I may be tempting fate (especially since I really liked the book I just finished), but I decided to roll one more time after all:

... which takes me to square 35, European Vacation -- and I think that means the BL-opoly gods really, really want me to use up all of my novelty cards, because that is a square I've already visited twice before and, hence, the perfect square to use my final novelty card, the race car, since I'd really rather read my final book of the game for a square I haven't visited yet at all.

So, passing "GO" one last time, too, I race to the one railroad I haven't visited yet, the Silk Road (square 5): Read a book set in or by an author from one of the 40 countries along the Silk Road. 

I decided to go with Banine's childhood memoirs in Azerbaijan, Days in the Caucasus.  Length: 288 pages -- so if I finish it before August 10, that will give me another $3, which together with the $5 for passing "GO" will bring my total bank balance to $181 (vastly more than I expected to collect at the start of the game).

Here's my robot card selection:

1. Cary Elwes: As You Wish
2. Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Café
3. Banine: Days in the Caucasus
4. Gertrude Bell: A Woman in Arabia
5. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
6. Helene Cooper: The House at Sugar Beach
7. Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals
8. Patrick Leigh Fermor: Between the Woods and the Water
9. Joachim Gauck: Winter in Sommer, Frühling im Herbst
10. Matt Haig: Notes on a Nervous Planet

... and the draw is for ... (drum roll):

So -- Gertrude Bell's A Woman in Arabia it is!

Well, I'm not sure what I've just read (John Le Carré's A Small Town in Germany certainly hasn't aged very well, generally speaking, though in some parts it's eerily prescient); anyway, having finished it, I'm allowed to roll again.

This takes me to square 10: Beach Week -- read a book that appears on any beach reads list or whose author's first or last name begins with any letter in B-E-A-C-H.

Since it's also time to start using the novelty cards I am holding, I'll use one of my two Scottie Dog cards and ask you guys which book I should read next:

1. Gertrude Bell: A Woman in Arabia

2. Joy Ellis: The Guilty Ones

2. Reenee Ahdieh: The Wrath and the Dawn

4. Sara Collins: The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Since I have a few other books going that I'd also like to make progress with, I'm going to leave this open until tonight, possibly tomorrow morning.

* Laura Restrepo: Hot Sur

* Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate

* Ann Leckie: The Raven Tower

* Renee Adieh: The Wrath and the Dawn

UPDATED July 21: The votes are in: The Raven Tower it is.