All The Books I Haven't Read

August Beginning TBR: 416
August Ending TBR: 416

(This is two months in a row that my TBR count has stayed the same despite reading 10+ books.)

Books read in August as of 8/25: 10

Reading USA progress: 34/51

Reading Canada progress: 3/13

Reading The Americas progress: 24/46

Reading Africa progress: 31/53

Reading Asia progress: 35/45

Reading Oceania progress: 7/15

Reading Europe progress: 7/51

For several years now I have been working on reading a book set in each country on Earth. Also I set a yearly goal to read a book set in every US state (plus DC) and every Canadian province.

I spent the summer chasing the new releases and reading what I wanted. But now it’s back to school time and I’m getting serious about working towards my reading goals. I’m hoping that aside from finishing my Reading USA and Reading Canada challenges before the end of the year I can also finish Reading Asia and Reading Oceania. I’ve found some great titles for September so I’m really looking forward to my reading this month!

My September TBR:

1) 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer (work book club)

2) Tales From The Torrid Zone by Alexander Frater (Reading Oceania Fiji)

3) Micronesian Blues by Bryan Vila and Cynthia Morris (Reading Oceania Micronesia)

4) Pacific by Simon Winchester (Reading Oceania Tuvalu)

5) Vanished by Wil Hylton (Reading Oceania Palau)

6) Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Reading Oceania Papua New Guinea)

7) Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent (Reading Oceania Solomon Islands)

8) A Tortise for the Queen of Tonga by Julia Whitty (Reading Oceania Tonga)

9) Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins (Reading USA state TBD)

10) The Daughters of Block Island by Crista Carmen (Reading USA Rhode Island)

11) Sunburn by Laura Lippman (Reading USA Delaware)

12) Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie (Reading USA Kentucky)

13) Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe (Reading USA South Carolina)

14) Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Reading Asia Brunei)

15) Central Asia by Adeeb Khalid (Reading Asia Tajikistan)

16) You Again? by Nick Spalding (Reading Asia Maldives)

17) The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell (Reading Asia Bahrain)

18) The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Food And Lit Litsy challenge Malaysia)

19) Author A Month challenge on Litsy- something by TJ Klune

20) The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen (Chapter a day buddy read on Litsy)

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In about an hour I should finish my last book from my 2023 Reading USA challenge. I started doing this with a group on Litsy about five years ago. I’m not sure anyone else is still doing this challenge, but I keep going each year. For me it’s a fun way to give direction to my random reading. I don’t always finish the challenge, but this year I did.

I don’t have hard and fast rules about what I count as “set in a sate.” For books that cover multiple states I usually just want at least one memorable scene set in a state. Year after year Delaware and Indiana are the hardest states to fill. And it might be my imagination, but it seems like every other book is set in Maine these days.