Six in Six 2023

 
From The Book Jotter

I found this through one of my blogger friends, Emma @ Words and Peace who was made aware of it though Jo @ The Book Jotter. Jo started this in 2012, so congratulations on doing it that long and providing us with a great way to reminisce about our books of the year so far.
She has given us 52 categories from which we can choose six and mention six books that belong into those categories. (But one book can be in several lists, see her rules here).

I have tried to stick to books that I liked but didn't succeed in every category.

Six new authors to me

Arenz, Ewald "The Big Summer" (GE: Der grosse Sommer) - 2019
Dangarembga, Tsitisi "Nervous Conditions" - 1988
Güngör, Dilek "My Turkish Grandmother's Secret" (GE: Das Geheimnis meiner türkischen Großmutter) - 2007
Kurkow, Andrej "Grey Bees" (RUS: Серые пчелы/Seryye Pchely) - 2019
Taha, Karosh "In the Belly of the Queen" (GE: Im Bauch der Königin) - 2020
Wood, Levison "Eastern Horizons. Hitchhiking the Silk Road" - 2017

Six authors I have read before

Ansay, A. Manette "Blue Water" - 2006'
Brooks, Geraldine "People of the Book" - 2008

Bythell, Shaun "Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops" - 2020

Hislop, Victoria "Maria's Island" - 2021

Rutherfurd, Edward "New York" - 2009

Şafak, Elif "The Island of Missing Trees" - 2021

Six authors I read last year - but not so far this year

I have only included authors where I would like to read more.

Böll, Heinrich "The Silent Angel" (GE: Der Engel schwieg) - 1949/50

Chevalier, Tracy "The Last Runaway" - 2013

Eliot, George "Silas Marner" - 1861

Lawson, Mary "A Town Called Solace" - 2021

Leky, Mariana "What You Can See From Here" (GE: Was man von hier aus sehen kann) - 2017

Orth, Stephan "Absolutely Locked Out" (GE: Absolutely Ausgesperrt) - 2022

Six books that took me on extraordinary journeys

Abulhawa, Susan "Against the Loveless World" - 2020

Dangarembga, Tsitisi "Nervous Conditions" - 1988

Ibrahimi, Anilda "Red Like a Bride" (IT: Rosso come una sposa/Rot wie eine Braut) - 2008

Keefe, Patrick Radden "Say Nothing. A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" - 2018

Kurkow, Andrej "Grey Bees" (RUS: Серые пчелы/Seryye Pchely) - 2019

Wood, Levison "Eastern Horizons. Hitchhiking the Silk Road" - 2017

Six Non-US/Non-British Authors

All of the above with the extraordinary journeys but there are quite a few others that I would like to include.

Hajaj, Claire "Ishmael's Oranges" - 2014

Mahfouz, Naguib "Midaq Alley" (arab: زقاق المدق/Zuqaq El Midaq) - 1947

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The City of Mist" (E: La Ciudad de Vapor - El cementerio de los libros olvidados #5) - 2020

Suttner, Bertha von "Lay Down Your Arms!" (GE: Die Waffen nieder!) - 1889

Taha, Karosh "In the Belly of the Queen" (GE: Im Bauch der Königin) - 2020

Ulitzkaya, Lyudmila "Medea and Her Children" (Медея и её дети/ Medeja i eë deti) - 1996

Six classics I have read

Some of them, I have already mentioned, but I have not read more than that, so I'm sorry for the repeat:
Kazantzakis, Nikos "The Last Temptation of Christ" (GR: Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός, O telefteos pirasmos) - 1951
Lagerkvist, Pär "Barabbas" (S: Barabbas) - 1950
Mahfouz, Naguib "Midaq Alley" (arab: زقاق المدق/Zuqaq El Midaq) - 1947
Mann, Heinrich "Man of Straw", "The Patrioteer", or "The Loyal Subject" (GE: Der Untertan) - 1914
Stein, Gertrude "Paris France" - 1940
Suttner, Bertha von "Lay Down Your Arms!" (GE: Die Waffen nieder!) - 1889

If you like the idea as much as I do, go ahead, choose your own "Six in Six" and let Jo know.

Six in Six 2022.