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message 1: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments I ran out of space in the previous thread, so I archived it and began this new one.


message 2: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Dec 11, 2021 02:38PM) (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments Just a reference list of books we have already read together (as well as upcoming books), since the list has become a bit long. The books are listed in alphabetical order (not counting "the", "a", or "an") and not in order that they were chosen or read. Featured settings are in parentheses:

A - L

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Turkey)
19th Wife. The (US: Utah)
600 Hours of Edward (US: Montana)
Absalom, Absalom! (US: Mississippi)
African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic (Central African Republic)
Ali and Nino: A Love Story (Azerbaijan)
All Creatures Great and Small (UK: Yorkshire: North Riding)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
All the Light We Cannot See (France: Brittany)
Amsterdam (UK: Cumbria)
And the Birds Rained Down (Canada: Quebec)
Annabel (Canada: Newfoundland)
Annie John (Antigua & Barbuda)
Another Love: A Novel (Translated contemporary lit - Hungary)
Armenian Sketchbook, An (Translated history - Armenia)
Arresting God in Kathmandu (Nepal)
Art of Fielding, The (US: Wisconsin)
Arthur & George (UK: Staffordshire)
At the Bottom: A Woman's Life in Central America (Costa Rica)
Baba Dunja's Last Love (Ukraine)
Bastard of Istanbul, The (Turkey)
Bastard Out of Carolina (US: South Carolina)
Bean Trees, The (US: Arizona)
Bear Whispers to Me, The (Taiwan)
Beartown (Sweden)
Behold the Dreamers (Migration: Cameroon/US)
Beka Lamb (Belize)
Bell Jar, The (US: Massachusetts)
Beloved (US: Ohio)
Between the Orange Groves (Cyprus)
Beyond the Rice Fields (Madagascar)
Big Green Tent, The (Russia)
Black Arrow, The: A Tale of the Two Roses (UK: Suffolk)
Black Dahlia, The (US: California)
Black Mamba Boy (Somalia)
Black Swan Green (UK: Worcestershire)
Blue Fox, The (Award-winning translated literature: Iceland)
Body in the Library, The (UK: Hampshire)
Bone People, The (New Zealand)
Bone Readers, The (Grenada)
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (Guernsey)
Book of Emma Reyes, The (Colombia)
Bosnia List, The: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Malawi)
Breath of Fresh Air, A (India: Central India)
Bridge of Beyond, The (Guadeloupe)
Bridge on the Drina, The (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bridges of Constantine, The (Algeria)
Caliph's House, The: A Year in Casablanca (Morocco)
Caribbean Mystery, A (St. Lucia)
Catherine the Great and the Small (Montenegro)
Celestial Bodies (Oman)
Children Come by Ship (Malta)
Children of Green Knowe, The (UK: Huntingdonshire)
Chocolat (France: Midi-Pyrénées)
Chorus of Mushrooms (Canada: Alberta)
Chosen, The (US: New York)
Chronicle in Stone (Albania)
Cider House Rules, The (US: Maine)
Cider With Rosie (UK: Gloucestershire)
Circle of Karma, The (Bhutan)
Cleopatra: A Life (Egypt)
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Zambia)
Cold Mountain (US: North Carolina)
Coming of Winter, The (Canada: New Brunswick)
Corpse Washer, The (Iraq)
Cranford (UK: Cheshire)
Crazy Rich Asians (Singapore)
Crome Yellow (UK: Oxfordshire)
Crow Eaters, The (Pakistan)
Cry of the Dove, The (Jordan)
Cutting for Stone (Ethiopia)
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening (Saudi Arabia)
Dead Reckoning (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
Death and the Penguin (Translated contemporary lit: Ukraine)
Death in Bordeaux (France: Aquitaine)
Death In Vienna, A (Austria)
Death on the Riviera (France: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
Delirium (Colombia)
Devil-Devil (Solomon Islands)
Devil's Highway, The: A True Story (Mexico/US)
Devil's Pool, The (France: Centre)
Devotion of Suspect X, The (Japan)
Distance Between Us, The (World memoir - Mexico/US immigrant experience)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (France: Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Canada: British Columbia / China)
Do They Hear You When You Cry (Togo)
Doctor Zhivago (Russia)
Dom Casmurro (Brazil)
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo (Honduras)
Dragonfly Sea, The (Kenya)
Dry, The (Australia: World Mysteries)
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs (Oman)
East of the West: A Country in Stories (Bulgaria)
Embarrassment of Mangoes, An (Grenada)
Emily of New Moon (Canada: PEI)
Enormous Room, The (France: Basse-Normandie)
Exiles Return, The (Austria)
Fair Play (Finland)
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale (US: Texas)
Fall on Your Knees (Canada: Nova Scotia)
Famished Road, The (Nigeria)
Far from the Madding Crowd (UK: Dorset)
Fault in Our Stars, The (US: Indiana)
Fear (France: Lorraine)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (US: Nevada)
Fight Club (US: Delaware)
Final Passage, The (St. Kitts and Nevis)
Finding Nouf (World Mysteries: Saudi Arabia)
Fire in the Blood (France: Pays de la Loire)
First Wife, The: A Tale of Polygamy (Mozambique)
Fish Caught in Time, A: The Search for the Coelacanth (Comoros)
Forgotten Daughter, The (South India)
Fox (Croatia)
The Fragile Edge (Tuvalu, etc.)
Garden of Evening Mists, The (Malaysia)
Georges (Mauritius)
Georgian Folk Tales (Republic of Georgia)
Ghana Must Go (Ghana)
Ghost Bride, The (Malaysia)
Gift of Rain, The (Malaysia)
Gilead (US: Iowa)
Girl Called Eel, A (Comoros)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (Netherlands)
Good Life Elsewhere, The (Moldova)
Grapes of Wrath, The (US: Oklahoma)
Guantánamo Diary (Mauritania)
Hallucinating Foucault (France: Auvergne)
Hand Full of Stars, A (Syria)
Happy Isles of Oceania, The: Paddling the Pacific (Tonga)
Hare With Amber Eyes, The: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Austria)
Haunting of Hill House, The (US: Vermont)
Heart's Invisible Furies, The (Ireland)
Heidi (Switzerland)
Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, The (South Korea)
Henna House (Yemen)
High Tide (Latvia)
Historian, The (Romania)
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The (UK: Somerset)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (US: Washington)
House Made of Dawn (US: New Mexico)
House of the Spirits, The (Chile)
Housekeeping (US: Idaho)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (US: Arkansas)
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The (US: Maryland)
In a Dark, Dark Wood (UK: Durham)
In Cold Blood (US: Kansas)
In the Shadow of Man (Tanzania)
In the Shadow of the Banyan (Cambodia)
In the Time of the Butterflies (Dominican Republic)
Independent People (Iceland)
Inés of My Soul (Chile)
Infidel (Somalia)
Invisible Mountain, The (Uruguay)
Island Beneath the Sea (Haiti)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Sri Lanka)
Issa Valley, The (Lithuania)
Iza's Ballad (Women in Translation: Hungary)
Jamilia (Kyrgyzstan)
Jane Eyre (UK: Derbyshire)
Journeys in a Small Canoe (Solomon Islands)
Kalyana (Fiji)
Katherine (UK: Lincolnshire)
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (Somalia)
King Leopold's Ghost (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Kisses in the Nederends (Tonga)
Kitchen House, The (US: Virginia)
Kite Runner, The (Afghanistan)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (UK: Nottinghamshire)
Land at the End of the World, The (Angola)
Land Without Jasmine, A (Yemen)
Lark & Termite (US: West Virginia)
Last Dragonslayer, The (UK: Herefordshire)
Last Girl, The: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State (World Memoir - Iraq)
Last King of Scotland, The (Uganda)
Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, The (Cape Verde)
Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Samoa)
Les Misérables (France: Île-de-France)
Letters from Burma (Myanmar/Burma)
Life After Life (UK: Buckinghamshire)
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, The (Tajikistan)
Light Between Oceans, The (Australia)
Lives of Girls and Women (Canada: Ontario)
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, A (Sierra Leone)
Looking for Alaska (US: Alabama)
Loser Takes All (Monaco)
Lost Illusions (France: Poitou-Charentes)


message 3: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Dec 11, 2021 02:58PM) (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments M-Z

Madame Bovary (France: Haute-Normandie)
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Translated Classics: Turkey)
Man Was Going Down the Road, A (Republic of Georgia)
Mansfield Park (UK: Northhamptonshire)
Marshall Islands Legends and Stories (Marshall Islands)
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar (Oman)
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (Ukraine / Russia)
Mercies, The (Norway)
Mexican Gothic (Mexico)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (US: Georgia)
Midnight's Children (India)
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (UK: Wales)
Moloka'i (US: Hawaii)
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (Mali)
Monster Calls, A (Ireland)
Moor's Account, The (US: Florida)
Mosquito Coast, The (Honduras)
Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder, A (Malaysia)
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos (Laos)
Motorcycle Diaries, The: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Translated Classics: Latin America)
Murderess, The (Greece)
My First Murder (Finland)
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir (Translated Memoir: Turkey)
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile (Translated Memoir: Chile)
My Left Foot (Ireland)
My Lord John (UK: Bedfordshire)
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (UK: Westmorland)
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Nigeria)
My Story (India: Kerala)
My Urohs (Micronesia)
Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris, The (France: Picardy)
Name of the Rose, The (Italy)
Namesake, The (Migration: India/US)
Nazi Officer's Wife, The (Germany)
Never Let Me Go (UK: Norfolk)
Neverwhere (UK: Middlesex)
Night Train to Lisbon (Portugal: Migration Theme)
Nobody Cries at Bingo (Canada: Saskatchewan)
Norte: A Novel (Bolivia)
North and South (UK: Lancashire)
Northanger Abbey (UK: Somerset)
Nothing to Envy (North Korea)
Ocean at the End of the Lane, The (UK: Sussex)
Of Things (Liechtenstein)
Ogre, The (France: Alsace)
Old Man and the Sea, The (Cuba)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Vietnam/US)
One More Year (Georgia; also US)
One Night, Markovitch (Translated women: Israel)
Orchid House, The (Thailand)
Orphan Train (US: Minnesota)
Out (Translated mystery: Japan)
Outsider in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Pago Pago Tango (American Samoa)
Painted Veil, The (Hong Kong)
Patsy (Jamaica/US)
Pattern Of Islands, A (World memoir: Kiribati)
People in the Trees, The (Micronesia)
Perks of Being a Wallflower, The (US: Pennsylvania)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (World Memoir: Saudi Arabia)
Personal History of Rachel DuPree, The (US: South Dakota)
Pianist, The (Poland)
Pieces of Happiness (Fiji)
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories (Women in Translation - India)
Pouliuli (Samoa)
Prayer for Owen Meany, A (US New Hampshire)
President, The (Guatemala)
Pride and Prejudice (UK: Hertfordshire)
Professor's House, The (US: New Mexico)
Purge (Estonia)
Purple Violet of Oshaantu, The (Namibia)
Queen and I, The (UK: Leicestershire)
The Question of Red (Translated women: Indonesia)
Radiance of the King, The (Guinea)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Iran)
Rebecca (UK: Cornwall)
Red and the Black, The (France: Franche-Comte)
Remains of the Day, The (UK: Wiltshire)
Resistance Man, The (France: Limousin)
Return of Martin Guerre, The (France: Midi-Pyrénées)
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (North Korea)
Road from Coorain, The (World memoir: Australia)
Room with a View, A (UK: Oxfordshire)
Round House, The (US: North Dakota)
Ru (Canada: Quebec/Vietnam)
Ruined City (UK: Northumberland)
Samko Tále's Cemetery Book (Slovakia)
Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel (Canada: Women in Translation)
Sand Fish, The (United Arab Emirates)
Scaramouche (France)
Sea of Poppies (India: East India)
Season of Migration to the North (Sudan)
Secret History of the Mongol Queens, The (Mongolia)
Selected Poems of Rumi (Translated poetry)
Sense of an Ending, The (UK: Cambridgeshire)
Seven Sisters, The (Brazil)
Shadow of the Wind, The (Spain: Translated Historical Fiction)
Shadow of Things to Come, The (Togo)
Shakespeare's Wife (UK: Warwickshire)
Shark God, the (Vanuatu)
Sharks in the Time of Saviors (Hawaiian Islands)
Shining, The (US: Colorado)
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld (Transnistria/Moldova)
Silence of the Lambs, The (US: Washington, DC)
Silent Land, The (France: Languedoc-Roussillon)
Silver Linings Playbook, The (US: New Jersey)
Simple Heart, A (France: Haute Normandie)
Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman (Lesotho)
Sirens of Baghdad, The (Iraq)
Small Country (Burundi)
Small Island (UK/Jamaica)
Smaller and Smaller Circles (Philippines)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Denmark)
Snow Child, The (US: Alaska)
Snow Leopard, The (Nepal)
So Long a Letter (Senegal)
soft magic. (Malawi)
Sometimes a Great Notion (US: Oregon)
Sound of Things Falling, The (Colombia)
Sophie's World (Norway)
Soviet Milk (Latvia)
Space Between Us, The (India: West India)
Spirits in the Dark (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
Stamping Grounds (Liechtenstein)
Steppenwolf (Translated classics: Germany)
Still Life (Canada: Quebec)
Stone Angel, The (Canada: Manitoba)
Stoner (US: Nebraska)
Storm of Steel (France: Champagne-Ardenne)
Suite Française (France: Bourgogne)
Summer Book, The (Finland)
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, A (Rwanda)
Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island (Marshall Islands)
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story (US: Rhode Island)
Tears in Rain (Spain)
Teatime for the Firefly (Northeast India)
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (UK: Yorkshire: West Riding)
Tenderness of Wolves, The (Canada: Northwest Territories)
Texaco (Martinique)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (US: Florida)
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War (UK: Rutland)
There There (US: California)
Things They Carried, The (Vietnam)
Three Men in a Boat (US: Surrey)
Tiger's Wife, The (Serbia)
Time Traveler's Wife, The (US: Illinois)
Tortoise and the Hare, The (UK: Berkshire)
Town Like Alice, A (Australia)
Transmigration of Bodies, The (Mexico)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Japan)
Travels in Mauritania (Mauritania)
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (US: New York)
Turn of the Screw, The (UK: Essex)
Tuvalu: A History (Tuvalu)
Twelve Years a Slave (US: Louisiana)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Bahamas)
Two Old Women (Canada: Yukon Territory / US: Alaska)
Uhuru Street: Short Stories (Tanzania)
Ulysses (Ireland)
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Czech Republic)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (US: Kentucky)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (US: Utah)
Unfinished Life, An (US: Wyoming)
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The (US: Devonshire)
Vegetarian (South Korea)
Virgin Suicides, The (US: Michigan)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Belarus)
Walking on the Land (Canada: Nunavut)
Wall, The (Austria)
Walpurgis Tide (World Mysteries: Faeroe Islands)
War and Turpentine(Belgium)
War with the Newts (Translated sci-fi: Czech Republic)
Waterland (US: Norfolk)
Wayward Apprentice, The (UK: Shropshire)
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir (Canada: Ontario)
We Need New Names (Zimbabwe/US)
Weight of All Things, The (El Salvador)
What the Body Remembers (North India)
Whatever (France: Rhône-Alpes)
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)
When Elephants Fight (South Sudan)
When the Elephants Dance (Philippines)
When the Emperor Was Divine (US: California)
White Egrets (St. Lucia)
White Mary, The (Papua New Guinea)
Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin (Benin)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Dominica)
Widow of the South, The (US: Tennessee)
Wind in the Willows, The US: Buckinghamshire)
Winter in Arabia, A (Yemen)
Winter's Bone (US: Missouri)
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The (US: Connecticut)
Wolf Hall (UK: Kent)
Woman In Black, The (UK: Yorkshire: North Riding)
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (Slovenia)
Zookeeper's Wife, The: A War Story (Poland)
Zorba the Greek (Greece)


message 4: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Dec 11, 2021 02:59PM) (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments Same books arranged by location

AFRICA

Algeria
Bridges of Constantine, The

Angola
Land at the End of the World, The

Benin
Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin

Burundi
Small Country

Cameroon
Behold the Dreamers

Cape Verde
Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, The

Central African Republic
African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic

Comoros
Fish Caught in Time, A: The Search for the Coelacanth
Girl Called Eel, A

Democratic Republic of the Congo
King Leopold's Ghost

Egypt
Cleopatra: A Life

Ethiopia
Cutting for Stone

Ghana
Ghana Must Go

Guinea
Radiance of the King, The

Kenya
Dragonfly Sea, The

Lesotho
Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman

Madagascar
Beyond the Rice Fields

Malawi
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
soft magic.

Mali
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

Mauritania
Guantánamo Diary
Travels in Mauritania

Mauritius
Georges

Morocco
Caliph's House, The: A Year in Casablanca

Mozambique
The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

Namibia
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu

Nigeria
Famished Road, The
My Sister, the Serial Killer (World Mysteries)

Rwanda
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, A

Senegal
So Long a Letter

Sierra Leone
Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Somalia
Black Mamba Boy
Infidel
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

South Sudan
When Elephants Fight

Sudan
Season of Migration to the North

Tanzania
In the Shadow of Man
Uhuru Street: Short Stories

Togo
Do They Hear You When You Cry
Shadow of Things to Come, The

Uganda
Last King of Scotland, The

Zambia
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Zimbabwe
We Need New Names (Also US)


ASIA

Afghanistan
The Kite Runner

Bhutan
Circle of Karma, The

Cambodia
In the Shadow of the Banyan
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

China
Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Hong Kong
Painted Veil, The

India
Central India: Breath of Fresh Air, A
East India: Sea of Poppies
East India: The Namesake (Migration: India/US)
North India: Midnight's Children
North India: Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories
North India: What the Body Remembers
Northeast India: Teatime for the Firefly
South India: Forgotten Daughter, The
Southwest India: My Story
West India: Space Between Us, The

Indonesia
Question of Red, The

Japan
Devotion of Suspect X, The
Out (Translated mystery)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Kyrgyzstan
Jamilia

Laos
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos

Malaysia
Garden of Evening Mists, The
Ghost Bride, The
Gift of Rain, The
Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder, A

Mongolia
Secret History of the Mongol Queens, The

Myanmar/Burma
Letters from Burma

Nepal
Arresting God in Kathmandu
Snow Leopard, The

North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
River in Darkness, A: One Man's Escape from North Korea (World Memoirs)

Pakistan
Crow Eaters, The

Philippines
Smaller and Smaller Circles
When the Elephants Dance

Singapore
Crazy Rich Asians

South Korea
Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, The (Women in Translation)
Vegetarian, The

Sri Lanka
Island of a Thousand Mirrors

Taiwan
Bear Whispers to Me, The (Women in Translation)

Tajikistan
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, The

Thailand
Orchid House, The

Vietnam
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Also US)
Things They Carried, The


CARIBBEAN

Antigua and Barbuda
Annie John

Bahamas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Cuba
Old Man and the Sea, The

Dominica
Wide Sargasso Sea

Dominican Republic
In the Time of the Butterflies

Grenada
Bone Readers, The
Embarrassment of Mangoes, An

Guadeloupe
Bridge of Beyond, The

Haiti
Island Beneath the Sea

Jamaica
Patsy

Martinique
Texaco

Multiple Caribbean Islands
Embarrassment of Mangoes, An: A Caribbean Interlude

St. Kitts & Nevis
Final Passage, The

St. Lucia
Caribbean Mystery, A
White Egrets

St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Dead Reckoning
Spirits in the Dark


message 5: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Dec 11, 2021 02:49PM) (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

Belize
Beka Lamb

Bolivia
Norte: A Novel

Brazil
Dom Casmurro
Seven Sisters, The

Chile
House of the Spirits, The
Inés of My Soul
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

Colombia
Book of Emma Reyes, The
Delirium
Sound of Things Falling

Costa Rica
At the Bottom: A Woman's Life in Central America

El Salvador
Weight of All Things, The

Guatemala
President, The

Honduras
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
Mosquito Coast, The

Uruguay
Invisible Mountain, The


EUROPE

Albania
Chronicle in Stone

Armenia
Armenian Sketchbook, An

Austria
Death In Vienna, A
Exiles Return, The
Hare With Amber Eyes, The
Wall, The

Azerbaijan
Ali and Nino: A Love Story

Belarus
Voices from Chernobyl

Belgium
War and Turpentine

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia List, The: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (World Memoirs)
Bridge on the Drina, The

Bulgaria
East of the West: A Country in Stories

Croatia
Fox

Czech Republic
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The

Denmark
Smilla's Sense of Snow

Estonia
Purge

Faeroe Islands
Walpurgis Tide

Finland
Fair Play
My First Murder (Women in Translation)
Summer Book, The

France
Alsace: Ogre, The
Aquitaine: Death in Bordeaux
Auvergne: Hallucinating Foucault
Basse-Normandie: Enormous Room, The
Bourgogne: Suite Française
Brittany: All the Light We Cannot See
Brittany: Scaramouche
Centre: Devil's Pool, The
Champagne-Ardenne: Storm of Steel
Franche-Comte: Red and the Black, The
Haute-Normadie: Madame Bovary
Haute-Normadie: Simple Heart, A
Île-de-France: Les Misérables
Languedoc-Roussillon: Silent Land, The
Limousin: Resistance Man, The
Lorraine: Fear
Midi-Pyrénées: Chocolat
Midi-Pyrénées: Return of Martin Guerre, The
Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
Pays de la Loire: Fire in the Blood
Picardy: Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris, The
Poitou-Charentes: Lost Illusions
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Death on the Riviera
Rhône-Alpes: Whatever

Georgia
Georgian Folk Tales
Man Was Going Down the Road, A
One More Year (Also US)

Germany
All Quiet on the Western Front
Nazi Officer's Wife, The
Steppenwolf

Greece
Murderess, The
Zorba the Greek

Guernsey
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

Hungary
Another Love: A Novel (Contemporary translated lit)
Iza's Ballad (Women in Translation)

Iceland
Blue Fox, The (Award-winning translated literature)
Independent People

Ireland
Heart's Invisible Furies, The
My Left Foot
Ulysses

Italy
Name of the Rose, The

Latvia
High Tide
Soviet Milk

Liechtenstein
Of Things
Stamping Grounds

Lithuania
Issa Valley, The

Malta
Children Come by Ship

Moldova
The Good Life Elsewhere

Monaco
Loser Takes All

Montenegro
Catherine the Great and the Small

Netherlands
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Outsider in Amsterdam

Norway
Mercies, The
Sophie's World

Poland
Pianist, The
Zookeeper's Wife, The: A War Story

Portugal
Night Train to Lisbon

Romania
Historian, The

Russia
Big Green Tent, The
Doctor Zhivago
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (Translated memoirs)

Serbia
Tiger's Wife, The

Slovakia
Samko Tále's Cemetery Book

Slovenia
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland

Spain
Shadow of the Wind, The
Tears in Rain

Sweden
Beartown

Switzerland
Heidi

Transnistria
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld

Ukraine
Baba Dunja's Last Love (Women in Translation)
Death and the Penguin (Contemporary translated lit)
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (Translated memoirs)

United Kingdom: England
Bedfordshire: My Lord John
Berkshire: Tortoise and the Hare, The
Buckinghamshire: Life After Life
Buckinghamshire: Wind in the Willows, The
Cambridgeshire: Sense of an Ending, The
Cheshire: Cranford
Cornwall: Rebecca
Cumbria: Amsterdam
Derbyshire: Jane Eyre
Devonshire: Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The
Dorset: Far from the Madding Crowd
Durham: In a Dark, Dark Wood
Essex: Turn of the Screw, The
Gloucestershire: Cider With Rosie
Hampshire: Body in the Library, The
Herefordshire: Last Dragonslayer, The
Hertfordshire: Pride and Prejudice
Huntingdonshire: Children of Green Knowe, The
Kent: Wolf Hall
Lancashire: North and South
Leicestershire: Queen and I, The
Lincolnshire: Katherine
Middlesex: Neverwhere; Small Island
Norfolk: Waterland
Norfolk: Never Let Me Go
Northhamptonshire: Mansfield Park
Northumberland: Ruined City
Nottinghampshire: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Oxfordshire: Crome Yellow
Oxfordshire: Room with a View, A
Rutland: Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Shropshire: Wayward Apprentice, The
Somerset: History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The
Somerset: Northanger Abbey
Staffordshire: Arthur & George
Suffolk: Black Arrow, The: A Tale of the Two Roses
Surrey: Three Men in a Boat
Sussex: Ocean at the End of the Lane, The
Warwickshire: Shakespeare's Wife
Westmorland: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Wiltshire: Remains of the Day, The
Worcestershire: Black Swan Green
Yorkshire: North Riding: Woman In Black, The
Yorkshire: North Riding: All Creatures Great and Small
Yorkshire: West Riding: Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The

United Kingdom: Northern Ireland
Monster Calls, A

United Kingdom: Wales
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children


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Cyprus
Between the Orange Groves

Iran
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Iraq
Corpse Washer, The
Last Girl, My: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
Sirens of Baghdad, The

Israel
One Night, Markovitch

Jordan
The Cry of the Dove

Oman
Celestial Bodies
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar (also Zanzibar)

Saudi Arabia
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Finding Nouf

Syria
Hand Full of Stars, A

Turkey
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Women in Translation)
Bastard of Istanbul, The
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Translated classics)
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir (World memoirs)

United Arab Emirates
Sand Fish, The: A Novel from Dubai

Yemen
Henna House
Land Without Jasmine, A
Winter in Arabia, A


NORTH AMERICA

Canada
Alberta: Chorus of Mushrooms
British Columbia: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Manitoba: The Stone Angel
New Brunswick: The Coming of Winter
Newfoundland: Annabel
Northwest Territories: The Tenderness of Wolves
Nova Scotia: Fall on Your Knees
Nunavut: Walking on the Land
Ontario: And the Birds Rained Down
Ontario: Lives of Girls and Women
Ontario: We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Prince Edward Island: Emily of New Moon
Quebec: Ru (Also Vietnam)
Quebec: Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel
Quebec: Still Life
Saskatchewan: Nobody Cries at Bingo
Yukon: Two Old Women

Mexico
Devil's Highway, The: A True Story (Migration theme)
Distance Between Us, The (Immigrant Experience)
Mexican Gothic (Minority authors theme)
Transmigration of Bodies, The

United States
Alabama: Looking for Alaska
Alaska: Snow Child, The; Two Old Women
Arizona: Bean Trees, The
Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
California: Black Dahlia, The
California: When the Emperor Was Divine
California: There There
Colorado: Shining, The
Connecticut: Witch of Blackbird Pond, The
Delaware: Fight Club
Florida: Moor's Account, The
Florida: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Georgia: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Hawaii: Moloka'i
Hawaii: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Idaho: Housekeeping
Illinois: Time Traveler's Wife, The
Indiana: Fault in Our Stars, The
Iowa: Gilead
Kansas: In Cold Blood
Kentucky: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Louisiana: Twelve Years a Slave
Maine: Cider House Rules, The
Maryland: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The
Massachusetts: Bell Jar, The
Michigan: Virgin Suicides, The
Minnesota: Orphan Train
Mississippi: Absalom, Absalom!
Missouri: Winter's Bone
Montana: 600 Hours of Edward
Nebraska: Stoner
Nevada: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
New Hampshire: Prayer for Owen Meany, A
New Jersey: Silver Linings Playbook, The
New Mexico: House Made of Dawn
New Mexico: Professor's House, The
New York: Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A
New York: The Chosen
North Carolina: Cold Mountain
North Dakota: Round House, The
Ohio: Beloved
Oklahoma: Grapes of Wrath, The
Oregon: Sometimes a Great Notion
Pennsylvania: Perks of Being a Wallflower, The
Rhode Island: Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story
South Carolina: Bastard Out of Carolina
South Dakota: Personal History of Rachel DuPree, The
Tennessee: Widow of the South, The
Texas: Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
Utah: 19th Wife. The
Utah: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Vermont: Haunting of Hill House, The
Virginia: Kitchen House, The
Washington: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Washington, DC: Silence of the Lambs, The
West Virginia: Lark & Termite
Wisconsin: Art of Fielding, The
Wyoming: Unfinished Life, An


OCEANIA

American Samoa
Pago Pago Tango

Australia
Light Between Oceans, The
Dry, The
Road from Coorain, The
Town Like Alice

Fiji
Kalyana
Pieces of Happiness

Kiribati
Pattern of Islands

Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands Legends and Stories
Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island

Micronesia
My Urohs
People in the Trees, The

New Zealand
Bone People, The

Papua New Guinea
White Mary, The

Samoa
Leaves of the Banyan Tree
Pouliuli

Solomon Islands
Devil-Devil
Journeys in a Small Canoe: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islander

Tonga
Happy Isles of Oceania, The: Paddling the Pacific
Kisses in the Nederends

Tuvalu
The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific
Tuvalu: A History

Vanuatu
Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific, The


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Jax | 42 comments Diane wrote: "MIDDLE EAST

Cyprus
Between the Orange Groves

Iran
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Iraq
Corpse Washer, The
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Wow! What a magnificent list, and what work you have done! Thanks, Diane!


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Monique | 13 comments Diane wrote:

What an amazing resource this group has been! Is there a way for us to revive it? Can some of us serve as moderators to help out?



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