Margie's 2021 Reading Challenge

[Margie]

2021 Reading Challenge: 101 Books

My Reading Corner

Progress: 307/101 - challenge complete!
94,833 pages

READING CHALLENGE GROUP CHALLENGES:
Annual - Magical Mystery Tour (#87) COMPLETE

Annual - Clear The Shelves (#100) COMPLETE

Annual -Listopia (#89) COMPLETE

Quarterly - Q1 Best In Show (#56) COMPLETE

Quarterly - Q2 Celebrating 25,000 Members (#22) COMPLETE

Quarterly - Q2 A Diverse Education (#14) COMPLETE

Quarterly - Q2 Who Runs the World? (#23) COMPLETE

Quarterly - Q3 - Global Goals for a Sustainable World (#17) COMPLETE

Q4 - Peace Signs COMPLETE

September - Do These Genes Make My Books Look Big? (#14) COMPLETE

December - All The Jingle Ladies, All The Jingle Ladies (#3) COMPLETE

[Margie]

January Reading

1. 1901 India: Kim
2. 1926 Spain: The Sun Also Rises
3. 1969 Botswana: When Rain Clouds Gather
4. 1979 South Africa: Burger's Daughter
5. 1986 Japan: An Artist of the Floating World
6. 2001 Namibia: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
7. 2002 US-NY: In the Bleak Midwinter
8. 2005 Spain: The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
9. 2006 South Africa: Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
10. 2006 Spain: Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
11. 2008 South Africa: A Beautiful Place to Die
12. 2010 US: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
13. 2013 Russia (Chechnya): A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
14. 2013 US-IN, CA: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
15. 2016 Ireland: Murder in G Major
16. 2016 US: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
17. 2018 South Africa: Intruders: Short Stories
18. 2019 US-TX: Lot: Stories
19. 2020 India: Murder in Old Bombay
20. 2020 South Africa: The Down Days
21. 2020 US: Black Futures
22. 2020 US-NY: Leave the World Behind
23. 2020 US-NY, NJ: Luster
24. 2020 US: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
25. 2021 US-NV, WA: All the Colors of Night

[Margie]

February Reading

26. 1928 Spain: Homage to Catalonia
27. 1929 US-NY, IL: Passing
28. 1934 England: The Nine Tailors
29. 1945 Azerbaijan: Days in the Caucasus translated from French #WIT
30. 1963 US: The Fire Next Time
31. 2001 England: Color for Adventurous Gardeners
32. 2003 Djibouti: Transit translated from French
33. 2003 Somalia: Links
34. 2006 Spain: Winter in Madrid
35. 2009 Ethiopia: Cutting for Stone
36. 2010 England: A Stranger in Mayfair
37. 2011 England: Wicked Autumn
38. 2012 England: The Rook
39. 2012 Russia (Dagestan): The Mountain and the Wall translated from Russian #WIT
40. 2012 Tanzania, South Africa: Hard Rain translated from Afrikaans #WIT
41. 2013 South Sudan: There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan
42. 2015 Italy: Adua translated from Italian #WIT
43. 2015 US: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
44. 2015 US: The Light of the World
45. 2016 Eritrea: Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
46. 2016 US: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
47. 2016 US-CA: Trail of Echoes
48. 2017 Georgia: Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus with Over 70 Recipes
49. 2017 Turkey+: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
50. 2019 Canada+: Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir
51. 2019 England: A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder
52. 2019 Ethiopia: The Shadow King
53. 2019 US: Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
54. 2020 Ethiopia: Addis Ababa Noir
55. 2020 US: Interior Chinatown
56. 2021 England: Cruel as the Grave
57. 2021 US-NY: Detransition, Baby

[Margie]

March Reading

58. 1899 Democratic Republic of Congo (Belgian Congo): Heart of Darkness
59. 1915 Germany+: The Good Soldier
60. 1940 Spain: For Whom the Bell Tolls
61. 1976 Western Sahara: Stories of the Sahara translated from Chinese #WIT
62. 1992 Italy, Egypt: The English Patient
63. 1996 Italy: Acqua Alta
64. 1997 US-NY: Rhode Island Red
65. 1998 Democratic Republic of Congo: The Poisonwood Bible
66. 2002 Egypt: The Yacoubian Building translated from Arabic
67. 2005 Ivory Coast: Aya: Love in Yop City translated from French #WIT
68. 2011 Ghana: Children of the Street
69. 2015 Portugal: That Hair translated from Portuguese #WIT
70. 2016 multiple: What is Not Yours is Not Yours
71. 2018 England: The House on Vesper Sands
72. 2019 England: Who Slays the Wicked
73. 2019 Japan: Breasts and Eggs translated from Japanese #WIT
74. 2019 Chile, Spain: A Long Petal of the Sea translated from Spanish #WIT
75. 2019 US: Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
76. 2020 Nigeria: Butter Honey Pig Bread
77. 2020 US: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
78. 2020 US: The Age of Phillis
79. 2021 Ghana: Remote Control
80. 2021 US-GA: Blood Heir
81. 2021 US: The Removed
82. 2021 US-NJ: A Glimmer of Death

[Margie]

April Reading

83. 1976 Democratic Republic of Congo: Before the Birth of the Moon translated from French
84. 1992 US-NC: Blanche on the Lam
85. 1995 US-NY: Naked in Death
86. 2006 Dominica: Unburnable
87. 2006 Trinidad: Prospero's Daughter set on Island of Chacachacare
88. 2009 Central Asia: Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
89. 2010 England: Heresy
90. 2010 Sierra Leone: The Memory of Love
91. 2012 Nigeria: Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
92. 2014 Japan: Tokyo Ueno Station translated from Japanese #WIT
93. 2015 China: Jade Dragon Mountain
94. 2016 Jamaica: Augustown
95. 2017 Cuba: Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
96. 2017 US+: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
97. 2018 Jamaica: How to Love a Jamaican
98. 2018 US, Nigeria: Freshwater
99. 2019 British Virgin Islands: Epiphaneia
100. 2019 England: An Artless Demise
101. 2019 US-CO: Sabrina & Corina: Stories
102. 2020 England: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
103. 2020 Georgia: All Lara's Wars translated from Polish
104. 2020 Jamaica: A Million Aunties
105. 2021 Nigeria: Lightseekers
106. 2021 US-FL: Milk Blood Heat
107. 2021 US-OH: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[Margie]

May Reading

108. 1901 England: The Hound of the Baskervilles
109. 1918 England: The Return of the Soldier
110. 1990 Central Asia: The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
111. 2000 Dominican Republic: The Feast of the Goat translated from Spanish
112. 2001 Bermuda: Resort to Murder Henrie O #6
113. 2008 US: Magic to the Bone
114. 2012 US-CA: This Same Earth Elemental Mysteries #2
115. 2014 Jamaica: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
116. 2014 Thailand, US: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
117. 2016 Canada: The Break (indigenous)
118. 2016 Multiple: The Travelers
119. 2017 England: A Conspiracy in Belgravia Lady Sherlock #2
120. 2018 UK - Northern Ireland: Milkman
121. 2019 US: An American Sunrise (indigenous)
122. 2020 Bonaire: 2020 Diver's Paradise Roscoe Conklin #1
123. 2020 Canada: Polar Vortex
124. 2020 Iran, Saudi Arabia: Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
125. 2020 UK - England: The Dictionary of Lost Words
126. 2020 US-NC: Even As We Breathe (indigenous)
127. 2020 US: The Office of Historical Corrections
128. 2021 US, Haiti: Libertie
129. 2021 US-DC: While Justice Sleeps

[Margie]

June Reading

130. 1881 Brazil: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas translated from Portuguese
131. 1905 US-NY: The House of Mirth
132. 1907 England: The Secret Agent
133. 2001 Guiana (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana): Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
134. 2002 Chile: By Night in Chile translated from Spanish
135. 2009 Kyrgyzstan: Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan
136. 2011 Mexico: Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country txl from Spanish #WIT
137. 2013 US-NY: Nevada
138. 2015 Fantasy Vision in Silver
139. 2015 US: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
140. 2017 Fantasy: The Red Threads of Fortune
141. 2017 El Salvador: Slash and Burn translated from Spanish #WIT
142. 2017 US-MI: August Snow
143. 2018 Mexico: Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico translated from Spanish
144. 2018 Spain: Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography
145. 2018 Multiple: Little Eyes translated from Spanish #WIT
146. 2020 England: A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder
147. 2020 England: A Stroke of Malice
148. 2020 Iran: America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present
149. 2020 US-SD: Winter Counts
150. 2021 Scotland: The Library of the Dead
151. 2021 Thailand, US: What Could Be Saved
152. 2021 US: The Echo Wife
153. 2021 US: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
154. 2021 US: People We Meet on Vacation

[Margie]

July Reading

Read
155. 1778 England: Evelina
156. 1803 England: The Watsons and Sanditon
157. 1817 England: Persuasion
158. 1818 England: Northanger Abbey
159. 1914 Japan: Kokoro translated from Japanese
160. 1934 Myanmar/Burma: Burmese Days
161. 1944 Spain: Nada translated from Spanish #WIT
162. 1952 Myanmar/Burma: Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
163. 1988 Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind translated from Vietnamese #WIT
164. 2000 Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
165. 2001 Spain: Soldiers of Salamis translated from Spanish
166. 2002 England: Fever and Spear translated from Spanish
167. 2006 US-WA: Moon Called
168. 2008 Laos: Curse of the Pogo Stick
169. 2011 Malaysia: The Garden of Evening Mists
170. 2012 England: What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
171. 2016 Chile: The Twilight Zone translated from Spanish #WIT
172. 2019 Myanmar/Burma: The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the 2019 Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
173. 2019 Pakistan: Unmarriageable
174. 2019 Singapore+ The Heartsick Diaspora and other stories
175. 2021 China: Land of Big Numbers
176. 2021 England/China: A Lover's Discourse
177. 2021 England: The Night Hawks
178. 2021 US-MI: Firekeeper's Daughter (indigenous)
179. 2021 US-NM: The Five Wounds
180. 2021 US: Klara and the Sun
181. 2021 US: No One Is Talking About This

DNF
2010 Malaysia: 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders
2015 Argentina: A Perfect Cemetery translated from Spanish
2021 US-LA: Things We Lost to the Water
2021 US, Morocco: Who Is Maud Dixon?

[Margie]

August Reading

Globetrotter: Central and Southern Asia
Q3 - Global Goals for a Sustainable World
2021 Women in Translation Month

Read
182. 1939 US-CA: The Big Sleep
183. 1949 Austria: The Third Man
184. 1949 England: Murder for Christmas
185. 1958 Kyrgystan: Jamilia translated from Russian
186. 1965 England+: The Looking Glass War
187. 1981 India: Midnight's Children
188. 1995 India: A Fine Balance
189. 2000 Afghanistan: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
190. 2008 Japan: Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo #5) translated from Japanese
191. 2013 US - WY: Cowboys and East Indians
192. 2013 Finland: The Hummingbird (Anna Fekete #1) translated from Finnish #WIT
193. 2015 Central Asia: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
194. 2016 Central Asia: Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus
195. 2016 Iran: Disoriental translated from French #WIT
196. 2017 England: Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing #1)
197. 2017 Iran: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree translated from Persian #WIT
198. 2019 Armenia: The Door was Open translated from Armenian #WIT
199. 2020 Pakistan: The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
200. 2020 US: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
201. 2021 Netherlands: Intimacies
202. 2021 Sri Lanka: A Passage North

DNF
2003 Afghanistan: The Kite Runner
2008 Japan: Confessions translated from Japanese #WIT
2020 England: The Windsor Knot

[Margie]

September Reading

Globetrotter: Western Asia
Q3 - Global Goals for a Sustainable World
September - Do These Genes Make My Books Look Big?

Read
203. 1910 England: Howards End
204. 1979 Spain: Southern Seas translated from Spanish
205. 1986 St. Kitts and Nevis: A State of Independence
206. 2004 England: Dance and Dream (Your Face Tomorrow #2) translated from Spanish
207. 2004 Russia: Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography
208. 2007 US-WA: Blood Bound
209. 2009 Cyprus: Small Wars
210. 2009 Palestine: The Lady from Tel Aviv translated from Arabic
211. 2012 Japan: March Was Made of Yarn translated from Japanese #WIT+
212. 2014 Georgia: The Eighth Life translated from German #WIT
213. 2014 Kiribati: Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
214. 2014 US: Citizen: An American Lyric
215. 2016 Israel: Central Station
216. 2021 China: She Who Became the Sun
217. 2021 Egypt: A Master of Djinn
218. 2021 Palestine/US: Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
219. 2021 US: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
220. 2021 US: No Gods, No Monsters
221. 2021 US: Red Widow
222. 2021 US: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
223. 2021 US: The Renunciations: Poems

DNF
2021 US: Somebody's Daughter
2021 US: The Other Black Girl

[Margie]

October Reading

Globetrotter: Oceania
Q4 - Peace Signs
Victober 2021

Read
224. 1847 England: Agnes Grey
225. 1860 England: Great Expectations
226. 1873 Belgium: Villette
227. 1922 New Zealand: The Garden Party and Other Stories
228. 1962 Spain: The Time of the Doves translated from Catalan #WIT
229. 1996 Azerbaijan: Solar Plexus, A Baku Saga in Four Parts translated from Russian
230. 2004 Vanuatu + Multiple: Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
231. 2007 New Zealand: Overkill Sam Shephard #1
232. 2008 US-WA: Iron Kissed Mercy Thompson #3
233. 2011 US-NE: Attachments
234. 2013 France: The Perfume Collector
235. 2013 Tajikistan: Tajikistan: A Political and Social History
236. 2015 Australia: Resurrection Bay Caleb Zelic #1
237. 2015 US: Single, Carefree, Mellow
238. 2015 US: The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts
239. 2016 US: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
240. 2016 Marked in Flesh (The Others #4)
241. 2018 Egypt: Slipping translated from Arabic
242. 2018 Lebanon: Shatila Stories translated from Arabic
243. 2018 US-NY: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
244. 2019 Australia: The Yield
245. 2019 Cyprus: Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
246. 2019 Spain: The Fountains of Silence
247. 2020 Palestine: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
248. 2020 US-GA: Witchy Reservations Mystic Inn Mystery #1
249. 2021 Central African Republic: A House Without Windows translated from French
250. 2021 England: Matrix
251. 2021 US-IL: As the Wicked Watch (Jordan Manning #1)
252. 2021 US-MD: Mary Jane
253. 2021 US-NY: Harlem Shuffle
254. 2021 A Deadly Education The Scholomance #2


DNF
2014 US: Astonish Me
2018 England: Scarlett
2021 US: The Heart Principle
2021 Fantasy: The Witch's Heart

Current Reads: Q4 - November TBR and Progress

[Margie]

November Reading

Globetrotter: Northern and Southern Europe
Q4 - Peace Signs

Read
255. 1840 Russia: A Hero of Our Time translated from Russian
256. 1949 England: Love in a Cold Climate
257. 1984 England: Foreign Affairs
258. 1998 DRC: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
259. 2000 England: White Teeth
260. 2004 Turkey: My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir txl Turkish #WIT
261. 2005 England: Telling Tales
262. 2011 France, Spain: Treasure of the Spanish Civil War translated from French
263. 2012 US: The Last Policeman
264. 2013 Armenia, Azerbaijan: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
265. 2013 Spain: Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting
266. 2014 Greenland: Last Night in Nuuk translated from Greenlandic #WIT
267. 2014 Italy: If Venice Dies translated from Italian
268. 2015 US: The Only Ones
269. 2016 Faroe Islands: Island translated from Danish #WIT
270. 2017 England: This Side of Murder Verity Kent #1
271. 2017 US: Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
272. 2018 Egypt: The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
273. 2018 England: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
274. 2018 Kazakhstan: Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
275. 2019 SciFi: A Memory Called Empire
276. 2020 Greece: Scorpionfish
277. 2020 Spain: A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
278. 2020 US, Syria: Alligator and Other Stories
279. 2021 England: A Line To Kill
280. 2021 US: Bewilderment
281. 2021 US: Of Women and Salt
282. 2021 US: Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
283. 2021 US-MS: The Trees

[Margie]

December Reading

Globetrotter: Eastern and Western Europe
Q4 - Peace Signs
December - All The Jingle Ladies, All The Jingle Ladies

Read
284. 1920 Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter translated from Norwegian #WIT
285. 1932 Austria: The Radetzky March translated from German
286. 1993 US: The Christmas Box
287. 1995 Germany: The Reader translated from German
288. 1998 Spain: The Carpenter's Pencil translated from Galician
289. 2002 England: Lost in a Good Book
290. 2007 Spain: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell translated from Spanish
291. 2009 US-WA: Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson #4)
292. 2011 Guatemala: Severina translated from Spanish
293. 2013 France: The Madonna of Notre Dame translated from French
294. 2015 Japan: There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job translated from Japanese #WIT
295. 2015 Mexico: Umami translated from Spanish #WIT
296. 2015 Spain: Come On Up translated from Spanish
297. 2015 US: The Short Drop
298. 2017 Fantasy: Etched in Bone
299. 2017 Russia: The Year of the Comet translated from Russian
300. 2018 US: Three Mages and a Margarita
301. 2019 South Korea: Wicked Fox
302. 2019 Ukraine: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
303. 2019 Uzbekistan: The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan
304. 2020 Fantasy: The House in the Cerulean Sea
305. 2021 Spain: Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition
306. 2021 US: Afterparties: Stories
307. 2021 US-CA: Light from Uncommon Stars