Group Reading Map (2019)

[SadieReadsAgain]

USA New York - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

[Shelley]

I finally have a book that is helpful! Most of my books for this challenge have been fantasy (I don't see Discworld on the map) or just a general US or England based.

Last Train to Istanbul for Turkey.
I also read Shakespeare's Landlord for Arkansas

[Cheri]

Europe: Spain -
The Bird King

[Johanne]

Oh Cheri, how is the Bird King? I really enjoyed Alif the Unseen by the same author.

[Milena]

I can't remember if we're reporting fictional places or not. I will put it in just in case:

Fictional: The Stone Sky

Scotland: One Good Turn

[Marina]

Ireland - This Charming Man

[Sarah]

Solomon Islands - Rocket Girls

England - Silver + The Pursuit of Love

[Nadine in NY]

WOW how are there so many books set in North Carolina???

[Pam]

Nadine- I suspect it’s because so many people are reading Where the Crawdads Sing.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

The map has now been updated through message 162.

New locations this week:
- Dominican Republic
- Ghana
- Soloman Islands
- Zambia

[Jill]

Here are some of ATY books I have finished:
USA Illinois: Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
USA Colorado: Long Way Gone
USA New York: The Masterpiece
USA Delaware: I'll Be Your Blue Sky
USA Virginia: The Silver Star
England: The Daughter of Time
Sweden: Us Against You

[Pam]

US- Idaho: Educated

[Edie]

California The House of Broken Angels
Maine Elevation
United Kingdom Matilda

Illinois Becoming This could also be put in Washington, D.C., but I think more of her story is Illinois based.

The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up is by a Japanese author, but isn't set anywhere in particular.

[ladymurmur]

Laura wrote: "ladymurmur, there is one detailed map that has the Canadian provinces. We can see if it seems like we have a lot of specific locations for Canada and potentially add it later. I'm trying to keep th..."

That sounds quite reasonable, Laura! If I read more titles set in Canada, I'll keep track of the provinces.

[ladymurmur]

A few more to add:
US - North Dakota - Priceless
US- New York
*The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon I Mean Noel
*The Demon Lover
US - Texas - An Easy Death
US - Washington(state) - Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
US - South Dakota - Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Japan - Owl and the Japanese Circus

[Cheri]

Johanne wrote: "Oh Cheri, how is the Bird King? I really enjoyed Alif the Unseen by the same author."

Johanne, I liked it! I read it because I liked Alif so much. I thought the first 3/4 of the book was really good, thought the end was not quite as good, but overall I liked it a lot. Definitely worth reading! Enjoy!

[Jill]

Denmark: Meet Me at the Museum

[Rachelnyc]

My latest ATY books:

Cuba - Next Year in Havana

Republic of Ireland - The Witch Elm

Japan - Convenience Store Woman

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I don't know if your map counts Antarctica or not, but I recently read The White Darkness which is set there.

Becoming - Illinois, USA
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Scotland, UK

[Jody]

England: The Silkworm

[Hélène]

Ireland : The Likeness by Tana French

[Avery]

North Carolina, USA - The Queen of Hearts

[Hilde]

Virginia, USA: The Silver Star

Japan: 1Q84

Cornwall, England: Rebecca

Massachusetts, USA: Little Women

Johannesburg, South Africa: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Ohio, USA: The Bluest Eye

China & San Fransisco, USA : The Joy Luck Club

[Stacey]

Here's a new one for South America:

Colombia - Mi Noche Con Federico Garcia Lorca / My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca: Mi Noche Con Federico Garcia Lorca

[Brittany]

Taiwan: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

[Sandra]

My locations so far:

US:
Alabama: Up from Slavery; What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
Arizona: Half Broke Horses
California: The Wedding Guest; The Whip; I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
District of Columbia: Becoming
Delaware: I'll Be Your Blue Sky
Georgia: Leaving Atlanta
Hawaii: Moloka'i
Illinois: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?;
Iowa: A Thousand Acres
Massachusetts: I Liked My Life
Minnesota: Snow Blind; Shoot to Thrill
Missouri: The Story of Arthur Truluv
New Jersey: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
New York: The Friend
North Carolina: Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
Ohio: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Oregon: Trask
Virginia: Bridge to Terabithia
Washington: The Last Town on Earth; White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
West Virginia: Year One
Wyoming: Days Without End

Outer Space: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

UK:
England: The Silent Patient; Doomsday Book

Africa:
Algeria: The Last Summer of Reason
Rwanda: In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills
Kenya: Who Will Catch Us As We Fall

Asia:
Myanmar (Burma): The Glass Palace
Nepal: Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Europe:
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind

Middle East: Refugee. (also Cuba and Germany as book has three distinct storylines)

Oceana:
Australia: The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village; True History of the Kelly Gang

[Sandra]

Need to add Outer Space 🚀

[dalex]

England - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Week 13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list)
Russia - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Week 14. A book related to an astronomical term)
Croatia - Girl at War by Sara Nović (Week 15. A book set in a Mediterranean country)
England - Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (Week 17. A speculative fiction)
US/California - Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker (Week 23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old)

[Traci]

California - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

New York - My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

[Stacey]

Japan - Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce

[Hannah]

My countries and states so far:

England: Fools and Mortals ; The Clockmaker's Daughter ; Before The Fall ; The Lady of the Rivers ; The White Queen ; The Red Queen ; The King's Curse ; Black Beauty ; The New Mrs Clifton ; SS-GB ; Last Term at Taverton High ; The Pillars of the Earth

Jersey (Channel Islands): The Hidden

Wales: Fall of Giants

Ireland: The Gathering ; The Temporary Gentleman

Spain: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Germany: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold ; Rose Under Fire

Poland: The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Sweden: The Girl Who Played with Fire

France: War Horse

South Korea: White Chrysanthemum

USA:
Ohio: Everything I Never Told You ; Little Fires Everywhere
Maryland: Vinegar Girl
Connecticut: Orange Is the New Black
Oklahoma: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
California: The Girls

Somewhere in the US: Water for Elephants

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

The maps have now been updated through message 187.

New locations this week:

Arizona
Delaware
Wyoming
Colombia
Croatia
Myanmar
Nepal
Taiwan
Wales

[Jody]

USA (NY): The Godfather

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

USA (California): The Mars Room

[Courtney]

Canada: Bury Your Dead
Michigan: Station Eleven
England: The Girl on the Train, The Secret Keeper
UK:Something Rotten, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Italy: Bay of Sighs, Island of Glass
Montana: Come Sundown
North Carolina: The Sugar Queen
Georgia: Sweet Tea and Sympathy
Scotland: The Bookshop on the Corner
Illinois: Dark Matter
France: The Nightingale
New York: The Nest

[Kathryn]

I'm updating since my last post:

Canada (PEI) - House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery
UK (Cambridge) - Yesterday
Australia - On the Beach
California, USA - The Masterpiece
France - Nancy Wake

[Entropia]

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation - many stories are in fictional locations, but some are in China :)

[Kathy]

South Carolina - The Christie Caper
New York - Rules of Civility

[Hannah]

England - Motherland
Germany - The Reader
Switzerland - The Fear Index

[Marie]

A few more US states for me:

Vermont - House Rules
New York - The Summer of Impossible Things
Massachusetts - Killing the Blues

[Lizzy]

Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

[Lizzy]

Laura wrote: "The United States of America

✔✔✔✔✔✔Alabama
✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔Alaska
✔Arizona
✔✔Arkansas
✘✘✘✘✘California
✔✔✔✔✔✔Colorado
✔✔✔✔✔Connecticut
✔✔Delaware
✔✔✔Florida
✔✔✔✔✔✔✔Georgia
✔✔Hawaii
✔✔Idaho
✘Ill..."

The only state we have left to fill in is Kansas. Has anyone read “In Cold Blood” this year...maybe for monstrous character or crime genre? I can’t think of any other books I can recommend set there; does anyone else have an idea?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

There's always The Wizard of Oz if people want a really short one :)

[Jill]

Tennessee - Taft by Ann Patchett

[Chrissy]

Egypt - The City Always Wins

[Deena]

South Africa Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

[Traci]

New York A Little Life

[Rachel]

US/New York - The Goldfinch
Mexico - They All Fall Down
Vienna, Austria - The Only Woman in the Room
London, England - The Silent Patient
US/California/L.A. - Daisy Jones & The Six
US/California/L.A. - There's a Word for That
Bristol, England - Watching You
Malaysia - The Night Tiger

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Daisy Jones & The Six - California, USA
Blood Will Tell - England, UK
A Study in Scarlet- England, UK
The Sign of Four- England, UK
The Hound of the Baskervilles- England, UK
Murder of a Lady - Scotland, UK
Shadows of Death - scotland, UK