Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your nominations here for the August group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading books set in the country of China, the US state of Maine, and the UK county of Nottinghamshire. Here are our group lists to get you started:

China:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Maine:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Nottinghamshire:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... (please scroll down to the Nottinghamshire heading)

Books do not need to be present on these lists to be nominated. Authors, please do not nominate your own books.

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

For China I'd like to nominate The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu

I would like to nominate:
China
Maine
Nottinghamshire

Maine -
China -

Nottinghamshire - Lady Chatterley's Lover - this has been collecting dust on my bookshelf

I could go for Allyson' s choices as well - all of them are on my bookshelf:-)

Jessica wrote: "For China I'd like to nominate The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu

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Checked the reviews - wow, this one sounds really good too.

Allyson wrote: "I would like to nominate:
China
Maine
Nottinghamshire "

Allyson, I really like all these nominations. I especially like Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

I also really like Allyson's nominations of The Cider House Rules and Lady Chatterley's Lover! Both are on my TBR shelf, and I would love to read them with a group. I just read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan a few weeks ago and it is great, but I probably would vote for one of the other nominees for China that I haven't read yet. Great choices, everyone!

For China, I'd like to nominate . I haven't read it, but it's been on my to-read list for a while. It's by a Chinese Nobel Prize winner in literature, and it has great reviews. I'd love to read and discuss it with this group.

I'd like to nominate Red Scarf Girl or Where the Mountain Meets the Moonfor china.
I didn't read it yet, but my teacher recommended to me.
I guess, it will be a really good book for elementary ~ middle school kids.

China - sp

Nottinghamshire - well as someone who lives here it has to be dh lawrence or alan silitoe

Nottinghamshire

The Underground Man by Mick Jackson

I second (or third) the nomination for The Cider House Rules and to nominate Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China for China.

China - The Bonesetter's Daughter