Reading Around the Globe
In 2018 we began to travel the globe through books. It actually started in 2017 while reading Tsh's book At Home In The World, if we're getting technical. I'm all for reading widely and reading with variety. I like to mix up genre, fiction and non fiction, personal development, classics etc. but I wasn't sure how I felt about being locked into the idea of reading from a new location each month.
No reservation was needed. Now I'm craving books from new locations. We are being choosy and selecting books that more heavily include the location in part of the book. Highly recommend pushing your current reading zone and broadening your horizons too.
BHBC On Location:
2020
January - Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (Scottland)
February - The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (Netherlands)
March - West With The Night by Beryl Markham (Kenya)
April - The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (Laos)
May - Endurance by Scott Kelly
June - Pavilion of Woman by Pearl S Buck (China)
July - Radio Shangra La by Lisa Napoli (Bhutan)
August - Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke (Burma)
September - Circe by Madeline Miller (Greece)
October - What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon (Ireland)
November - Don Quixote by by Miguel de Cervantes
December - Mother Tongue by Christine Gilbert
2019
January - Sky Burial by Xinran (Tibet)
February - Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset (Norway)
March - The Clockmakers Daughter by Kate Morton
April - Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (South Africa)
May - Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (Cuba)
June - Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy (Canada)
July - The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg (Afghanistan)
August - Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (Rwanda)
September - My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss (Germany)
October - Out of the Silent Planet,
Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis (Mars & Venus)
November - Dracula by Bram Stoker (Translivania)
December - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pakistan)
2018
Jan - Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (global)
Feb - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Iceland)
Mar - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (Australia)
April - A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri (Iran)
May - The Promise by Chaim Potok (USA)
June - State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (Brazil)
July - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Chechnya)
August - Alone in Antarctica by Felicity Aston (Antarctica)
September - Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr (Italy)
October - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead (France)
November - The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (India)
December - Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (global)