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Foreign Lands Books
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,773,767 ratings — published 2007
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,548,035 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,126,779 ratings — published 1997
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,769,684 ratings — published 2001
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,927,872 ratings — published 2005
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.08 — 410,583 ratings — published 2012
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,106 ratings — published 2006
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,956 ratings — published 2018
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.38 — 162,053 ratings — published 1995
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.09 — 390,254 ratings — published 2005
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.31 — 735,535 ratings — published 2001
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.11 — 802,215 ratings — published 1998
In a Sunburned Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.07 — 123,718 ratings — published 2000
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.32 — 685,762 ratings — published 2016
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.34 — 655,140 ratings — published 2017
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,114 ratings — published 2009
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,168,959 ratings — published 1991
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,486,715 ratings — published 2005
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.81 — 277,724 ratings — published 1998
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.27 — 235,246 ratings — published 2003
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.32 — 177,097 ratings — published 2019
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.05 — 488,220 ratings — published 2011
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,887 ratings — published
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.36 — 282,276 ratings — published 2011
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,134 ratings — published 2012
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.76 — 18,744 ratings — published 2011
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,956 ratings — published 2008
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,384,206 ratings — published 1956
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,775 ratings — published 1997
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,610 ratings — published 2003
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,856,736 ratings — published 2006
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.94 — 553,888 ratings — published 1985
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,565 ratings — published 2007
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.40 — 332,379 ratings — published 2023
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,396 ratings — published 2022
Honor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.35 — 76,221 ratings — published 2022
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.63 — 365,495 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,368 ratings — published 2020
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.18 — 222,314 ratings — published 2020
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.10 — 165,508 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets Between Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.50 — 11,203 ratings — published 2018
What the Wind Knows (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.36 — 116,414 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.26 — 578,785 ratings — published 1997
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.35 — 262,979 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,297 ratings — published 2012
When the Moon is Low (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,412 ratings — published 2015
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,657,274 ratings — published 1988
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,244,497 ratings — published 2015
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.30 — 331,040 ratings — published 1982
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as foreign-lands)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,022,643 ratings — published 2014
“When you travel, the battered old suitcase only tells half the story...”
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“Great growth comes from loneliness. You have time to develop, dwell in your own mind and go a bit mad. All great people are a bit mad. That’s good to remember. Don’t escape it.
Great growth comes from time spent in foreign lands, watching foreign people with foreign cultures. It makes you forget about your own land and race and town for a while. Great growth also comes from rooting yourself into one place from time to time. Unpack your bags, get a nice bed, a book shelf, some friends. Learn to show up, keep in touch, stick around.
Growth comes in all sort of forms and shapes, everywhere at all times, and it’s yours to take and consume. Do what ought to be done. Here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.”
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Great growth comes from time spent in foreign lands, watching foreign people with foreign cultures. It makes you forget about your own land and race and town for a while. Great growth also comes from rooting yourself into one place from time to time. Unpack your bags, get a nice bed, a book shelf, some friends. Learn to show up, keep in touch, stick around.
Growth comes in all sort of forms and shapes, everywhere at all times, and it’s yours to take and consume. Do what ought to be done. Here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.”
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