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Margie's 2024 Reading Challenge: 101 Books

Progress: 189/101 - COMPLETE

More details about my reading are in my reading corner

READING CHALLENGE GROUP CHALLENGES

Bookworms Take Shelfies - #46
Clear the Shelves - #45
Dewey Decimal - #36

Q1 - Winter Tourist Season #7 - Completed
Q2 - TBR Spring Cleaning #11 - Completed

July 2024 - The Road Less Traveled #20

JANUARY READING

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

FEBRUARY READING

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

MARCH READING

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

APRIL READING

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

MAY READING

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

JUNE READING

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

JULY READING

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

AUGUST READING

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

SEPTEMBER READING

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

OCTOBER READING

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 (Slow Horses #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

NOVEMBER READING

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

DECEMBER READING

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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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