I have an ongoing challenge for myself to read books written by authors who are from the Southern Hemisphere or books that are set south of the equator. So how did I do this year?
I started out with an accidental entry in this challenge. This series is set in the U.S. I didn’t know that the author was Australian until I started seeing some issues with her depiction of U.S. history. Then I looked up where she was from and realized that:
- Yay – I started off the year with an Australian author but
- Boo – I better put this series down before it got any more racially problematic. I’m thinking it was because the author wasn’t well versed in the history of the area she was writing about. That’s the nice explanation.
We’re back to Australia for this story of a woman reclaiming a junkyard to make a vineyard.
Once again the book is set in the U.S. However, Nailing Singh is from New Zealand so I’m counting it.
Nick Kristof is an American journalist but this book takes place all over the world. Some of it is in sub-Equatorial Africa so I’m sneaking it on the list.
This book talks about groups making chocolate from wild cocao all over Central and South America – but it talks a lot about groups in Brazil and Bolivia so it is on the list.
This is the story of a woman from Ecuador who lived in the forest with her family until she was taken away by missionaries as a teenager.
Athough this book is set in England, the author is Australian so I’m counting it!
