Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Please post your nominations here for our March books of the month. We will be "traveling to" Morocco for our world book, and Indiana for our US state book. Books nominated need to be all or mostly set in either location to be accepted.

Here are some lists to get you started for ideas. Books do not need to be present on these lists to be nominated.

Morocco:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

Indiana:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

Although I am still very long way to go before tackling these destinations, I would read / nominate for Morocco The Sheltering Sky and for Indiana So Cold the River.

IN: The Girl in the Tangerine ScarfMorocco:Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

Naked Lunch for Morocco

For Morocco: Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

Morocco: I vote for Tony Ardizzone'sLarabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco

Indiana Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land

For Morocco- Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence

For Morocco: Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women

I would like to nominate:

The Sheltering Sky for Morocco

and The Fault in Our Stars for Indiana.

I would also like to read The Sheltering Sky for Morocco.

For Indiana: A Girl of the Limberlost
For Morocco: The Sand Child

For Morocco I can recommend This Blinding Absence of Light. Other books I've read are The Storyteller of Marrakesh and The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca. They were not as good, but a lot easier to read as the subject was not quite so depressing.

For Morocco: Sweetness in the Belly

Andrea, I read Girl of the Limberlost this year and loved it! I'm so happy to find that you and Biblioglobal know of it and recommend it - me too.

For Morocco: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

For Morocco, I nominate The Serpent's Daughter by Suzanne Arruda. I've read the first 2 books in the series, and they are exceptional mysteries playing in Africa just after WWII. Before I even finished the first one, I started buying the other books in the series.

For Indiana, Death in Lacquer Red by Jeanne M. Dams has been on my TBR list, so I would like read that one.

For Indiana:
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana by Haven Kimmel

For Morocco:
Camilla Gibb's Sweetness in the Belly

Indiana: Anything by Haven Kimmel

Morocco: The Caliph's House or In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah

Indiana: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Morocco: Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

Great nominations so far! Keep them coming!

For Indiana, I can nominate the first book in a cozy mystery series.
Mum's the Word by Kate Collins

Also, for Indiana, young adult -
Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani