I started this page for reading projects I undertook over the years 2021-2025, but it is now mostly for works I’ve read & reviewed, sorted by Region and Country. You’ll find the lists for Projects which were not Region based are still there at the bottom.

Black Africa (2024)

Project 2024 – Africa List
The Makerere Generation
Cameroon
Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were (2021)
Ethiopia
Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (2019) review by Tasmanian Bibliophile@Large
Ghana
Peace Adzo Medie, His Only Wife (2021)
Kenya
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Weep Not Child (1964)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow (2006)
Vale Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Binyavanga Wainaina, One Day I will write about this Place (2011)
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, The House of Rust (2021)
Nigeria
Amos Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952)
Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (1960)
Flora Nwapa, Efuru (1966)
Flora Nwapa, Idu (1970)
Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half a Yellow Sun (2006)
Nnedi Okrafor, Who Fears Death (2010)
Nnedi Okrafor, Lagoon (2014)
Nnedi Okrafor, The Book of Phoenix (2015)
Nnedi Okrafor, Death of the Author (2026)
Teju Cole, Open City (2011)
Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread (2020)
Ukamaka Olisakwe, Ogadinma: or, Everything Will Be All Right (2020)
Rawanda
Yolande Mukagasana, Not My Time to Die (1997)
Senegal
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, The Most Secret Memory of Men (2021)
Sierra Leone
Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones (2006)
Somalia
Giuseppe Catozzella (Italy), Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid (2016) the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
Tanzania
Abdulrazak Gurnah, After Lives (2020)
Euphrase Kezilahabi, Rosa Mistika (1971)
Uganda
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl is a Body of Water (2020)
Zimbabwe
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1988)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body (2020)
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (2013)
Sue Nyathi, The Golddiggers (2018)

North Africa, Palestine, West Asia

Iran
Hossein Asgari (Aust) Only Sound Remains (2023) Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad
Palestine
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2006)
Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World (2020)
Randa Abdel-Fattah (Aust), Does My Head Look Big in This (2005)
Randa Abdel-Fattah (Aust), Discipline (2025)
Turkiye
Şebnem İşigüzel, The Girl in the Tree (2016)

North America: First Nations & African American (2022)

Project 2022
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter (1930)
Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, (1934)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were watching God (1937)
Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) guest review by Melanie/GTL
Alex Hayley, Roots (1976)
James Baldwin, Just above my Head (1979)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
Toni Morrison, Recitatif (1983)
Mini Aodla Freeman, Life among the Qallunaat (1978,2015)
Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread (2020)
Octavia E Butler, Kindred (1979)
Octavia E Butler, Parable of the Sower (1988)
Octavia E Butler, Parable of the Talents (1998)
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist (1999)
Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach (2000)
Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (2017)
Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000)
Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads (2003)
Nalo Hopkinson, Blackheart Man (2024)
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian (2012)
Teju Cole, Open City (2011)
Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves (2008)
Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers (2017)
Tanya Talaga, The Knowing (2024)
Brian Thomas Isaac, All the Quiet Places (2021)
Norma Dunning, Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? (2022)
Conor Kerr, Prairie Edge (2024)

North America: Beat Generation & Grunge

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952)
William Burroughs, Junky (1953, 1977)
William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch (1959)
JD Salinger, Franny and Zooey (1961)
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (1961)
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966)
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls get the Blues (1976)
Jaques Poulin, Volkswagen Blues (1984)
Kathy Acker, In memoriam to identity (1990)
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991)
Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues (1995)
Dave Newman, Two Small Birds, Writers Tribe Books (2013)

Canada

Frances Brooke (UK), The History of Emily Montague (1769)
Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
RM Ballantyne (UK), The Young Fur Traders (1856)
Nellie McClung, Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908)
Nellie McClung, The Second Chance (1910)
Nellie McClung, Purple Springs (1921)
LM Montgomery, The Blue Castle (1926)
LM Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
Martha Ostenso, Wild Geese (1925)
Ethel Wilson, Swamp Angel (1954)
Sheila Watson, The Double Hook (1959)
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966)
Leonard Cohen, Suzanne (1967)
Margaret Lawrence, The Diviners (1974)
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969)
Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970, 1997)
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (1972)
Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle (1976)
Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man (1979)
Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm (1981)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (1988)
Atwood, le Guin & SF
Mini Aodla Freeman, Life among the Qallunaat (1978, 2015)
Aritha van Herk, The Tent Peg (1981)
Jaques Poulin, Volkswagen Blues (1984)
Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)
Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000)
Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads (2003)
Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon’s Arms (2007)
Nalo Hopkinson, Blackheart Man (2024)
Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach (2000)
Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (2017)
Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers (2017)
Tanya Talaga, The Knowing (2024)
Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread (2020)
Brian Thomas Isaac, All the Quiet Places (2021)
Norma Dunning, Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? (2022)
Rebecca Campbell, Arboreality (2022)
Conor Kerr, Prairie Edge (2024)

All the rest of the Americas

Japan

Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball (1979,80)
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (1999)
Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library (2005)
Haruki Murakami, After Dark (2007)
Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2009)
Haruki Murakami, Desire (2017) Short stories
Haruki Murakami, The City and its Uncertain Walls (2024)
Izumi Suzuki, Set My Heart on Fire (1983)
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (1994)
Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes & Earrings (2005)
Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman (2016)
Sayaka Murata, Earthlings (2018)
Minae Mizumura, An I-Novel (2021)

All the rest of Asia

India
Rabindranath Tagore, Stories from Tagore (1918)
PC Wren (UK), Worth Wile (1937)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025)
Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived (2018)
Sri Lanka
Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors (2023)
Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall (2024) BIP Review
Vietnam
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War (1990)

Flat Whites (Australia has its own Page)

Ursula K le Guin Prize (SF) winners*

Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
Ursula K le Guin, City of Illusions (1976)
Ursula K Le Guin, Where on Earth: Selected Stories Vol. 1 (2012)
Atwood, le Guin & SF

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, The House of Rust (2021)*
Rebecca Campbell, Arboreality (2022)*
Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark (2022)
Zain Khalid, Brother Alive (2022)
Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors (2023)
Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever then it’s Over (2023)*
Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory (2023)
Samantha Harvey, Orbital (2023) This Reading Life review
Yuri Herrera, Ten Planets, And Other Stories (2023)
Nalo Hopkinson, Blackheart Man (2024)
Andrea Hairston, Archangels of Funk (2024)
Margaret Kiljoy, The Sapling Cage (2024)
Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall (2024)* BIP Review
Ursula Witcher, North Continent Ribbon (2024)
Michel Nieva, Dengue Boy (2025)
Yume Kitasei, Saltcrop (2025)

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders (2025)

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) BIP 1, BIP 2, wadh, This Reading Life
Leo Tolstoy, Alyosha the Pot (1905) BIP 1, BIP 2, wadh, This Reading Life

12 Books of Boyhood (2023)

PC Wren, Beau Ideal (1928)
Martin Boyd, A Difficult Young Man (1955)
John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Jack London, The Iron Heel (1908)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse (1839)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Ubervilles (1891)
Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate (1949)
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945)
William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch (1959)
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (1961)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Obsolete Communism: the left-wing alternative (some time …)

Such is Life by Joseph Furphy (2021)

Such is Life: (01), (02), (03), (04), (05), (06), (07), (08), (09), (10), (11), (12)