Read Women discussion

Something a little new for 2017. Every other month, we will be running a secondary group read to compliment the Read Around the World challenge - which aims to read a number of books set in different countries around the world.

You don't have to take part in the challenge to read along (and you don't have to read along to take part in the challenge!) but it's just another way of broadening the sorts of books and authors we read/promote in this group and I'm looking forward to seeing what books people nominate.

As there are six populated continents in the world, that means one book from each continent will feature as a group read in 2017.

For those wishing to take part in the challenge, this will hopefully provide a little boost to get started, recommend books you've enjoyed, or read new ones alongside the rest of us. For those not taking part in the challenge, I hope you find some interesting books here too!

Here's the map of where the group's been so far:



1. India: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (February 2017)
2. Ghana: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (April 2017)
3. USA: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (June 2017)
4. Argentina Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (August 2017)
5. New Zealand: The Bone People by Keri Hulme (October 2017)
6. Switzerland: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (December 2017)
7. China: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (February 2018)
8. Nigeria: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (April 2018)
9. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (June 2018)
10. Brazil: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (August 2018)
11. Australia: Am I Black Enough For You? by Anita Heiss (October 2018)
12. France: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (December 2018)
13. Japan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (February 2019)
14. South Korea: Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin (April 2019)
15. Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (June 2019)
16. Guadeloupe: The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart (August 2019)
17. Poland: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (October 2019)
18. Canada: Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson (December 2019)
19. Cambodia: First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (February 2020)

*Addendum until Louise can update*

20. Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (April 2020)
21. Sweden: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (June 2020)
22. Palestine: The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour (August 2020)
23. Iran: Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (October 2020)
24. Chile: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (November 2020)