Hemlokgang's Global Literary Journey 2022

My annual goal is to read books written by authors born in 25 non-United States countries.

Country list:
Iceland, France, Scotland, Brazil, England, Cameroon, China, Wales, Canada, Italy, Poland, Ireland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Lebanon

#1 - Iceland

The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón

#2 - France
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
Narcisse On A Tightrope by Olivier Targowla

Will you be posting reviews here, Hemlock?

I post reviews on the book page in my library and at #hearditfromferd.

#3 - Scotland

Strip Jack by Ian Rankin

#4 - Portugal

Act of The Damned by Antonio Lobo Antunes

#5 - Brazil

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis

#6 - England

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

#7 - Cameroon

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

#8 - China

A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin

#9 - Wales
The Mission House by Carys Davies

#10 - Canada

Fight Night by Miriam Toews

#11 - Italy

Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti.

How about Turkey? Orhan Pamuk is a brilliant author.

>16 swiftlina: I have read everything he's written! One of my all time favorite authors!

12 - Poland

The Books Of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

13 - Ireland
This Side Of Brightness by Colum McCann

#14 - Tanzania
By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

#15 - Germany
A Light In The Window by Marion Kummerow

#16 - South Korea
Bluebeard's First Wife by Ha Seong-Nan.

#17 - Japan

Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#18 - Lebanon
The Wrong End Of The Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

>24 hemlokgang: I recently read and loved An Unnecessary Woman by Alameddine and have been considering this book. In your review you say he disliked the narrator, do you mean the character in the book or the reader of an audio version? If the former, what turned you off?

Duplicate post. Sorry

>25 labfs39:. The reader

Goodbye, Hemlokgang. Peaceful journeys