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 3 books:
1) a selection set in Liberia
2) an award-winning book set in Australia or Oceania
3) a BTBA (Best Translated Book Award) winning or nominated book set outside of the US or the UK

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

Award-Winning Books
Here is a ink to various book awards: https://www.goodreads.com/award
1) Nominate an award-winning book set anywhere in Australia or Oceania.
2) Nominate a BTBA-winning or nominated book set outside of the US or the UK. Can be fiction or non-fiction. Here is the list to the winners and nominees: https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/...

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

* If the book winning the popular vote is not written by a native or resident author, the book written by a native or resident author with the highest votes will also be selected
**Reminder: Do not nominate your own books or books written by your friends

I nominate the following books:

Liberia: Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Award-winning book set anywhere in Australia or Oceania: The Bone People (set in New Zealand)
BTBA-winning or nominated book: Beyond the Rice Fields (set in Madagascar)

BTBA-winning or nominated book: A General Theory of Oblivion by J. E. Agualusa (set in Angola, shortlisted in 2016).

For BTBA, I'd like to nominate Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

a book set in Liberia: She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

BTBA - winning or nominated book: Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso (set in Brasil, best translated book award from fiction in 2017)

an award book set in Australia: Lost Voices by Christopher J. Koch

Lots of good suggestions for BTBA, so I won’t add to the list.

For award-winning from Australia/Oceania, I’ll propose Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (winner of the Miles Franklin award in 1992).

For Liberia I was going to nominate Murder in the Cassava Patch by Bai T. Moore, since it a classic that is supposedly widely read in Liberian high schools, but it seems to be out of print. I did find the novella has been uploaded to the Internet, though (links via its Wikipedia page; the TLC Africa site is apparently now tlcafrica2).

an award-winning book set in Australia or Oceania
-> The Lost Man (Barry Award for Best Novel 2020 and others; set in Australia)

a BTBA (Best Translated Book Award) winning or nominated book set outside of the US or the UK
-> Horses of God (BTBA nominee 2014; set in Morocco)

(and I second She Would Be King for Liberia)

Simone wrote: "I nominate the following books:

Liberia: Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Award-winning book set anywhere in Australia or Oceania: [book:The Bon..."

Both The Bone People and Beyond the Rice Fields are previous group reads. I am including the Bone People since it has been a while since we read it. The other is too recent.