78 books
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Expat Books
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The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 502,820 ratings — published 1926
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 33,240 ratings — published 2015
The Expert Expat: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 101 ratings — published 2002
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 17,579 ratings — published 2010
Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120,998 ratings — published 1995
Shantaram (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 244,253 ratings — published 2003
The Emotionally Resilient Expat: Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 46 ratings — published 2013
Delirious Delhi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 236 ratings — published 2011
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 14,100 ratings — published 2001
Expat Etiquette: How to Look Good in Bad Places (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.51 — 70 ratings — published 2014
Ciao Bella!: Six Take Italy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,790 ratings — published
Exciting Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.20 — 76,675 ratings — published 2020
How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? True Stories of Expat Women in Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 78 ratings — published 2014
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 26,775 ratings — published 2003
Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America (Process Self-reliance Series)
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avg rating 3.73 — 312 ratings — published 2006
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 58,417 ratings — published 2001
The Quiet American (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 73,592 ratings — published 1955
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,218 ratings — published 1997
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.02 — 80,651 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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avg rating 3.50 — 7,190 ratings — published 2002
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 15,828 ratings — published 2003
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 18,148 ratings — published 2007
A Moveable Feast (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 170,221 ratings — published 1964
Perfection (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.69 — 45,382 ratings — published 2022
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,771 ratings — published 2024
Whereabouts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 35,588 ratings — published 2018
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 31,241 ratings — published 1949
The Glass Kingdom (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.21 — 2,219 ratings — published 2020
My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,791 ratings — published 2017
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 33,268 ratings — published 1934
Looming Transitions: Starting and finishing well in cross-cultural service (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 457 ratings — published
The Great Believers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 177,266 ratings — published 2018
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,628 ratings — published 2019
A Sport and a Pastime (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 11,754 ratings — published 1967
GenXpat: The Young Professional's Guide to Making a Successful Life Abroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expat)
avg rating 3.10 — 31 ratings — published 2005
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 433,701 ratings — published 2009
Worlds Apart: A Third Culture Kid's Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 28 ratings — published
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 3,477 ratings — published 2012
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 141,705 ratings — published 2015
The Essential Guide To Living And Retiring In Thailand: 2011 Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2010
Retiring in Thailand: Live in Paradise for Pennies on the Dollar (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Once Upon An Expat (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 64 ratings — published
A Better Life for Half the Price: How to prosper on less money in the cheapest places to live (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 132 ratings — published 2015
The Financial Guide to Retiring Abroad: How to Retire Overseas, Avoid Tax, Invest Wisely, and Save Your Money (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 2010
How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad
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avg rating 3.56 — 335 ratings — published 2010
The Grown-Up's Guide to Running Away from Home, Second Edition: Making a New Life Abroad (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 114 ratings — published 1998
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 14,098 ratings — published 2006
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,858,196 ratings — published 2006
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 682,091 ratings — published 1886
Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad (Adventura Books)
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avg rating 3.59 — 466 ratings — published 2002
“German Kindergarten teachers would not intervene unless someone's eye was actually being poked out with a stick, and even then, only to clean up the eye, put it back in the child's head, and tell them to soldier on.”
-Kari Martindale, in “Expat Education: an Expat’s Guide to Choosing a School Overseas” by author Carole Hallett Mobbs”
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-Kari Martindale, in “Expat Education: an Expat’s Guide to Choosing a School Overseas” by author Carole Hallett Mobbs”
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“Giving up on the drive to succeed is a good part of what being an expat is all about. If you travel all the way to the Caribbean Sea, you probably have already decided to trade the dog-eat-dog competition of modern living for a hammock on the sand.”
― Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road
― Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road












