Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your nominations here for the March group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading a selection set in the Solomon Islands, a translated book from a female writer, and a memoir from a writer from Central America, the Caribbean, or Mexico.

Solomon Islands*:
Nominate a book set in Solomon Islands.
Solomon Islands Book List: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Solomon Islands Bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Translated female writer
Nominate a translated book from a Balto-Slavic language. Examples of Balto-Slavic languages include Belorussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Church Slavonic, Croatian, Czech, Kashubian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Polish, Pomeranian, Russian, Rusyn/Ruthenian, Serbian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, and Ukrainian.

World Memoirs
Nominate a memoir or autobiography from an author from Mexico, Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama), or the Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, the Virgin Islands, etc.). The book must be a non-fiction memoir and set in one of these countries/regions.

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: Previously Read Group Read Books

*For our featured world country selection (this month it is the Solomon Islands): If the book selected by popular vote is not written by a native or resident author of at least 1 year, the book written by a native/resident author with the highest votes will also be selected, resulting in two book selections for that country.

For the 'translated female writer' category, I nominate The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić.

I've been meaning to read a book by this author for some time :-)

I nominate “The Mexico Diaries”, written by Daniel Gair it takes place in a small, rural village in Mexico. The book portrays a mid life jump from the comforts of New England to an off grid lifestyle fraught with challenges.

I’ll nominate A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid for World Memoir.

And because I’m intrigued by the idea of a South Pacific mystery series, Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent for the Solomon Islands.

World Memoirs- From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women's Stories

For the Solomon Islands, I nominate Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons by Walter Lord.

For translated female author, I nominate With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Åsne Seierstad.

For translated female author from a Balto-Slavic language I nominate The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

For translated female writer, I nominate A Scrap of Time and Other Stories by Ida Fink. The translators won a PEN Award in 1988 for their translation.

Mome_Rath wrote: "And because I’m intrigued by the idea of a South Pacific mystery series, Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent for the Solomon Islands."

I’m on board with this one, so I’ll not nominate another.

For translated women: The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich. I read this last year and am still not over how devastatingly powerful this book was. It is an oral history of WW2 as told by the women who served on the front line for Soviet Russia without the Soviet propaganda or censorship. Brutal and honest, beautifully written.

For Solomon Islands, I nominate: Journeys In A Small Canoe: The Life And Times Of A Solomon Islander by Lloyd Maepeza Gina.

For World Memoirs, I nominate: Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.

Just for something different, I’ll nominate some poetry for translated female writers, with Poems New and Collected by Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska (a collection I loved) and Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, a poet on my to-read list.

Carol wrote: "Mome_Rath wrote: "And because I’m intrigued by the idea of a South Pacific mystery series, Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent for the Solomon Islands."

I’m on board with thi..."

Same here

Nominations are closed.