Margie's 2022 Reading Challenge

[Margie]

My 2022 Reading Challenge: 101 books

Final Progress: 177/101

What I'm Reading This Month
More details about my reading are in my Reading Corner

READING CHALLENGE GROUP CHALLENGES
Annual - Bookworms Take Shelfies (#80)
Annual - Clear The Shelves (#20)
Annual - Hindsight is 2022 (#28)
Annual - Magical Mystery Tour (#24)

[Margie]

January Reading

Globetrotter: Southern/Eastern Africa
New locations: Zambia
Quarterly - Q1 Mother Earth
January - Reset, Relax and Refresh

Read:
1. 1928 US, Denmark: Quicksand
2. 1951 England: A Question of Upbringing (A Dance To The Music of Time #1)
3. 1962 Europe: The Guns of August
4. 1973 Botswana: A Question of Power
5. 1979 South Africa: A Dry White Season
6. 2003 Spain: The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
7. 2006 Kenya: Unbowed: A Memoir
8. 2007 Botswana: The Heavens May Fall
9. 2010 England: Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie #4)
10. 2010 South Africa: Let The Dead Lie (Emmanuel Cooper #2)
11. 2011 France: Murder in Provence (Maggie Newberry #3)
12. 2013 South Africa: Man Down (Rogue #2) #WIT
13. 2015 Asia West: The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
14. 2016 US/Nigeria: Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
15. 2016 US: Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
16. 2016 US: Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
17. 2017 South Africa: The Prey of Gods
18. 2018 US: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
19. 2018 US: Friday Black
20. 2019 Namibia/South Africa: The Eternal Audience of One
21. 2019 US/Fantasy: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
22. 2019 Zambia: The Old Drift
23. 2021 Afghanistan\US: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
24. 2021 England: Orwell's Roses
25. 2021 US: The Days of Afrekete

[Margie]

February Reading
Globetrotter: Eastern Africa
New locations: Ecuador, Malawi, North Macedonia, Seychelles,
Quarterly - Q1 Mother Earth
February - Fandemonium

Read:
26. 1952 England: A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time #2)
27. 1993 US-CA: Parable of the Sower
28. 2009 Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
29. 2013 Zimbabwe: Sibanda and the Rainbird (Detective Sibanda #1)
30. 2014 Seychelles: Stranded in the Seychelles: Teachers in Paradise
31. 2015 Fantasy: The Goblin Emperor
32. 2019 England: Murder at Kensington Palace (Wrexford and Sloan #3)
33. 2019 Italy: A Brightness Long Ago
34. 2020 England: The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2)
35. 2020 England: Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr #15)
36. 2020 North Macedonia: To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
37. 2021 Ecuador: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
38. 2021 Pakistan: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City
39. 2021 US-PA: The Conductors
40. 2022 US: The Verifiers

[Margie]

March Reading
Globetrotter: Northern, Middle, Western Africa
New locations: Liberia

Read:
41. 1948 Japan: The Makioka Sisters (translated from Japanese)
42. 1955 England: The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time #3)
43. 1957 Egypt: Justine
44. 1968 US: The House of Dies Drear
45. 1974 England: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
46. 2003 US-MN: Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench #1)
47. 2008 Liberia: The House at Sugar Beach
48. 2010 Africa: Redemption in Indigo
49. 2010 Nigeria: Oil on Water
50. 2014 Ghana: Murder at Cape Three Points (Darko Dawson #3)
51. 2015 Turkey: The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
52. 2017 Fantasy: The City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy #1)
53. 2017 Ukraine: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
54. 2020 England: Murder at Queen's Landing (Wrexford and Sloan #4)
55. 2021 Syria: Damascus Station
56. 2022 England: Dying Fall (Bill Slider #23)
57. 2022 US-WA: Lightning in a Mirror (Fogg Lake #3)

[Margie]

April Reading
Globetrotter: Americas - Caribbean
New locations: Anguilla, Jersey (UK), Mayotte

Read:
58. 1856 France: Madame Bovary translated from French
59. 1929 Italy: A Farewell to Arms
60. 1957 England: At Lady Molly's (A Dance to the Music of Time #4)
61. 1986 Jersey (UK): Night of the Fox
62. 1998 US: Parable of the Talents
63. 2006 Ireland: Darkfever
64. 2011 US-MS: Salvage the Bones
65. 2012 China: The Force of Wind (Elemental Mysteries #3)
66. 2012 England: A Fatal Winter (Max Tudor #2)
67. 2013 Anguilla: The Night of the Rambler
68. 2014 Canada: Cold Mourning
69. 2016 Mayotte: Tropic of Violence: A Novel translated from French #WIT
70. 2019 No ID: Unraveling
71. 2020 US: Legendborn (Legendborn #1)
72. 2021 Greece: The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
73. 2021 US: Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
74. 2022 Ukraine: Lucky Breaks translated from Russian #WIT
75. 2022 Canada, Moon: Sea of Tranquility
76. 2022 US/China: Portrait of a Thief

[Margie]

May Reading
Globetrotter: Americas - North and Central
New locations: Bahamas

77. 1960 England: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time #5)
78. 1977 Wales: A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #1)
79. 2010 US - WA: Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson #5)
80. 2012 England: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries #1)
81. 2015 US: Negroland
82. 2018 US: Dark Arts and a Daiquiri (The Guild Codex, Spellbound #2)
83. 2019 Bahamas: The Golden Hour
84. 2021 Scifi: Winter's Orbit
85. 2022 US: How High We Go in the Dark

[Margie]

June Reading
Globetrotter: Americas - South
New locations: None

86. 1950 US: I, Robot
87. 1962 England: The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time #6)
88. 1962 US-CA: Cassandra at the Wedding
89. 1982 US: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
90. 2006 Turkey, Greece: Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
91. 2016 England: A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #1)
92. 2019 Fantasy: The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy #2)
93. 2019 Guatemala: Harsh Times translated from Spanish
94. 2020 US-CA: Lost Hills (Eve Ronin #1)
95. 2022 Nigeria: Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts #3)

[Margie]

July Reading
Globetrotter: Asia - East, Southeast - none
New locations: None

Read:
96. 1812 England, Ireland: The Absentee
97. 1958 England: The Once and Future King
98. 1959 US-IL A Raisin in the Sun
99. 1964 England: The Valley of Bones (A Dance to the Music of Time #7)
100. 2004 Turkey: Birds Without Wings
101. 2016 England: Jane and the Waterloo Map
102. 2018 Argentina: Portrait of an Unknown Lady (translated from Spanish) #WIT
103. 2022 Pakistan: The Return of Faraz Ali
104. 2022 Portugal, US: Two Nights in Lisbon
105. 2022 Scotland: Death of a Green-Eyed Monster (Hamish Macbeth #34)
106. 2022 US: The Cartographers

[Margie]

August Reading
Globetrotter: Asia - Central, South
New locations: Bhutan, Honduras

Read:
107. 1966 England: The Soldier's Art (A Dance to the Music of Time #8)
108. 1999 US: The Intuitionist
109. 2000 Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost
110. 2009 Bhutan: Tales in Colour: And Other Stories
111. 2012 Afghanistan: Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
112. 2016 Honduras: 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance: Trece Colores de La Resistencia Hondurena translated from Spanish #WIT
113. 2016 Turkey: The Silence of Scheherazade translated from Turkish #WIT
114. 2017 US-CA: City of Saviors
115. 2018 England: The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock #3)
116. 2020 US-NY: Unseen City
117. 2020 US-TX: Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy #5)
118. 2021 Central Asia: Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
119. 2021 Japan: Things Remembered and Things Forgotten txl from Japanese #WIT
120. 2022 England: The Locked Room
121. 2022 US-NC: Book Lovers

[Margie]

September Reading
Globetrotter: Asia - West
New locations: Sint Maarten

Read:The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
122. 1917 US: Summer
123. 1968 England: The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time #9)
124. 1976 US-MS: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
125. 2006 Turkey: The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
126. 2010 US: The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
127. 2011 US-WA: River Marked (Mercy Thompson #6)
128. 2013 Lebanon: An Unnecessary Woman
129. 2016 Spain: All This I Will Give to You translated from Spanish #WIT
130. 2017 Syria: Roundabout of Death translated from Arabic
131. 2017 United Arab Emirates: Temporary People
132. 2018 Sint Maarten: Blind Fish Don't Talk
133. 2019 US: Two Witches and a Whiskey (The Guild Codex, Spellbound #3)
134. 2020 Central Asia: Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppe

[Margie]

October Reading
Globetrotter: Oceania
New locations: Sweden

Read:
135. 1879 Sweden: The Red Room translated from Swedish
136. 1950 Malaysia, Australia: A Town Like Alice
137. 1971 England: Books Do Furnish a Room (A Dance to the Music of Time #10)
138. 1984 US: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
139. 1993 France: The Last Judgement (Jonathan Argyll #4)
140. 2005 Australia: The Broken Shore
141. 2006 US-CA: Every Reasonable Doubt (Vernetta Henderson #1)
142. 2008 Russia, Western Asia: The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
143. 2012 Egypt: The Queue translated from Arabic #WIT
144. 2015 Mexico: Signal to Noise
145. 2017 Australia: And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic #2)
146. 2017 Poland: I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To translated from Polish
147. 2020 Australia: Death Leaves the Station
148. 2020 South Korea: The Law of Lines translated from Korean #WIT
149. 2021 England: What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. Cyr #16)
150. 2021 US-CA: Synchronized Sorcery (A Witchcraft Mystery #11)
151. 2022 Lebanon: The King of India: A Novel translated from Arabic
152. 2022 US-TX: Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy #6)

[Margie]

November Reading
New locations: Saba (territory)

153. 1939 Germany: The Passenger translated from German
154. 1973 Italy/England: Temporary Kings
155. 1992 US: Waiting to Exhale
156. 2001 France: Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
157. 2013 US-WA: Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson #7)
158. 2016 Canada: The Language of Secrets
159. 2017 Ireland: Death in D Minor
160. 2019 Saba: Deep Cut
161. 2019 US: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
162. 2022 Egypt: Secrets of the Nile
163. 2022 US-GA: Spirits and Sourdough
164. 2022 US: The Women Could Fly
165. 2022 Multiple: Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

[Margie]

DECEMBER READING
New locations: Belarus

166. 1962 Mexico: The Death of Artemio Cruz translated from Spanish
167. 1975 England: Hearing Secret Harmonies (A Dance To The Music of Time #12)
168. 1990 Italy Vendetta (Aurelio Zen #2)
169. 2012 Angola: Transparent City translated from Portuguese
170. 2014 Belarus: Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad translated from Belarusian and Russian
171. 2014 Singapore: Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials (Singaporean Mystery #2)
172. 2018 Philippines: The Betrayed
173. 2021 Turkey+: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
174. 2021 US-CA: Bone Canyon
175. 2022 England: The Raven Spell
176. 2022 US-PA: A Quiet Teacher
177. 2022 US: Bloodmarked