Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

I am finally admitting to being an addict! My reading has been all over the map so I am hoping this will at least organize my book addiction.

Country of Origin Challenge
January 1, 2019 till December 31, 2019

Number of books minimum 12

Each month I will read a book (hopefully romance) by an author from one of the following countries/commonwealths. I mainly read US, UK, NZ or Aussie authors and need to think more globally in my selections.

📚📚Total Books Read 9 /12📚📚
💕💕Number of books with romance 4 / 7💕💕


✔️Algeria 🇩🇿 The Golden Ass by Apuleius 1/24/19 no real romance but interesting farce

Angola 🇦🇴
Argentina 🇦🇷 Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
Benin 🇧🇯 Snares Without End by Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
✔️Brazil 🇧🇷 Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira💖3/25/19 Amazing read about one maternal line of women from 1500 to 2000 in Brazil, some love marriages some not but amazing book 💕
Chile 🇨🇱 By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
Chile 🇨🇱 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
China 🇨🇳 The Green Phoenix: A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang by Alice Poon💖3/2/19 not listed as a romance and while being a sweeping history of 17th century China it shows the love one woman has for her husband, lover, children and grand children 💕
Colombia 🇨🇴 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
✔️Denmark 🇩🇰 Only One Life by Sara Blaedel💖2/16/19 Mystery but MC has a little sexy time with other detective, a series, this book ends with MC and love interest planning a vacation so next book 💕 maybe.

France 🇫🇷 Story of O by Pauline Réage
France 🇫🇷 Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
France 🇫🇷 Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
Greece 🇬🇷 The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis
Guadeloupe 🇬🇵 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
Iceland 🇮🇸 Independent People by Halldór Kiljan Laxness
✔️Indonesia 🇮🇩 The Question of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak💖2/2/19 a moving love story set during a time of upheaval in Indonesia 💕

✔️Italy 🇮🇹 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 💖2/11/19 Not a romance but a classic I have never read, didn’t live up to the hype
✔️Japan 🇯🇵 Norwegian Wood💖3/6/19 a coming of age love story set in Tokyo, sad but well written 💕

Nigeria 🇳🇬
Pakistan 🇵🇰 The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
Russia 🇷🇺
✔️South Africa 🇿🇦 Mating Birds by Lewis Nkosi beautiful writing, sad knowing the ending, more forbidden lust and betrayal.
Sweden 🇸🇪
✔️Turkey 🇹🇷 The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar💖2/13/19 interesting look at east meets west along with family obligations and arranged marriages

Turkey 🇹🇷 The Gaze by Elif Shafak

I keep finding more books so far few are romances, but Story of O this month.

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Pass the parcel week 1 is done ✅

I finished Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira

Not classified as romance it follows one line of female descendants from 1500 to 2000 in Brazil. Amazing writing that looks at the melting pot of Brazil. It includes all the political turmoil, brutality and slavery but it is written in a way that allows you to focus on the woman’s views in each section. You see traits move in and out of the family line, bravery, depression, hatred, vanity, love, loss....and so much more

So far my best read in 2019.