3.87 avg rating — 32,761 ratings

"Incredible book on its own right but when read from an ex-pats point of view it hits all the stereo-types squarely on the head, and its lost nothing in the near century since it was written."

3.76 avg rating — 27,014 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 54,283 ratings

3.57 avg rating — 845 ratings

"Saint Jack along with many of Theroux's other novels deals with a narrator who is living as an outsider, this is the essence of the ex-pat novel.
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings

"A book about ex-pats and natives living together and apart."

3.68 avg rating — 333,121 ratings

"The first ex-pat novel?"

3.57 avg rating — 619,506 ratings

"Maybe not an ex-pat book per-se but Ishmael is a narrator with a wanderlust and the peqoud is definitely a strange place."

3.43 avg rating — 562,045 ratings

"Heart of Darkness and several other novella length stories of Conrads epitomize the 'otherness' of the ex-pat novel that I look for."

3.67 avg rating — 86,267 ratings