2025 – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders.

Anton Chekhov, In the Cart (1897) Buried in Print, This Reading Life, wadh (me)
Ivan Turgenev, The Singers (1852) BIP 1, BIP 2, This Reading Life, wadh
Anton Chekhov, The Darling (1899) BIP 1, BIP 2, wadh, This Reading Life
Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man (1895) BIP 1, BIP 2, wadh, This Reading Life
Nikolai Gogol, The Nose (1836) BIP 1, BIP 2, wadh, This Reading Life
Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries (1898)
Leo Tolstoy, Alyosha the Pot (1905)

2024 – Black Africa

Project 2024 – Africa List
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), No Longer at Ease
Ben Okri (Nigeria), The Famished Road
NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), We Need New Names
Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia), The Shadow King (review by Tasmanian Bibliophile@Large)
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (Kenya), The House of Rust
Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Nervous Conditions
Peace Adzo Medie (Ghana), His Only Wife
Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon), How Beautiful We Were
Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya), One Day I will write about this Place
Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone),  Ancestor Stones
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania), After Lives
Yolande Mukagasana (Rawanda), Not My Time to Die
from previous years –
Nnedi Okrafor (Nigeria), Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okrafor (Nigeria), The Book of Phoenix
Giuseppe Catozzella, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid – the story of Samia Yusuf Omar (Somalia)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Kenya),  Wizard of the Crow
Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), This Mournable Body
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda), A Girl is a Body of Water
added in following years –
Nnedi Okrafor (Nigeria), Lagoon
The Makerere Generation
Vale Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Flora Nwapa (Nigeria), Efuru

2023 – 12 Books of Boyhood

PC Wren, Beau Ideal
Martin Boyd, A Difficult Young Man
John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Jack London, The Iron Heel
Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Ubervilles
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Obsolete Communism: the left-wing alternative (some time …)

2022 – North America: First Nations & African American writing

Project 2022
Alex Hayley, Roots
Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
Octavia E Butler, Kindred
Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2)
Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber
Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers
James Baldwin, Just above my Head
Mini Aodla Freeman, Life among the Qallunaat
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were watching God
Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster
Toni Morrison, Recitatif
from previous years –
Octavia E Butler, Parable of the Sower
Octavia E Butler, Parable of the Talents
added in following years –
Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads
Nalo Hopkinson, Blackheart Man
Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian

2021 – Such is Life by Joseph Furphy

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