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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
414 books — 1,093 voters
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteTomorrow, When the War Began by John MarsdenCloudstreet by Tim WintonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Best Books Set in Australia
1,071 books — 586 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterShantaram by Gregory David RobertsThe Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Books Set in India
494 books — 411 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiTokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Best Books About Japan
516 books — 356 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Reading Italy
443 books — 234 voters
A Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonOn the Beach by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Books Set in Australia
665 books — 196 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GiesePrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer ClementThe Highlander by Zoe SaadiaMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Books Set in Mexico
442 books — 173 voters
The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasLife of Pi by Yann MartelShantaram by Gregory David RobertsA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Fiction Books Set in India
147 books — 149 voters

The Iliad by HomerMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellCorelli’s Mandolin by Louis de BernièresZorba the Greek by Nikos KazantzakisThe Magus by John Fowles
Books Set in Greece
346 books — 131 voters
Everyone Burns by John DolanDaddy's Hobby by Owen  JonesTiger Lily of Bangkok by Owen  JonesPattaya Youtuber by Walt GleesonThe Disallowed by Owen  Jones
Books Set in Thailand
142 books — 117 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
1930s England
165 books — 114 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola RotimiAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Books Set in Nigeria
198 books — 109 voters

The Caliph's House by Tahir ShahBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughDreams of Trespass by Fatima MernissiHideous Kinky by Esther FreudThe Button Box by Bridget Hodder
Books Set in Morocco
137 books — 106 voters
Out of Africa by Isak DinesenWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth HuxleyThe Constant Gardener by John Le CarréBorn Free by Joy Adamson
Books Set in Kenya
191 books — 106 voters

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter GodwinMukiwa by Peter GodwinThe Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
Books Set in Zimbabwe
130 books — 100 voters
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Space Between by Michelle L. TeichmanThe Gathering by Kelley ArmstrongAnne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryLooking at the Moon by Kit Pearson
YA Books Set in Canada
163 books — 90 voters

Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseBeneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteThe Emperor by Ryszard KapuścińskiThe Hospital by the River by Catherine HamlinThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Books Set in Ethiopia
125 books — 81 voters
Os Maias by Eça de QueirósThe Lusiads by Luís de CamõesBaltasar and Blimunda by José SaramagoThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaNight Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Books set in Porto
271 books — 75 voters

The Glass Palace by Amitav GhoshBurmese Days by George OrwellFrom the Land of Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo ThweSaving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanThe Piano Tuner by Daniel       Mason
Myanmar/Burma
147 books — 74 voters
Embers by Sándor MáraiThe Invisible Bridge by Julie OrringerThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Skin of Water by G.S.  JohnstonUnder the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Books Set in Hungary
109 books — 72 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannHeidi by Johanna SpyriThe Visit by Friedrich DürrenmattWilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller
Beyond Heidi: Books Set In Switzerland
257 books — 68 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Great Books Set in Rural England
200 books — 57 voters

Toda Mafalda by QuinoMartín Fierro by José HernándezEl Eternauta by Héctor Germán OesterheldCuentos de amor de locura y de muerte by Horacio QuirogaCrónicas del Ángel Gris by Alejandro Dolina
Books Set in Argentina
171 books — 33 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes DodgeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomBoxes for Katje by Candace Fleming
Netherlands
157 books — 29 voters

The House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendePaula by Isabel AllendeA House in the Country by José DonosoAs If No One Had Died by Poli Délano
Books Set in Chile
29 books — 11 voters
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaChess Story by Stefan ZweigI Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood AliIlustrado by Miguel SyjucoBlindness by José Saramago
Most Rated Book by Country
148 books — 5 voters

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