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Fly the PBT Skies:

1) Carson City, Nevada, US to South Africa - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
2) South Africa to Hawaii - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
3) Hawaii to Botswana - Mating by Norman Rush
4) Botswana to Alaska - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
5) Alaska to Antarctica - At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
6) Antarctica to Iceland - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
7) Iceland to Western Australia - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
8) Western Australia to Martinique - American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
9) Martinique to Bali, Indonesia - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
10) Bali, Indonesia to Venezuela - Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos
11) Venezuela to Java - Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff
12) Java to Las Vegas - Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich

Monthly Tag (Jan - June)

January - Mental Health
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - completed 1/3/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Ballroom by Anna Hope - completed 1/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell - completed 1/9/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane - completed 1/11/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love by Zack McDermott - completed 1/14/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig - completed 1/15/21 - My Review

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green - completed 1/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon - completed 1/21/21 - 2 stars - My Review

Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee - completed 1/26/21 - 5 stars - My Review

January - Historical Fiction
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - completed 1/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - completed 1/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton - completed 1/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish - completed 1/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić - completed 1/24/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Dubliners by James Joyce - completed 1/30/21 - 4 stars - My Review

To Siberia by Per Petterson - completed 1/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

February - Family Drama
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - completed 2/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - completed 2/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review

War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans - completed 2/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante - completed 2/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review

So Much Blue by Percival Everett - completed 2/17/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren - completed 2/24/21 - 2 stars - My Review

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza - completed 2/26/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - completed 2/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review

March - Africa
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - completed 3/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Ethiopia)

Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - completed 3/5/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Nigeria)

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard - completed 3/12/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Mozambique)

The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna - completed 3/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Sierra Leone)

An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson - completed 3/21/21 - 5 stars - My Review (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia)

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - completed 3/23/21 - My Review (Nigeria)

The Time In Between by María Dueñas - completed 3/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Morocco)

Mating by Norman Rush - completed 3/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Botswana)

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor - completed 3/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Ghana)

April - Gothic
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - completed 4/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - completed 4/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - completed 4/18/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Alena by Rachel Pastan - completed 4/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 4 stars - completed 4/22/21 - My Review

Madam by Phoebe Wynne - completed 4/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

May - Short Stories
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 5/7/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - completed 5/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - completed 5/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - completed 5/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - completed 5/23/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol - completed 5/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - completed 5/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

June - Beach Reads
Less by Andrew Sean Greer - completed 6/1/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - completed 6/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan - completed 6/14/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Camino Island by John Grisham - completed 6/23/21 - 2 stars - My Review

A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy - completed 6/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever by Tim Wendel - completed 6/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Monthly Tag

July - Regency

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - completed 7/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill by Julie Klassen - completed 7/13/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy A. Adkins - completed 7/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Nelson's Purse by Martyn Downer - completed 7/16/21 - 5 stars - My Review

August - Cultural

Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique - completed 8/5/21 - 4 stars - My Review (US Virgin Islands)

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam - completed 8/7/21 - 5 stars - My Review (Sri Lanka)

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota - completed 8/8/21 - 4 stars - My Review (India)

The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela - completed 8/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Mexico)

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie - completed 8/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review (India - Kashmir)

Missing by Thomas Hauser - completed 8/11/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Chile)

The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar - 4 stars - My Review (Libya)

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - completed 8/13/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Dominican Republic)

The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna - completed 8/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Croatia)

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri - completed 8/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review (India)

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - completed 8/17/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Cyprus)

Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh - completed 8/20/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Sundarbans - India/Bangladesh)

The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene - completed 8/21/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Argentina)

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - completed 8/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Sweden)

The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami - completed 8/25/21 - 5 stars - My Review (Morocco, Spain, North America - what is now the US and Mexico)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste - completed 8/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Ethiopia)

Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera - completed 8/27/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Sri Lanka)

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson - completed 8/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review (Martinique, Burkina Faso)

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman - completed 8/30/21 - 3 stars - My Review (Sweden)

September - Made Me Cry

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan - completed 9/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede - completed 9/10/21 - 3 stars - My Review

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones - completed 9/16/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle by Laura Coleman - completed 9/20/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - completed 9/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Bewilderment by Richard Powers - completed 9/25/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - completed 9/26/21 - 4 stars - My Review

October - Feminist

I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro - completed 10/3/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Matrix by Lauren Groff - completed 10/9/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - completed 10/12/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - completed 10/15/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood - completed 10/16/21 - 4 stars - My Review

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave - completed 10/21/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez - completed 10/22/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan - completed 10/29/21 - 4 stars - My Review

November - First in a Series

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin - completed 11/2/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs - completed 11/24/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The Expats by Chris Pavone - completed 11/25/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Deadline in Athens: An Inspector Costas Haritos Mystery by Petros Markaris - completed 11/28/21 - 4 stars - My Review

December - Books About Books

Unless by Carol Shields - completed 12/1/21 - 5 stars - My Review

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - completed 12/2/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Black Wave by Michelle Tea - completed 12/4/21 - 3 stars - My Review

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe - completed 12/6/21 - 4 stars - My Review

Silverview by John le Carré - completed 12/28/21 - 3 stars - My Review

Fall Flurries

October -- Halloween, scary, Canadian Thanksgiving, autumn setting, etc.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - completed 10/6/21 - 5 stars - My Review
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman - completed 10/31/21 - 4 stars - My Review

November -- Thanksgiving, Veterans' Day, Native American themed, etc.
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw - completed 11/10/21 - 4 stars - My Review

December -- Christmas, Hanukkah, winter themed, etc.
The Noel Diary: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans - completed 12/8/21 - 3 stars - My Review

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