert of Death
2002 Benin: Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi
2003 Spain: The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
2004 Balkans, Middle East: The 8:55 to Baghdad
2004 Vanuatu+: Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
2006 Spain: Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
2006 South Africa: Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
2011 Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana): Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
2012 Nigeria: Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
2013 Morocco: A Significant Year
2014 Yemen: Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
2017 Republic of Georgia: Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus with Over 80 Recipes
2017 Cuba: Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
2018 Kazakhstan: Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
2018 Mexico: Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico translated from Spanish
2018 Northern/Western Africa: A Stranger's Pose
2019 Cyprus: Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
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
2020 Pakistan: The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
2021 Colombia: Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
2021 Madagascar: The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
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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...
I'm interested in the geopolitical changes to the area that was the Ottoman Empire at its peak. Subjects include Greek independence, Balkan Wars, WWI , establishment of Turkey as a republic, British and French Mandates and protectorates (Egypt/Palestine/Jordan/Iraq; Lebanon/Syria).

2024: Given recent events, may read more recent history of how we got here...

Progress: 6/4
2013 Israel: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
2023 Palestine: Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
2023 Palestine: We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
2023 Sudan: River Spirit
2023 Turkey, Spain, US: Kantika
2024 Middle East: Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

2022-2023 Reading List
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Fiction:
1899 Hungary: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
2002 Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness
2004 Birds Without Wings
2006 The Janissary Tree
2007 The Snake Stone
2016 The Silence of Scheherazade
2023 Stone and Shadow: A Novel

Nonfiction:
1926 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
1962 The Guns of August
1989 Turkey, Israel, Palestine: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
2001 Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
2002 Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
2006 Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
2010 Russia: The Crimean War: A History
2011 Middle East: Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East
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
2018 Egypt: Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
2021 The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
2021 The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
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Place: Globetrotter 2024 (Part 1) Part 2 below

Books read by UN geoscheme region in 2024. Would like to read at least two books from each subregion. Ongoing reading list since 2019 here.

Progress: 85/50

AFRICA - 19
Africa - East (2)
2011 Kenya: One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
2023 Zimbabwe: Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

Africa - Middle (2)
2000 Gabon: Awu's Story: A Novel
2023 Central African Republic: Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

Africa - North (8)
1937 Egypt: Diary of a Country Prosecutor
1989 Morocco: Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition
2006 Libya: In the Country of Men
2014 Egypt: The Cairo Affair
2018 Libya: Catalogue of a Private Life
2019 Algeria: The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody
2022 Egypt: If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
2023 Sudan: River Spirit

Africa - South (2)
2014 South Africa: Present Darkness (Emmanuel Cooper #4)
2023 Botswana: Call and Response

Africa - West (5)
2016 Ghana: Gold of Our Fathers (Darko Dawson #4)
2016 Nigeria: Season of Crimson Blossoms
2017 Nigeria+: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
2020 Nigeria: Formation: The Making of Nigeria From Jihad to Amalgamation
2024 Nigeria: Lost Ark Dreaming

AMERICAS - 15
Americas - Caribbean (2)
1994 Haiti: Breath, Eyes, Memory
2006 Montserrat: Volcano

Americas - Central (2)
1983 El Salvador: Salvador
2023 Costa Rica: Where There Was Fire

Americas - North (4)
2018 Canada: Ayesha at Last
2020 Canada: The Future
2022 Canada: Arboreality
2023 Canada: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Americas - North Indigenous (2)
2020 US, Canada, Mexico: Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
2023 US: Never Whistle at Night

Americas - South (4)
1998 South Georgia: Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
2004 Bolivia: ¡Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia
2007 Argentina: Elena Knows
2021 Peru: Undiscovered

Multiple: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

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Place: Globetrotter 2024 (Part 2)

ASIA - 21
Asia - Central (2)
2015 Tajikistan: The Disobedient Wife
2022 Uzbekistan: The White Mosque

Asia - East (4)
1999 Japan: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2008 Japan: The Fall of Language in the Age of English
2014 Korea: Human Acts
2017 Korea: Everything Belongs to Us

Asia - South (6)
1988 India: The Shadow Lines
1989 Bangladesh: I Remember Abbu
2008 Iran: In Case of Emergency
2013 India: Ghachar Ghochar
2019 Maldives: Murder in Maldives
2022 India: The Bangalore Detectives Club

Asia - Southeast (2)
1990 Vietnam: The Things They Carried
2023 Philippines: Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Asia - West (7)
2009 Palestine, Lebanon: A River Dies of Thirst: Journals
2013 Israel: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
2023 Israel: West Jerusalem Noir
2023 Palestine: Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
2023 Palestine: We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
2024 Georgia: Hard by a Great Forest
2024 Middle East: Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

EUROPE - 30
Europe - East (5)
1936 Poland: The Brothers Ashkenazi
1960 Romania: The Great Fortune
2015 Russia: Bride and Groom
2020 Russia: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
2023 Bulgaria: Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

Europe - North (5)
1899 Ireland: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
1992 Denmark, Greenland: Smilla's Sense of Snow
2016 Denmark: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
2018 Ireland: The Ruin
2019 Norway: The Other Name: Septology I-II

Europe - South (16)
1938 Italy: Cause for Alarm
1946 Greece: Zorba the Greek
1969 Spain: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
1986 Bosnia: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
1990 Greece: The Daughter
1995 Greece: The Late-Night News
2000 Balkans: The Balkans: A Short History
2008 Greece: A Short Border Handbook
2018 Bosnia: Catch the Rabbit
2019 Spain: When I Sing, Mountains Dance
2021 Albania: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
2022 Spain: The Last Days of Terranova
2023 Italy: Land of Milk and Honey
2023 Italy: Roman Stories
2023 Spain: Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
2024 Greece: A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

Europe - West (3)
1935 France: The House in Paris
1933 Germany: The Oppermanns
1938 Germany, US: Address Unknown

OCEANIA & ANTARCTICA - 2
Antarctica (0)

Australia & New Zealand (2)
2022 Australia: This All Come Back Now

Melanesia (0)

Micronesia (1)
2013 Palau: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

Polynesia (0)

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Where - Reading Around The World - Ongoing Reading List (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: 187/250
2019: 33/250
2020: 60/250
2021: 38/250
2022: 25/250
2023: 25/250
2024: 8/250

New in 2024
Africa: Gabon, Libya
Americas: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Montserrat, South Georgia
Asia: Maldives
Europe
Oceania & Antarctica:Palau

AFRICA 51/59(view spoiler)[
✔︎Northern Africa: 7/7
√Algeria: The Stranger, Our Riches; The Art of Losing; The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody
√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; Woman at Point Zero; Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller; Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East; Covert in Cairo; The Lost Americans; Diary of a Country Prosecutor; The Cairo Affair; If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
√Libya: In the Country of Men; Catalogue of a Private Life
√Morocco: A Significant Year; Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition
√Sudan: Thirteen Months of Sunrise;Who Fears Death; River Spirit
√Tunisia: This Tilting World
√Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara

Central Africa: 8/9
√Angola: Saudade; Transparent City
√Cameroon: Houseboy
√Central African Republic: A House Without Windows; Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
📌Chad:
√Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Poisonwood Bible; Heart of Darkness; Before the Birth of the Moon; Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
√Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda: A Novel
√Gabon: Awu's Story: A Novel
√Republic of the Congo: The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir
√São Tomé and Príncipe: Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

East Africa: 19/21
√British Indian Ocean Territory: An Impossible Return
√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; Unbury Our Dead With Song
√Kenya Matigari; Unbowed: A Memoir; One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
√Madagascar The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
√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: Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
√Rwanda The Barefoot Woman; All Your Children, Scattered
√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; Rotten Row; Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

West Africa: 12/17
√Benin: Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi
√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; Gold of Our Fathers
√Guinea: The Dark Child
📌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; And After Many Days; Lost Ark Dreaming; Season of Crimson Blossoms; Formation: The Making of Nigeria From Jihad to Amalgamation; What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
📌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: Descent into Night

✔︎Southern Africa: 5/5
√Botswana The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency; When Rain Clouds Gather; A Question of Power; Heavens May Fall; Call and Response
√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; Chaka; The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning; Blessed Are the Dead; Random Violence; Present Darkness

Africa - Multiple
A Stranger's Pose

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Duration: January 1, 2019 to indefinitely

AMERICAS 41/57(view spoiler)[
Caribbean: 19/28
√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: Tell No-One About This
📌Guadeloupe
√Haiti: Krik? Krak!; Breath, Eyes, Memory
√Jamaica: A Million Aunties, How to Love a Jamaican; Augustown; The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
√Martinique Texaco
√Montserrat: Volcano
📌Puerto Rico
√Saint Barthélemy: Murder In St. Barts
√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: 5/8
📌Belize
√Costa Rica: Where There Was Fire
√El Salvador: Slash and Burn; What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance; Salvador
√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; Witches
📌Nicaragua
📌Panama
Multiple: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

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; A World of Curiosities; Basic Black with Pearls; The Future; Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World; Arboreality
√Greenland (Denmark): Last Night in Nuuk; The Sea Road
📌Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France):
√USA (indigenous only): The Removed; Even As We Breathe; An American Sunrise; Winter Counts; Firekeeper's Daughter; Braiding Sweetgrass; Sinister Graves; Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land; Never Whistle at Night

South America: 13/16
√Argentina Optic Nerve, Fever Dream; Artforum; Include Me Out; Portrait of an Unknown Lady; Elena Knows
√Bolivia: ¡Cochabamba!: Water War in 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; Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena; The Night Will Be Long
√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: Zama
√Peru: Lost City Radio
√South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
√Suriname Oroonoko
√Uruguay Cantoras
√Venezuela It Would Be Night in Caracas
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Duration: January 1, 2019 to indefinitely

ASIA 50/51(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; Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia; Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

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

East Asia: 8/8
√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; Crossing the Desert of Death
√China - Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region): The Borrowed
√China - Macau (Special Administrative Region): The Red Pole of Macau
√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; All the Lovers in the Night; The Pachinko Parlour; The Fall of Language in the Age of English
√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; Human Acts


Southeast Asia: 10/11
📌Brunei Darussalam
√Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
√Indonesia: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul; The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
√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; The Age of Goodbyes
√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; In the Country; Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
√Singapore: Aunty Lee's Delights; The Heartsick Diaspora and other stories; Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials; The Great Reclamation
√Thailand: Bangkok Wakes to Rain; What Could Be Saved
√Timor-Leste: Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor
√Vietnam: The Quiet American, The Mountains Sing, The Lover, Paradise of the Blind; The Things They Carried

Southern Asia: 9/9
√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; I Remember Abbu
√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; A Mumbai Murder Mystery; The Kolkata Conundrum: An Orko Deb Mystery; The Bangalore Detectives Club; Ghachar Ghochar; The Shadow Lines
√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; In Case of Emergency
√Maldives: Murder in Maldives
√Nepal: Tilled Earth : Stories
√ Pakistan: book: The Reluctant Fundamentalist; The Empty Room; The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State; Unmarriageable; Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City; The Return of Faraz Ali
√Sri Lanka: Mosquito; Suncatcher; A Passage North; Anil's Ghost; The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; Brotherless Night

West Asia: 18/18
√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: Who Shot Ahmed? A Mystery Unravels in Bahrain's Botched Arab Spring; The Peacock and the Sparrow
√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; Hard by a Great Forest
√Iraq: I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir
√Israel: The Book of Disappearance; Minor Detail; Central Station; A Tale of Love and Darkness; My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
√Jordan: The Language of Baklava: A Memoir (+US); Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (+Saudi Arabia, Syria)
√Kuwait: Salt Houses (also Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon); Mama Hissa's Mice
√Lebanon: Shatila Stories; An Unnecessary Woman; The King of India: A Novel
√Oman Celestial Bodies
√Qatar: Love From A to Z
√Saudi Arabia: Mansour's Eyes; Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
√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; Passage to the Plaza; A River Dies of Thirst: Journals; Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict; We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
√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; The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs; A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East; Stone and Shadow: A Novel; The Snake Stone; A Coffin for Dimitrios
√United Arab Emirates: Letters to a Young Muslim; Temporary People
√Yemen: Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in 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 36/54(view spoiler)[
Eastern Europe: 8/10
√Belarus: Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad
√Bulgaria: Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe; Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
📌Czechia (Czech Republic):
√Hungary: The Door; Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
📌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; The Brothers Ashkenazi
√Romania: Bottled Goods; The Great Fortune
√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; The Cossacks; Eastbound; Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl; Bride and Groom
√Slovakia: Seeing People Off
√Ukraine Independence Square; Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories; Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933; Lucky Breaks; The Cossacks; The White Guard

Northern Europe: 13/19
📌Aland Islands (Finland)
√Denmark: The Keeper of Lost Causes; The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well; Smilla's Sense of Snow
√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; The Searcher; The Ruin; Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
√ Isle of Man: Safe House
√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; The Other Name: Septology I-II
📌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; The Silent Quarry

Southern Europe: 9/16
√Albania Crossing; A Short Border Handbook Greece; Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
📌Andorra
√Bosnia and Herzegovina: Nowhere Man; Catch the Rabbit; Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
√Croatia: We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day
√Gibraltar: Uneasy Relations
√Greece: The Names; Scorpionfish; The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe; Apartment in Athens; Ill Met by Moonlight; The Green Shore; The Wrong End of the Telescope; Spies of the Balkans; The Book of Katerina; Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture;Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know; The Jaguar; A Short Border Handbook; The Late-Night News;A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging; The Daughter; Zorba the Greek
√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; The Forbidden Notebook; Cause for Alarm; Land of Milk and Honey; Roman Stories
📌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; Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; Berta Isla; Red Queen; City of Good Death; A Heart So White; Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War; The Last Days of Terranova; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain; When I Sing, Mountains Dance
📌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; Giovanni's Room; The Paris Diversion; The House in Paris
√Germany: The Reader; The Passenger; Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family; Reunion; Address Unknown; The Oppermanns
📌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: 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; Truth; Darkness for Light; This All Come Back Now
📌Christmas Island
📌Cocos (Keeling) Islands
📌Heard Island & McDonald Islands
√New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories; Overkill; A Madness of Sunshine
📌Norfolk Island

Melanesia: 5/5
√Fiji: A Disappearance in Fiji
√New Caledonia (France): The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Dewe Gorode
√Papua New Guinea: Euphoria
√Solomon Islands: Devil-Devil
√Vanuatu: Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics

Micronesia: 2/7
📌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: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

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

Antarctica: 1/1
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Who: Black American Authors

Progress: 19/12
1953 US: Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
1970 US-OH - Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye
1973 US: Sula
1994 Haiti: Breath, Eyes, Memory
2001 US-DC - Percival Everett: Erasure
2001 US - Suzan-Lori Parks: Topdog/Underdog
2012 US - Karen Fields and Barbara Fields: Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
2013 US-MS - Jesmyn Ward: Men We Reaped: A Memoir
2016 US - Carol Anderson: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
2016 Ghana - Kwei Quartey: Gold of Our Fathers
2017 US - Ta-Nehisi Coates: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
2018 US - Cheryl Head: Wake Me When It's Over (Charlie Mack #2)
2023 US - Jesmyn Ward: Let Us Descend
2023 US-TX - Bryan Washington: Family Meal
2024 US: Hanif Abdurraqib: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
2024 US: Percival Everett: James
2024 US - Carlos Ruffin: The American Daughters
2024 US: Erin Sharkey: A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
2024 US-KY - Crystal Wilkerson: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

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Who: Black Women Authors - ZORA Canon Listopia

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

Progress: 4/4
1953 Maud Martha
1973 Sula
2001 Topdog/Underdog
2016 White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Previously Read:
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1924 There Is Confusion
1928 Quicksand
1929 Passing
1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God
1959 A Raisin in the Sun
1968 The House of Dies Drear
1976 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1981 Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
1982 The Color Purple
1984 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
1992 Waiting to Exhale
1993 Parable of the Sower
1998 Parable of the Talents
2010 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2010 The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2011 Salvage the Bones
2014 Brown Girl Dreaming
2015 The Fifth Season
2016 Freedom is a Constant Struggle
2016 Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
2017 Sing, Unburied, Sing
2018 An American Marriage
2019 Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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Who: Women In Translation

Progress: 13/12

1989 Morocco: Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition translated from Arabic.
2000 Gabon: Awu's Story: A Novel translated from French
2007 Argentina: Elena Knows translated from Spanish
2008 Iran: In Case of Emergency translated from Farsi
2008 Japan: The Fall of Language in the Age of English translated from Japanese
2014 Korea: Human Acts translated from Korean
2015 Russia: Bride and Groom translated from Russian
2018 Bosnia: Catch the Rabbit translated from Serbian
2018 Libya: Catalogue of a Private Life translated from Arabic
2019 Spain: When I Sing, Mountains Dance translated from Catalan
2020 Canada: The Future translated from French
2021 Peru: Undiscovered translated from Spanish
2023 Italy: Roman Stories translated from Italian

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Why: 2017 Goodreads TBR Cleanup
One way or another I'd like to clear the 32 books in my GR TBR from 2017.

Progress: 31/32 - Complete

I own The Drum Tower so I'll carry that one into 2025.

Read: (13)
A Colony in a Nation
Camino Island
Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel
Everything Belongs to Us
Life Drawing
Margaret the First
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
South and West: From a Notebook
The Year of Magical Thinking
We Made a Garden
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

DNF: (7)
American War
Black Wave
Ties
Safekeeping
Sourdough
The Bookman’s Tale
Young Jane Young

Delete - admit these will not make it to the top of the pile: (11)
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Janesville: An American Story
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
School for Love
Standard Deviation
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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Why: Clear The Shelves - Kindle

Progress: 20/20
A River Dies of Thirst: Journals
A Witch For Mr. Holiday
A Witch Too Late
Arcane Rising
Diary of a Country Prosecutor
Ghosts of Witches Past
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
I Remember Abbu
In the Country of Men
Magic Claims
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Murder in Maldives
Season of Crimson Blossoms
The Advocate's Dilemma
The Blood Strand
The Daughter
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
The Witch’s Lens
This All Come Back Now
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

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Why: Clear The Shelves - Paper

Progress: 20/20
Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
Awu's Story: A Novel
Bride and Groom
By Way of Sorrow
Catalogue of a Private Life
Cause for Alarm
¡Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Never Whistle at Night
Nights in Aruba
Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Disobedient Wife
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The Late-Night News
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The Other Name: Septology I-II
The Things They Carried
Volcano
Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition

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Q1

JANUARY
Pages: 6,137
New globetrotter locations: Libya

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(view spoiler)[ 1. 1937 Egypt: Diary of a Country Prosecutor translated from Arabic
2. 1938 Germany, US: Address Unknown
3. 1960 Romania: The Great Fortune
4. 2000 Balkans: The Balkans: A Short History
5. 2002 US: Erasure
6. 2006 Libya: In the Country of Men
7. 2013 Israel: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
8. 2016 Denmark: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
9. 2016 Faroe Islands: The Blood Strand (Faroes #1)
10. 2017 US: A Colony in a Nation
11. 2018 Libya: Catalogue of a Private Life translated from Arabic #WIT
12. 2019 Norway: The Other Name: Septology I-II translated from Nynorsk Norwegian
13. 2020 Multiple: The Last Tourist (Milo Weaver #4)
14. 2023 Botswana: Call and Response
15. 2023 England: Landscapes
16. 2023 Multiple: The Blonde Identity
17. 2023 Philippines: Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
18. 2023 Turkey, Spain, Cuba, US: Kantika
19. 2023 US: Family Meal
20. 2023 US: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

DNF
2013 US, England: The Bookman’s Tale
2023 Multiple: We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora (hide spoiler)]

FEBRUARY
Pages: 4,877
New globetrotter locations: Gabon

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(view spoiler)[21. 1933 Germany: The Oppermanns translated from German
22. 1938 Italy: Cause for Alarm
23. 1970 US: The Bluest Eye
24. 2000 Gabon: Awu's Story: A Novel translated from French #WIT
25. 2019 Canada: Demon Magic and a Martini (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #4)
26. 2019 Canada: The Alchemist and an Amaretto (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #5)
27. 2020 Canada: Druid Vices and a Vodka (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #6)
28. 2020 England: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
29. 2021 US: New Naturalism: Designing and Planting A Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
30. 2022 Uzbekistan: The White Mosque
31. 2023 Italy: Land of Milk and Honey
32. 2023 Space: The Deep Sky
33. 2023 Sudan: River Spirit
34. 2023 US: The Unmaking of June Farrow
35. 2023 Zimbabwe+: Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories
36. 2024 US-KY: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
37. 2024 US: The Night Island

DNF
1965 Sweden: Roseanna (Martin Beck #1)
2005 US: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2016 US: Black Wave
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MARCH
Pages: 4,004
New globetrotter locations: None

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(view spoiler)[38. 1935 France: The House in Paris
39. 2020 Multiple: Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
40. 2022 Spain: The Last Days of Terranova translated from Galician
41. 2022 US+: Our American Friend
42. 2023 Bulgaria: Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
43. 2023 England: The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
44. 2023 Fantasy Scandinavia: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
45. 2023 Italy: Roman Stories translated from Italian #WIT
46. 2023 Israel: West Jerusalem Noir translated from Hebrew
47. 2023 US: A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
48. 2023 US: Let Us Descend
49. 2023 US+: The Helsinki Affair
50. 2024 US: Beautyland

DNF
2015 Israel: Safekeeping
2022 Fantasy: Ravenfall (hide spoiler)]

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Q2

APRIL
Pages: 4,950
New globetrotter locations: None

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(view spoiler)[51. 1794 England: Caleb Williams
52. 1884 US: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
53. 1939 Turkey+: A Coffin for Dimitrios
54. 2009 Palestine: A River Dies of Thirst: Journals translated from Arabic
55. 2014 Egypt: The Cairo Affair
56. 2020 Canada: The Future translated from French #WIT
57. 2018 US: Wake Me When It's Over
58. 2019 US: Storm Cursed Mercy Thompson #11
59. 2020 England: Half a Soul
60. 2021 Multiple: The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
61. 2021 US: The Last Thing He Told Me
62. 2023 Fantasy: The Saint of Bright Doors
63. 2023 US: Never Whistle at Night
64. 2024 US: Northwoods
65. 2024 Fantasy: The Tainted Cup
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MAY
Pages: 5500
New Globetrotter Locations: None

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(view spoiler)[66. 1956 England: We Made a Garden
67. 1969 Spain: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
68. 1973 US: Sula
69. 1983 El Salvador: Salvador
70. 1992 Denmark, Greenland: Smilla's Sense of Snow translated from Danish
71. 2016 England: Margaret the First
72. 2017 US: Camino Island
73. 2018 Ireland: The Ruin
74. 2019 England: The Silver Mark
75. 2019 Algeria: The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody translated from Arabic
76. 2022 Fantasy: Crowbones (The World of the Others #3)
77. 2022 India: The Bangalore Detectives Club
78. 2023 Hong Kong: Ghost Girl, Banana
79. 2023 Multiple: Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
80. 2023 Spain: Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
81. 2024 Fantasy: People in Glass Houses
82. 2024 US: Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
83. 2024 US: The American Daughters
84. 2024 US: The Wharton Plot

DNF
2017 US: American War
2017 US: Young Jane Young
2024 China: The Fox Wife
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JUNE
Pages: 5,282
New Globetrotter Locations: Bolivia, South Georgia

Read
(view spoiler)[85. 1930 US: The Maltese Falcon
86. 1983 US: Nights in Aruba
87. 1998 South Georgia: Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
88. 2001 England: A Spy by Nature (Alec Milius #1)
89. 2004 Bolivia: ¡Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia
90. 2005 US: The Year of Magical Thinking
91. 2007 Argentina: Elena Knows translated from Spanish #WIT
92. 2008 Greece: A Short Border Handbook translated from Greek
93. 2008 Iran: In Case of Emergency translated from Farsi #WIT
94. 2012 France+: A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell #1)
95. 2020 France: BOX 88 (Box 88 #1)
96. 2020 US: Road Out of Winter
97. 2021 Peru: Undiscovered translated from Spanish #WIT
98. 2021 US: By Way of Sorrow
99. 2021 US: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
100 .2023 Canada: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
101. 2023 Palestine: Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
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JULY
Pages: 2,616
New Globetrotter Locations: NA

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(view spoiler)[102. 1811 England: Sense and Sensibility
103. 1999 Japan: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
104. 2013 US-MS: Men We Reaped: A Memoir
105. 2015 US: Fates Divided
106. 2018 Canada: Ayesha at Last
107. 2024 England, Austria: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
108. 2024 Middle East: Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East

DNF
2014 Italy: Ties translated from Italian
2024 Panama: The Great Divide
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AUGUST
Pages: 2,208
New Globetrotter Locations: Maldives

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(view spoiler)[109. 1989 Bangladesh: I Remember Abbu translated from Bengali
110. 2008 Japan: The Fall of Language in the Age of English txl from Japanese #WIT
111. 2013 India: Ghachar Ghochar translated from Kannada
112. 2014 South Africa: Present Darkness (Emmanuel Cooper #4)
113. 2019 Maldives: Murder in Maldives
114. 2023 US: Magic Claims
115. 2024 US: The Black Bird Oracle
116. 2024 US: The God of the Woods
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SEPTEMBER
Pages: 3,746
New Globetrotter Locations: NA

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(view spoiler)[117. 1979 England: Smiley's People
118. 1995 Greece: The Late-Night News translated from Greek
119. 2013 England: Life After Life
120. 2014 US: Life Drawing
121. 2017 Korea: Everything Belongs to Us
122. 2018 Bosnia: Catch the Rabbit translated from Serbo-Croatian #WIT
123. 2019 England: Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5)
124. 2019 US: Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
125. 2022 Canada: Arboreality
126. 2023 Central African Republic: Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
127. 2024 England: The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
128. 2024 US: Funny Story
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Q4

OCTOBER
Pages: 5,923
New Globetrotter locations: Costa Rica, Palau

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(view spoiler)[129. 1885 Africa: King Solomon's Mines
130. 1899 Ireland: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
131. 1988 India: The Shadow Lines
132. 1989 Morocco: Year of the Elephant: Revised Edition Txl from Arabic #WIT
133. 1996 Bosnia: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
134. 2004 US: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
135. 2011 US: Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel translated from Arabic
136. 2013 Palau: Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
137. 2015 Fantasy: Ghosts of Witches Past
138. 2016 Ghana: Gold of Our Fathers (Darko Dawson #4)
139. 2016 Nigeria: Season of Crimson Blossoms
140. 2017 Nigeria: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
141. 2019 England: Joe Country (Slough House #6)
142. 2019 England: The Fox's Curse (Crow Investigations #3)
143. 2020 Nigeria: Formation: The Making of Nigeria From Jihad to Amalgamation
144. 2020 Scotland: Arcane Rising (The Darkland Druids #1)
145. 2020 Ukraine: The Silver Bone translated from Russian
146. 2023 Costa Rica: Where There Was Fire
147. 2023 Eastern Europe: The Witch’s Lens (The Order of the Seven Stars #1)
148. 2024 Nigeria: Lost Ark Dreaming
149. 2024 US: James
150. 2024 US: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
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NOVEMBER
Pages: 5,467

Read
(view spoiler)[151. 1936 Poland: The Brothers Ashkenazi translated from Yiddish
152. 1953 US: Maud Martha
153. 1988 Europe Multiple: Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers #1)
154. 2001 US: Topdog/Underdog
155. 2016 US: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
156. 2017 Scotland:Star Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide To Magic #2)
157. 2017 US: South and West: From a Notebook
158. 2017 US: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
159. 2019 Ireland: The Scholar (Cormac Reilley #2)
160. 2019 Spain: When I Sing, Mountains Dance txl from Catalan #WIT
161. 2019 US: A Witch Too Late
162. 2020 Russia: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
163. 2021 England: Slough House (Slow Horses #7)
164. 2022 England: Bad Actors (Slow Horses #8)
165. 2022 Australia: This All Come Back Now
166. 2022 US: Movieland (Eve Ronin #4)
167. 2024 Georgia: Hard by a Great Forest
168. 2024 Greece: A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
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DECEMBER
Pages:
New Globetrotter Locations: Montserrat

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169. 1946 Greece: Zorba the Greek translated from Greek
170. 1990 Greece: The Daughter translated from Greek
171. 1990 Vietnam: The Things They Carried
172. 1994 Haiti: Breath, Eyes, Memory
173. 2006 Montserrat: Volcano
174. 2011 Kenya: One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
175. 2012 US: Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
176. 2012 US: The Advocate's Dilemma
177. 2014 South Korea: Human Acts translated from Korean #WIT
178. 2015 Russia: Bride and Groom translated from Russian #WIT
179. 2015 Tajikistan: The Disobedient Wife
180. 2019 US: A Witch For Mr. Holiday
181. 2019 US: Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
182. 2021 Albania: Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
183. 2022 Egypt: If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
184. 2023 England: The Man in the Corduroy Suit
185. 2023 England: The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney #1)
186. 2023 Multiple: Orbital
187. 2023 Palestine: We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
188. 2024 Central America: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
189. 2024 England: The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

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2025 Plans/Links

Member Corner

Annual Challenges
Clear the Shelves #46

Bookworms Take Shelfies #32

Shelf Awareness #27

Serial Reader #37

January challenges:

Let's Get Cozy #21