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My friend is getting married in South Africa next year. Between now and then, I am setting myself a challenge...to read and release 20 or more South African-themed books. Suggestions (and trades/RABCKs) for books to read are welcome! If it's on the list,
and it doesn't have a BCID, I'm still trying to get it. Thanks all for the suggestions.
1. Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda - released to goatgrrl
2. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - traded to Megi53
3. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer thorugh a bookray, on its way to Rrrcaron
4. The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure - thanks so much goatgrrl!
5. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton - read but not linked here yet as I can't seem to get the BCID right - received from sylviap
6. Something by Dave Freer
7. South from the Limpopo by Dervla Murphy - in perfect-circle's bookray
8. Nelson Mandela's The Long Walk to freedom - currently reading
9. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane - available
10. A sport of nature by Nadine Gordimer
11. An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink
- in Shylock's bookring, on it's way to ramya
12. Swahili for the Broken Hearted by Peter Moore - joining Boreal's bookray
13. My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
14. Miriam's Song
15. Don't let's go to the Dogs tonight(growing up in rhodesia & malawi)
16. The Flame trees of thika(growing up in kenya)
17. The Lost World of the Kalahari(bushmen driven from S africa to the kalahari)
18. The Green hills of africa(east,possibly southern africa too, game hunting)
Bookrings/rays I'm participating in:
The Secret Life of Bees - with freckleface74
South from the Limpopo by Dervla Murphy - part of the South African wedding challenge
Swahili for the Broken Hearted by Peter Moore - for the S.A. Challenge



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