Around the World in 80 Books discussion

List:

✅1. The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler - 9/2/25 - 4* - My Review (Egypt) - selected for March
2. The Shape of Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia)
3. They Were Found Wanting by Mikklos Banffy (Hungary/Romania)
✅4. Love Forms by Claire Adam - 8/24/25 - 4* - My Review (Trinidad and Tobago) - selected for January
5. Hakawati by Rabih Alammadine (Lebanon)
6. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (Iran)
✅7. To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin - 9/6/25 - 4* - My Review (France) - selected for June
8. The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela (Sudan)
9. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
10. An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria, Cyprus)
✅11. Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future by Neil Shubin - 9/4/25 - 4* - My Review (Antarctica) - selected for May
12. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards (Channel Islands, UK - England)
13. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
14. The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan (Australia) - selected for September
15. The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria)
✅16. One Boat by Jonathan Buckley - 8/25/25 - 4* - My Review (Greece) - selected for February
17. In the Footsteps of Du Fu by Michael Wood (China)
✅18. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford - 9/7/25 - 4* - My Review- selected for July
19. There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (Czechia)
20. Black Foam by Haji Jabir (Eritrea)
21. The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin (Ireland)
22. The Impostor by Damon Galgut (South Africa)
23. The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (Austria) - selected for August
✅24. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review (Cuba) - selected for April

Numbers Selected: 4, 16, 1, 24, 11, 7, 18, 23, 14
(Will try to catch up for this year)