Tsipi’s Comments (group member since Aug 24, 2021)

Tsipi’s comments from the Around the World in 80 Books group.

2025 Around the World

Total: 10/40

** Africa **
🌍 Better Never than Late by Chika Unigwe / Belgium & Nigeria
🌍 Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor / Nigeria
🌍 The Wife's Tale: A Personal History / Ethiopia
🌍 White Dog Fell from the Sky / Botswana
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** Asia **

🌏 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy / India
🌏 Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi / Japan
🌏 The Last Phi Hunter by Salinee Goldenberg / Thailand
🌏 The Bride Test by Helen Hoang / Vietnam


** Europe **

🌍 The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk / Poland & Germany
🌍 Any Old Diamond by KJ Charles / UK
🌍 In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce / Norway & US
🌍 Better Never than Late / Belgium
🌍 The Alice Network / France

** Latin America **
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** North America **
🌎 Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga / Canada
🌎 Shark Heart by Emily Habeck / United States
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** Oceania **
🌏 Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly / New Zealand

2024 Around the World

Total: 7/40

** Africa **
🌍 Aya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet / Ivory Coast
🌍 The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai / Egypt
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** Asia **
🌏 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto / Indonesia
🌏 Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan / Malaysia
🌏 The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye / Palestine
🌏 Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi / Oman

** Europe **

🌍 Among Others by Jo Walton / England & Wales
🌍 Rag & Bone by KJ Charles / England
🌍 A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux / France
🌍 The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden / Belgium
🌍 The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless / Ireland
🌍 Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen / Denmark

** Latin America **
🌎 Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia / Mexico
🌎 Cantoras by Caro di Robertis/ Uruguay
🌎 Our Share of Night / Argentina
🌎 Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda / Ecuador

** North America **
🌎 Thistlefoot / United States
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** Oceania **
🌏 Alliance / Australia + Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
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2023 Around the World

Total: 37/40 (3 counted as 2)

** Africa **
🌍 The Prey of Gods / South Africa
🌍 Remote Control / Ghana
🌍 Fairytales for Lost Children / Somalia, Kenya
🌍 The Old Drift / Zambia
🌍 Daughters of Nri / Nigeria
🌍 The Haunting of Tram Car 015 / Egypt
🌍 All Your Children, Scattered / Rwanda (&France)
🌍 Little Pa / Cameroon
🌍 Tears of the Giraffe / Botswana

** Asia **
🌏 Earthlings / Japan
🌏 The Genesis of Misery / Singapore
🌏 The Bruising of Qilwa / Iran (Persian-American author)
🌏 Seven / India
🌏 Exciting Times / Hong Kong
🌏 Enter Ghost / Palestine, Israel
🌏 Sorcerer to the Crown / Malaysia (author)
🌍 The Water Outlaws / China
🌍 The Vegetarian / Korea
🌍 Hijab Butch Blues

** Europe **
🌍 The Summer Book / Finland
🌍 Lent / Italy
🌍 A Marvellous Light / England
🌍 The Witch's Heart / Norway
🌍 Spear / Wales
🌍 The Ice Princess / Sweden

** Latin America **
🌎 The Daughter of Doctor Moreau / Mexico
🌎 Bel Canto / Chile
🌍 The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina / Ecuador

** North America **
🌎 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois / United States
🌎 Five Little Indians / Canada
🌎 Midnight Robber / Haiti
🌎 How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House / Barbados

** Oceania **
🌏 Undercover / New Zealand
🌏 Linesman / Australia

2022 Around the World

Total: 36/40

** Africa **
🌍 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark / Egypt
🌍 Home by Nnedi Okorafor / Namibia
🌍 Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani / Nigeria

** Asia **
🌏 The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey / India
🌏 אקווריום by Yaara Shehori / Israel
🌏 Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang / China
🌏 The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour / Palestine & Lebanon
🌏 The White Book by Han Kang / Korea
🌏 Black Water Sister by Zen Cho / Malaysia
🌏 Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung / Hong Kong
🌏 The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker / Syria

** Europe **
🌍 An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten / Sweden
🌍 The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon / France
🌍 Ha'penny by Jo Walton / England
🌍 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie / Yugoslavia (Croatia) (also Istanbul)
🌍 Intimacies by Katie Kitamura / Netherlands
🌍 The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave / Norway
🌍 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman / Scotland
🌍 Still Life by Sarah Winman / Italy
🌍 The Likeness by Tana French / Ireland
🌍 Wild Swan: A Story of Florence Nightingale / Greece
🌍 The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden / Russia
🌍 Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan / Armenia
🌍 Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart / Austria
🌍 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak / Cyprus
🌍 The Door by Magda Szabó / Hungary

** Latin America **
🌎 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia / Mexico
🌎 A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende / Chile

** North America **
🌎 The Prynne Viper by Bianca Marais / Canada
🌎 The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson / Haiti
🌎 A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet / United States
🌎 The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid / Dominica
🌎 Popisho by Leone Ross / Jamaica (fantasy setting, based on)
🌎 When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo / Trinidad & Tobago
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** Oceania **
🌏 Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman / Australia
🌏 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir / New Zealand

My map:

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Africa:

* The Plague by Albert Camus / Algeria
* Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston / Benin (Bantè)
* White Dog Fell from the Sky / Botswana
* heart of darkness - Belgian Congo - today Democratic...
* Little Pa / Cameroon
* Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi/ Egypt
* Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi / Ghana
* Fairytales for Lost Children by Diriye Osman / Somalia / Kenya
* Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America / Liberia
* Cress / Libya
* Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson/ Malawi
* The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor / Mali
* The Alchemist / Morocco
* Binti by Nnedi Okorafor / Namibia
* My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite / Nigeria
* [TBR] So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ / Senegal
* The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna / Sierra Leone
* The Babylon Eye by Masha du Toit / South Africa
* Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor / Sudan
* The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell / Zambia
* The Wife's Tale: A Personal History / Ethiopia

Asia:

* Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie; The Kite Runner / Afghanistan
* Three Apples Fell From the Sky by Narine Agbaryan / Armenia
* Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang / China
* Noble House; Tai-Pan by James Clavell / Hong Kong
* The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy / India
* Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto / Indonesia
* The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi / Iran
* מחר ניסע ללונה פארק / Israel
* Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata / Japan
* The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz / Jordan
* Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa / Lebanon
* Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw / Malaysia (author)
* She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan / Mongolia
* Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie / Pakistan
* Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis / Palestine
* The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco / Philippines
* The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Saudi Arabia
* The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune / The Descent of Monsters / The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang / Singapore
* Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo / South Korea
* The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker / Syria
* (the wedding story I don't remember the name of) / Taiwan
* Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club by Shakina Nayfack / Thailand
* The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker / Troy/present-day Turkey
* The Bride Test by Helen Hoang / Vietnam

Europe:

* Setting Free the Bears by John Irving / Austria
* Slaughterhouse Five / The Sugared Game (KJ Charles) / Belgium (Flanders)
Belgium | Better Never than Late
* Murder on the Orient Express / Croatia/Yugoslavia
* Metamorphosis/The Trial (Kafka); Kavalier & Clay / Czechia
* The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak / Cyprus
* Hans Christian Anderson / Denmark
* Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles / England
* The Summer Book / Finland
* The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani / France
* Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi / Germany
* Circe by Madeline Miller / Greece
* The Door by Magda Szabo / Hungary
* Collection of Legends / Iceland
* The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue / Ireland
* Still Life by Sarah Winman / Italy
* The Power by Naomi Alderman / Moldova
* The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton / Netherlands
* The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave / Norway
* Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels;The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński / Poland
* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk / Poland/ Czech Republic
* Blindness / Portugal
* Night / Romania
* Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips / Russia/Siberia
* The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue / Spain
* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson / Sweden
* Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner / Switzerland
* Da Vinci Code / Vatican
* UK:
** The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer / Guernsey/Channel Islands
** The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark / Scotland
** Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones / Spear (Nicola Griffith) / Wales

North America:

* Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid / Antigua
* Hell Cats / Bahamas
* How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House / Barbados
* Little Fish by Casey Plett / Canada
* The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; Assata: An Autobiography / Cuba
* Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys / Dominica
* In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez / Dominican Republic
* The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson / Haiti
* The Mosquito Coast / Honduras
* Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson / Jamaica
* House of Rougeaux / Martinique
* When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo / Trinidad & Tobago

United States (per state):
* Alabama: Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
* Alaska: Call of the Wild
* Arizona: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
* Arkansas: With by Donald Harrington
* California: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
* Colorado: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
* Connecticut: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
* Delaware: [TBR] Beloved, The Book of Unknown Americans; And Never Let Her Go (true crime)
* Florida: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
* Georgia: Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel, Cold Sassy Tree
* Hawaii: Hawaii, Still Life with Woodpecker
* Idaho: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson; Angle of Repose; educ
* Illinois: The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton; Time Traveler's Wife
* Indiana: [TBR] We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
* Iowa: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
* Kansas: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* Kentucky: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
* Louisiana: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
* Maine: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
* Maryland: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Six of One)
* Massachusetts: Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
* Michigan: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
* Minnesota: Poisoned Pearls by Leah R. Cutter
[TBR] Monkeewrench, The Bohemian Flats, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir; War for the Oaks
* Mississippi: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty; Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
* Missouri: Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Glass Menagerie; [TBR] Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, Fifth Born
* Montana: English Creek by Ivan Doig
* Nebraska: My Ántonia by Willa Cather; The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
* Nevada: Nevada by Imogen Binnie
* New Hampshire: A Separate Peace by John Knowles
* New Jersey: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
* New Mexico: The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
* New York: Passing by Nella Larsen; Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin; Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
* North Carolina: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
* North Dakota: Priceless by Shannon Mayer
* Ohio: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
* Oklahoma: An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
* Oregon: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
* Pennsylvania: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, The Gambler's Grimoire by BR Kingsolver
* Rhode Island: She's Come Undone
* South Carolina: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
* South Dakota: [TBR] Deadwood mystery series. 1st book on Kindle (2.99) the rest free on Audible.
* Tennessee: In the Miro District, Before We Were Yours
* Texas: All the Pretty Horses
* Utah: Educated by Tara Westover
* Vermont: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
* Virginia: Cold Mountain
* Washington: Snow Falling on Cedars; Dora: A Head Case
* West Virginia: Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
* Wisconsin: A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
* Wyoming: Contact by Carl Sagan

* Washington DC: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda R. Hirshman
* Puerto Rico: Children of God / Mary Doria Russell

* Canada
** Quebec: With a Closed Fist: Growing Up in Canada's Toughest Neighborhood by Kathy Dobson
** Alberta: Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi
** Ontario: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
** Newfoundland: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
** Nunavut: Split Tooth / Tanya Tagaq
** Yukon: White Fang
** Prince Edward Island: Anne of Green Gables

Oceania:
* The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington / Australia
* Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower / Tamsyn Muir / New Zealand

Latin America:

* Our Share of Night / Argentina
* The Actual Star by Monica Byrne / Belize
* Lost in Darkness and Distance / Clara Madrigano / Brazil
* The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende / Chile
* Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel García Márquez / Colombia
* The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova / Ecuador
* Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia / Mexico
* Chariots of the Gods / Peru
* Cantoras / Uruguay

Antarctica:
* Chariots of the Gods

2021 Around the World


Current total: 42 / 40

Africa:
* The Babylon Eye by Masha du Toit / South Africa
* My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite / Nigeria
* A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark / Egypt (short)
* Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson / Malawi
* The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor / Mali
* Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America / Liberia
* Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston / Benin (Bantè)

Asia:
* Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo / South Korea
* A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum / Palestine
* מחר ניסע ללונה פארק / Israel
* Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata / Japan
* Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn / China
* A Blessing of Unicorns by Elizabeth Bear / India
* The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan / Afghanistan
* Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club by Shakina Nayfack / Thailand
* Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw / Malaysia (author, not plot)
* She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan / Mongolia
* The Actual Star by Monica Byrne / Iran (Persia)
* Silk Tether by Minal Khan / Pakistan
* The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco / Philippines (author)
* The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune / The Descent of Monsters / The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang / Singapore

Europe:
* Farthing by Jo Walton / England
* The Lost Queen by Signe Pike / Scotland
* The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue / Ireland
* Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips / Russia/Siberia
* Circe by Madeline Miller / Greece
* The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani / France
* The Power by Naomi Alderman / Moldova
* The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles / Belgium (Flanders)
* Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey / Germany
* The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee / Spain
* We Were Witches by Ariel Gore / Italy
* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk / Poland / Czech Republic

North America:
* Little Fish by Casey Plett / Canada
* House of Rougeaux / Martinique
* Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson / Jamaica
* United States: So very many, if I begin to run out of countries I'll add here by state :)

Oceania:
* The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington / Australia
* Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir / New Zealand

South & Latin America:
* Lost in Darkness and Distance by Clara Madrigano / Brazil
* Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia / Mexico
* The Actual Star by Monica Byrne / Belize