Global Literature – Novel Pairs
Culture/Country/Theme Title
Call #
Afghanistan
The Kite Runner/
F HUS
A Thousand Splendid
Suns
And the Mountains
Echoed
The Gunny Sack
The Poisonwood Bible
I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
Africa (Nigeria)
Africa (Nigeria)
Africa (Slave experience)
Africa (South Africa)
Little Bee
The Book of Negroes
Tsotsi
F CLE
F HIL
F FUG
Africa (South Africa –)
Africa (Southern Africa)
Asia (Female roles)
Australia
Cape Town
A Proper Marriage
The Language of Threads
The Road from Coorain
Canada (First Nations)
Canada (First Nations)
Africa (East)
Africa (Missionaries)
Canada (Immigrant
Experience)
Canada (Immigrant
Experience)
Canada (Newfoundland)
Caribbean
Chile
China
China (Female roles)
China (Foot binding)
Denmark
Europe (WW II)
Title
Call #
F HUS
The Pearl that broke its shell
F HAS
F HUS
The Bookseller of Kabul
F VAS
F KIN
F ECH
Baby Khaki’s Wings (stories)
Things Fall Apart
F SEI
(memoir)
F ALI
F ACH
Dangerous Love
Purple Hibiscus
The God Who Begat a Jackal
Cry, the Beloved Country
F OKR
F ADI
F MEZ
F PAT
F HAM
F LES
F TSU
F CON
The Power of One
F COU
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Villa Marini
F GOL
F MON
Kiss of the Fur Queen
F HIG
Green Grass, Running
Water/ Truth and Bright
Water/Medicine River
Kupligat’s Chance (Africa)
F KIN
Through Black Spruce/ Three F BOY
Day Road/ The Orenda
Keeper ‘n Me/ Indian Horse F WAG
F ODH
Tamarind Woman (India)
F BAD
Midnight at the Dragon
Café (China)
The Divine Ryans/ Colony
of Unrequited Dreams
Cereus Blooms at Night
Daughter of Fortune/ The
House of the Spirits
Lili
Shanghai Girls, Dreams of
Joy (Lisa See)
Binding Chair
F BAT
F BRA
F JOH
What We All Long For
(Vietnam)
The Shipping News
F MOO
F ALL
In the Time of the Butterflies F ALV
The Postman
F SKA
F WAN
PB POP
Red China Blues
Bonesetter’s Daughter (Amy
Tan)
Snow Flower and the Secret
Fan (Lisa See)
915.05
PB POP
The History of Danish
Dreams
Hotel at the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet
F HOE
Half-Blood Blues
F EDS
F HAR
F FOR
F PRO
PB POP
Eastern Europe
F UGR
France (and Canada -WW
I)
Germany
The Museum of
Unconditional Surrender
Man in the Iron Mask
(Paul Mantell)
Lady and the Unicorn /
The Virgin Blue
Cartographer of No
Man’s Land
The Shape I Gave You
F SKV
PB ADV
The Engineer of Human
Souls/ An Inexplicable Story
Count of Monte Cristo
F CHE
Magician’s Wife
F HOO
F DUF
Stone Carvers
F URQ
F BAI
The Museum of
Unconditional Surrender
F UGR
Germany
The Powenz Pack
F PEN
Germany ( WW I)
The Wars
F FIN
All Quiet on the Western
Front
The Reader
PB WAR
Germany (WW II)
Stones From the River
F HEG
Germany (Concentration
camps)
Great Britain (Immigrant
experience)
Holland/Netherlands
Schindler’s List
F KEN
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
(Boyne)
White Teeth
PB HF
Sweetness in the Belly
F GIB
Girl with a Pearl Earring
F CHE
F MAG
F MIS
Confessions of an Ugly
Stepsister
What the Body Remembers
India
A Fine Balance
India
Tamarind Mem
F BAD
Such a Long Journey
F MIS
India
The Hero’s Walk
F BAD
Enigma of Arrival
F NAI
India
Moor’s Last Sigh
F RUS
God of Small Things
F ROY
India
Iran
Secret Daughter
Reading Lolita in Tehran
F GOW
F NAF
Origins of Love
Prisoner of Tehran
Ireland
A Star Called Henry
F DOY
Ireland
Oh, Play that Thing
F DOY
Angela’s Ashes
‘Tis: A Memoir
Dubliners
F DES
365.45092
NEM
F MCC
Israel
Sulha
F MAR
The Family Orchard
F EVE
Italy
Lives of the Saints
F RIC
The Venetian’s Wife
F BAN
Japan
Memoirs of a Geisha
F GOL
Geisha, a Life
Japan
The House of Kanze
F ALB
Thousand Cranes
792.70952
IWA
F KAW
Japanese Immigrants
Snow Falling on Cedars
F GUT
Itsuka / Obasan
F KOG
France
France
F DUM
F SCH
F SMI
F BAL
F JOY
Jewish Experience (WW II
era)
Jewish Experience (WW II
era)
Jewish Experience
River Midnight
F NAT
The Book Thief
F ZUS
Schindler’s List
F KEN
Sarah’s Key
F ROS
F TAY
Latin America
Mexico
Mme Proust and the
Kosher Kitchen
Santa Evita
Like Water for Chocolate
F MAR
F ESQ
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Lacuna
F MAR
F KIN
Mexico
Swift as Desire
F ESQ
The Death of Artemio Cruz
F FUE
Middle East
The Red Tent
F DIA
F STA
North Korea
All Woman and
Springtime
Escape from Camp 14
F JON
Shabanu, Daughter of the
Wind
The Orphan Master’s Son
North Korea
F JOH
951.9304
SHI
F COR
Look For Me: A Novel
F RAV
One Day in the Life of
Ivan Denisovich
One Hundred Years of
Solitude
The Lizard Cage (Burma)
For Whom the Bell Tolls /
The Sun also Rises
Funny Boy
PB HF
Russlander
F BIR
F MAR
Motorcycle Diaries
F GUE
F CON
F HEM
Shadow of the Wind
F ZAF
F SEL
Anil’s Ghost
F OND
F SEL
Hungry Tide
F GHO
Sri Lanka
Swimming in the
Monsoon Sea
Cinnamon Gardens
F SEL
Far Field
F MEI
Survival
Terrorism
Life of Pi
After the First Death
F MAR
F COR
F JON
United States (African
Americans)
United States (African
Americans)
United States (African
Americans)
United States (African
Americans)
United States (African
Americans)
United States (Immigrant
Experience)
12 Years a Slave
PB BIO
Mister Pip
Manhunt: the ten-year
search for Bin Laden
Book of Negroes
The Last Runaway
F SMI
Sula
F MOR
The Dry Grass of August
F MAY
The Kitchen House
F GRI
A Lesson Before Dying
F GAI
The Bluest Eye
F MOR
The Color Purple
PB HF
A Gesture Life
(Japan/Korea)
F CHA
The Namesake
(India)
F LAH
Palestine (Arab-Israeli
conflict)
Russia/ Soviet Union
South America
Southeast Asia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
The Almond Tree
F HIL
United States (Native
Americans)
United States (Native
Americans)
United States (Native
Americans)
United States (Native
Americans)
WW II (American
experience)
Last of the Mohicans
F COO
Deerslayer
F COO
The Moccasin Telegraph
F KIN
The Beet Queen/Love
Medicine
Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet
(Japanese/Chinese)
F ERD
Long River
F BRU
F FOR
Half-Blood Blues
(African-American)
F EDS