As a connoisseur of books, I traipse through a destination, before embarking on my journey, by way of literary fiction, travel stories, or memoirs. Sometimes, though not often, I read historical accounts. I enjoy the process of immersing myself in a place before I go, getting a feel for the culture, the people, and what defines a place. Reading ignites my imagination about a place and its inhabitants. It also extends my travel time. 🙂
The following list of books, set in countries all over the world, is a work in process. I invite readers to suggest additional books set in these locales in the comments below. I’m most interested in including memoir, literary fiction, historical accounts or essays, and even guidebooks. Links to Goodreads and star ratings (1-5) are provided for books I’ve read; if you click on them you may be able to read my review (if I wrote one!). The ones in bold green are books I own but haven’t read. The others are suggestions for future reading. 🙂
GENERAL WORLD TRAVEL BOOKS
- The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton *****
- The Mindful Traveler: A Guide to Journaling and Transformative Travel by Jim Currie *****
- The Way of the Traveler: Making Every Trip a Journey of Self-Discovery by Joseph Dispenza *****
- The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred by Phil Cousineau ****
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert *****
- A Woman’s Path: Women’s Best Spiritual Travel Writing, ed. Lucy McCauley ****
- Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach ****
- Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach
- Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents by Elisabeth Eaves ****
- Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1) by Nick Bantock *****
- Sabine’s Notebook (Griffin & Sabine #2) by Nick Bantock
- The Golden Mean (Griffin & Sabine #3) by Nick Bantock
- the way of the wanderer: discover your true self through travel by David Yeadon ***
- Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers by Nancy Pearl
- The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World by Kim Dinan
- Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign by Pico Iyer
- Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer
- To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey From Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
- Nomad’s Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom
- Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings by Paul Theroux
- Figures in a Landscape by Paul Theroux
- The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road by Paul Theroux
- One Year Off by David Elliott Cohen
- Travel, Sex, & Train Wrecks by Julie Morey (Kindle)
- Wanderland: Living the Traveling Life by Kate Evans
- Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel
- Sacred Places of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations (Journeys of a Lifetime) by National Geographic Society
- the singular pilgrim: travels on sacred ground by Rosemary Mahoney
- Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers, Ed. Jane Robinson
- A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Ed. by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick
- 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List by Patricia Schultz
- The Solo Traveler’s Handbook by Janice Leith Waugh
- The Volunteer Traveler’s Handbook by Janice Leith Waugh
- The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone
- National Geographic Student World Atlas (4th Edition)
- Merriam-Webster’s Student Atlas
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
BOOKS SET IN PARTICULAR COUNTRIES
- Afghanistan
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ****
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini ****
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (saw the play 1/26/20)
- The Bookseller of Kabul by
- An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot
- The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
- The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life in Love & War by Lynsey Addario (also Iraq, Sudan, Libya)
- American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Grant by Ann Scott Tyson
- The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes
- 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai
- A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman
- The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
- Albania
- Broken April by Ismail Kadare
- Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
- Agamemnon’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories by Ismail Kadare
- The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania by Robert Carver
- Algeria
- The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane **
- The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier (Tunisia. Crete. Turkey.)
- Nedjma by Yacine Kateb
- The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek
- The Last Life by Claire Messud
- The Star of Algiers by Aziz Chouaki
- Women of Algiers in their Apartment by
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Century of Locusts by
- Some Dream for Fools by Faïza Guène, Jennifer L. Johnson , Jenna Johnson
- Andorra
- If You Dare (MacCarrick Brothers #1) by Kresley Cole (historical romance)
- Angola
- A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa ****
- Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey Into Angola by Daniel Metcalfe
- Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
- A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
- Dancing Nude in the Moonlight by Joanne C. Hillhouse
- Argentina
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
- The Disappeared by Gloria Whelan
- Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
- The Tango Singer by Tomás Eloy Martínez
- In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
- Enduring Patagonia by Gregory Crouch
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
- My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain by Patricio Pron
- El Túnel by Ernesto Sábato
- We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop
- Armenia
- Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian ****
- An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
- Three Apples Fell From Heaven by
- The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians by Philip Marsden
- Daughter of War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
- Australia
- The Thorn Birds by
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute *****
- Tracks by Robyn Davidson
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- Force of Nature by Jane Harper
- The Survivors by Jane Harper
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
- The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
- Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
- Dirt Music by Tim Winton
- The Turning by Tim Winton
- The Secret River (Thornhill Family #1) by Kate Grenville
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
- Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
- Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
- The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
- The Yield by Tara June Winch
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
- On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
- The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes
- One for the Road: An Outback Adventure by Tony Horwitz
- Tasmania
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- Austria
- The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
- A Time of Gifts (Trilogy #1) by Patrick Leigh Fermor (& Germany, Hungary)
- The Bells by Richard Harvell
- Vienna
- The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
- All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- Exile Music by Jennifer Steil (also Bolivia)
- The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
- Azerbaijan
- Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said
- Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter’s Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic by Thomas Goltz
- The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
- The Bahamas
- Kiss Heaven Goodbye by Tasmina Perry
- The Far Side of the Sun by Kate Furnivall
- The Night Manager by John le Carré (also Cairo)
- The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
- Pirates! by Celia Rees
- Kiss Heaven Goodbye by Tasmina Perry
- Bahrain
- The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
- Bangladesh
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunnus ****
- Lajja: Shame by
- The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
- A Golden Age (Bangla Desh #1) by Tahmima Anam
- Barbados
- The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
- Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
- The Dream Keeper’s Daughter by Emily Colin
- No Man in the House by Cecil Foster
- The Summer Country by Lauren Willig
- How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
- Belarus
- Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich
- Belgium
- In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby (also France)
- The Bridge of Years: A Novel by May Sarton
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
- A Tall Man in a Low Land by Harry Pearson
- Belize
- Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico by Ronald Wright
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
- Married to Bhutan by Linda Leaming
- A Field Guide to Happiness by Linda Leaming
- A Painter’s Year in the Forests of Bhutan by A.K. Hellum
- Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth by Lisa Napoli
- The Heart of the Buddha by Elsie Sze
- Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan by Ken Haigh
- Buttertea at Sunrise: A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya by Britta Das
- Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende
- Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: A Journey Through Bhutan by Katie Hickman
- Tales in Colour and Other Stories by Kunzang Choden
- The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
- Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer
- Bolivia
- Exile Music by Jennifer Steil (also Vienna, Austria)
- The Matter of Desire: A Novel by by Edmundo Paz Soldán, Lisa Carter, translator
- Purity by Jonathan Franzen
- Let Me Speak (Memoir) by Domitila Barrios de Chungara
- The Fat Man from La Paz (stories) edited by Rosario Santos
- Marching Powder (Autobiography) by Rusty Young & Thomas McFadden
- Whispering in the Giant’s Ear (Memoir) by William Powers
- Beyond the Snows of the Andes (Memoir) by Beatrice Brusic
- The Bolivian Times by Tim Elliott
- Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- Ghost Train Through the Andes: On My Grandfather’s Trail in Chile and Bolivia by Michael Jacobs
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The Stone Fields: Love & Death in the Balkans by Courtney Angela Brkic (Kindle) ****
- The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile and Return by Kenan Trebincevic
- Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
- Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine di Giovanni
- Speak, Silence by Kim Echlin
- Sarajevo
- The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon (& Chicago)
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway *****
- Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Barbara Demick
- Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid & Hana Schofield
- The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon (& Chicago)
- Botswana
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
- Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
- Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
- In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
- Botswana Time by Will Randall
- Mating by Norman Rush
- Mortals by Norman Rush
- When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
- A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
- The Second Death of Good Luck Tinubu by Michael Stanley
- Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
- Brazil
- All Is Beauty Now by Sarah Faber
- In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende (& Guatemala & Chile)
- We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop
- The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
- Brazil by John Updike
- A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
- Heliopolis by James Scudamore
- The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
- Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
- Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
- Ancient Tillage by Raduan Nassar
- There Were Many Horses by Luiz Ruffato
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
- Blood of the Wicked (Chief Inspector Mario Silva #1) by Leighton Gage
- Buried Strangers (Chief Inspector Mario Silva #2) by Leighton Gage
- In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O’Hanlon
- The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir by Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming
- A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G. Campbell
- Amazon Rainforest (Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, etc.)
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett *****
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
- Café Europa: Life After Communisim by Slavenka Drakulić
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- The Disappeared by Kim Echlin *****
- The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam ****
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Daughter of Cambodia #1) by
- When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
- Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So (Cambodian-Americans in CA)
- Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by
- Three Flames by Alan Lightman
- In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
- A Cambodian Odyssey by Haing Ngor, Roger Warner
- The King’s Last Song by Geoff Ryman
- Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors
- When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution by Elizabeth Becker
- The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
- The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
- River of Time by John Swain
- Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien
- Holiday in Cambodia (stories) by Laura Jean McKay
- Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne
- To the End of Hell: One Woman’s Struggle to Survive Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge by Denise Affonço, Margaret Burn , Katie Hogben
- Song for an Approaching Storm by Peter Fröberg Idling (Goodreads Author), Peter Graves
- Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador by Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen
- Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short
- The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields by Nic Dunlop
- The Gate by François Bizot
- A Cambodian Prison Portrait by Vann Nath
- The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras
- A Dragon Apparent by Norman Lewis
- Phnom Penh by Milton Osborne
- Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
- When Clouds Fell From the Sky by Robert Carmichael
- A Woman of Angkor by John Burgess
- To Cambodia with Love by Twefic El-Sawy – Essay collection, 2010
- Cameroon
- How Beautiful We Were: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue (unidentified African country)
- Canada
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- Alberta
- Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
- British Columbia (including Vancouver)
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ****
- Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (& Pacific Northwest)
- The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
- The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee
- Y by Marjorie Celona
- The Boat People by Sharon Bala
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- The Age by Nancy Lee
- The Spawning Grounds by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- Shelter by Frances Greenslade
- Manitoba
- The River: A Novel by Peter Heller
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- New Brunswick
Letters from Helen: A Canadian Student in Germany on the Eve of the Great War by Helen Vanwart- The Birthday Lunch by Joan Clark ***
- Newfoundland & Labrador
- Latitudes of Melt by Joan Clark
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
- The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston (also New York)
- The Innocents by Michael Crummey
- Sweetland by Michael Crummey
- River Thieves: A Novel by Michael Crummey
- The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
- The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami by Linden MacIntyre
- Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 by Cassie Brown
- Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter
- Kit’s Law by Donna Morrissey
- Whirl Away: Stories by Russell Wangersky
- Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome by Megan Gail Coles
- Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
- Wild Pieces: Stories by Catherine Hogan Safer
- Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan
- February by Lisa Moore
- A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat
- The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float by Farley Mowat
- Part of the Main by Peter Neary & Patrick O’Flaherty
- Lament for an Ocean by Michael Harris
- Northwest Territories
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Nova Scotia
- When the Saints by Sarah Mian ****
- In the Field by Claire Tacon *****
- Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
- My Famous Evening by Howard Norman
- The Birth House by Ami McKay
- Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada Fodor’s Travel ****
- Ontario (including Toronto & Ottowa)
- China Dog: And Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry by Judy Fong Bates ****
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Michigan) ****
- A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon
- Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay
- Unless by Carol Shields ****
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung
- Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Fight Night by Miriam Toews
- Prince Edward Island
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery (Kindle) ****
- Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2) by L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables #3) by L.M. Montgomery
- The Blue Moth Motel by Olivia Robinson
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery (Kindle) ****
- Quebec
- The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
- Ru by Kim Thúy
- Saskatchewan
- A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay ****
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
- Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
- My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende (& Guatemala & Brazil)
- Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World by Francisco Coloane
- The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
- Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
- Travels in a Thin Country by Sarah Wheeler
- The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
- China
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang *****
- Waiting by Ha Jin *****
- The Crazed by Ha Jin ***
- A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin
- A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin
- Red Azalea by Anchee Min ****
- The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan ****
- The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan ****
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Saijie ****
- China Dog: And Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry by Judy Fong Bates ****
- Cries in the Drizzle by Yu Hua ****
- A Cup of Light by Nicole Mones ****
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See *****
- Peony in Love by Lisa See ****
- China Dolls by Lisa See **
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (China Trilogy #1) by Peter Hessler (Kindle) ****
- Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream by John Derbyshire **
- Monkey Hunting by Cristina García
- My Last Empress by Da Chen (Kindle)
- Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen (Kindle)
- The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck (Kindle)
- Sons (House of Earth, #2) by Pearl S. Buck
- A House Divided (House of Earth #3) by Pearl S. Buck
- The Mother by Pearl S. Buck
- Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck
- Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
- Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck
- East Wind: West Wind by Pearl S. Buck
- Peony by Pearl S. Buck
- Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck
- Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck
- The Promise by Pearl S. Buck
- Frontiers of Heaven: A Journey to the End of China by Stanley Stewart
- Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley
- Little Gods by Ling Jen
- China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford
- Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays by Bill Holm
- Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson
- Six Records of a Floating Life by Shěn Fù
- God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence
- A Single Pebble by John Hersey
- Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian
- Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko (also New York)
- The Vagrants by Xiyun Li
- A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang
- Beijing
- The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer
- Hong Kong
- The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee *****
- The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee *****
- On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
- Shanghai
- The Binding Chair or, a Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison ****
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (also London)
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- Colombia
- Love in the Time of Cholera by
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel (Cuba & Florida) ****
- Infinite Country: A Novel by Patricia Engel
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Oblivion by Héctor Abad Faciolince
- The Armies by Evelio Rosero
- Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa
- Delirium by Laura Restrepo
- The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo
- Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- Misspelled Paradise by Bryanna Plog
- The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- Colombiano by Rusty Young
- Bolívar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
- The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself by David Bushnell
- At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel
- Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
- There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
- Colombia: A Concise Contemporary History by Michael J. LaRosa
- One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
- Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling
- The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia by Michael Jacobs
- Lonely Planet Colombia 9 (Travel Guides) by Jade Bremner ****
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo by Redmond O’Hanlon
- Republic of the Congo
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver *****
- Costa Rica
- Moon Costa Rica by Nikki Solano ****
- Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, Ed. by Barbara Ras
- The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond (& San Francisco, CA) ****
- Monkeys are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica by Jack Ewing ****
- Happier Than a Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, & Living the Zero Hour Work Week by Nadine Hays Pisani ****
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Lost World by Michael Crichton
- The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica by Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz & Richard Biesanz
- The Best Short Stories of Quince Duncan by Quince Duncan
- A Beach House to Die For by K.C. Ames
- See Before You Die: Costa Rica by J.E. Leigh
- The Scent of Jade by Dee DeTarsio
- It’s Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love and Lies in the Jungle by Vanessa Woods
- Moon Costa Rica by Nikki Solano ****
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Croatia (& Slovenia) (past and present)
- The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna *****
- The Sound of Blue by Holly Payne ***
- Girl at War by Sara Nović ****
- The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic ****
- The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans by Courtney Angela Brkic ****
- Stillness: And Other Stories by Courtney Angela Brkic
- Chasing a Croatian Girl: A Survivor’s Tale by Cody McClain Brown ****
- Running Away to Home: Our Family’s Journey to Croatia by Jennifer Wilson ***
- A Traveller’s History of Croatia by Benjamin Curtis ****
- The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
- Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by
- The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War by
- How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by
- They Would Never Hurt a Fly by
- On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža
- April Fool’s Day by Josip Novakovich
- Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust by Josip Novakovich
- The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešlić
- Fording the Stream of Consciousness by Dubravka Ugrešlić
- Zagreb, Exit South by Edo Popović
- Escape from Despair by Katarina Tepesh
- Every Day, Every Hour by Natasa Dragnic
- Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends by Lonnie Johnson
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West (definitive travelogue of Yugoslav Islands between two World Wars)
- Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little
- Cuba
- In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez ****
- La Americana (memoir) by Melanie Bowder Simón
- Cuba & the Night by Pico Iyer
- Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
- Monkey Hunting by Cristina García
- Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
- The Agüero Sisters by Cristina García
- Love & Ruin by Paula McLain (& Madrid)
- The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel (Colombia & Florida) ****
- The Sugar Island by Ivonne Lamazares
- The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times by Anthony DePalma
- Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra
- Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
- Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos M.N. Eire
- Cyprus
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- Czech Republic
- The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
- The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Last Bohemians by Kit Kimberly
- Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy #2) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiří Weil
- Prague
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera ****
- All That Man Is by David Szalay
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
- Prague Winter by Nikolaus Martin
- Denmark
- The Dinosaur Feather by S.J. Gazan
- The Arc of the Swallow by Sissel-Jo Gazan
- The Boy In the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis (Kindle)
- GREENLAND
- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
- Faroe Islands
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Let it Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
- Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda (& New York, California)
- Ecuador
- The Panama Hat Trail by Tom Miller ****
- the queen of water: a novel based on a true story by Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango (YA) ****
- America Was Hard to Find by Kathleen Alcott *
- Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador by Judy Blankenship ****
- Our House in the Clouds: Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador by Judy Blankenship ****
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda ****
- The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
- The Farm on the River of Emeralds by Moritz Thomsen *****
- Pieces of My Life by Rachel Dann
- Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova
- The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore
- City on the Ledge by Philip Kraske
- The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (+ Columbia + Venezuela)
- Fool’s Gold by P.J. Skinner
- Huasipungo: The Villagers by Jorge Icaza
- Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro
- Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands by Regis St. Louis ****
- Galápagos Islands
- Enchanted Islands by Allison Amand ***
- Plundering Paradise: The Hand of Man on the Galápagos Islands by Michael D’Orso ****
- Floreana by Margret Whittmer
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine- To the Edge of the World by Harry Thompson
- Mr. Darwin’s Shooter by Roger McDonald
- The Origin of Murder by Jerold Last
- Galápagos Regained by James K. Morrow
- The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World by Charles Darwin (intro. by Steve Jones)
- Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
- The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin by Irving Stone
- The Panama Hat Trail by Tom Miller ****
- Egypt
- The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Afghanistan, New York) *****
- Café on the Nile by Bartle Bull
- Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
- Gazelle by Rikki Ducornet
- The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
- The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer
- Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney
- The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
- A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib
- The Teacher of Cheops by Albert Salvadó
- The Night Manager by John le Carré (also The Bahamas)
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
- Lifting the Veil: Two Centuries of Travelers, Traders and Tourists in Egypt by Anthony Sattin
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
- The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome #6) by Colleen McCullough
- The Yacoubian Building by Alla al Aswany
- The Cheapest Nights by Yusuf Idris
- The Collar and the Bracelet by Yahya Taher Abdullah
- The Trench by Abdul Rahman Munif
- Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel by Margaret George
- Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak by Tarek Osman
- The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Afghanistan, New York) *****
- El Salvador
- Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
- La Diáspora by Horacio Castellanos Moya
- Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez
- The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
- The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner
- Breaking Lorca by Giles Blunt
- Equatorial Guinea
- By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
- Shadows of Your Black Memory by Donato Ndongo
- Eritrea
- Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally (& Ethiopia)
- Estonia
- The Death of the Perfect Sentence by Rein Raud
- Ethiopia
- Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia by Tim Bascom ****
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Kindle)
- There is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene (Kindle)
- In Praise of Savagery by Warwick Cairns (Kindle)
- The Shadow King By Maaza Mengiste
- The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński
- Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
- The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock
- Notes from the Hyena’s Belly by Nega Mezlekia
- The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades by Nega Mezlekia
- In Search of King Solomon’s Mines by Tahir Shah
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
- The Chains of Heaven by Philip Marsden
- The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy by Philip Marsden
- The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin
- Held at a Distance by Rebecca G. Haile
- The Storyteller’s Beads by Jane Kurtz
- In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy
- Eating the Flowers of Paradise by Kevin Rushby
- Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
- Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
- The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope by Catherine Hamlin and John Little
- Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally (& Eritrea)
- Addis Ababa
- Republic of Fiji
- Finland
- The Railroad by Juhani Aho
- Juha by Juhani Aho
- The Maid Silja: The History of the Last Offshoot of an Old Family Tree by Frans Emil Sillanpää
- Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna
- The Winter War by Philip Teir
- The Summer House by Philip Teir
- The Manila Rope by Veijo Meri
- The Most Dangerous Game by Gavin Lyall
- The Parson’s Widow by Marja Liisa Vartio
- The Wednesday Club by Kjell Westö
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Art in Nature by Tove Jansson
- The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
- Fair Play by Tove Jansson
- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
- The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna
- Manrape by Märta Tikkanen
- A Fool’s Paradise by Anita Konkka
- My First Murder (Maria Kallio #1) by Leena Lehtolainen
- The Girl in Gray by Annette Lyon
- Ellen’s Song by Ben Kalland
- The Man Who Died by Antti Tuomainen
- Norma by Sofi Oksanen
- The Girl and the Bomb (Metro-Trilogia #1) by Jar Järvelä
- France
- Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull ****
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr *****
- The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France by Carol Drinkwater ***
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle ****
- A Walk Across France by Miles Morland ****
- Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *****
- On Pilgrimage by Jennifer Lash (also Spain) *****
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart ****
- Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France by Nicholas Delbanco
- In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby (also Belgium)
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- The Looking Glass by Michèle Roberts (Normandy)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinDNF
Akin by Emma DonoghueDNF
- The Treasure of Montsegur by Sophy Burnham
- Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade by Zoé Oldenbourg
- Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure by Don and Petie Kladstrup
- Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull
- Paris out of hand {a wayward guide} by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- Parisian Chic: A Style Guide by Ines de la Fressange
- Paris Chic & Trendy by Adrienne Ribes-Tiphaine (all in French)
- The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel
- A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe (also Vietnam)
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (WWI)
- Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer (Translation)
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
- Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France by Craig Carlson
- The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheen
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
- The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy
- Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
- A Paris All Your Own, edited by Eleanor Brown
- Children of the Stars by Mario Escobar
- Paris Is Always a Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay
- All the Lights Above Us by M.B. Henry
- ANTILLES ISLANDS in Caribbean
- Guadeloupe (Leeward Islands)
- Victoire: My Mother’s Mother by Maryse Condé
- Martinique (Windward Islands), Collectivity of Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy
- Guadeloupe (Leeward Islands)
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Tahiti
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (Kindle) (Philadelphia & World)
- Tahiti
- Mayotte & Réunion
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa ****
- Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle #1) by Ursula Hegi ****
- The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Kindle)
- The Good German by Joseph Kanon
- Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
- A Time of Gifts (Trilogy #1) by Patrick Leigh Fermor (& Austria, Hungary)
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather Morris
- Cilka’s Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2) by Heather Morris
- The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff (Poland. Italy.)
- Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas , Wiebke Lorenz, Alison Layland
- Travelers by Helon Habila
- Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly (also Poland, Paris, NY)
- A Traveller’s History of Germany by Robert Cole
- The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans
- Ghana
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Greece
- Corelli’s Mandolin by
- Eleni by Nicholas Gage *****
- Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens by
- When the Cypress Whispers by Yvette Manessis Corporon ***
- The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir by Tom Stone *****
- It’s All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina — and Real Greeks by John Mole ****
- Little Infamies: Stories by
- Odyssey with the Goddess: A Spiritual Quest in Crete by Carol P. Christ ****
- Café Tempest by Barbara Bonfigli (Kindle) **
- Scorpionfish by Natalie Bakopoulos ****
- The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
- A House in Corfu by Emma Tennant (Kindle)
- Xenos by David A. Ross (Kindle)
- Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece by Patricia Storace (Kindle)
- North of Ithaka by Eleni N. Gage (Kindle)
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier (Crete. Tunisia. Algeria. Turkey.)
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (& Turkey. Greece.)
- A Separation by Katie Kitamura
- Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
- The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece by Katherine Kizilos
- Corfu by Robert Dessaix
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley ****
- In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende (& Chile & Brazil)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
- The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave
- The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Danny Laferrière
- Honduras
- The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
- The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
- Hungary
- The Swimmer by Zsuzsa Bánk
- Budapest
- Prague by Arthur Phillips
- The Afterlife of Stars by Joseph Kertes
- A Time of Gifts (Trilogy #1) by Patrick Leigh Fermor (& Germany, Austria)
- Iceland
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent *****
- Into Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason
- A Fist or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Larissa Kyzer
- The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea
- The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson
- India
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy *****
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- Sister of My Heart by
- Arranged Marriage by
- Oleander Girl by
- The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri *****
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (& Boston) ***
- The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra ****
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster *****
- The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Amita Trasi ***
- The White Tiger by
- Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi by Stanley Wolpert ****
- behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- Flash House by Aimee Liu
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Kindle)
- The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob (& Seattle & New Mexico)
- Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
- The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad
- Sharmila’s Book by Bharti Kirchner
- Shiva Dancing by Bharti Kirchner
- The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
- The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
- Honor by Thrity Umrigar
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- A State of Freedom by
- Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
- As Sweet as Honey by Indira Ganesan
- Everything was Goodbye by Gurjinder Basran
- The Abundance by Amit Majmudar (also Midwest USA)
- The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
- Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan
- Varanasi
- Sister India by Peggy Payne ***
- Indonesia
- The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch
- The End of October by Lawrence Wright (& Atlanta, GA)
- Bali
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert *****
- All the Lives We Never Lived by Anurdaha Roy
- The Paradise Guest House by Ellen Sussman
- Bali Daze by Cat Wheeler
- A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul by Shamini Flint
- The Sea Sisters by Lucy Clarke
- A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
- Love and Death in Bali by Vicky Baum
- Under the Volcano: A Story of Bali by Cameron Forbes
- Balilicious by Becky Wicks
- A Little Bit One O’Clock: Living With a Balinese Family by William Ingram
- Snowing in Bali by Kathryn Bonella
- Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison
- The Painted Alphabet by Diana Darling
- Fragrant Rice by Janet de Neefe
- A Patch of Paradise by Gaia Grant
- Bali: A Paradise Created by Adrian Vickers
- Troppo by Madelaine Dickie
- Island of Demons by Nigel Barley
- Living in Bali (photos) by Retro Guntli
- At Home in Bali (photos) by Made Wijaya
- Iran
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ****
- Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
- The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran by Sigrid Fry-Revere
- Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran by Jason Elliot
- The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth M. Pollack
- A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
- Refuge by Dina Nayeri
- The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
- Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
- To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari
- Iraq
- Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter’s Escape from Iraqi Vengeance by Jean Sasson ****
- Mayada: Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson
- a sky so close by Betool Khedairi
- Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar
- The Bird Tattoo by Dunya Mikhail
- Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq by Farnaz Fassihi
- The Baghdad Clock by Shahad al Rawi
- When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
- Ireland
- In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) by Tana French ****
- The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) by Tana French *****
- Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3) by Tana French (Mike didn’t care for this one)
- Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4) by Tana French
- The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5) by Tana French *****
- The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad #6) by Tana French ****
- The Witch Elm by Tana French
- The Searcher by Tana French
- the all of it by Jeannette Haien ***
- Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt #1) by Frank McCourt ****
- Tara Road by Maeve Binchy *****
- Evening Class by Maeve Binchy ****
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Border Crossings by Carole Bellacera
- Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by
- As It Is in Heaven by Niall Williams (also a bit in Venice, Italy) ****
- This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
- When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
- Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donohue
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
- Israel
- the light we lost by Jill Stanopolo
- To the End of the Land by David Grossman * (my husband’s rating after he gave up on the book)
- From a Sealed Room by Rachel Kadish (?)
- Italy
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert *****
- The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner *****
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway *****
- The Miracles of Santo Fico by D.L. Smith ****
- The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga *****
- The Italian Lover by Robert Hellenga
- The Confessions of Frances Godwin by Robert Hellenga
- An Italian Affair by Laura Fraser ****
- Born Twice by Giuseppe Ponliggia ***
- The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian *****
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (& Hollywood. Sandpoint, ID. Edinburgh.) ****
- Cucina: A Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
- The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
- My Brilliant Friend (The Neopolitan Novels, #1) by Elena Ferrante
- The Story of a New Name (The Neopolitan Novels, #2) by Elena Ferrante
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neopolitan Novels, #3) by Elena Ferrante
- The Story of the Lost Child (The Neopolitan Novels, #4) by Elena Ferrante
- The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
- The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
- One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (Kindle)
- Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato #1) by Jenna Evans Welch
- Love & Luck (Love & Gelato #2) by Jenna Evans Welch
- Love & Olives (Love & Gelato #3) by Jenna Evans Welch
- A Harvest of Secrets by Roland Merullo
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
- Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris
- Finding Myself in Puglia: A Journey of Self-Discovery Under the Warm Southern Italian Sun by Laine B. Brown
- Naked (in Italy): A Memoir About the Pitfalls of La Dolce Vita by M.E. Evans
- Revamp: a Memoir of Travel and Obsessive Renovation by Pamela Reynolds
- Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center by Michelle Damiani
- Solo in Salento by Donna Keel Armer
- The Secrets of Villa Rosso by Linn B. Halton
- Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst
- Summer at the Lake by Erica James
- The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate
- From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus
- The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
- Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi
- The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- A Room with a View by E.M Forster
- Vila Triste by Lucretia Grindle
- The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria by Marlena de Blasi
- The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club by Marlena de Blasi
- Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee
- Extra Virgin (Italy Series, #1) by Annie Hawes
- The Villa in Italy (A Vintage Mystery) by Elizabeth Edmonson
- Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker
- A Kiss from Maddalena by Christopher Castellani
- All This Talk of Love: A Novel by Christopher Castellani
- Been Here a Thousand Years by Mariolina Venezia, Marina Harss
- A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo
- Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour by Barbara Hodgson
- A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated by Ann Goldstein
- A Traveller’s History of Italy by Valerio Lintner
- The Italian Alps
- The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
- Florence
- The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
- Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark
- Oil and Marble: a Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey
- Rome
- Sicily
- Siracusa by Delia Ephron ****
- Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Tante Poldi #1) by Mario Giordano ****
- That Summer in Sicily by Marlena de Blasi
- The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1) by
- A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps
- Tuscany
- The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen ****
- My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith (Montalcino)
- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes ****
- Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes ***
- Every Day in Tuscany by Frances Mayes
- See You in the Piazza by Frances Mayes
- A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure (Italian Memoirs) by Marlena de Blasi **
- Home to Italy by Peter Pezzelli
- That Month in Tuscany by Inglath Cooper
- The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
- A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany by Isabella Dusi* (DNF)
- Venice
- As It Is in Heaven by Niall Williams (mostly in Ireland) ****
- The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
- The City of Fallen Angels by John Berendt
- A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
- Venice by Jan Morris
- Venice: Pure City by
- Venice Travel Guide 2023 by Stuart Hartley
- Via Francigena
- Pilgrim Route: Walking the Via Francigena Part 3 Lucca to Rome by Sandy Brown ****
- A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of Faith by Timothy Egan ****
- Via Francigena: A Tuscan Pilgrimage Lucca to Rome by Carla Mackey ***
- Walking to Rome: Preparing and Packing for the Tuscan Via Francigena by Ryan Tandler
- Return to Glow: A Pilgrimage of Transformation in Italy by Chandi Wyant
- Jamaica
- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Gloria by Kerry Young
- Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield
- Japan
- Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata ***
- Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (Kindle)
- The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd ****
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ****
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden ****
- The Floating World by Cynthia Gralla
- The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
- Silence by Shūsaku Endō
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Kindle)
- Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (Kindle)
- The Lake by Banana Yosimoto (Kindle)
- A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (Kindle)
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Isiguro
- The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
- Rainbirds by
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Breasts and Eggs: A Novel by Mieko Kawakami
- Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel by Yu Miri
- The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
- At the End of the Matinee by Keiichiro Hirano
- The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami ****
- The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata ****
- The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
- An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura
- Night Boat by Alan Spence
- Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
- The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
- Malice: A Mystery (The Kyochiro Kaga Series, 1) by Keigo Higashino
- The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Arikawa Hiro
- The Little House by Kyoko Nakajima
- The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda
- A Traveller’s History of Japan by Richard L. Tames
- The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
- Hiroshima
- Hiroshima by John Hersey *****
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Great Fire by Shirley HazzardDNF (didn’t care for the writing)
- Kyoto
- The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer *****
- Tokyo
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto ****
- Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto ****
- Territory of Light: A Novel by Yuko Tsushima
- Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (Kindle)
- Shikoku Pilgrimage
- The 88 Temples of Shikoku: A Guide for the Walking Pilgrim by Oliver Dunskus
- Shikoku Japan 88 Route Guide by Buyodo Co. Ltd.
- The Way of the 88 Temples: Journey on the Shikoku Pilgrimage by Robert S. Sibley
- Walking with Buddha: Pilgrimage on the Shikoku 88-Temple Trail by C.W. Lockhart
- Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan by Todd Wassel
- Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata ***
- Jordan
- West of the Jordan by Laila Halaby (Kindle)
- Live from Jordan: Letters Home from My Journey Through the Middle East by Benjamin Orbach (Kindle)
- The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by Thomas Edward Lawrence
- Married to a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen
- Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
- Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif
- Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman by Abdul Rahman Munif
- Forbidden Love by Norma Khouri
- The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
- The Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir
- Willow Trees Don’t Weep by Fadia Faqir
- Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
- Shepherd of Solitude: Selected Poems 1979-2004 by Amjad Nasser
- Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
- Desert Skies, Rebel Souls by M P Tonnesen (also Egypt & Israel)
- Kazakhstan
- The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov, Andrew Bromfield (translator)
- Kenya
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain *****
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen *****
- I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann ****
- The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans
- Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano
- The Fall of Saints by Wanjiku wa Ngugi
- Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh
- Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
- Safari Style, Ed. Angelika Taschen
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- The Edge of Tomorrow by Thomas A. Dooley, M.D.
- Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos by Roger Warner
- Crescent Moon Over Laos by Mark Boyter
- Another Quiet American by Brett Dakin
- Love Began in Laos: The Story of an Extraordinary Life by Penelope Khounta
- The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
- Six and a Half Deadly Sins by Colin Cotterill
- Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos by Natacha Du Pont De Bie
- One Foot in Laos by Dervla Murphy
- Escaping the Tiger by Laura Manivong
- I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos by Bounsang Khamkeo
- Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos by Christopher Kremmer
- The Merit Birds by Kelley Powell
- Here There are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos, 1968-69 by Reginald Hathorn
- The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Jasmine & Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut by Salma Abdelnour
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
- The Return by Hisham Matar
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
- Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
- Maldives
- Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives by Tom Chesshyre
- Mad Love by Colet Abedi
- On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
- The Honeymoon by Tina Seskis
- A Maldives Adventure by Naomi Davies
- Maldives Musings by Liz Banks
- Swimming with Sharks by Anna Legat
- The Love Island Bookshop by Kate Frost
- Murder in Maldives by Sanchita Sarin
- Mali
- Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah by Anna Badkhen
- Malta
- The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas M. Rinaldi
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
- Mexico
- All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) by Cormac McCarthy ****
- The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
- Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
- In the Casa Azul: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal by Meaghan Delahunt
- Feathered Serpent by Colin Falconer
- The Years with Laura Díaz by Carlos Fuentes
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (also North Carolina and D.C.)
- Mexicasa: The Enchanting Inns and Haciendas of Mexico, Photos by Melba Levick, Text by Gina Hyams
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Night of the Radishes by Sandra Benítez ***
- Costalegre by Courtney Maum
- Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
- Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy (& Mongolia)
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- The Time in Between by Maria Duenas (also known as The Seamstress) *****
- The Tattooed Map by Barbara Hodgson ****
- Tangerine by Christine Mangan ****
- The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne *****
- Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir, Michèle Fitoussi ****
- Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam’s Greatest Traveler by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- The Saffron Trail by Rosanna Ley
- The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi
- Beyond the Veil by Fatima Mernissi
- Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
- Secret Son: A Novel by Laila Lalami
- The Blue Hour by Douglas Kennedy
- The Saffron Gate by Linda Holeman
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
- The Spider’s House by Paul Bowles
- Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
- For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri
- In Morocco by Edith Wharton (1920)
- Fez
- A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Suzanna Clarke
- Marrakesh
- The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by Elias Canetti
- A Year in Marrakesh by Peter Mayne
- Casablanca
- The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
- In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams by Tahir Shah ****
- Tangier
- Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun ***
- The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
- Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travelers by Josh Shoemake (2013)
- Tangier by Steven Holgate
- DESIGN
- new Moroccan Style: The Art of Sensual Living by Susan Sully
- Moroccan Style by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren
- Moorish Style by Miles Danby
- Moroccan Interiors by Lisa Lovatt-Smith
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker ****
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- Smile as They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
- Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (also Thailand, Japan, Australia)
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay *****
- Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay *****
- The Royal Ghosts: stories by Samrat Upadhyay
- Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay
- Buddha’s Orphans by Samrat Upadhyay
- The City Son by Samrat Upadhyay
- New Nepal, New Voices: An Anthology of Short Stories, ed. by Sushma Joshi ****
- City of Ghosts by Johanna Stoberock
- The Memory of Leaves by Manan Karki (Kindle)
- Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer (travel essays from many countries)
- House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal
- The Tutor of History by Manjushree Thapa
- Forget Kathmandu by Manjushree Thapa
- Tilled Earth: Stories by Manjushree Thapa
- Kathmandu by Thomas Bell
- While the Gods Were Sleeping by Elizabeth Enslin
- Thamel, Dark Star of Kathmandu by Rabi Thapa
- Battles of the New Republic by Prashant Jha
- The Living Goddess by Isabella Tree
- The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution by Aditya Adhikari
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom by Michel Peissel
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- The Waiting Land by Dervla Murphy
- Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Down and Out in Kathmandu: A Backpacker Mystery by Jennifer S. Alderson
- Notes of a Native Traveler: Nepal and Thailand by Jennifer S. Alderson
- Shopping for Buddhas by Jeff Greenwald
- Life and Death on Mt. Everest by Sherry Ortner
- True Summit by David Roberts
- Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas by Sienna Craig
- The Kingdom by Clive Cussler
- Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle
- Bones of the Tiger: Protecting the Man-eaters of Nepal by Hemanta Mishra and Jim Ottaway Jr.
- The Soul of the Rhino by Bruce Babbitt and Jim Fowler
- Don’t Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees by Thomas Hale Jr.
- On the Far Side of Liglig Mountain: The Adventures of an American Family in Nepal by Thomas Hale Jr.
- Massacre at the Palace: The Doomed Royal Dynasty of Nepal by Jonathan Gregson
- Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas by Jamaica Kincaid
- Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal by Geoff Childs
- Annapurna: A Woman’s Place by Arlene Blum
- Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
- Netherlands
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier *****
- Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
- Amsterdam
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ****
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank *****
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- The Evenings by Gerard Reve
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- The Laws by Connie Palman
- An Empty House by Marga Minco
- Molenbeekstraat by Ernst Jansz
- Last Call by Harry Mulisch
- The Hague
- Intimacies by Katie Kitamura *****
- Sint Maarten, Aruba, Curaçao
- New Zealand
- Rain by Kirsty Gunn
- All This by Chance by Vincent O’Sullivan
- Let the River Stand by Vincent O’Sullivan
- Nicaragua
- The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love & War by Gioconda Belli *****
- The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie ***
- Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer *****
- The Ladies of Managua by Eleni N. Gage (Kindle) ***
- Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle by Thomas W. Walker
- Fire from the Mountain by Omar Cabezas
- Lonely Planet Nicaragua ****
- The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love & War by Gioconda Belli *****
- Niger
- Nigeria
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré ****
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
- Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram by Isha Sesay
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
- You Must Set Forth at Dawn by Wole Soyinka
- Political Spider and Other Stories, ed. Ulli Beier
- The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
- Efuru by Flora Nwapa
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
- Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer by Amos Tutuola
- The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin
- Love Is Power, or Something Like That: Stories by A. Igoni Barrett
- Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole
- Oil on Water by Helon Habila
- Travelers by Helon Habila
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- The Concubine by Elechi Amadi
- North Korea
- The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by
- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- Norway
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
- Oman
- My Year in Oman: An American Experience in Arabia During the War on Terror by Matthew D. Heines ***
- Another Year in Oman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place by Matthew D. Heines ****
- The English Girl by Katherine Webb
- Celestial Bodies by Jokhha Alharthi
- Pakistan
- Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid ****
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
- broken verses by Kamila Shamsie
- Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
- Trespassing by Uzma Aslan Khan
- The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
- Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid ****
- Palau
- Palestine
- The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa ****
- The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Euphoria by Lily King
- Paraguay
- Peru
- When Mountains Walked by Kate Wheeler *****
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder *****
- At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
- The King is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón
- Philippines
- A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle (non-fiction)
- Poland
- Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (translator)
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk
- The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
- Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly (also Germany, Paris, NY)
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- Portugal
- The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge ****
- 300 Days of Sun by Deborah Lawrenson ****
- Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi ****
- Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali (Kindle)
- Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (Kindle)
- Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal’s History and Culture by
- All the Names by
- Blindness by
- The Implacable Order of Things by
- A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening by
- THE AZORES
- MADEIRA
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *****
- The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander ****
- The Translator by John Crowley
- In the Casa Azul: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal by Meaghan Delahunt
- Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine
- dancer by Colum McCann
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
- Cilka’s Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2) by Heather Morris
- The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander (also California)
- Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia by David Greene
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
- The Underground by Hamid Ismailov, Carol Ermakova (translator)
- A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin
- Rwanda
- A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
- A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda by Josh Ruxin
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- The Poetry of Derek Walcott, 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott
- Omeros by Derek Walcott
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- The Girl in the Moon Circle by Sia Figiel ***
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Finding Nouf (Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi #1) by
- City of Veils (Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi #2) by
- Kingdom of Strangers by
- Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
- Three Thousand Miles for a Wish by Safiya Hussain
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Diary of Interrupted Days by Dragan Todorovic
- The Book of Revenge by Dragan Todorovic
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest by Aminatta Forna
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Kindle)
- Singapore
- King Rat by James Clavell
- Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
- Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu
- Following the Wrong God Home by Catherine Lim
- The Bondmaid by Catherine Lim
- The Song of Silver Frond by Catherine Lim
- Miss Seetoh in the World by Catherine Lim
- People of the Pear Tree by Rex Shelley
- Island in the Centre by Rex Shelley
- A River of Roses by Rex Shelley
- Sarong Party Girls: A Novel by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
- Foreign Bodies by Hwee Hwee Ton
- Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen
- Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe
- The River’s Song by Suchen Christine Lim
- Fistful of Colours by Suchen Christine Lim
- Notes from an Even Smaller Island by Neil Humphreys
- Diary of an Expat in Singapore by Jennifer Gargiulo
- You’ll Die in Singapore by Charles McCormac
- Spider Boys by Ming Cher
- ‘Others’ Is Not a Race by Melissa de Silva
- The Last Lesson of Mrs. De Souza by Cyril Wong
- Tanamera by Noel Barber
- Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
- Slovakia
- Zoli by Colum McCann
- Banana Peels on the Tracks: Coming of Age in Post-Communist Slovakia by Jason Lockwood
- The House of the Deaf Man by Peter Krištúfek
- Siren of the Waters (Commander Jana Matinova #1) by Michael Genelin
- The Magician’s Accomplice (Commander Jana Matinova #3) by Michael Genelin
- Requiem for a Gypsy (Commander Jana Matinova #4) by Michael Genelin
- Katarina by Kathryn Winter
- Slovenia (also see Croatia)
- Law of Desire: Stories by Andrej Blatnik
- I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jančar
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton *****
- Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah *****
- The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
- The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- South Korea
- One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A Novel of Korea by Mira Stout *****
- How to be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway ***
- The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee ****
- The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
- White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
- If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim
- The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
- The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea by Pearl S. Buck
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco by Jason Webster ****
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway *****
- Travelers’ Tales Spain: True Stories, Ed. Lucy McCauley ****
- The Vineyard by
- Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis (Kindle)
- Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom (Kindle)
- It’s Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels by Polly Evans (Kindle)
- Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes (Kindle)
- Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving (Kindle)
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, translated by Alfred Macadam
- Iberia by James Michener
- Andalucía
- Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía (Driving Over Lemons Trilogy #1) by Chris Stewart *****
- A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Christ Stewart (Kindle)
- Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía (Driving Over Lemons Trilogy #1) by Chris Stewart *****
- Balearic Islands
- Mallorca, or Majorca / Menorca / Ibiza / Formentera
- Camino de Santiago
- Guidebooks:
- Personal accounts:
- In Movement There is Peace (Anxiety Treatment Alternatives) by Elaine Orabona Foster (Kindle) ****
- The Road to Santiago by Kathryn Harrison *****
- Sunrises to Santiago: Searching for Purpose on the Camino de Santiago by Gabriel Schirm ****
- Steps Out of Time: One Woman’s Journey on the Camino by Katherine B. Soper (Kindle) ****
- On Pilgrimage by Jennifer Lash (mostly in France, but ends in Santiago de Compostela) *****
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ***
- The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit by Shirley MacLaine ***
- I’m Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling ****
- The Way, My Way by Bill Bennett (Kindle)
- Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain by Jack Hitt (Kindle)
- The Way is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago by Arthur Paul Boers
- Walk in a Relaxed Manner: Life Lessons from the Camino by Joyce Rupp
- Packing advice:
- To Walk Far, Carry Less by Jean-Christie Ashmore ****
- Pilgrim Tips & Packing List Camino de Santiago by S. Yates ****
- History & Culture
- The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook by David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson
- Canary Islands
- Catalonia
- Madrid
- The Seamstress by (also called The Time In Between) – also takes place in Morocco *****
- Love & Ruin by Paula McLain (& Cuba)
- Sri Lanka
- The Flower Boy by Karen Roberts
- Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
- The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies
- Running in the Family (memoir) by Michael Ondaatje
- The Pavilion in the Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Elephants of Reckoning (poetry) by Indran Amir Thanayagam “Words for the Sri Lanka Tourist Office”
- Anil’s Ghost: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje
- Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Colombo)
- Sudan
- Emma’s War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil – A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan by Deborah Scoggins
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman ****
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) by
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson
- Switzerland
- Syria
- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian ***
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (& Turkey. Greece.)
- Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek
- The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
- Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman (& Turkey)
- No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
- Taiwan
- The Astonishing Color of After by
- Heaven Lake by John Dalton
- Two Trees Make a Forest: A Story of Memory, Migration, and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee
- Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk
- Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
- The Magic of Saida by M.
- Zanzibar
- The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley
- Death in Zanzibar by M.M. Kaye
- Desertion by
- Admiring Silence by
- By the Sea by
- Gravel Heart by
- Memory of Departure by
- The Last Gift by
- Thailand
- The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley ****
- Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck ***
- Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
- Thailand’s Political History: From the Fall of Ayutthaya to Recent Times by B.J. Terwiel
- Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
- Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
- Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
- The Beach by Alex Garland
- Jasmine Nights by S.P. Somtow
- Catching the Sun by Tony Parsons
- The Atlas of Us by Tracy Buchanan
- The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley
- A Woman of Bangkok by Jack Reynolds
- Thai Girl by Andrew Hicks
- Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins
- Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
- The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
- Cross Currents by John Shors
- Selected Short Stories of Thailand by William Peskett
- The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
- Private Dancer by Stephen Leather
- Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey *****
- Archipelago by Monique Roffey *****
- House of Ashes by Monique Roffey
- Golden Child by Claire Adam *****
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
- Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
- In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul
- The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul
- The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History by V.S. Naipaul (non-fiction)
- Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
- The Chip-Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul
- Salt by Earl Lovelace
- The Wine of Astonishment by Earl Lovelace
- The Dragon Can’t Dance by Earl Lovelace
- Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace
- Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
- Valmiki’s Daughter by Shani Mootoo
- Out on Main Street: And Other Stories by Shani Mootoo
- Bruised Hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez
- Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
- The Limbo Silence by Elizabeth Nunez
- Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez
- Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
- A Kind of Eden by Amanda Smyth
- Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth
- Light Falling on Bamboo by Lawrence Scott
- Ballad for the New World and Other Stories by Lawrence Scott
- Night Calypso by Lawrence Scott
- Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon
- A Brighter Sun by Sam Selvon
- Green Days by the River by Michael Anthony
- Cricket in the Road and Other Stories by Michael Anthony
- In the Heat of the Day by Michael Anthony
- The Year in San Fernando by Michael Anthony
- My Grandmother’s Erotic Folk Tales by Robert Antoni
- Carnival by Robert Antoni
- Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni
- A Thirst for Rain by Roslyn Carrington
- Sic Transit Wagon by Barbara Jenkins
- The Hummingbird Tree by Ian McDonald
- Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge
- Tunisia
- The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier (Algeria. Turkey. Crete.)
- Turkey
- The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk ****
- Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
- The Virgin’s Knot by Holly Payne
- Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, Ed. Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (& Syria. Greece.)
- The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier (Tunisia. Algeria. Crete.)
- Endgame by Ahmet Altan
- I Will Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan
- Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
- The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
- Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman (& Syria)
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
- Ukraine
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan (Kindle) (Mike didn’t like)
- The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Litteken
- United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Water from Heaven: An American woman’s life as an Arab wife by Anne Schreiber Thomas ****
- United Kingdom (UK)
- England
- Missing, Presumed (D.S. Manon #1) by Susie Steiner ****
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger ****
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson ****
- The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
- Wuthering Heights by
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *****
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ****
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins *****
- behind the scenes at the museum by Kate Atkinson
- The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- The Navigation Log by Martin Corrick
- offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
- a sky so close by Betool Khedairi (& Iraq)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (& Europe)
- The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
- Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- War Brides by Helen Bryan (Kindle)
- Next of Kin by Joanna Trollope
- Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
- The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
- A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
- West Country Trilogy by Tim Pears
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
- Seven Days in May by Kim Izzo (New York)
- The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn (walking the South West Coast Path)
- The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- Silence Is a Sense by Layla AllAmmar
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- London
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali ***
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger ****
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith ***
- Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Egypt too?)
- If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
- The Photograph by Penelope Lively
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field by Melissa Nathan
- life isn’t all ha ha hee hee by Meera Syal
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (also Shanghai)
- Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
- The Book of Dreams by Nina George
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro ****
- Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley ****
- The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
- Happiness: A Novel by by Aminatta Forna (Kindle)
- The Midnight News by Jo Baker
- Queenie by Candice-Karty Williams
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by
- Only in London by Hanan al-Shaykh
- The Light Over London by Julia Kelly
- The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
- Scotland
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman *****
- Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn
- Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
- Bird Summons by Leila Aboulela
- The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop #1) by Jenny Colgan
- Summerwater by Sarah Moss
- The Edinburgh Skating Club by Michelle Sloan
- Wales
- The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis ***
- The Welsh Borderlands: Reflections Afoot by Anne Holmes Filson
- Northern Ireland
- British Overseas Territories: Anguilla / Bermuda / British Virgin Islands / Cayman Islands / Falkland Islands / Gibraltar / Montserrat / South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands / Turks & Caicos Islands
- England
- United States of America (USA)
- Uruguay
- The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal
- Uzbekistan
- A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road by Christopher Aslan Alexander
- The Railway by Hamid Ismailov, Robert Chandler
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City (Holy See)
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- American Romantic by Ward Just (Indochina) ****
- A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just (Indochina)
- The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X. Pham ****
- Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham ****
- Daughters of the River Huong by Uyen Nicole Duong ****
- Paradise of the Blind by
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Indochina)
- The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
- Once Upon a Distant War by William Prochnau
- The Things They Carried (stories) by Tim O’Brien *****
- If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O’Brien
- Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
- A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe (also Paris)
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John “Chick” Donohue, J.T. Molloy (Kindle)
- The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
- What It’s Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood by Kien Nguyen
- The Man From Saigon by Marti Leimbach
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
- Live from the Battlefield, autobiography of one of the greatest war correspondents, Peter Arnett
- Nam by Mark Baker
- In Pharoh’s Army by Tobias Wolff
- Dispatches by Michael Herr (possibly Mari’s favourite)
- All the Wrong Places by James Fenton
- A Wavering Grace by Gavin Young
- Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden by Tim Page
- A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (history)
- Winning Hearts and Minds, war poems by Vietnam Vets
- The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam by George Black
- You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
- Yemen
- The Ambassador’s Wife by Jennifer Steil (actually it’s an unknown Middle Eastern country that sounds like Yemen) *****
- The Woman Who Fell From the Sky by Jennifer Steil (non-fiction)
- The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi
- The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions #2) by Tsitsi
- This Mournable Body (Nervous Conditons #3) by Tsitsi
- The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
- The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
- Glory: A Novel by NoViolet Bulawayo
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BOOKS SET IN UNNAMED COUNTRIES OR REGIONS AROUND THE WORLD
- AFRICA
- The Hotel Alleluia by Lucinda Roy
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
- The Tree Where Man was Born by Peter Matthiessen
- The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
- ASIA
- My Year Abroad by Chang Rae Lee * (hated this book!)
- NORTH AFRICA
- The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier
- EUROPE
- Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
- MIDDLE EAST
- Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse *****
- All Strangers are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O’Neill
- Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as a Tramp, Artist and Spy by Henry Hemming
- Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir (Goodreads Author) , Christiane Amanpour
- SOUTH AMERICA
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett *****
- The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
- Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado
- Viva South America! A Journey Through a Surging Continent by Olive Balch
- The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres (see Latin American Trilogy)
- SOUTH PACIFIC
- The Last Good Paradise by Tatjana Soli
- CENTRAL ASIA (FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC)
- Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński
- ALL OVER THE WORLD
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (also Philadelphia & Tahiti) (Kindle)
- Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS SET AROUND THE WORLD
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ****
- Emerald City by Jennifer Egan ****
- Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
EXTRATERRESTRIAL/DYSTOPIAN TALES:
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- Children of God (The Sparrow #2) by Mary Doria Russell
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
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