Nominate Our August Books of the Month

[Diane , Armchair Tour Guide]

Post your nominations here for the August group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading books set in Guinea, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, and West India. Here are our group lists to get you started:

Guinea:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region of France:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(please scroll down to the "Books Set in Nord-Pas-de-Calais" heading - Post 55).

West India:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... (Scroll down to Books set in West India" heading - Post 50)

Books do not need to be present on these lists to be nominated. Authors, please do not nominate your own books.

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Carol]

For West India, I nominate The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar.

[rebel]

Guinea: The Dark Child by Camara Laye

[Jean]

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region of France, I nominate The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby.

[Silver]

For Nord-Pas-de-Calais I nominate Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell

For West India I nominate The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

[Missy J]

For Guinea, I nominate My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou by Kadiatou Diallo.

For West India, I nominate The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy.