NOVEL DESTINATIONS
(Note: Titles are in the Fiction collection unless noted as a mystery or a biography)
AFGHANISTAN
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked
Everything To Keep Them Safe – Gayle Lemmon (NB biography – SEDIQUI)
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Lipstick in Afghanistan – Roberta Gately
The Mullah’s storm – Thomas Young
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Kabul Beauty School – Deborah Rodriquez (biography- RODRIQUEZ)
AFRICA
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze – Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia)
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba ( Malawi - biography – KAMKWAMBA)
Camel Bookmobile – Masha Hamilton (Kenya)
Clouds Beneath the Sun- Mackenzie Ford (Kenya)
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia)
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimanda Adiche (Nigeria)
In the Country of Men – Hisham Matar (Libya)
Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia – biography HIRSI ALI)
Knots – Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
Left to Tell – Immaculee Ilibagiza (Rwanda – biography – ILIBAGIZA)
Let the Dead Lie – Malla Nun (South Africa – mystery)
A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ishmael Beah (Sierre leone – biography – BEAH)
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana – first in a series)
Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (Congo)
Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village – Twesigye Kaguri (Uganda – biography – KAGURI)
Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu: A Detective Kubu Mystery – Michael Stanley (Botswana – mystery)
Syringa Tree – Pamela Gien (South Africa)
This Child will be Great – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia – biography – SIRLEAF)
AUSTRALIA
The Broken Shore – Peter Temple
Gunshot Road: An Emily Temple Investigation – Adrian Hyland (mystery)
The Lieutenant – Kate Grenville
The True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
BURMA (MYANMAR)
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan
CANADA
The Cruelest Month: A Three Pines Mystery – Louise Penny (mystery series)
The Forest Lover – Susan Vreeland
The Tenderness of Wolves – Stef Penney
Under This Unbroken Sky – Shandi Mitchell
The View From Castle Rock: Stories – Alice Munro
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True – Brigid Pasulka (Poland)
Me, Myself & Prague – Rachell Weiss (Czech Republic – biography WEISS)
Painted Bird – Jerzy Kozinski (Eastern Europe)
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
Russian Debutant’s Daughter – Gary Shteyngart (Czech Republic)
Spies of Warsaw – Alan Furst (Poland)
Tin Drum – Gunter Grass (Germany)
Violin of Auschwitz –Maria Angels Anglada (Poland)
CHINA
Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met – Hao Jiang Tian (biography- TIAN)
Flower Net – Lisa See
The Painter from Shanghai – Jennifer Cody Epstein
The Scholar and the Tiger: A Memoir of Famine and War in Revolutionary China- David Chang (biography- CHANG)
Soul Mountain – Xingjian Gao
Waiting – Ha Jin
EGYPT
Cleopartra: A Memoir – Stacey Schiff (NB biography – CLEOPATRA)
The Face in the Cemetery : a Mamur Zapt mystery – Michael Pearce (mystery)
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit – Lucette Lagnado (biography –LAGNADO)
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead – Nick Drake (mystery)
Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street (Cairo Trilogy) – Naguib Mahfouz
The View From Garden City – Carolyn Baugh
FRANCE
The Captive Queen: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine – Alison Weir
Five Quarters of an Orange – Joanne Harris
Le Mariage – Diane Johnson
Murder in the Latin Quarter, Murder in Monmartre, Murder in the Palais Royal, Murder in the Rue de Paradis – Cara
Black (all are mysteries)
Norregrets: The Life of Edith Piaf – Carolyn Burke (biography- PIAF)
INDIA
An Atlas of Impossible Longing – Anuradha Roy
The Case of the Missing Servant: From the Files of Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator – Tarquin Hall
(mystery)
House of Blue Mangoes – David Davidar
Marriage Bureau for Rich People – Farahad Zama (NB)
Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India – Anita Jain (biography- JAIN)
IRAN
Caspian Rain – Gina Naha
Censoring an Iranian Love Story – Shahriyar Mandanious
My Name is Iran: A Memoir – Davar Ardalan (biography- ARDALAN)
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi (biography – NAFISI)
The Septembers of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer
Things I’ve Been Silent About – Azar Nafisi (biography – NAFISI)
IRAQ
Land of Marvels – Barry Unsworth
Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell – John Crawford (biography – CRAWFORD)
Sweet Dates in Basra – Jessica Jiji
Sweetness of Tears – Nafisa Haji (NBk)
Waiting for an Ordinary Day – Farnaz Fassihi (biography – FASSIHI)
ISRAEL
The Collaborator of Behlehem – Matt Beyon (mystery)
The Family Orchard – Naomi Eve
Prince of Fire – Daniel Silva
To the End of the Land – David Grossman
A Woman in Jerusalem – Abraham Yehoshua
ITALY
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud – Julia Navarre
Bicycle Runner: a Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance – Franco Romagnoli (biography- ROMAGNOLI)
Garden of Evil – David Hewson
Stopover in Venice – Kathryn Walker
Mystery series set in Venice – Donna Leon; mystery series set in ancient Rome – Lindsey Davis)
JAPAN
At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman’s Journey of Discovery – Rebecca Otowa (biography – OTOWA)
The Commoner – John Burnham Schwartz
The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
The Samurai’s Garden – Gail Tsukiyama
Street of a Thousand Blossoms – Gail Tsukiyama
Mystery series set in medieval and 18th century Japan – see books by I.J. Parker and Laura Joh Rowland
KOREA
The Calligrapher’s Daughter – Eugenia Kim
The Ginseng Hunter – Jeff Talarigo (North Korea)
Hidden Moon: an Inspector O novel – James Church (North Korea – mystery)
Long for This World – Sonya Chung (South Korea)
Please Look After Mom – Kyung-sook Shin (South Korea- NB))
MEXICO
Caramelo – Sandra Cisneros
Daughter of the Sun – Barbara Wood
The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Mexico – James Michener
RUSSIA
City of Thieves – David Benioff
Child 44 – Tom Robert Smith
The Line – Olga Grushin
A Mountain of Crumbs – Elena Gorokhova (biography - GOROKHOVA)
Russian Winter – Daphne Kalotay
Stalin’s Romeo Spy – Emil Draitser– (biography- BYSTROLYOTOV)
Winter Queen – Boris Akunin
SAUDI ARABIA
City of Veils –Zoe Ferraris
Consequences of Love – Sulaiman Addonia
Finding Noef – Zoe Ferraris
Girls of Riyadh – Rajaa Alsanea
SCANDINAVIA
Arctic Chill – Arnaldur Indridason
Cruel Stars of the Night – Kjell Eriksson (mystery)
Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell (mystery series)
Glass Devil – Helene Tursten (mystery)
Ice Princess – Camilla Lackberg (NB)
Jar City – Arnaldur Indridason
The Redbreast – Jo Nesbo
SOUTH AMERICA
Bell Canto – Ann Patchett (unnamed So. American country)
Blood of the Wicked – Leighton Gage (mystery – Brazil)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende (Chile)
Death in the Andes – Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
In the company of Angels – Thomas Kennedy (Chile)
Love in a Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (unnamed So. American country)
Mystery of Special Cases – Nathan Englander (Argentina)
The Seamstress – Frances De Pontes Peebles (Brazil)
SPAIN AND MOROCCO
Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Captain Alatriste – Arturo Perez Reverte
Cathedral of the Sea- Ildefonso Falcones
Lulu in Marrakech – Diane Johnson
Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Storyteller of Marrakech – Joydeep Roy- Bhattacharya
TURKEY
Gardens of Water – Alan Drew
The Gendarme – Mark Mustian
Janissary Tree – Jason Goodwin (mystery)
Snow – Orhan Pamuk
VIETNAM
Beauty of Humanity – Camille Gibb (NB)
Le Colonial – Kien Nguyen
Lotus Eaters – Tatjana Soli
Matterhorn – Karl Marlantes
The Tapestries – Kien Nguyen