Around the World discussion

I finally updated my master around the world list in Google Drive, so copying only the 2017 titles here.

Antartica
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby (Read 2017)

Argentina
August by Romina Paula (Read 2017)
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (Read 2017)
Fever Dreams by Samanta Schweblin (Read 2017)
Ema, the Captive by Cesar Aira (Read 2017)

Armenia
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan (Read 2017)

Australia

Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser (Read 2017)
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (Read 2017)
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton (Read 2017)


Bulgaria
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova (Read 2017)


China

One Child by Mei Fong (Read 2017)



Colombia
Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee (Read 2017)

Cuba
Havana by Mark Kurlansky (Read 2017)


Czech*
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (Read 2017)


Denmark

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors (Read 2017)


Ecuador
Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira Lee (Read 2017)



Eritrea
Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir by Dawit Gebremichael Habte (Read 2017)


France

The Madeleine Project by Clara Beaudoux (Read 2017)
Unreconciled: Poems by Michel Houellebecq (Read 2017)


Germany
The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz (Read 2017)

Greece
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osbourne (Read 2017)

Greenland
Daughter of a Thousand Years by Amalia Carosella (Read 2017)



Haiti

Adriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre (Read 2017)
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (Read 2017)


India

State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee (Read 2017)
Before We Meet the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Read 2017)

Iran/Persia

The Temporary Bride by Jennifer Klinec (Read 2017)


Israel
Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua (Read 2017)

Italy

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (read 2017)
Ties by Domenico Starnone (Read 2017)
Ernesto by Umberto Saba (Read 2017)


Jamaica

Augustown by Kei Miller (Read 2017)

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Read 2017)
All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead (Read 2017)


Japan

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (Read 2017)
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yuki Ogawa (Read 2017)
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (Read 2017)
Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Stories by Yuichi Seirai (Read 2017)

Korea-South
Thought Flowers Fall I Have Never Forgotten You by Jeong Ho-seung (Read 2017)


Mauritius
Eve, Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi (Read 2017)

Nigeria
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Read 2017)

Norway
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgard (Read 2017)


Russia

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Read 2017)

Slovakia
Seeing People Off by Jana Benova (Read 2017)

Somalia
Adua by Igiaba Scego (Read 2017)


South Africa
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Read 2017)
Slipping: Essays by Lauren Beukes (Read 2017)



Sri Lanka

Wave by Sonya Deraniyagala (Read 2017)

Switzerland
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain (Read 2017)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Read 2017)

Syria
No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa (Read 2017)

Taiwan
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (Read 2017)


Ukraine

Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg (Read 2017)


Zambia
A Cowrie of Hope by Binwell Sinyangwe (Read 2017)

Nice list! How was Skylark Farm? I have it on my list to read this year.

Lilisa wrote: "Nice list! How was Skylark Farm? I have it on my list to read this year."

Here is my review. I gave it three stars.

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "Nice list! How was Skylark Farm? I have it on my list to read this year."

Here is my review. I gave it three stars."

Thanks Jenny - hmm, I may move it further down my list. Have you read Orhan's Inheritance? It's a good one.

Lilisa wrote: "Have you read Orhan's Inheritance? It's a good one. "
I haven't! It looks good. It also looks like a book my book club would like, so I'm putting it on the list for the possibilities for next year. Thanks!

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "Have you read Orhan's Inheritance? It's a good one. "
I haven't! It looks good. It also looks like a book my book club would like, so I'm putting it on the list for the possibilities..."

Hope you enjoy it!