#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress

We are having A Year Of International Literature this 2020 #ReadIntl2020.

We are committed to reading as many authors coming from varied countries as much as we can, hence our year of international literature is a testament to that. Essentially, we hope to feature books that fit any of the following criteria:

1. Books that have been translated into English from their original languages.

2. Bilingual books.

3. Books published in English but written or illustrated by non-native English speakers.

4. Books written or illustrated by People of Colour

Similar to what I have done for our #WomenReadWomen2019, I am devoting an entire page to document my progress throughout the year.

Please do take note that this list does not consist of all the books I read this year. To see that, please visit my Goodreads page. This table is meant to keep track of the books I featured here in GatheringBooks that fit our overarching theme of international literature in 2020.

I will constantly be updating this table throughout the year, as and when new books fall into my hands and featured here for our #ReadIntl2020 reading theme.

#	Author / Illustrator	#	Book Title	#	Country	#	Language (Bilingual/ Translated from)
1	Jen Arena (POC)	1	Salsa Lullaby	1	USA	1	Spanish (bilingual)
2	Isabel Quintero (POC)	2	My Papi Has a Motorcycle
	Zeke Peña (POC)
3	Roseanne Thong	3	One Is A Piñata
	John Parra (POC)
4		4	The Power Of Her Pen: The Story Of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne			2	English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Lesa Cline-Ransome (POC)
5	Susan Verde	5	Hey, Wall!
	John Parra (POC)
6	Samantha R. Vamos (POC)	6	The Piñata That The Farm Maiden Hung
7	Susan Middleton Elya	7	La Princesa And The Pea
8	Grace Lin (POC)	8	A Big Bed For Little Snow
9	Linda Ashman	9	Rain!
	Christian Robinson (POC)
10		10	Another
11		11	Just In Case You Want To Fly
	Julie Fogliano
		12	My Best Friend
12	Christian Robinson	13	Carmela Full Of Wishes
	Matt De La Peña
13	Miranda Paul	14	Water Is Water: A Book About The Water Cycle
	Jason Chin (POC)
14	K. A. Holt	15	I Wonder
	Kenard Pak (POC)
15	Mechal Renee Roe (POC)	16	Happy Hair
16	Cara Manes	17	Sonia Delaunay: A Life Of Color
17	Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (POC)	18	Jake Makes A World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem
	Christopher Myers (POC)
18		19	Nighttime Symphony
	Timbaland (POC)
19	Matthew A. Cherry (POC)	20	Hair Love
	Vashti Harrison (POC)
20	Rita Lorraine Hubbard (POC)	21	The Oldest Student: How May Walker Learned To Read
	Oge Mora (POC)
21		22	Saturday
22	Kathleen Krull	23	Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey Of Neil DrGrasse Tyson
	Frank Morrison
23	Jacqueline Woodson (POC)	24	The Day You Begin
24	Leo Dillon (POC)	25	Love And The Rocking Chair
	Diane Dillon
25	Alice Faye Duncan	26	Just Like A Mama
	Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
26	Shannon Wright (POC)	27	My Mommy Medicine
27	Jessie Oliveros	28	The Remember Balloons
28	Parker Curry	29	Parker Looks Up
	Jessica Curry
	Brittany Jackson
29	Quvenzhane Wallis	30	A Night Out With Mama
	Vanessa Brantley-Newton (POC)
30		31	Just Like Me
31		32	The King Of Kindergarten
	Derrick Barnes
32		33	I Am Every Good Thing
	Gordon C. James
33	Kaylani Juanita (POC)	34	Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
34	Huda Fahmy (POC)	35	Yes, I’m Hot In This – The Hilarious Truth About Life In A Hijab
	Mark Siegel		To Dance
35	Sonia Sotomayor (POC, parents from Puerto Rico)	36	Just Ask!
36	Useni Eugene Perkins (POC)	37	Hey Black Child!
	Bryan Collier (POC)
37	Traci Sorell (indigenous community)	38	At The Mountain’s Base
	Weshoyot Alvitre (indigenous community)
38	Octavia Butler (POC)	39	Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
	Damian Duffy
	John Hennings (POC)
39	Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (POC)	40	Layla’s Happiness
	Ashleigh Corrin (POC)
40	Carole Lindstrom (indigenous people)	41	We Are Water Protectors
	Michaela Goade (indigenous people)
41	Breanna J. McDaniel (POC)	42	Hands Up!
	Shane W. Evans (POC)
42	Based on song by Bob Marley (POC)	43	Get Up, Stand Up!
	Cedella Marley (POC)
	John Jay Cabuay (POC)
43	Shani King (POC)	44	Have I Ever Told You?
	Irene Latham	45	The Cat Man Of Aleppo
44		46	Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems Of Race, Mistakes And Friendship
	Charles Waters (POC)
	Sean Qualls (POC)
	Selina Alko
45	Kevin Noble Maillard (member of the Seminole nation)	47	Fry Bread
46	Mary Wagley Copp	48	Wherever I Go
47	Langston Hughes (POC)	49	That Is My Dream!
	Daniel Miyares
48	Tami Charles (POC)	50	Freedom Soup
	Jacqueline Alcantara
49	bell hooks (POC)	51	Skin Again
	Chris Raschka
50	Hena Khan (POC)	52	Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets	3	Arabic (bilingual)
	Merdokht Amini (originally from Iran)					2	UK
	Erika Meza (POC)		Salsa Lullaby		Spanish (bilingual)
	Sebastia Serra		The Piñata That The Farm Maiden Hung			3	Spain
51	Jeronimo Cornelles	53	Mariama: Different But Just The Same (Mariama: Diferente pero igual)		Spanish (translated)
	Nivola Uya
52	Susana Gomez Redondo (translated by Lawrence Schimel)	54	The Day Saida Arrived
53	Laura Borras	55	A Sky Without Lines		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
54	Raul Nieto Guridi	56	Once Upon A time		Spanish (translated)
	Juana Martinez-Neal (now based in the US)		La Princesa And The Pea	4	Peru		Spanish (bilingual)
			Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story				English (neither translated nor bilingual)
55	Issa Watanabe	57	Migrants				Wordless (some words translated from Spanish)
56	Bernardine Evaristo (POC)	58	Girl, Woman, Other		UK		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
57	Guojing (POC)	59	Stormy	5	China		wordless
58	Del Samatar (Somali-American)	60	Monster Portraits	6	Somalia (but both are from the US)		mostly English
	Sofia Samatar (Somali-American)
59	Klaas Verplancke	61	Magritte’s Apple	7	Belgium		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
60	Dominique Goblet	62	Pretending Is Lying			4	French (translated)
61	Christelle Dabos (translated by Hildegarde Serle	63	A Winter’s Promise	8	France
		64	The Missing Of Clairdelune
62	Myriam Ouyessad	65	The Magical Tree: A Children’s Book Inspired by Gustav Klimt				English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Anja Klauss			9	Germany
63	Theodor Fontane (translated by Douglas Parmee)	66	Irretrievable			5	German (translated)
64	Petra Postert (translated by Henriette Schroeder)	67	I Need All Of It
	Jens Rassmus
	Sonja Wimmer		The Day Saida Arrived				Translated from Spanish
	Fatinha Ramos (based in Antwerp but originally from Portugal)		Sonia Delaunay: A Life Of Color	10	Portugal		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
65	Fernando Pessoa (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)	68	The Book Of Disquiet: Definitive Edition			6	Portuguese (translated)
66	Andrzej Sapkowski (translated by Danusia Stok)	69	The Last Wish	11	Poland	7	Polish (translated)
67	Omar Al Owais	70	Salvaged	12	United Arab Emirates		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
68	Dr. Reem El Mutwalli	71	Let’s Play Dress Up				Arabic (bilingual)
69	Germano Zullo	72	Little Bird	13	Switzerland		French (translated)
	Albertine
	Anna Horvath		Have I Ever Told You?				English (neither translated nor bilingual)
70	Karim Al-Dahdah	73	Sitt Sobhiye And The Quest For The White Horse	14	Lebanon		Arabic (bilingual)
71	Dalia Menhall Mirza	74	Who Wants A Mommy With A Moustache?
	Maya Majdalani
72	Maxine Beneba Clarke	75	The Patchwork Bike	15	Australia		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Van Thanh Rudd
73	Shaun Tan	76	Tales From The Inner City
		77	Cicada
	Krystia Basil (originally from Chennai, India but now based in US)		A Sky Without Lines	16	India
74	Mirabai (translated by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield)	78	Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems			8	Hindi (translated)
75	Deborah Underwood (USA)	79	Bearnard’s Book	17	Japan		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Misa Saburi (Japanese)
76	Shinsuke Yoshitake	80	The Boring Book			9	Japanese (translated)
77	Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)	81	Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
	Yuko Shimizu (now based in the US)		The Cat Man Of Aleppo				English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Rafael Lopez (Mexico | USA)		The Day You Begin	18	Mexico		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
			Just Ask
78	Magda Szabo (translated by George Szirtes)	82	Iza’s Ballad	19	Hungary	10	Hungarian (translated)
79	Debbie Ridpath Ohi (POC)	83	Where Are My Books?	20	Canada		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
80	Shelly Becker	84	Even Superheroes Have Bad Days
		85	Even Superheroes Make Mistakes
81	Kyo Maclear	86	Story Boat
		87	It Began With A Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew The Way
	Julie Morstad
82	Jillian Tamaki (POC)		My Best Friend
		88	Our Little Kitchen
83	Heather Smith	89	The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden
	Rachel Wada (of Japanese Cantonese ethnicity)						English (with a few Japanese words)
84	Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)	90	Incidental Inventions	21	Italy	11	Italian (translated)
	Andrea Ucini (Italian based in Denmark)
85	Soosh	91	Dad By My Side	22	Ukraine		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
86	Alina Bronsky (Russian born but living in Germany, translated by Tim Mohr)	92	Baba Dunja’s Last Love	23	Russia		German (translated)
87	Yrsa Sigurdardottir (translated by Philip Roughton)	93	I Remember You	24	Iceland	12	Icelandic (translated)
88	Ge Fei (translated by Canaan Morse)	94	The Invisibility Cloak	25	China	13	Chinese (translated)
89	Kat Zhang (Chinese American – based in the US)	95	Amy Wu And The Perfect Bao				English (neither translated nor bilingual)
90	Behrouz Boochani (Kurdish-Iranian now based in Australia, translated by Omid Tofighian)	96	No Friend But The Mountains	26	Iran	14	Farsi (translated)
91	Rashin Kheiriyeh		Story Boat				English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Samara Cole Doyon (Haitian American)		Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration	27	Haiti		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
	Edwidge Danticat (Haitian American)		My Mommy Medicine
	Dana Wulfekotte (Korean American)		The Remember Balloons	28	South Korea
	Kaa Illustration		Nighttime Symphony	29	Vietnam
92	Thao Lam	97	The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story
	Eda Kaban (born and raised in Turkey but now based in US		Even Superheroes Have Bad Days	30	Turkey
			Even Superheroes Make Mistakes
93	Ray Jayawardhana (from Sri Lanka now based in US)	98	Child Of The Universe	31	Sri Lanka
	Raul Colon (now based in US)			32	Puerto Rico
94	Siena Cherson Siegel (now based in US)	99	To Dance
95	Fredrik Backman	100	A Man Called Ove	33	Sweden	15	Swedish (translated)
96	Radwa Ashour	101	The Woman From Tantoura	34	Egypt		Arabic (translated)
97	Gerry Alanguilan	102	Elmer	35	Philippines		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
98	Maria Wernicke (translated by Lawrence Schimel)	103	Some Days	36	Argentina		Translated from Spanish
99	Innosanto Nagara (Indonesian – now living in the US)	104	My Night In The Planetarium	37	Indonesia		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
100	Aisha Saeed (Pakistani American – based in the US)	105	Bilal Cooks Daal	38	Pakistan
	Anoosha Syed (Pakistani Canadian – based in Canada)
	Charlene Chua (Singaporean based in Canada)		Amy Wu And The Perfect Bao	39	Singapore
101	Ghassan Kanafani (translated by Hilary Kilpatrick)	106	Men In The Sun And Other Palestinian Stories	40	Palestine		Arabic (translated)
	Munir Mohammed (now based in US but originally from Ghana)		Wherever I Go	41	Ghana		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
102	Karim Shamsi-Basha (now based in Alabama)		The Cat Man Of Aleppo	42	Syria		English (neither translated nor bilingual)
103	Gulnar Hajo	107	Nour’s Escape				Arabic (translated)
	Abir Ali (translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp)			43	Oman
104	Einat Tsarfati (translated by Annette Appel)	108	The Neighbors	44	Israel	16	Hebrew (translated)
105	Marit Larsen (translated by Kari Dickson)	109	Agnes’s Place	45	Norway	17	Norwegian (translated)
	Jenny Løvlie