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message 1: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 07:24PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 11:35AM

Diane | 13052 comments Where we've been so far in 2020:





message 2: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 08:32PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 11:35AM

Diane | 13052 comments AFRICA


Algeria
The Stranger (x2)

Angola
Mayombe
Transparent City

Ascension Island
The Devil's Ashpit: and other Tales of Ascension Island

Benin
Discovering the Kingdom of Benin

Botswana
Cry of the Kalahari
Facets of Death
The House of Unexpected Sisters
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
To the Land of Long Lost Friends

Burkina Faso
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Burundi
Baho!
Small Country

Cameroon
Behold the Dreamers (x3)

Cameroon
Cesaria Evora, la voix du Cap-Vert
The Marco Effect

Central African Republic
Havoc
Le Dernier Survivant De La Caravane

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Heart of Darkness
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
King Leopold's Ghost

Djibouti
Évanescence

Egypt
Counted With the Stars
Death on the Nile
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
In a Perfect World
The Mummy Case
Palace of Desire
Palace Walk

Eritrea
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Eswatini
When the Ground Is Hard (x2)

Ethiopia
The Afersata
The Shadow King
Sweetness in the Belly

Gabon
African Tabloid

Gambia
The African
Swing Time

Ghana
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
The Missing American (x2)
Our Sister Killjoy

Guinea-Bissau
The Cobra

Kenya
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (x2)
The Promised Land
The Strange Bride

Liberia
A Burning in The Darkness
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
Mamba Point


message 3: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 08:37PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 11:38AM

Diane | 13052 comments Africa (Continued)


Madagascar
Translated From The Night

Malawi
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (x2)

Mauritania
In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa

Mauritius
The Last Brother (x2)
Me Before You
My Love Must Wait
The Prospector

Morocco
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
Confidences à Allah
The Death of Murat Idrissi
In Morocco
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
Less
M'Hashish
Night Boat to Tangier
Stories of the Sahara
With Open Arms: Misadventures in Morocco

Mozambique
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy (x3)

Namibia
The Elephant's Tale

Nigeria
Akata Witch
The Girl with the Louding Voice
My Sister, the Serial Killer (x2)
The Thing Around Your Neck
Things Fall Apart
Under the Udala Trees
We Should All Be Feminists

Rwanda
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (x2)

Senegal
However Long the Night
Those Who Do Not Exist من لا وجود لهم

Somalia
The Sea Rats

South Africa
Biko
Bongeni: An African Saga
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Elephant Whisperer
Men of the South
Nineveh

South Sudan
The Cows of Shambat: Sudanese Poems
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

Sudan
Lyrics Alley
Telepathy
The Translator

Tanzania
Among the Elephants
Paradise

Togo
Instruments of Darkness

Tunisia
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

Uganda
Memories of Glass
My Ugandan Hill

Western Sahara
Sahara: The Atlantic To The Nile

Zambia
A Cowrie of Hope
Made in Africa
Scribbling the Cat
Zambia Shall Be Free

Zimbabwe
Butterfly Burning
The Gold Diggers
The Secret of Chimneys


message 4: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 08:26PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 11:40AM

Diane | 13052 comments Asia and the Caucasus


Afghanistan
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Kite Runner (x4)
The Patience Stone

Armenia
The Gimmicks
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide

Bangladesh
Sultana's Dream and Padmarag

Bhutan
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan
Dear Seday: Letter from the Mountains

Brunei
For You, I Do

Chechnya
Hostage

China
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (x2)
Bones of the Earth
China Dream
The Good Earth
One Man's Bible
Red Sorghum
Shanghai Girls
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (x2)

India
All About H. Hatterr
The blue lake & other stories
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
He
The Namesake
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen
A Respectable Woman
The Shadow Lines
The Storyteller's Secret
The Twentieth Wife
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

Indonesia
Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
The Rainbow Troops (x3)
The Twenty-One Balloons

Japan
After the Quake
The Aosawa Murders
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Convenience Store Woman
The Devotion of Suspect X
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Go
The Goddess Chronicle
Kokoro
Masks
My Brother's Husband, Volume 1
My Mother Is a Tractor: A Life in Rural Japan
Newcomer
Pachinko
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan
Silk
The Translator (x2)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Twilight Years

Korea
The Island of Sea Women

Kyrgyzstan
Enemy of the Good
A Spring Betrayal

Laos
The Coroner's Lunch
The Golden Triangle

Malaysia
The Night Tiger

Mongolia
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Myanmar
Hasina

North Korea
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea


message 8: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 08:12PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 11:52AM

Diane | 13052 comments Europe


Albania
Albania on my Mind
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Andorra
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

Austria
Carmilla
A Death in Vienna
Hotel Sacher
The Old King in his Exile
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
The Radetzky March
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

Belgium
The Bruges Tapestry
De zwarte koning
Khalil
Letter to My Mother
Meetings In No Man's Land
Pallieter

Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
Herkunft
The Unquiet Dead

Bulgaria
The Shadow Land
Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

Channel Islands
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Croatia
As If I Am Not There
Thank You for Not Reading

Czechia
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Prague Spring

Denmark
Beowulf
Beowulf: The Graphic Novel
The Chestnut Man
Dark September
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Number the Stars
The Purity of Vengeance
Return to the Baltic
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

England
The A.B.C. Murders
The Admirable Crichton
Agent Running in the Field
Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
The Arrangement
Autumn
Beating About the Bush
Beowulf
The Big Bow Mystery
The Black Prince
Blind Faith
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The City & the City
Clouds of Witness
The Collector
Cover Her Face
The Crime at Black Dudley
Crossfire
Death at the Seaside
The Detecting Duchess
Doomsday Book
Dumb Witness
The Emperor's Babe
Enter a Murderer
Essays In Love
Fell Murder
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
The Girl in the Red Coat
Girl, Woman, Other (x2)
Grey Mask
A Handful of Dust
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hourglass Factory
I Owe You One
The Importance of Being Earnest
Invitation to the Waltz
King Henry IV, Part 1
Lemonade and Lies
The Library of Lost and Found
Life's Little Ironies
Lonesome Road
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (x2)
Look to the Lady
The Lost Stradivarius
A Man Lay Dead
The Man of Property
Memories
A Mere Interlude
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Mother's Milk
The Moving Finger
Mrs. Dalloway
Murder at Hatfield House
Murder of the Bride
Murder at the Vicarage
My Dog Tulip
Mystery Mile
The Nursing Home Murder
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
The Other You
Our House
The Oxford Murders
The Pale Horse
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Possession
The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
The Rainbow
The Red House Mystery
Sad Cypress
Saving Missy
Scoop
The Sign of Four
The Silence
The Silent Patient
Snow, Glass, Apples
Sons and Lovers (x2)
A Study in Scarlet
Swan Song
Teach Yourself Old English
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Then She Was Gone
The Thirteenth Tale
The Thirty-first of June
Unnatural Death
The Vicar of Wakefield
The War That Saved My Life
When Marnie Was There

Estonia
The Man Who Spoke Snakish


message 10: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 08:06PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 11:58AM

Diane | 13052 comments Europe (Continued)


Germany
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
All Quiet on the Western Front
At the Wolf's Table
Babylon Berlin
The Book Thief
Elective Affinities
Heimat: A German Family Album
The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
Lee Miller: A Woman's War
The Man Who Saw Everything
Manaraga
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Murder in A-Major
Pavel's Letters
The Provinces of the Roman Empire
The Quest for Christa T.
Reim und Zeit: Gedichte
The Stories of Heinrich Böll
White Rose, Black Forest
The Wine-ghosts of Bremen
Winter of the World
The Words I Never Wrote

Gibraltar
Uneasy Relations

Greece
100 days of solitude
Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds
The Magus
Moti on the Water
The Odyssey
The Olive Grove
Wounds Never Heal

Guernsey
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Hungary
Abigail
The Door
A Hungarian Nabob
Iza's Ballad (x2)

Iceland
The Blue Fox
The Darkness
The Greenhouse
Jar City
Miss Iceland
The Sacrament
The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale
The Shadow District

Ireland
Angela's Ashes
Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
Buried in a Bog
Castle Rackrent
Dead in Dublin
Dracul
The Gathering
The Good Turn
The Irish Cottage: Finding Elizabeth
The Kiltartan Poetry Book
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Stinging Fly Stories
The Story of Lucy Gault
Translations
The Untouchable
Voices
What the Wind Knows


message 16: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Mar 17, 2020 07:32PM) (new)
Jan 04, 2020 12:11PM

Diane | 13052 comments North America (Continued)


United States of America
Amerika
Anonymous Complaint: A Nurse's Story
As I Lay Dying
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Chita: A Memory of Last Island
The Christmas Set-Up
City of Scoundrels
The Colorado Kid
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952
The Cricket in Times Square
The Dain Curse
Dark Queen
Dead Body Language
Dear Martin
The Dutch House
El día que se perdió la cordura
The Electric Hotel
Fat Angie
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Giver
The Golden House
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
Heads of the Colored People
The Healer's Girl
Hell Is Empty
Housekeeping
Interior Chinatown
Into the Wild
It's in His Kiss
Jazz
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Little Fires Everywhere
A Little House Sampler: A Collection of Early Stories and Reminiscenses
Look Both Ways
The Lost Symbol
Middlesex
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Ninth House (x2)
One-Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway
Ordinary Grace
The Outsiders
Parable of the Talents
Passing
The Pastures of Heaven
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Pnin
The Professor
The Rainbow Trail
Ready Player One
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
The Rosie Effect
Seven Sisters
Shane
Shattered Bonds
Shout
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Souls of Black Folk
Stoner
Sula
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (x2)
Sweet Thursday
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Their Eyes Were Watching God (x2)
Thorne in the Rose City
Thunderhead
Topper
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The Underground Railroad
UnStrung
Unwind
When These Mountains Burn
Where the Crawdads Sing
White Tears
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
With the Fire on High


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