Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your nominations here for the January group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading books set in Micronesia and the province of Prince Edward Island in Canada. We will also be featuring award-winning translated literature from around the world. Here are lists to get you started:

Micronesia:*
Micronesia
Bookshelf: Micronesia

Prince Edward Island:
Canada (Scroll down to "Books set in Prince Edward Island" heading-Post 12)
Bookshelf: Canada: Prince Edward Island

Award-Winning Translated Literature:
Note: Book must be originally written in a language other than English and be the recipient of a literary award (not a nominee or finalist). Many foreign authors write books in English - these would not qualify. Here are a few international awards and lists, feel free to add more links:

Ars Translationis
Batchelder Award
BTBA Best Translated Book Award
Commonwealth Writer's Prize
Crossword Book Award
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
French-American Foundation Translation Prize
Hindu Literary Prize
Hugo Award
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
International Impac DUBLIN Literary Award
International DUBLIN Literary Award
Kiriyama Prize
Man Asian Literary Prize
Man Booker International Prize
PEN Translation Prize
Premio Strega
Prix Goncourt
Speculative Fiction in Translation
World Fantasy Award
Yomiuri Prize

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: Previous Group Read Books

*For our featured world country selection (this month its Micronesia): If the book selected by popular vote is not written by a native or resident author, the book written by a native/resident author with the highest votes will also be selected, resulting in two book selections for that country.

For award-winning translated literature, I nominate Wind and Waves by Yasushi Inoue. Winner of the 1963 Yomiuri Prize for Fiction. 201 pages.

Micronesia: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Prince Edward Island: The Troop by Nick Cutter

Award-winning translated works: The Blue Fox by Sjón

For award-winning translated books Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo which won both the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in 2006 and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2011)

For Micronesia, I nominate The Typhoon Of War: Micronesian Experiences Of The Pacific War by Lin Poyer.

Award-winning translated lit - Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera winner of the BTBA Best Translated Book Award 2016

Micronesia - Micronesian Blues by Bryan Vila

Micronesia: My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng

For Prince Albert Island I nominate Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories L.M. Montgomery

For Micronesia, I nominate The Web by Jonathan Kellerman

Nominations are closed