Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your nominations here for the February group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading a selection set in the country of Nepal, a translated book from a female writer, and a memoir from an indigenous or immigrant writer from Canada or the United States.

Nepal*:
Nominate a book set in Nepal.
Nepal Book List: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nepal Bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Translated female writer
Nominate a translated book from an Austronesian or Austroasiatic language. Examples of Austroasiatic languages include Khmer (Cambodian), Mon, Nicobarese, and Vietnamese languages. Examples of Austronesian languages include Balinese, Carolinian, Cebuano, Chamorro, Fijian, Formosan, Gilbertese, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hiri Motu, Ilokano, Javanese, Kanak, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay (Malaysian, Indonesian), Maori, Marshallese, Nauruan, Niuean, Palauan, Samoan, Sundanese, Tagalog (Filipino), Tahitian, Tetum. Tongan, and Tuvaluan.

World Memoirs
Nominate a memoir or autobiography from an indigenous or immigrant author (1st or 2nd generation) from Canada or the United States. Here are some lists that may help. Note: Most of the books on these lists are not memoirs and some of them are not set in North America. The book must be a non-fiction memoir and set in North America.
Immigrant Experience: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
Indigenous Author - Native American: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
Indigenous Author - Aleut, Inuit, Yupik, "Eskimo": https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: Previously Read Group Read Books

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

For Nepal I nominate The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen.



When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart."

I'm not 100% sure this counts since I'm a bit cloudy on the instructions but if so, my nomination for memoir is The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston



A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. It is a sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.

Jamie wrote: "I'm not 100% sure this counts since I'm a bit cloudy on the instructions but if so, my nomination for memoir is The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

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This does count.

Diane wrote: "Jamie wrote: "I'm not 100% sure this counts since I'm a bit cloudy on the instructions but if so, my nomination for memoir is The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

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fantastic, thank you!

For world memoirs, I nominate In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi, 2nd generation Jewish-Hungarian.

I'm changing my nomination for immigrant/world memoir. I nominate The Unwinding of the Miracle: A memoir of life, death and everything that comes after by Julie Yip-Williams.

For Nepal, I nominate The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay.

Carol wrote: "For Nepal, I nominate The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay."

I'm glad you nominated this Carol! I loved The City Son by the the same author!

Nepal Arresting God in Kathmandu
Women in Translation The Question of Red

For Nepal, I nominate Kathmandu by Thomas Bell.

For translated female writer, I nominate Saman by Ayu Utami (Indonesia)

For Nepal, I nominate Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay

Wow - lot’s of good options for Nepal. I’ll nominate another non-fiction which was very readable: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Nepal: Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay

For world memoirs from North America, I'll put out The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (immigrant experience) and Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (indigenous author) as nominations.

For indigenous memoir, I nominate Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk.

Nepal

Fem in Translation

Migrant Memoir

Not nominating though for those who may be interested a fine anthology for Nepal:

Nominations are closed.