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The monthly books for 2019 will be posted on this thread. Note: Group reads start on the 15th of the month.


January
A Pattern of Islands by Arthur Grimble (World memoir - Kiribati)
One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Women in translation - Israel)
The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan)
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway (World Memoir - Australia)

February
Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay (Nepal)
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (World Memoir - Immigrant Experience)
The Question of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak (Women in Translation: Indonesia)
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (Nepal)

March
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof (World Memoirs - Caribbean)
Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent (Solomon Islands)
Journeys in a Small Canoe: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islander by Lloyd Maepeza Gina (Solomon Islands)
The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Women in Translation - Russia)

April
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir by Fethiye Çetin (World Memoirs: Turkey)
The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart (Women in Translation - Guadeloupe)
The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)

May
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic)
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi (World Memoir - Russia & Ukraine)
My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen (Women in Translation - Finland)

June
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild (Belgium/Congo DRC)
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pritam (Women in Translation - India)
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad (World Memoir - Iraq/Kurdistan)
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (Belgium)

July
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang (Women in Translation - South Korea)
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa (World Memoir - North Korea)

August
The Bear Whispers to Me by Chang Ying-Tai (Women in Translation - Taiwan)
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic (World Memoirs - Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greece)

September
The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes (World Memoirs - Colombia)
Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić (Women in Translation - Croatia)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone)

October
Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja (Togo)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Women in Translation - Chile)
The Shadow of Things to Come by Kossi Efoui (Togo)
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him (World Memoirs - Cambodia)

November
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Women in Translation: Turkey)
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall (World Memoirs: Tanzania)
Small Country by Gaël Faye (Burundi)

December
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif(Saudi Arabia)
Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabó (Women in Translation: Hungary)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (World Memoir: Iran)