Around
the World in Books
Let
your imagination take you away as you travel around the world through
the wonderful world of books!
North
America:
The
Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
(Quebec)
Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Savannah, Georgia)
Anne
of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Prince Edward Island)
Middlesex:
A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Detroit, Michigan)
Hanta
Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill (Lakota Sioux Tribes of North America)
The
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Chicago, Illinois)
Wild:
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed
(California, Oregon, Washington State- Pacific Northwest)
Gone
With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Atlanta, Georgia, Civil War)
South
America:
Bel
Canto by Ann Patchett (an unnamed South American country)
In
Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (Patagonia- Argentina and Chile, Andes
Mountins)
Galapagos:
A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (Galapagos Islands)
The
Lost city of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by Davis
Grann (Amazon Jungle)
One
Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
The
Path Between the Seas by David McCullough (Panama Canal)
Africa
Heart
of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Congo)
Cutting
for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia)
The
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Belgian Congo)
The
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by alexander McCall Smith (Botswana)
The
Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley (Kenya)
Out
of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Kenya)
What
is the What by Dave Eggers (Sudan/USA)
Aida
by Leontyne Price (Ethiopia)
Cleopatra’s
Daughter by Michelle Moran (Rome/Egypt)
Nefertitti
by Michelle Moran (Egypt)
Europe
Beautiful
Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter (Italian Coast/California)
The
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Barcelona, Spain)
Various
Novels by Donna Leon Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (many take
place in Venice, Italy)
Transatlantic
by Colum McCann (Newfoundland/Ireland)
Les
Miserables by Victor Hugo (France)
God
is an Englishman by R.F. Delderfield (England)
The
Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Sicily)
The
Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (WWII Germany)
Corelli’s
Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (Greek Isle of Cephallonia)
The
King Must Die by Mary Renault (Ancient Greece and Theseus)
Asia
River
Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler (China Sichuan
Provence)
Persepolis:
The Story of a Childhood by Mariane Satrapi (Iran)
And
the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Kabul, Afghanistan, USA)
Shogun
by James Clavell (Feudal Japan)
For
Fukui’s Sake: Two Years in Rural Japan by Sam Baldwin (Japan)
Nicholas
and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie (Imperial Russia)
Rasputin:
The Untold Story by Joseph T. Fahrmann
Krakatoa:
The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester (Indonesia)
Australia
and Beyond
The
Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough (Australian Outback)
In
A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (Australia)
Over
the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of
the Globe by Laurence Bergreen (Around the Globe)
Endurance:
Shackelton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (Antarctica)
Come
On Shore and We Will Kill You and Eat You All by Christina Thompson
(New Zealand/ Maori Culture)
A
Second Chance by Shayne Parkinson (New Zealand late 1800’s)
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