Reading with Style discussion

While not required, if you would like to post/share your plans, you may do so in this thread.

I went overboard finding books for the 15-point tasks and have way more than I can read. (My usual practice for the challenge as a whole, by the way). Anyway, these are the 10 I expect will have priority, but I reserve the option to swap for other titles.

15.1: The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
15.2: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15.3: Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
15.4: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
15.5: The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut

15.6: Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road by Stuart Stevens
15.7: Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto
15.8: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
15.9: Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
15.10: Homesick by Eshkol Nevo

Saving, in case I can come up with some ideas!! My thinking for this season was to use books I own. So far these are what I see in a quick peruse of the hard copies...

Potential for 10+ owned hard copy books to be used. As of April 17 = 4/10 hard copy, 1 on kindle


10.1 READ Klara and the Sun (l)
10.2 READ The Right Attitude to Rain (l)
10.3 Death on the Nile
Gone Girl (h)
10.4 Riders of the Purple Sage (l)
10.5 The Difference Engine (h)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (h)
10.6 READ 2001: A Space Odyssey (h)
10.7 READ City of Illusions (h)
10.8 READ Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories (l)
10.9 Before We Were Yours (l)
READ The Stationery Shop
10.10 READ Here the Whole Time (l)
READ A Psalm for the Wild-Built (l)

15.1 READ Midaq Alley (h)
15.2 Arrow of God (l)
15.3 READ Cameroon with Egbert (kindle)
15.4 Hard Rain (kindle)
READ Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (l)
15.5 The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (h)
15.6 n/a
15.7 READ The Vegetarian (l)
The Man in the Wooden Hat (h)
15.8 READ In the Orchard, the Swallows (hoopla)
15.9 READ Dogeaters (hoopla)
15.10 The Red-Haired Woman (h)

20.1 READ L'Assommoir (hoopla)
20.2 The Good Earth (h)
20.3 READ The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (l-o)
20.4 The Reivers (kindle)
20.5 March (l)
20.6 READ Guards! Guards! (l)
READ Men at Arms (l_o)
Disgrace (h)
V for Vendetta (h)
20.7 more than 20 choices from books on hand!
READ Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (h)
20.8 READ Network Effect (hoopla)
20.9. READ Carrot Cake Murder (l)
20.10 READ As I Lay Dying (h)

Possible books

10.1 Popular

10.2 Easter
✓ The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

10.3 Shakespeare (Best Endings list)
Atonement by Ian McEwan

10.4 Name
✓ The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
✓ Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
✓ Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor

10.5 Database Anniversary
Click Here For Murder by Donna Andrews 2003 Mystery

10.6 Space Out
Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

10.7 Three Favorite Women
Anne Tyler
Willa Cather
Ann Patchett

10.8 Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished (Set 50% or author born in Ukraine)
✓ A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert

10.9 Dual (timelines)
✓ The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican

10.10 Group Read
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin

15.1 Northern Africa
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (Algeria)
✓ Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi (Algeria)

15.2 Western Africa
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson (Nigeria)
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo (The Bambara are an ethnic group in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Senegal)

15.3 Central Africa
The Land at the End of the World by António Lobo Antunes (Angola)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Congo)
Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon (Gabon)

15.4 Eastern Africa
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron (Rwanda)
Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh (Kenya)

15.5 Southern Africa
Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch (Namibia)
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott (Botswana)

15.6 Central Asia
✓ Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared by Christopher Robbins (Kazakhstan)

15.7 East Asia
✓ A Quiet Place by Seichō Matsumoto (Japan) 1975 Mystery
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee (Taiwan)
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam (Hong Kong)

15.8 South Asia
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Sri Lanka)
✓ The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly (India) 2001 Mystery

15.9 Southeast Asia
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Vietnam)
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo (Malaysia)
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (Vietnam)
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

15.10 Western Asia
✓ Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (Saudi Arabia) 2007 Mystery
Kingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris (Saudi Arabia) 2012 Mystery
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Turkey)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

20.1 Pulitzer (pub 1847-1911)
✓ Bleak House by Charles Dickens

20.2 Prize (Pulitzer)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

20.3 Our Town (small town)
✓ A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell
✓ When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
✓ Corrag by Susan Fletcher
✓ The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

20.4 The Reivers (thieves, robbers, outlaws)
The Grifters by Jim Thompson 1963 Mystery
The Untold by Courtney Collins

20.5 The Killer Angels (Civil Wars)
The March by E.L. Doctorow

20.6 The Color Purple (BBC most inspiring novel list)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

20.7 The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (author immigrated)
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

20.8 Texas Independence (Author who was born in, died in, or currently lives in Texas)
✓ These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner

20.9 Birthdays (cake)
✓ The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
✓ The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
✓ The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
✓September by Rosamunde Pilcher

20.10 Between the Wars (1919-1938)
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne 1922 Mystery

15.1 - Northern Africa
In the Country of Others by Leïla Slimani (Morocco)

15.2 - Western Africa
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson(Nigeria)

15.3 Central Africa
Everfair by Nisi Shawl (Congo)

15.4 - Eastern Africa
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Zambia)

15.5 - Southern Africa
The Joy and Light Bus Company by Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana)

15.6 Central Asia
Deep Past by Eugene Linden (Kazakhstan)

15.7 - East Asia
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (China)

15.8 - Southern Asia
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)

15.9 - Southeast Asia
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (Cambodia)

15.10 - Western Asia
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (Armenia)

Hooray for planning!

10.1 - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

10.2 - EASTER
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

10.3 - Shakespeare (Best Endings)
The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

10.4 - First Name - 3, 4, 5 letters
Slade House by David Mitchell

10.5 - Database
The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi

10.6 - Space
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

10.7 - Favorite Women
Red Azalea by Anchee Min

10.8 - Ukraine
The Invincible by Stanisław Lem

10.9 - Dual
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

10.10 - Group Reads
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

15.1 - Northern Africa
The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai (Tunesia)
The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne (Morocco)

15.2 - Western Africa
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Nigeria)

15.3 Central Africa
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher (Congo)

15.4 - Eastern Africa
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai (Kenya)

15.5 - Southern Africa
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn (Swaziland)

15.6 Central Asia
A Shadow Intelligence by Oliver Harris (Kazakhstan)
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov (Kazakhstan)

15.7 - East Asia
Life by Lu Yao (China)
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (Japan)
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japan)

15.8 - Southern Asia
Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy (Afghanistan) low lexile
Sold by Patricia McCormick (Nepal/India) Lexile 800+

15.9 - Southeast Asia
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (Thailand)

15.10 - Western Asia
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Israel)
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (Israel)

20.1 - pub. 1847-1911
The Body Snatcher and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

20.2 - Pulitzer winner
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

20.3 - Our Town
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

20.4 - Reivers
Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha

20.5 - Civil War
American War by Omar El Akkad

20.6 - Color Purple
Something from Discworld - maybe Going Postal low lexile

20.7 - Oscar Wao
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

20.8 - Texas
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

20.9 - Birthdays
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

20.10 - Between the Wars
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (if not used for 10.3)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Start of my plans. I have at least one on my physical shelves. I also took on what looked like the most difficult 15.6 Central Asia and found one that my library has!

15.1 Northern Africa
Morocco: The Spy Wore Silk by Aline, Countess of Romanones

15.2 Western Africa
Sierra Leone: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (?)

15.4 Eastern Africa
Kenya: The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

15.6 Central Asia
Uzbekistan: Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell

15.7 East Asia
Japan: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein

15.8 South Asia
India: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

15.9 Southeast Asia
Malaysia: Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan

15.10 Western Asia
Turkey: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Saved

10.1 Popular
10.2 Easter - Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
10.3 list - One Hundred Years of Solitude or The Book Thief - no idea
10.4 3.4.5 given
10.5 Computers
10.6 Space Travel - Rite of Passage- physical
10.7 Women - Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin - physical
10.8 Ukraine - Kobzar - scribd
10.9 Dual Time
10.10

15.1 Children of the Alley physical - Egypt
15.2 David Mogo Godhunter physical - Nigeria
15.3
15.4 Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol - Uganda
15.5
15.6 Once in Kazakhstan: The Snow Leopard Emerges scribd - kazakhstan
15.7 February Flowers - physical - China
15.8 The Shadows of Men scribd - India
15.9
15.10. Girls of Riyadh physical - Saudi Arabia

20.1 1847-1911 pub -
20.2 Pulitzer - Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems - physical
20.3 Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet
20.4 Reivers
20.5 Any Civil War
20.6 Inspiring List - Making Money
20.7 Immigrated author -
20.8 Texan - Galveston - physical
20.9 Eat Cake
20.10 Setting 1919-1938 - Gods of Jade and Shadow

X

15.1
Western Sahara Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara by Ted Edwards
Libya Translating Libya: In Search of the Libyan Short Story by Ethan Chorin H
Algeria The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud P

15.2
Mali Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by Mamadou Kouyaté IA
Benin Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin by Raouf Mama

15.3
Democratic Rep of Congo Congo, My Country by Patrice Lumumba IA

15.4
Uganda Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi P
Sudan The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih

15.5
Botswana The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head

15.6
Kazakhstan Traditions and Customs of Kazakhs by Dana Jeteyeva Yerkebulan Dzhelbuldin H
Kyrgyzstan The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov IA
Kazakhstan The Book of Dede Korkut by Anonymous. IA
Uzbekistan The Railway by Hamid Ismailov H

15.7
Taiwan Zero and Other Fictions by Fan Huang H
Korea Pachinko by Min Jin Lee O

15.8
Pakistan The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad P

15.9
Philippines The Eye of the Fish by Luis H. Francia H
Singapore The Phoenix and Other Stories by Wong Swee Hoon IA
Singapore Son Of Singapore by Tan Kok Seng

15.10
Kuwait Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi P

15.1 Northern Africa
(Egypt) The Map of Love
(Egypt) King and Goddess

15.2 Western Africa
(Liberia) Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia
(Mali) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
(Nigeria) The Fishermen
(Nigeria) The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

15.3 Central Africa
(Angola) The Book of Chameleons
(Cameroon) The Poor Christ of Bomba
(Congo) Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
(Congo) Heart of Darkness
(Congo) A Burnt-Out Case
(Congo) The Poisonwood Bible
(Congo) The Witch Doctor's Wife

15.4 Eastern Africa
(Kenya) Unbowed
(Kenya) Dreams in a Time of War
(Kenya) A Grain of Wheat
(Kenya) Weep Not, Child
(Madagascar) Return to the Enchanted Island
(Uganda) Child of Dandelions
(Zimbabwe) The Boy Next Door

15.5 Southern Africa
(Botswana) Blue Shoes and Happiness
(South Africa) Nadine Gordimer

✅ 15.6 Central Asia
(Kazakhstan) Deep Past
✅ (Kazakhstan) Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared

✅ 15.7 East Asia
✅ (Japan) The Travelling Cat Chronicles
(China) The Library of Legends
(China) When Red Is Black
(Japan and/or Korea) Pachinko
(Japan and/or Korea) Beasts of a Little Land

15.8 South Asia
(India) Untouchable
(India) The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
(India) Murder in Old Bombay
(India) Rebel Queen

15.9 Southeast Asia
(Malaysia) The Ghost Bride
(Malaysia) The Night Tiger
(Mayanmar/Burma) Saving Fish from Drowning
(Philippines) When the Elephants Dance: A Novel

✅ 15.10 Western Asia
(Armenia) The Sandcastle Girls
✅ (Turkey) Alchemy of Fire
(Turkey) Last Train to Istanbul
(Turkey) Orhan Pamuk

10.1 popular
✔️ #547 The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven complete Mega Finish
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (1922)
The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty (1923)


10.2 best endings
✔️ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

10.3 3 - 5 letters given name
✔️ #407 God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell

10.4 Easter
Sixes and Sevens: Stories by O. Henry
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays by Mark Twain
How to See Yourself As You Really Are by Dalai Lama XIV
The Old Spies Club and Other Intrigues of Rand by Edward D. Hoch
The Supply At Saint Agatha's by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
✔️ #414 The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

10.5 Database Anniversary
✔️ #426 Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick

10.6 Space Out
Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
✔️ #410 The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

✔️ #420 10.7 Three Favorite Women
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

10.8 Ukraine
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko
✔️ #469Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

10.9 Dual Timeline
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
✔️#518 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

10.10 Group Reads
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul
✔️ #449 The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Africa
✔️ #156 North
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Libya)

West
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village by Peggielene Bartels (Ghana)
✔️ #3 Mississippi in Africa by Alan Huffman (Liberia)

Central
✔️ #101 The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts (Equatorial Guinea)

East
✔️ #23 Ivory by Tony Park (Mozambique)

South
The Cleverness of Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (South Africa)
✔️#204 East Wind: a True Story by Jacqueline Richards

*multiple
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa by Brad Ricca (west)
Hippos, Hairpins and High Button Boots by Nick McCarty (west)
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard(east)
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade

Asia
Central
✔️ #13 A Killing Winter by Tom Callaghan

East
✔️ #9The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford (Mongolia)

South
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
The Delhi Detective's Handbook: Vish Puri's Guide to Operating as a Private Investigator in India by Tarquin Hall
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventure in the Real Maldives by Tom Chesshyre
✔️ The Nepali Flat by Gordon Alexander
✔️ Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig

Southeast
✔️ #5 The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (Laos)
✔️ 409 Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill

West
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer
Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 by Breaking the Silence
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled
The Syrian's story by Zahara Schara
✔️ #44 The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Syria)
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
Hello American Lady Creature: What I Learned as a Woman in Qatar by L.L. Kirchner


20.1 Pulitzer 1847 - 1911
✔️#235 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

20.2 Pulitzer Prize Winner
✔️ #356 The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

20.3 Our Town
✔️ The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch

20.4 The Reivers
✔️ #277 War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion by Jeff Guinn

20.5 Killer Angels
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
✔️ No Better Place to Die: The Battle Of Stones River by Peter Cozzens
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of SyriaAlia Malek
Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era by Nicole Etcheson
✔️ #376 Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War by Sam R. Watkins
✔️ #448 The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas during the Civil War by Kenneth W. Howell

20.6 The Color Purple - BBC list
✔️#347 Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

20.7 Oscar Wao - immigrant author
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Saffron Dreams by Shaila M. Abdullah
✔️ #206 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
V.S. Naipaul

20.8 Texas Independence
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
Faithful Unto Death by Stephanie Jaye Evans
✔️ #203The Man Who Made Mark Twain Famous: Stories from the Kennedy Center, the White House, and Other Comedy Venues by Cappy McGarr
Larry McMurtry
Bill Crider
✔️ Susan Wittig Albert
Skip Hollandsworth
James Michener

20.9 Birthdays
✔️ #87 A Distant Hope by Ellin Carsta
Chapter 8 Louisa’s 16th birthday

20.10 Between the wars
✔️#304 The Sun Also Rises (1926)
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
✔️ Tragedy at Ravensthorpe
✔️ Out of the Silent Planet

10.1 Popular
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

✓ 10.2 Easter
The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan

✓ 10.3 Shakespeare
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

10.4 Name
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin

10.5 Database Anniversary
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

10.6 Space Out
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

10.7 Three Favorite Women, Louise Erdrich
Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo by Joy Harjo

✓ 10.8 Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy

✓ 10.9 Dual
The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

✓ 10.10 Group Reads
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin

✓ 15.1 Northern Africa
Chewing Gum by Mansour Bushnaf, Libya

✓ 15.2 Western Africa
Outlaw by Stephen Davies, Burkina Faso

15.3 Central Africa
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi, Cameroon

✓ 15.4 Eastern Africa
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji, Uganda

✓ 15.5 Southern Africa
When the Ground Is Hard (830 Lexile) by Malla Nunn, Swaziland

✓ 15.6 Central Asia
Mother Earth by Chingiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstan

15.7 East Asia
Hearing Birds Fly by Louisa Waugh, Mongolia

✓ 15.8 South Asia
Tales in Colour: And Other Stories by Kunzang Choden, Bhutan

✓ 15.9 Southeast Asia
Patron Saints of Nothing (840 Lexile) by Randy Ribay, Philippines

15.10 Western Asia
The Hidden Light of Objects by Mai Al-Nakib, Kuwait

20.1 Pulitzer
Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse

✓ 20.2 Prize
Versed by Rae Armantrout

20.3 Our Town
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

✓ 20.4 The Reivers
The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

✓ 20.5 The Killer Angels
Neverhome by Laird Hunt

20.6 The Color Purple
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

20.7 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

✓ 20.8 Texas Independence
Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

✓ 20.9 Birthdays
The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins

20.10 Between the Wars
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

✔️10.1-The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming

✔️10.2- Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton

10.3-A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

✔️10.4- Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker
✔️I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider

10.5-You’ve Got Murder by Donna Andrews

10.6-The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-ordered

10.7 (for Morrison lit map)- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion-eCloud

10.8-Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky

10.9-Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg-hard copy and Ecloud

10.10-Natural Histories: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel-Circuit

✔️15.1- Egypt- Clea by Lawrence Durrell-own hardcopy

15.2- Mali- Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by Mamadou Kouyaté-ordered from library

15.3- Dem. Rep. of Congo- The Mine by Frances Carden-Kindle Unl.

15.4-Djibouti- Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi-Circuit

15.5-Swaziland-When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn-at library

15.6- Tajikistan- The City Where Dreams Come True by Gulsifat Shakhidi-Kindle Unl.

✔️15.7- China- Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman-at library

OR- Mongolia- Girl Forward: A Timid Rider's Unlikely Adventure in Mongolia by Heather Wallace-on Kindle

15.8-Pakistan- The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer-at library
OR- Nepal- Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay-36 cents on Kindle

✔️15.9-Myanmar- Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama- at library

15.10-Syria- Syrian Wives by Anna Halabi-on Kindle

20.1- The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas-Kindle
OR- Amos Barton by George Eliot

20.2-The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (also Civil War)

20.3- ???Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- on eCloud
OR- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
OR- They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie

✔️20.4- The Godfather by Mario Puzo

20.5-The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson

✔️20.6- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

20.7- Sonora Pass by Jaime Olmos
OR- something by Georges Simenon

20.8-Greenwich Killing Time by Kinky Friedman

20.9-Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

20.10-The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

✔️10.1 This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff #38 on my 1989 list. 4-14-22

✔️10.2 Two Trains Running by August Wilson 3-7-22
✔️The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel 4-29-22

10.3 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

✔️10.4 A Mother in History: Three Incredible Days with Lee Harvey Oswald's Mother by Jean Stafford 3-7-22
✔️We Live in Water by Jess Walter 4-21-22
✔️The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter 4-24-22

10.5

✔️10.6 Great Stories of Space Travel by Groff Conklin 4-3-22

10.7

10.8

10.9

10.10


20.1 McTeague by Frank Norris

20.2 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford

20.3 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

20.4 Hot Iron by Elmer Kelton

✔️20.5 Long Way to Texas by Elmer Kelton 4-2-22

20.6

✔️20.7 Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon 3-3-22
✔️The Brothers Rico by Georges Simenon 3-10-22
✔️Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand 5-25-22
✔️An Air That Kills by Margaret Millar 5-27-22
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
Wives and Lovers by Margaret Millar

✔️20.8 Matecumbe by James A. Michener 5-1-22
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

✔️20.9 The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell 3-17-22
✔️Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates 4-20-22
✔️Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King 4-28-22
✔️Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker 5-9-22
✔️Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco 5-13-22

20.10 Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon
The Citadel by A.J. Cronin

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Read, but no task fits:
✔️The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout 3-20-22
✔️Back in the World by Tobias Wolff 4-7-22
✔️Absence of the Hero by Charles Bukowski 4-16-22

10.1 Fan Fiction ✅
10.2 The Soulmate Equation ✅
10.3 Persuasion
10.4 Skysworn✅
10.5 Neuromancer
10.6 The Consuming Fire
10.7 A Mercy
10.8 Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
10.9 The Winter People ✅
10.10 A Psalm for the Wild-Built

15.1
15.2 Lagoon
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6 Mother Earth
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1 The Picture of Dorian Grey
20.2 Be With or Postcolonial Love Poem ✅
20.3 Half Broke Horses ✅
20.4
20.5 Neverhome
20.6
20.7 Goldilocks ✅
20.8 Broken ✅
20.9
20.10

Hoping to earn the new half-way finish bonus this season.

✓20.1 Published 1847-1911 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1865)

✓20.2 Pulitzer Prize winner
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

✓20.3 Our Town
Dr. Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
✓Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (has cake per Proj G)

✓20.4 The Reivers
The Trail to Seven Pines by Louis L'Amour

✓20.5 The Killer Angels (any civil war)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Afghan civil war)

✓20.6 The Color Purple (BBC top 100 most inspiring)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
(#200 best endings)

✓20.7 Oscar Wao (immigrant author)
In the Field of Grace by Tessa Afshar

✓20.8 Texas
Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush

✓20.9 Birthdays (cake)
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

✓20.10 Between the Wars
✓A Shocking Assassination by Cora Harrison
maybe Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
The Fortnight in September