Reading Challenges 2018

Reading Challenges 2018

Total books for the year

2018 - 339/100 completed

2017 - 347/100 completed

2016 - 136/100 completed

2015 - 276/100 completed

2014 - 206/100 completed

2013 - 134/100 completed

2012 - 104/100 completed

2011 - 156/100 completed

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2018 My Ancestry Around the World 32/32 (DONE)

I always choose four or five reading challenges for the year, but this year I decided to combine several and to also do something different.  I’m fascinated by genealogy and DNA and studying different cultures, so I’ve chosen twenty cultures that my own ancestors lived in to read about.  A fictional book set in each location, as well as a non-fiction to learn more about the cultures.

Gaoshan - Aboriginal Taiwan

F - Ghost Month by Ed Lin

NF - Gaoshan by Fmprc Seac

Hawai’i - 

F - Kaiulani: The People's Princess by Ellen Emerson White

NF - Ancestry of Experience by Dr Leilani Holmes

Spain - Andalucia/Sephardic

F - Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

NF - Andalucia: A Cultural History by John Gill

Portugal -

F - The Virgin of the Wind Rose by Glen Craney

NF - Portugal - Culture Smart by De Quieroz & Sandy Gueses

Norway - Viking

F - Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller

NF - Happy Times in Norway by Sigrid Undset

French Pyrenees - Basque

F - Biarritz Passion by Laurette Long

NF - The Basque Country by Paddy Woodworth

Basque Spain - 

F - Guernica by Dave Boling

NF - A Basque Diary by Alex Hallatt

Cuba - 

F - The Distant Marvels by Chantal 

NF - Cuba - Culture Smart by Russell Maddicks

Puerto Rico - 

F - The Coqui and the Iguana by Alidis Vicente

NF - Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jorge Duany

Taino - 

F - Taino: The People Who Met Columbus by Donald H. Sullivan

NF - The Tainos: The People Who Welcomed Columbus by Francine Jacobs

West Africa - Yoruba/Nigeria

F - The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka

NF - The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts by Baba Ifa Karade

North Africa - 

F - The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore

NF - Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King

Northern/Southern Han - southern China

F - Lady of Chi’ao Kuo by Lawrence Yep

NF - Han by Luc Guo & Fmprc Seac

Siberia - Koryak/Chukchi/West Beringian

F - Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

NF - The Shaman’s Coat by Anna Reid

Filipino - Cebu

F - The Tesseract by Alex Garland

NF - The Forgotten Children of Maui by Lain Wilcken

Neanderthal - 

F - The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron

NF - Them + Us by Danny Vendramini