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A popular challenge borrowed and adapted from a few other places.

The aim is to read as many books as you chose (feel free to set your own goals) set in different countries from around the world, and tick them off. You can use the map below to help track your challenge, list countries and tick them off, or any other way you choose,

The only rules are:
1) All books have to be written by women.
2) The country must be the main setting (or joint main setting) for the book, not just somewhere a character makes a fleeting visit to.

Map!



Alternatively!
Read as many books as you chose written by women from around the world, marking their home countries on the map. This is a bit trickier to keep track of though - given things like dual nationality, cultural heritage, adopted nationality, exile and displacement, border changes, how people identify themselves etc. etc. etc.


To take part (however you fancy keeping track!) just set up your own thread in the 'Read Around the World' Challenge folder with your stated aim and log your progress there.

We also have a 'helping recommendations' thread to ask for help finding books set in countries you're struggling with, or for you to recommend your favourite finds to other participants.

Happy travelling!

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Final aim 1/80
2016 aim 1/6



UK - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Perfect for my year of goals!

I am aiming to read from 70 different countries ( minimum) this year, and 50% women authors, so this challenge is perfect.

My reading will be based on nationality/citizenship rather than book setting.

I'll post my books as I go ( my reading tends to be juggled around my challenges and best fits, rather than setting my sights on particular books), and I'll figure out how to add the map at some point (not very technical here!).

And I am off the blocks!



Read Women Around the World

France : The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras
UK : Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine BY Alison Weir
US: The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
New Zealand: Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Russia : A Withered Branch by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Australia : Milk and Honey by Elizabeth Jolley
Denmark: The Freezer Chest by Dorthe Nors
Canada: The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Egypt: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
Japan : Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Netherlands: books read: 5, favorite: De grote zaal by Jacoba van Velde
Belgium: books read: 2, favorite: Vele hemels boven de zevende by Griet Op de Beeck
Japan: The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura
Canada: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
United States: books read: 3, favorite: Jazz by Toni Morrison
Morocco: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi
Suriname: De wereld heeft gezicht verloren by Astrid Roemer
Indonesia: Breaking Barriers: Portraits of Inspiring Chinese-Indonesian Women by Aimee Dawis
Italy: Those Who Leave and Those Whostayby Elena Ferrante
Belarus: War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich

(I think I need to read more from big countries. All those tiny ones don't really add much progress on that map.... ;) )

9/9 update: I'm planning to read some more authors from South-America (especially Clarice Lispector is high on my to-read list) and I'm still on the look-out for an interesting author from China (suggestions?)

Interesting list! For Australia, I love Kate Grenville's The Secret River. For Germany, Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River. And for Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun.

Wendy wrote: "Interesting list! For Australia, I love Kate Grenville's The Secret River. For Germany, Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River. And for Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun."

I can second Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River, especially, and also Kate Grenville's The Secret River. I have, but have not read Half of a Yellow Sun. I read her Purple Hibiscus and was sort of less than impressed with her prose.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Wendy wrote: "Interesting list! For Australia, I love Kate Grenville's The Secret River. For Germany, Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River. And for Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yell..."

Oooh, both those recommendations do look pretty interesting (have already read Half of a Yellow Sun and enjoyed it). Unfortunately the Hegi seems to be out of print in the UK, but I could probably find it through a library system or get it second hand.

Louise wrote: "Unfortunately the Hegi seems to be out of print in the UK, but I could probably find it through a library system or get it second hand."

I got my copy a few years back at our annual library book sale. If you find yourself with a moment to poke around in a used book shop, keep your eye out for it. Trudy, the central character, is one of my most memorable characters. She is both heroine and anti-heroine.

Ajk77 wrote: "Do you happen to know what the Hegi original title was?
Steine des Flusses?"

Hegi writes in English. However, here is one edition in German:
/book/show/4...

Finding the list for the Canadian thread, I see this. Don't know if it helps anyone.

Okay I'm so ready to fill in this map. I have always been interested in this challenge, and now to combine it with female authors will be doubly pleasing to me :)
Goal: 28/80

2015:
1. Cambodia - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, by Loung Ung
2. China (Tibet) - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet, by Xinran
3. United Kingdom - How to Build a Girl, by Caitlin Moran
4. Finland - The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson
5. Democratic Republic of the Congo (The Belgian Congo) - The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
6. The United States - The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
7. The Czech Republic - The Small Backs of Children, by Lidia Yuknavitch

2016:
8. Pakistan - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai
9. Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Thomas) - The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman
10. France - The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
11. Nigeria (Biafra) - Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12. Japan - Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
13. Iran - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
14. Ireland - Asking For It, byLouise O'Neill

2017:
15. Guernsey - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
16. India - The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
17. Russia - The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
18. North Korea - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
19. Argentina - Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez

2018
20. Norway - Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
21. Brazil - The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
22. Syria - We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
23. Poland - The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman *updated with native author @33.

2019
23. Mexico - Umami by Laia Jufresa
24. New Zealand - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
25. Sudan - A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
26. Sri Lanka - Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
27. South Korea - Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook

2020
28. Dominican Republic - Tentacle by Rita Indiana
29. Germany - Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
30. Thailand - Bright by Duanwad Pimwana
31. Oman - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
32. Poland - Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
33. Canada - Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
34. Chile - Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

2016

1. Belgium - Memórias de Adriano, by Marguerite Yourcenar
2. France - A Vida Material, by Marguerite Duras
3. Mexico - Íntimas suculências: Tratrado filosófico de cozinha, by Laura Esquivel
4. New Zeland - A Torre de Espinhos, by Juliet Marillier
5. Portugal - Ponto Pé de Flor, by Clara Pinto Correia
6. United Kingdom - Ema, by Jane Austen
7. United States - Os Ladrões de Cisnes, by Elizabeth Kostova

2017 - the plan:

1. Brazil - Laços de Família, by Clarice Lispector - READ
2. Chile - Eva Luna, by Isabel Allende - READ
3. France - Moderato Cantabile, by Marguerite Duras- READ
4. Germany - O Mundo Em Que Vivi, by Ilse Losa - READ
5. New Zeland - Den of Wolves, by Juliet Marillier
6. Portugal - A Costa dos Murmúrios, by Lídia Jorge - READ
7. Sweden - A Maravilhosa Viagem de Nils Holgersson Através da Suécia, by Selma Lagerlöf
8. United Kingdom - O professor, by Charlotte Brontë - READ

I have to expand my readings...

Hello, this is my list of women writers from all over the world for 2016:




1. Belgium - Le Crime du comte Neville by Amélie Nothomb
2. England - Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
3. US - The Girls by Emma Cline
4. Canada - Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
5. France - Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

The plan for 2017 is the following:

1. England - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
2. US - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
3. Italy - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
4. France - le bal by IRENE NEMIROVSKI 1903-1942

Like Andreia, I need to expand my readings and knowledge on female authors from all over the world... My problem is that I don't read translated books, I only read books in their original language so it's going to make things a bit more complicated...

There is now an actual challenge for this on the main page of the group: here to enter.

It's an ongoing rather than yearly challenge, backdated from Jan 2015 (as the group was founded in 2015) and has the longest possible endnote goodreads will let me put in. So just pick a shelf name for every book you want to count and, as long as it has a read date from 2015 onwards, it will appear in your count.

Happy reading!

Since this isn't yearly, I decided to enter the challenge and said I wanted to read 2000 books for it. I set it high because I expect to have more time for reading after I retire.

For 2017 ONLY

19/80
Final Aim 80


Australia - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
England - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Ireland - Asking For It by Louise O'Neill
France - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah *Not a native writer, may be replaced
Germany - The Secret Healer by Ellin Carsta
Nigeria - The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
United States - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
-----------------------------2017-------------------------------------
Ghana - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Korea - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Iceland - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent *Not a native writer, may be replaced
Lebanon - The Servant by Fatima Sharafeddine
Japan - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Phillipines - In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
Netherlands - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton *Not a native writer, may be replaced
Russia - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden *Not a native writer, may be replaced
Denmark - The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl
Sweden - The Missing by Caroline Eriksson
----------------------------2018------------------------------------------
Taiwan - An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
Greece - The House by the River by Lena Manta

1 Australia - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

2 United States (New Jersey and NYC) - Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart

3 Canada - Home to Woefield by Susan Juby

4 England - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

5 Nigeria - The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin

6 Thailand - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I' by Anna Harriette Leonowens

7. Mexico and Russia (both significant, not the only countries in the book, but at least one has already been done, and I am not going to do more than 2 for this one). - Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch

8. Ireland In the Woods by Tana French

9. Belgium (setting of most of it) Villette by Charlotte Brontë

So far I've read:

1)Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal--France
2)Stolen Beautyby Laurie Lico Albanese --Austria

I'm identifying the first woman-authored book I read from each country, each year, starting in 2015.

2015:

1. United States - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
2. Great Britain - Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

2016:
3. Australia - Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
4. Norway - Eva's Eye by Karin Fossum
5. China (Tibet) - Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart*
6. Iceland - I Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
7. Sudan - The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
8. India - The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter*
9. Singapore - Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu
10. Lebanon - The Servant by Fatima Sharafeddine
11. Canada - The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan
12. Russia - Despite The Falling Snow by Shamim Sarif
13. Iran - The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
14. Denmark - Death of a Nightingale by Lene Kaaberbøl
15. Italy - Siracusa by Delia Ephron*
16. United States - A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
17. United Kingdom - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

2017

18. Sweden - Who Watcheth by Helene Tursten
19. Great Britain - Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
20. United States - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
21. Greece - A Separation by Katie Kitamura*
22. Peru - Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
23. Egypt - In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
24. India -Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
25. Scotland - The Long Drop by Denise Mina
26. Japan - Confessions by Kanae Minato
27. Indonesia -The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût
28. Serbia - The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto*
29. Iran and Holland -- Refuge by Dina Nayeri
30. South Africa -What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons*
31. Uzbekistan - A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori*
32. Lebanon - The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh
33. Uruguay - The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi
34. Germany -- Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
35. Poland -- Where the Devil Can't Go by Anya Lipska
36. Israel -- Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
37. Saudi Arabia -- Kingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris*
38. Iceland -- The Legacy: A Thriller by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

*written by non-native authors

Final aim: 150
I try to pick books that are set in a particular country and written by a woman born or living in this country...


2015:
1) United Kingdom: Evil Games by Angela Marsons
2) USA: Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
3) Germany: Dies ist kein Liebeslied by Karen Duve
4) Italy: Die Frau im Mond by Milena Agus
5) Egypt: A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Nawal El-Saadawi
2016:
6) France: A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
7) Canada: Still Life by Louise Penny
8) Denmark: Grüner Schnee by Sara Blaedel
9) Israel: Ruhige Zeiten. by Lizzie Doron
10) Ivory Coast: Aya by Marguerite Abouet
11) Nigeria: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12) Ireland: Nothing Tastes As Good by Claire Hennessy
13) Iran: Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
14) Japan: The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
15: Ukraine: Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich
16) New Zealand: Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw
2017:
17) Finland: The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
18) Guernsey, United Kingdom: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
19) Poland: Auf Wiedersehen. Bis morgen. by Wisława Szymborska
20) Australia: The Dry by Jane Harper
21) Croatia: Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugrešić
2018:
22) South Africa: Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew

Around the World 2017
America: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (Feb 2017)
England: Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella (Jan 2017)

I have withdrawn from this challenge because stats appears to be broken for me and I've already had too much of a hassle trying to get the challenge widget to show my reads. I'm sorry, but I'm disinclined toward challenges and want them to be as little hassle as possible if I'm going to participate in them.

Shomeret wrote: "I have withdrawn from this challenge because stats appears to be broken for me and I've already had too much of a hassle trying to get the challenge widget to show my reads. I'm sorry, but I'm disi..."

Hi Shomeret,

I have sent you a message to try and address some of the problems you may be having. I hope that it helps, but either way these challenges are completely optional and are here for fun and motivational reading and should not be a hassle to you. Please feel free to message me if you have an issue I didn't address but do not feel pressured to continue trying if it is bothersome.

How do you get a different colour from blue for the countries read?

Just above the country selection list there is a blue box next to "visited" if you click on that a color wheel comes up and you can select any color you like

Anita wrote: "Just above the country selection list there is a blue box next to "visited" if you click on that a color wheel comes up and you can select any color you like"

Thanks!

I'm gonna give 50 books a try, doing it by the female author's country of birth, backdating to Jan 2015.


Progress 39/50

Antigua & Barbuda The Politics of Black Women's Hair by Althea Prince
Australia The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Cambodia Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner
Canada Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Cayman Islands The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Chile The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
China Language by Xiaolu Guo
Dominica Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Equatorial Guinea La Bastarda: A Novel by Trifonia Melibea Obono
Finland Letters from Klara by Tove Jansson
France No And Me by Delphine de Vigan
Ghana The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
IranPersepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Ireland Room by Emma Donoghue
India The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Israel Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Italy Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli
JamaicaEverything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Japan Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Korea (Democratic People's Republic Of) In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
Korea (Republic of) Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin
Lebanon Gender and Disability: Women's Experiences in the Middle East by Lina Abu-Habib
Malaysia The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies
Mexico The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
New Zealand Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles
Nigeria Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Norway Women in Battle by Marta Breen
Pakistan I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Poland Legends of Old Cracow by Ewa Basiura
Russia Anthem by Ayn Rand
Rwanda The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
Singapore Suicide Club by Rachel Heng, 15th Jul 18
Spain Frida Kahlo by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, 16th Sep 18
Sweden The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg, 8th Jun 19
Switzerland Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 11th Jan 19
Trinidad & Tobago Golden Child by Claire Adam, 20th Mar 20
United Kingdom The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse
United States To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Vietnam The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, 3rd Aug 20

Isabelle wrote: "Hello, this is my list of women writers from all over the world for 2016:

I also like to read the books in their original language, but I only can read in portuguese, spanish, french, italian, and english, so I read some translations... And it's more difficult to read in other languages, it takes me more time to read the books...

Isabelle, how can you manage to do that?



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1. Belgium - Le Crime du comte Neville by [author:Amélie Nothomb|..."

Total: 11
2019 goal: 15

France: Garou by Leonie Swann
Indonesia: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ireland: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Italy: Blood And Gold by Anne Rice
Japan: Fujisan by Randy Taguchi
Korea (North): Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Korea (South/North): The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim
Martinique: Dark Shadows: Angélique's Descent by Lara Parker
Sweden: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
United Kingdom: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
USA: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

I have probably read a lot more (I remember reading book series by female authors from Germany and Russia as a kid), but that was so long ago, I won't count it.

Just to help folks find books -- sharing this article: on 12 novels by women from around the world. Enjoy!

Nina wrote: "Just to help folks find books -- sharing this article: on 12 novels by women from around the world. Enjoy!"

Nina, thanks for sharing the article. It's very helpful. I've added a couple of the books I haven't read yet to my TBR.

My aim: 196 books (i.e., read one book from every country)

Completed: 19/196

1. Australia: The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
2. Egypt: Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat
3. England: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Canada: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
5. Italy: Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
6. Iran: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
7. Japan: Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
8. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
9. Myanmar: အ�ě�ĭ�ĕ��� by မ�ą�Ĕ�Ĺ�Ē���
10. Turkey: Love in Exile by Ayşe Kulin
11. Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
12. Singapore: These Foolish Things & Other Stories by Yeo Wei Wei
13. South Korea: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
14. Spain: Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
15. Sri Lanka: Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
16. Syria: Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek
17. USA: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
18. Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono
19. Uganda: Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War by Goretti Kyomuhendo

My Rules
1. Only fiction and narrative poems (maybe semi-fictional autobiography too)
2. I only count people who are born and spent at least spend some of their childhood in the country (e.g., A book by a Burmese-American who is born in the US wouldn't be counted for a book set in Myanmar)
3. No books before 1800

*Where possible, I try to read indigenous and/or minority voices inside a country

Daung wrote: "My aim: 196 books (i.e., read one book from every country)

1. Australia: The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
2. Egypt: [book:Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories..."


A very cool goal and list. I’m curious: what’s the motivation behind your last personal rule?

Carol wrote: "Daung wrote: "My aim: 196 books (i.e., read one book from every country)

1. Australia: The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
2. Egypt: [book:Distant View of a Minaret and..."

I don't know which rule you are referring to, so I gave an explanation for both.

I was trying to research books written by women in Argentina, and thought, maybe it will be cool to read a book by an indigenous author since I rarely read books by indigenous writers. Then, I found out that it was very difficult to find a book by an indigenous writer in Argentina - let alone one written by a woman. There are at least 32 indigenous groups in Argentina listed on Wikipedia, and the total indigenous population is 955, 032. Yet, I couldn't find a single book by an indigenous woman writer. That makes me realize that in a country, some voices will be overrepresented and other voices will be underrepresented. What is true in Argentina is true in my country too. My country is highly multiethnic but I have never read a book written by an person from a minority ethnic group representing their experiences. Mainstream bookstores publish books written only in Burmese, and even though I am Rakhine-Burmese, I have never read a book set in Rakhine. The goal of reading books set in different countries is to diversify my reading as much as possible and listen to voices that are rarely heard. Even the goal of reading books by (any) women itself is a goal to read a voice that is not commonly heard, considering the representation of women in the publishing industry. So if I am going to diversify books by country, why not diversify books within countries too? Of course, in some cases, it would not be possible, like in Argentina.

I prefer not to read books before 1800 because I want to focus on a relatively modern experience.

9 Sudanese Women Writers Breaking New Ground

5 Books From African (Women) Authors & Publishers To Read During #ReadAfricaWeek (or any week)

Story�� wrote: "5 Books From African (Women) Authors & Publishers To Read During #ReadAfricaWeek (or any week)

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How cool! Thanks for sharing this list and the prior one re Sudan, which I’d missed.

You're welcome. I hope this is the right place to share them?

I want to buy all 5 of the ones on the Bustle list just for the lucious covers alone.

Story�� wrote: "You're welcome. I hope this is the right place to share them?

I want to buy all 5 of the ones on the Bustle list just for the lucious covers alone."

Those Bustle covers, I agree, are awesome.

This is a fine place to share them. Since it's a 2019 challenge thread, though, it might go dormant and unread at the end of the month.

An alternative is this thread:

/topic/show/...

Wherever you choose to share these tips and resources, we all thank you.

Ah, good. Thanks for letting me know about the other thread.

After some mod discussion we are trialing moving the Read Around the World Challenge Ito the same format as the current '2020 Women in Translation' challenge - that is dedicating a whole folder to it so that people can track their process in individual threads and share resources in communal discussion threads.

This thread will remain up (but locked) as an intro to the challenge, but I encourage anyone participating to create their own thread which they can update as they go.