Around The World In 80 Countries

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Book settings from 80 different countries.
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Afghanistan
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Albania
The Three-Arched Bridge – Ismail Kadare
 

Algeria
The Magician’s Wife – Brian Moore

Argentina
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene

Antarctica
The White Darkness – Geraldine McCaughrean

Australia
The Secret River – Kate Greville
 

Austria
Beware of Pity – Stefan Zweig

Belgium
Niccolo Rising – Dorothy Dunnett

Belize
Belize – Carlos Ledson Miller

Bolivia
CrossFire – Jeanette Windle
Biting Silence – Arturo Von Vacono

Borneo
Kalimantaan – C. S. Godshalk

Bosnia
The People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks

Botswana
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith

Brazil
The Silence of the Rain – Luiz Alfredo Garcia Roza

Burma (Myanmar)
The Lizard Cage – Karen Connelly

Cambodia
Finding Moon – Tony Hillerman

Cameroon
Houseboy – Ferdinand Oyono

Canada
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

Chile
Clandestine In Chile – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

China
The Painted Veil – Somerset Maugham

Columbia
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
News of A Kidnapping – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Congo
Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

Cuba
Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene

Czechoslovakia
Judge on Trial – Ivan Klima
The Visible World – Mark Slouka

Denmark
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg

Dominican Republic
? by Julia Alvarez

Egypt
The Map of Love

El Salvador
A Book of Common Prayer – Didion, Joan

England
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Island – Andrea Levy
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell

Estonia
Treading Air - Jaan Kross
Purge – Sofi Oksanen
Brecht at Night – Mati Unt

Finland
The True Deceiver – Tove Jansson

France
Life Class – Pat Barker
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
The Chalk Circle Man / Have Mercy On Us All / Seeking Whom He May Devour / Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands / The Three Evangelists / This Night’s Foul Work – Fred Vargas

Germany
The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt – Wilhelm Genazino
The Tin Drum – Guenther Grass
Settlement – Christoph Hein

Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
The Reader – Bernard Schlink
Self’s Punishment / Self’s Deception / Self’s Murder - Bernard Schlink
Stasiland – Anna Funder

Greece
The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
The Island – Victoria Hislop
Stone Virgin – Barry Unsworth

Haiti

Alphabet of the Night – Jean Euphele Milce
The Comedians – Graham Greene

Hungary
Embers – Sandor Marai

Iceland
Jar City / Silence of the Grave / Voices / The Draining Lake / Arctic Chill / Hypothermia - Arnaldur Indridason
Heaven and Hell – Jon Kalman Stefansson

India
Pather Panchali – Bibhutibhushan Banerji
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

Indonesia
The Hidden Force – Louis Couperus

Iran
The House of the Mosque – Kader Abdolah

Iraq
Naphtalene – Alia Mamdouh

Ireland
The Dubliners – James Joyce
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore

Israel
When I Lived In Modern Times / The People On The Street – Linda Grant
The Little Drummer Girl – John Le Carre

Italy
I’m Not Scared / Steal You Away / The Crossroads – Niccolo Ammaniti
The Zen Series – Michael Dibdin 
Betrayal In Naples / Saving Caravaggio – Neil Griffiths
 

Jamaica
Wide Sargasso Sea by – Jean Rhys
Joseph Knight – James Robertson

Japan
Number9Dream – David Mitchell
Peace Year Zero – David Peace

Jordan
Staircase of a Thousand Steps – Masha Hamilton
West of the Jordan – Laila Halaby

Kazakhstan
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years – Chingiz Aitmatov
Nine Layers of Sky – Liz Williams

Kenya
Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen

Latvia
The Dogs of Riga – Henning Mankell

Lebanon
Gate of the Sun – Elias Khoury

Lithuania
The Last Girl – Stephan Collishaw

Malaysia
The Gift of Rain – Tan Twan Eng

Mexico
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
The Poison that Fascinates – Jennifer Clements

Morocco
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami

The Last Resort – Carmen Posadas

Netherlands
A Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam – Chris Evans
The Dark Room of Damocles – W F Hermans

New Zealand
The Scornful Moon – Maurice Gee 
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Colour – Rose Tremain

Nigeria
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Norway
The Fourth Man – K O Dahl
The Redbreast / The Devil’s Star / Nemesis / The Redeemer / The Snowman / The Leopard - Jo Nesbo
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson

Oman
Sandstorm by James Rollins

Papua New Guinea
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones

Peru
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Phillipines
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe

Poland
Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Portugal
Pereira Maintains – Antonio Tabucchi

Russia
The Siege – Helen Dunmore
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

Samoa
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

Scotland
44 Scotland Street / Love Over Scotland / The World According to Bertie / The Unbearable Lightness of Scones / The Importance of Being Seven - Alexander McCall Smith

Senegal
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

Sierra Leone
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene.

South Africa
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Gem Squash Tokoloshe – Rachel Zadok

South Korea
The New Year – Pearl S. Buck

Spain
Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas
The Spanish Game – Charles Cumming
A Not So Perfect Crime – Teresa Solana

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sudan
The Translator – Leila Aboulela
Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih

Sweden
The Wallander Series – Henning Mankell (100 % complete Dec 2010)

Switzerland
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party – Graham Greene.

Thailand
Sightseeing – Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Trinidad & Tobago
? by Naipaul

Turkey
Birds without Wings – Louis De Bernieres
The Towers of Trebizond – Rose MaCaulay
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk

Tunisia
The Tremor of Forgery – Patricia Highsmith

Ukraine
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewcyka

Uruguay
The Tree of Red Stars – Tessa Bridal

USA
The Keepers of Truth / The Resurrections / Lost Souls – Michael Collins
Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem
Property – Valerie Martin
Gone with The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Uzbekistan
Murder In Samarakand – Craig Murray
Mission to Taskent – F M Bailey

Venezuela
Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
In Trouble Again – Redmond O’Hanlon

Vietnam
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Wales
The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies

Yugoslavia
A Castle in Romagna – Igor Stiks

Zimbabwe
Zenzele – J. Nozipo Maraire
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga