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A summer reading list for the armchair traveler.
Thrillers & Mysteries
Russia - Disappearing Earth
Greece - Beautiful Animals
France - The Paris Apartment
Bolivia - The River at Night
Ireland - The Wych Elm
Mexico - The Savage Detectives
Kenya - Dust
Vacations Gone Wrong
Unnamed Central American Country - Do Not Become Alarmed
Unnamed Caribbean Country - Saint X
Norway - The Woman in Cabin 10
Thailand - The Beach
Greece - The Two Faces of January
Morocco - The Forgiven
Expat Stories
Cambodia - Hunters in the Dark
Macao - Ballad of a Small Player
Hong Kong - The Expatriates
Italy - The Imperfectionists
France - The Paris Wife
Czech Republic - The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
Tear-Jerkers
India - A Fine Balance
Scotland - Shuggie Bain
Ireland - The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Sudan - What Is the What
Love Stories Gone Wrong
Dominican Republic - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Nigeria - Stay With Me
Ireland - Normal People
Czech Republic - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Turkey - The Museum of Innocence
Italy - My Brilliant Friend
Historical Fiction
Japan - Memoirs of a Geisha
New Zealand - The Luminaries
Israel - The Red Tent
France - Queen of the Night
War Zones
Iraq - Redeployment
Sri Lanka - Anil’s Ghost
Nigeria - Half of a Yellow Sun
Vietnam - The Things They Carried
Vietnam - The Sympathizer
Bosnia - S. A Novel About the Balkans
World War II
Philippines - When the Elephants Dance
Germany - Stones from the River
France - All the Light We Cannot See
The Channel Islands - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Rom-Coms
Singapore - Crazy Rich Asians
Italy - Beautiful Ruins
India - Polite Society
France - Paris Is Always A Good Idea
Missionaries, Explorers, Researchers, and Colonizers
Congo - The Poisonwood Bible
Papua New Guinea - Euphoria
Brazil - State of Wonder
Family Dramas
India - The God of Small Things
Chile - The House of the Spirits
Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone
Korea - Pachinko
Canada - The Shipping News
Haiti - Breath, Eyes, Memory
Ukraine - Everything is Illuminated
Korea - The Surrendered
Based-on-a-True-Story
France - The Perfect Nanny
Argentina - Cartwheel
Kenya - Circling the Sun
Magical Realism
Japan - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Virgin Islands - Land of Love and Drowning
Colombia - Love in the Time of Cholera
Jamaica - A Brief History of Seven Killings
India - Midnight’s Children
Feel-Good Books
Antarctica - Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Russia - A Gentleman in Moscow
Spain - The Shadow of the Wind
Feel-Bad Books
South Africa - Disgrace
Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
France - You Deserve Nothing
England - Queenie
My Underrated Favorites
North Korea - The Orphan Master’s Son
India - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Korea - If I Had Your Face
Japan - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Chechnya - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Nigeria - The Death of Vivek Oji
Ghana - Homegoing