Books set in countries I've been to – ones I've read and others TBR (to be read)
Submitted by ukaunz on Tue, 08/16/2005 - 09:24
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- AUSTRALIA
- Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
- Dirt Music – Tim Winton
- Eucalyptus – Murray Bail
- For the Term of his Natural Life – Marcus Clarke
- A Fortunate Life – A.B. Facey
- The Messenger – Markus Zusak
- Playing Beatie Bow – Ruth Park
- Red Dog – Louis de Bernieres
- A True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
- AUSTRIA
- To be read:
- Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland
- BELGIUM
- CAMBODIA
- CHINA
- Mr Nice – Howards Marks
- To be read:
- Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
- The Kitchen God's Wife – Amy Tan
- Wild Swans – Jung Chang
- The Years of Rice and Salt – Kim Stanley Robinson
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- To be read:
- Troll: A Love Story – Johanna Sinisalo
- FRANCE
- Chocolat – Joanne Harris
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- Perfume – Patrick Suskind
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- GERMANY
- To be read:
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Slaughterhouse–5 – Kurt Vonnegut
- GIBRALTAR
- To be read:
- Sahara – Michael Palin
- INDIA
- Are You Experienced – William Sutcliffe
- The Far Pavilions – M.M. Kaye
- Fasting, Feasting – Anita Desai
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure – Sarah McDonald
- The Jewel in the Crown – Paul Scott
- A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- The Silver Castle – Clive James
- IRELAND
- A Place of Stones – Dierdre Purcell
- Angela's Ashes – Frank McCourt
- To be read:
- Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
- ITALY
- Hannibal – Thomas Harris
- The Venetian's Wife – Nick Bantock
- To be read:
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- Pompeii – Thomas Harris
- A Thousand Days in Venice – Marlena de Blasi
- JAPAN
- Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes – Eleanor Coerr
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALAYSIA
- My Life as a Fake – Peter Carey
- The Tesseract – Alex Garland
- MONACO
- NEPAL
- Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
- Shopping for Buddhas – Jeff Greenwald
- NETHERLANDS
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- To be read:
- Girl With a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
- NEW ZEALAND
- Sole Survivor – Derek Hansen
- NORWAY
- Sophie's World – Jostein Gaarder
- PORTUGAL
- To be read:
- The City and the Mountains by Eça de Queiroz
- SINGAPORE
- SPAIN
- To be read:
- Killing the Shadows – Val McDermid
- SWEDEN
- SWITZERLAND
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri
- THAILAND
- The Beach – Alex Garland
- To be read:
- The Bridge on the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- London – Edward Rutherford
- Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The Quincunx – Charles Palliser
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
- To be read:
- Howard's End – Virginia Woolf
- Mrs Dalloway – E.M. Forster
- VATICAN CITY
- VIETNAM
- To be read:
- The Gate – Francois Bizot
I am surprised you have not read:
United Kingdom-
Mrs. Dalloway
Howard's Eng
and the absense of any African Literature from your list.
I'll put Mrs Dalloway and Howard's End on my To Be Read list, thanks for the suggestions.
As for why there is no African literature on my list, I haven't been to Africa, that's why! The list is called Countries I've travelled...
It would seem that I didn't read the title of your list closely. Oops.
I like the concept for this list. Sadly, not living in Europe, I've only visited two other countries. My list would be mighty boring.
:)
But yours rocks. If I come across anything relating, I'll let you know.
Wait, I did think of one. "The Road from Coorain" by Jill Ker Conway is set in Australia, and she really deals with the culture and mindset of the people there.