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Lynne, well hi there! I have been waiting with excitement for your list to see what books I have missed I will check out The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. I wish I could read The Angel of Grozny! I have enjoyed Seierstad's other books.
I am so glad you have joined. It wouldn't be the same without you.
You've got a good start. Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest sounds interesting.
Definitely looks good, so far. I'd be interested to find out your choices for China!
I'm getting there, slowly but surely. Next step, Palestine
Lynne, YAY, you can read the whole book. I am so happy that you have chosen Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood!Maybe you can read 22 Britannia Road first and tell me what you thought of it.?! :0)
You will absolutely adore The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies. Don't you mean this book for Hungary? The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland is absolutely wonderful but it is et in Afghanistan! Read that too!
You have many great books here, several of which I cannot get my hands on. I so want to read In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World.
We both have Gardens of Water, but I have it under Turkey!
I love your list!
Chrissie wrote: "Lynne, YAY, you can read the whole book. I am so happy that you have chosen Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood!Maybe you can read 22 Britannia Road firs..."
Oops. I always confuse those books!
Slowly but surely. Note that I did some editing of the earlier items. Next up Saudi Arabia..
The Thon of Lion City: A Memoir is now available on Kindle. Lovely. I must add that to my list! Thank you.
Finished, at least for now. I made more edits. I'm tempted to get started early.
Lynne, I am reading books now from countries that have too many on my list. Have you looked at the pages number of The Dark Side of Love. I know it will be hopeless for me to read with a magnifying glass, but I have it and want to read it. I will look at your books while I eat lunch :0)
Make sure you read The Syringa Tree, the novel, not the play:The Syringa Tree: The Play! I bought the wrong thing by mistake.
Lynne - where do you go to/how do you begin to make a list? I feel completely dense - I can't seem to get to the right place...Thanks!
Toni, you add a new topic called Toni's books!I cannot wait to see yours.
Looks like you figured it out. Do you need any questions answered? I'm excited to see your list? I'll try to talk laura into making a list !!
I get the new topic part, but where do you enter the books to show they are book titles, with the country headings?Thank you!
Time consuming but I had fun doing it and I want to go through others lists more carefully. I own most of the ones on my list so borrow away.
Lynne, Judy, Chrissie - thank you! I think I've got it (finally)!
Toni, it is so hard describing this stuff! Glad you figured it out. Lovely, another list to peruse.
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece has mixed ratings--you like it or you don't like it. I've never read it, but I'm a philhellene so it might be my cup of ouzo.
Perhaps i should read it while drinking ouzo.
Lynne, you might be one of two Lynnes. OR I had added some of your picks another day. Regardless, I updated your list with the master lists today. In case you go looking, I put Sicily under Italy, Hawaii/Alaska under USA, and "Kurds" under Turkey.Also, you have Israel listed twice, just so you know!
It looks like a good list, a lot of non-fiction compared to most, so I'm interested to hear your impressions of what you read!
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Books mentioned in this topic
Swallows of Kabul (other topics)The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland (other topics)
And She Was (other topics)
Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream (other topics)
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan (other topics)
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Swallows of Kabul
Storyteller's Daughter
Alaska
And She Was
Armenia
Family of Shadows
Bhutan
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan3
Bosnia
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Botswana
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
The Second Death of Goodluck TinubuCanada
Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and GreedChechnya
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
China
Ten Green Bottles
The Distant Land of My Father
A Thread of Sky
Croatia
The Tiger's Wife: A NovelCuba
Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood
Egypt
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
England
22 Britannia Road: A NovelThe Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth CenturyThe Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldEthopia
Sweetness in the BellyFrance
A Novel Bookstore
Pictures at an ExhibitionAnd the Show Went On
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French RevolutionFinland
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel
Germany
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni RiefenstahlGreece
Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
Guatemala
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Guernsey
The Soldier's WifeHawaii
Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown
Hungary
The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies
India
The Toss of a Lemon
Indonesia
Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two WorldsIran
The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
Iraq
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
Ireland
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
Japan
American Fuji
Kashmir
In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World
Kenya
Unbowed
Kurds
Gardens of Water: A Novel
Liberia
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Lithuania
Thanks to My Mother
North Korea
In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family
Pakistan
Kartography
Palestine
Mornings in JeninPoland
Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust
Russia
A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood
Saudi Arabia
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage
Sicily
The Almond Picker
Singapore
The Thorn of Lion City: A Memoir
South Africa
The Syringa Tree
South Korea
Please Look After Mom
Sri Lanka
Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
Sudan
Slave
Syria
The Dark Side of Love
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Tahiti
Tiare in Bloom: A Novel
Turkey
Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece andkey