Group Reading Map (2021)

[Kim]

Scotland - Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

[Johanna]

Mexico - Gods of Jade and Shadow
Mexico - Mexican Gothic
Nigeria - My Sister, the Serial Killer

USA
Illinois - Becoming
Mississippi - A Spark of Light
Texas - The Four Winds

[Stephanie]

Alabama, USA - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

[Aimee]

Sudan - Who Fears Death
(it's post-apocalyptic and the characters travel around a fair bit, but at one point someone says something along the lines of "this ground that used to be part of the kingdom of Sudan")

[Sherri]

Istanbul, Turkey My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. Goknar (Translator)

[Traci]

Liberia - Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

[Deborah]

England - Court of Swans by Melanie Dickerson
China - White Horse by Yan Ge

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Ghana - His Only Wife
Minnesota - Iron Lake

[Inger]

Italy - Catch-22
Denmark & Greenland - Fröken Smillas känsla för snö
Gambia & Usa - Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Egypt - Death on the Nile
Iraq - Murder in Mesopotamia
USA - The Stand
USA - Vi var løgnere
England - Murder in the Mews
England - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
England - At Bertram's Hotel
England - Liket i biblioteket
Egypt - Death Comes As the End

[Kim]

England - The Lost Apothecary

[Stacey]

New York - Oona Out of Order

[Edie]

Norway - The Moon is Down
Syria - The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Spain - Origin


US states
Detroit, Michigan- The Turner House
Mallard, Louisiana- The Vanishing Half
Montana - The Miseducation of Cameron Post

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Russia - Oblomov

[Kathy]

Chicago, Illinois - Atomic Love

[Scott]

England - The Thief on the Winged Horse

[Jackie]

Palestine/Israel (1st Century CE) - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

[Sue]

Egypt - Ramses The Son Of Light

[Tiffany]

Inspired by West Africa - Fictional Orisha. Children of Blood and Bone

[Traci]

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

[Sherri]

A city in the Piedmont of NC. What's Mine And Yours, Naima Coster

[Barbara]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Correio da Roça: Romance Epistolar
Georgia, US - The Color Purple

[Edie]

Argentina - Furia
Chile - A Long Petal to the Sea
China - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
England - Coraline
Germany - Night
Iraq (Kurdish area) - The Kurdish Bike
Japan - The Housekeeper and the Professor
Netherlands - Ministry of Pain
Zimbabwe - Nervous Conditions

US states
Alabama - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Washington - Jar of Hearts

[Stacey]

USA - California/Nevada/Utah/Colorado/Kansas - In the Distance

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Indiana - The Kindest Lie

[Lizzy]

Burkina Faso or Martinique.... good portion of the story in both places. American Spy

[Scott]

England - Rotherweird

[Anna]

USA - Left Neglected

[Marie]

Bermuda - Justice Denied
China(?) - Cinder

[Amy]

Barcelona, Spain - The Shadow of the Wind

[Jackie]

UK - A Discovery of Witches

[Traci]

Argentina - The Gods of Tango

[Brittany]

California, USA & Guatemala - Stigma

Virginia, USA - The Snow and The Darkness

Texas & Iowa, USA - The Twelve

[Sherri]

London,England. The Duke & I (Bridgertons #1) by Julia Quinn

[Hélène]

Greece - Les voyages d'Ulysse by Emmanuel Lepage.

[Tessa]

I read The Ardent Swarm this year and I consider it to be set in Tunisia. The author is from Tunisia and the large city described in the book has statues that are found in the Capital of Tunisia

[Tessa]

Mexico: Mexican Gothic (Feb 21st)
Côte d'Ivoire: The Bitter Side of Sweet (Feb 24th)
Morocco: The Alchemist (Jan 3rd)
Burkina Faso: Of Water and the Spirit (March 18th)
England: Good Omens (Jan 9th)
Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino (March 2nd)
Nepal: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (Jan 13th)
North Korea: A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (March 23rd)
Papua New Guinea: Mister Pip (March 10th)
Kiribati: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (March 12th)
United States: Ring Shout (March 21st)

[Jackie]

Mexico - Gods of Jade and Shadow

[Stacey]

New York City - Have You Seen Luis Velez?

[Pam]

California- The Man in the High Castle

It's mostly set in CA with some parts also in Colorado.

[Tiffany]

Fictional Pine Cove, near real life Big Sur. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

[Deborah]

Ohio, USA - Other Words for Home - Also partially takes place in Syria, but the majority of the book is the main character adjusting to life in the United States as a refugee.

[Joyce]

Ireland - Love

[Rebecca]

England - Bricking It

Australia - Loving Country

Texas - From Lukov with Love

[Stacey]

Planet Earth - Elemental Haiku: Poems to honor the periodic table, three lines at a time

[Harry]

England - The Pillars of the Earth

Minnesota USA - This Tender Land

NW India frontier, present day Pakistan - The Damascened Blade: Third in series

[Aimee]

Kansas, US - Whiskey When We're Dry

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

USA, New Jersey (and Pennsylvania)-Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

USA (state unknown)-Howliday Inn

England-The Secret Adversary

Denmark (and also Sweden)-Beowulf

[Lauconn]

UK/England: An Unexpected Peril

[Laurel]

California, USA: Recipe for Persuasion (also India, but that is not the primary location)

[Sue]

Iran - The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree