Hello and happy Sunday. I just realized that since I first introduced the “Reading Passport” Challenge there might be new readers who don’t know what this is. You might not even know who I am, so let me tell you. I’m a school teacher, and an initiative promoted by the library team is this passport with countries written on it.

The idea for adults who want to participate on this challenge is that they must read a book by an author of each nationality in the passport and then tell someone from the library about it. Even though I do want to read written by people, especially women, from diverse backgrounds, I’m not going to tell someone from the library about them. That doesn’t seem very organic to me, which means I’m not really going to participate in the challenge at work, just here, with you.

With that background, I can give you an update of the books I’ve read and the titles I still haven’t gotten to.

COLOMBIA: Qué hacer con estos pedazos-Piedad Bonnet (Read Sept. 2023)

USA: Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Read Sept. 2023)

MEXICO: Sensación Térmica by Mayte López (Read Dec. 2024)

ICELAND: Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

CANADA: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Read Nov. 2023)

UK: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Read Sept. 2023)

MOROCCO: Sexo y mentiras by Leila Slimani (Read Oct. 2023)

TURKEY: Mis últimos 10 minutos y 38 segundos by Elif Shafak

EGYPT: Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Thawy

INDIA: La hondonada by Jhumpa Lahiri

RUSSIA: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

CHINA: American Born Chinese by Gene Lueng Yang (Read Mar. 2024)

AUSTRALIA: The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty

JAPAN: De pronto oigo la voz del agua by Hiromi Kawakami (Read Jan. 2025)

INDONESIA: The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata

SOUTH AFRICA: Amnesia Colectiva by Koleka Putuma

KENYA: One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina

ARGENTINA: Tesis sobre una domesticación by Camila Sosa Villada

BRAZIL: Crow Blue by Adriana Lisboa

PERU: Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti by Gabriela Wiener

COLOMBIA: Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien by Héctor Abad Faciolince