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The monthly books for 2020 will be posted on this thread. Note: Group reads start on the 15th of the month.


January
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Migration: Cameroon/US)
The Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir (World Tour: Jordan)
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris (World Mystery: Saudi Arabia)
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane (Women in Translation: Mozambique)

February
Delirium by Laura Restrepo (Women in Translation: Colombia)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (World Tour: Afghanistan)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Migration: India/US)
Walpurgis Tide by Jógvan Isaksen (World Mystery: Faeroe Islands)

March
The Dry (World Mysteries Australia)
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (Tajikistan/former USSR)
Night Train to Lisbon (Migration: Switzerland to Portugal)
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel (Women in Translation: Canada)

April
Baba Dunja's Last Love (Women in Translation: Ukraine)
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Migration: Mexico/US)
Marshall Islands Legend and Stories (Marshall Islands: Author)
My Sister, the Serial Killer (World Mystery: Nigeria)
Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island (Marshall Islands: Setting)

May
Beka Lamb (World Tour: Belize)
The Bridges of Constantine (Women in Translation: Algeria)
The Devotion of Suspect X (World Mystery: Japan)
One More Year (Migration: Georgia/Russia/US)

June
Dead Reckoning (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Migration: Vietnam/US)
Spirits in the Dark (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
The Sound of Things Falling (World Mystery: Colombia)
Tears in Rain (Women in Translation: Oman)

July/August
Of Things (Liechtenstein)
Ru (Migration: Vietnam: Canada)
Stamping Grounds (Liechtenstein)
The Name of the Rose (World Mysteries: Italy)

September
Children Come by Ship (Malta)
My Story (Women in Translation: India)
Season of Migration to the North (Migration: Sudan)
The Transmigration of Bodies (World Mystery: Mexico)

October
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (World Mystery: Malaysia)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Migration: North Korea)
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld (Moldova/Transnistria)
Soviet Milk (Women in Translation: Latvia)
The Good Life Elsewhere (Moldova)

November
Beyond the Rice Fields (Madagascar)
Outsider in Amsterdam (World Mystery: Netherlands)
A Town Like Alice (Migration: Australia)
The Vegetarian (Women in Translation: Sout Korea)

December
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (Namibia)
Small Island (Migration: Jamaica to UK)
Smaller and Smaller Circles (World Mystery: Philippines)
The Wall (Women in Translation: Austria)

Hi Diane,
New to the group and excited to read atleast one of the 4 books you've lined up for February.
Please tell me how to interact with and contribute to group reads. :)
Thanks!
Neha