Travel the World in Books: My Notable Reads

Are you participating in the #TraveltheWorldinBooks readathon or challenge? Are you still figuring out what to read, or simply curious about where some stories take place?

You can check out my Book Map for the settings of all my reads. I also invite you to check out my sidebar where I have a drop down "Travel the World in Books" which lists the country settings.

In this post, I'm pulling together some of my favourite book, or reads that I consider "notable" and worth reading (so far!). Maybe you'll discover some new reads for your challenge TBR!

Edit: So I just came back from GirlXOXO's post on the Global Reading Exposure Challenge and realize that this list is just a perfect response. She asks that we share a book that takes place in a region other than where we're living. It would be impossible for me to share just one, there are just too many!

Fiction

Multiple countries:

Eight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto (Argentina, Germany, Italy, UK, USA)

Incendiary Girls: Stories by Kodi Scheer (Armenia, US)

Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia and across Europe)

Ru by Kim Thuy (Canada, Thailand, Vietnam)

The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro (France, UK, USA)

The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Germany, Poland)

Argentina:

Perla by Carolina de Robertis

Canada:

A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun

Obasan by Joy Kagawa 

Germany:

The Reader by Bernard Schlink

India:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

 

Israel: 

A Vision of Angels by Timothy Jay Smith

Japan:

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

The Ghosts of Nagasaki by Daniel Clausen

Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto

Mexico:

Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano

The Earthquake Machine by Mary Pauline Lowry

Nigeria:

I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Norway:

The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder 

The Philippines:

Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco

Gagamba: The Spider Man by F. Sionil Jose

Ermita by F. Sionil Jose

Poland:

Swans are Fat Too by Michelle Granas

Portugal:

All the Name by Jose Saramago

Singapore:

Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery

Sweden:

Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Turkey:

Silk Armour by Claire Sydenham

UK:

The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewyca

USA:

Belle Cora by Phillip Margulies

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

This is Paradise: Stories by Kristiana Kahakuwila (Hawaii)

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman

The Help by Katherine Stockett

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Vietnam:

The Frangipani Hotel: Stories by Violet Kupersmith

Non-Fiction

Night by Elie Wiesel (Austria, Poland) 

Find Momo: A Photography Book by Andrew Knapp (US, Canada)

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Anne Patchett (US)

Mountainfit by Meera Lee Sethi (Sweden)

Rats by Robert Sullivan (US)

However Long the Night by Aimee Molloy (Senegal)

Eat Now, Talk Later by James Vescovi (Italy, US)

Home is a Roof Over a Pig (China)

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat by Naomi Moriyama (Japan, US)

French Women Don't Get Old or Fat by Mirelle Guiliano (France)

A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (France, Japan, US, UK, Vietnam)

The House at Anzac Parade by Victor Kline (Australia)

Check out all my posts related to this readathon!
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