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My travels around the world in books! Starting in 2022 I am using this list to record books I’ve read over the past few years, set in various countries. I am aiming to read from as many different recognized countries, disputed countries or territories as possible. The books marked with an asterisk are written by native or resident authors.
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AFRICAAlgeria
A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi*
The Stranger by Albert Camus*
Angola
The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso*
Transparent City by Ondjaki*
Ascension Island
Benin
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music by Angelique Kidjo*
Botswana
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (Zimbabwean authors)
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue*
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio*
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir*
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Polish author)
The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Myers*
Congo (Republic)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Côte d’Ivoire
Aya: Life in Yop City, Aya: Love in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet*
Djibouti
Egypt
Iris & Ruby by Rosie Thomas (Welsh author)
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz*
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi*
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Azieb Pool*
Ethiopia
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste*
Gabon
Gambia
Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster*
Ghana
Harmattan Rain by Ayesha Harruna Attah*
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi*
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown*
Guinea
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo (Ivorian author)
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai*
Lesotho
Liberia
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore*
Libya
The Bleeding of the Stone of Ibrahim al-Koni*
Madagascar
Malawi
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba*
Mali
Segu by Maryse Condé
Mauritania
The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk*
Mauritius
Mayotte
Morocco
In the Country of Others by Leïla Slimani*
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré*
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin*
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo*
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta*
Réunion
Rwanda
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (Zambian author)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya*
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, During the First Three Years of His Captivity on the Island of St. Helena by Betsy (Elizabeth) Balcombe*
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna*
Somalia
South Africa
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah*
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay*
Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph*
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton*
South Sudan
Beneath the Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba*
Sudan
The Translator by Leila Aboulela*
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
When Hoopoes Go to Heaven by Gaile Parkin (Zambian author)
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn*
Tanzania
The Rain Queen by Katherine Scholes*
Togo
Tristan da Cunha
Tunisia
The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai*
Other Names, Other Placesby Ola Mustapha
Uganda
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi*
Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide*
Western Sahara:
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao* (Chinese author, resided W Sahara)
Zambia:
Patchwork by Ellen Banda-Aaku*
Zanzibar:
Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah*
Zimbabwe
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma*
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo*
ASIA and EURASIAAbkhazia
Afghanistan
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini*
Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl by Zarifa Adiba*
A Thousand Splendid Suns byKhaled Hosseini*
When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi
Armenia
Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian (Kuwaiti author)
Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan*
Azerbaijan
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said*
Days in the Caucasus by Banine*
Bangladesh
Black Ice by Mahmudul Haque*
I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad*
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Chechnya
China
Babel by R.F. Kuang* (set in England and China)
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America by May-lee Chai
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai*
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel*
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin*
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (NZ author)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Chinese American, born France)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
East Timor (Timor-Leste)
Georgia
Hong Kong
The Cloud Leopard's Daughter by Deborah Challinor (NZ author)
Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng*
India
The Bangalore Detectives Clubby Harini Nagendra*
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Singaporean author)
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye*
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry*
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao*
The Girl in the Painting by Renita D'Silva*
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh*
Indonesia
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata*
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Japan
Butter by Asako Yuzuki*
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata*
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon*
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa*
Kashmir
The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas (Welsh author)
The Last Queen of Kashmir by Rakesh K. Kaul*
Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir by Farah Bashir*
Kazakhstan
The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev*
Kyrgyzstan
The First Teacher by Chingiz Aitmatov*
Laos
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang*
Macao
Malaysia
The Ghost Bride, The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo*
The Plantation by Di Morrissey
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka*
The Separation by Dinah Jefferies*
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke*
Maldives
Mongolia
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by Tim Cope (Australian author)
Myanmar (Burma)
The Missing Sister by Dinah Jefferies
Nepal
North Korea
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee*
Pakistan
Burnt Shadows, Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie*
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Philippines
Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis*
The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco*
Singapore
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan*
Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart (Kenyan author)
The River's Song by Suchen Christine Lim*
South Korea
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang*
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha*
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee*
The Red Palace by June Hur*
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens, Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
Saree by Su Dharmapala*
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka*
The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies (Malaysian author)
Taiwan
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin*
Tajikistan
The City Where Dreams Come True by Gulsifat Shakhidi*
Thailand
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha*
Tibet
Turkmenistan
The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar*
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
The Boat by Nam Le*
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai*
The Silk Merchant's Daughter by Dinah Jefferies (Malaysian author)
The Women by Kristin Hannah
CARIBBEANAnguilla
Blue Beans by Patricia J. Adams*
Antigua and Barbuda
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid*
Aruba
The Bahamas
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
Barbados
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes by Callie Browning*
Going Home in Chains by Glenville Obrian Lovell*
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
The Summer Country by Lauren Willig
Bermuda
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative by Mary Prince*
Bonaire
Cayman Islands
Cuba
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Curaçao
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Dominica
The Wide Sargasso sea by Jean Rhys*
Dominican Republic
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez*
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz*
Grenada
Guadeloupe
The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart*
Haiti
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat*
Jamaica
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson*
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins*
The Same Earth by Kei Miller*
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
A Woman Of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Saba
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Eustatius
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
One Last Day of Summer by Shari Low (Scottish author)
Saint Maarten
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini*
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud*
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey*
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Turks & Caicos Islands
US Virgin Islands
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique*
Virgin Islands, British (BVI)
Jessamine by Eugenia O'Neal*
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Argentina
The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara*
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro*
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez*
The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada*
Belize
Bolivia
Treasure of the World by Tara Sullivan*
Brazil
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles*
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson (Austrian author)
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson*
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley (Northern Irish author)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Chile
The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn (Australian author)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende*
Colombia
Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo*
The Existence of Pity by Jeannie Zokan*
Costa Rica
Learn Costa Rican Spanish by Jose Pablo Sandoval Montero*
Ecuador
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova*
The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes*
The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes*
El Salvador
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
French Guiana
Galapagos Islands
Guatemala
Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen (Bolivia)
Guyana
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur*
The Secret Life of Winnie Cox, The Sugar Planter's Daughter, The Girl from the Sugar Plantation by Sharon Maas*
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
River of Painted Birds by Tessa Bridal*
Venezuela
Blue Label by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles*
EUROPEAlbania
Andorra
Austria: Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten*
Rain Girl by Gabi Kreslehner*
Belarus
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich*
Belgium
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans*
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid*
Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe by Dean Nicholson (Scottish author)
Bulgaria
Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov*
Channel Islands (Guernsey and Jersey)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
When the Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea*
Croatia
The Cheesemaker's Daughter by Kristin Vukovic
The Secret Cove in Croatia by Julie Caplin (English author)
Czechia (Czech Republic)
Denmark
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking*
The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People by Meik Wiking*
The Shamer's Daughter by Lene Kaaberbøl*
The Tenant by Katrine Engberg*
England
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot*
All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle*
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (Canadian/ English author)
The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson*
Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase*
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise*
The Chocolate Tin by Fiona McIntosh (AA)
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon*
Date with Death by Julia Chapman*
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams*
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (AA)
Evelina by Frances Burney*
The Familiars by Stacey Halls*
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (Australian author)
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson (Australian author)
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks (Australian author)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Irish author)
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers*
The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird by Diane Connell
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer*
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan*
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (Canadian author)
The Lake House by Kate Morton (AA)
The Lynmara Legacy by Catherine Gaskin (Irish Author)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig*
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym*
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams*
The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen*
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier*
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese author)
A Return to Sanditon by Anne Toledo*
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes*
The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy*
The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay by Julie Brooks (Australian author)
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (Australian author)
The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
South Riding by Winifred Holtby*
Summer in a Cornish Cove, Secrets of the Mist by Kate Ryder*
The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton*
The Switch, The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary*
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman*
A Very English Murder by Verity Bright*
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton (NZ author)
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (Australian author)
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell*
Estonia
Faroe Islands
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland (Australian author)
Finland
The Summer Book, Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson*
France
A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel*
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932 by Anaïs Nin*
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais (Portuguese author)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert*
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Precious Things by Kelly Doust (Australian author)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (English author)
Germany
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
The Draper's Daughter by Ellin Carsta*
Ink Heart, Inkspell, Ink Death, Reckless by Cornelia Funke*
Lilac Girls: Martha Hall Kelly
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (NZ author)
The Toy Maker by Liam Pieper (Australian author)
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth (Australian author)
Gibraltar
Greece
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
The Invisible by Peter Papathanasiou*
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Hungary
Abigél by Magda Szabó*
…EUROPEIceland
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Australian author)
The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea (Jersey Island author)
Last Rituals, The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurdardottir*
Odin's Game by Tim Hodkinson (Northern Irish author)
Ireland
The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge*
Ballykissangel: A Sense of Place by Hugh Miller
Beneath an Irish Sky by Isabella Connor*
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (NZ author)
The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy*
The Good People by Hannah Kent (Australian author)
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan*
History of the Rain by Niall Williams*
How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern*
The Invincible Miss Cust by Penny Haw (South African author)
A Long Way From Heaven: Sheelagh Kelly
Normal People by Sally Rooney*
O'Mara's by Michelle Vernal
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern*
The Roommate, The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan*
The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan*
Son of the Shadows by Juliette Marillier (NZ author)
Songs of Love and War by Santa Montefiore
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan*
That Gallagher Girl by Kate Thompson*
The Whitest Flower by Brendan Graham*
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue*
The Year that Changed Everything by Cathy Kelly*
Isle of Man
The Crafternoon Sewcial Club by J.C. Williams*
Italy
Echoes of War by Tania Blanchard
The Gypsy Tearoom by Nicky Pellegrino*
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell (Irish author)
The Proxy Bride by Zoe Boccabella (Italian Australia author)
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen 2020
The Winter Sea by Di Morrissey (Australian author)
Kosovo
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci*
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Stamping Grounds by Charlie Connelly
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov*
Monaco
Montenegro
Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic*
Netherlands
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (Hong Kong author)
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom*
Northern Ireland
The Misremembered Man, The Disenchanted Widow, The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna*
The Perfume Killer by Linda Hagan*
Norway
The Bat by Jo Nesbø (mostly set in Australia)
Becoming Leidah by Michelle Grierson (Canadian author)
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder*
The Raven Banner by Tim Hodkinson (Northern Irish author)
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting*
Poland
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk*
Portugal
Every Secret Thing by Emma Cole (Canadian author)
The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso*
Romania
Once, Only the Swallows Were Free by Gabrielle Gouch*
Russia
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley (Canadian author)
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina*
San Marino
Scotland
The Book Jumper by Mechthild Gläser (German author)
Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag Henderson*
Death of a Gossip, A Highland Christmas etc.. by M.C. Beaton*
The Highland Hens by Judy Leigh
The Hills is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson*
Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson
Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
Missing Pieces by Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (Australian author)
One Day in Winter by Shari Low
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell*
Rob Roy by Walter Scott*
Salt and Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones (Australian author)
Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy
The Secrets of Thistle Cottage by Kerry Barrett*
Set Me Free by Daniela Sacerdoti (Italian author)
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley (Canadian author)
Take Me Home by Daniela Sacerdoti
Take Me Home by Karly Lane (Australian author)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley (Canadian author)
Watch Over Me by Daniela Sacerdoti
The White Mare by Jules Watson (Australian author)
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (Canadian author)
Serbia
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht*
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley (Northern Irish author)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón*
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas*
The Summer of the Spanish Woman by Catherine Gaskin (Irish author)
Sweden
A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Anxious People, Beartown by Fredrik Backman*
Echoes of the Runes, The Runes of Destiny by Christina Courtenay*
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten*
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson*
Seacrow Island, Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren*
Switzerland
Heidi by Johanna Spyri*
Ukraine
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter by Maria Tumarkin
Wales
Among Others by Jo Walton*
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros*
Evans Above, Evan Help Us by Rhys Bowen
Named of the Dragon by Susanna Kearsley (Canadian author)
A Welsh Witch by Allen Raine*
THE MIDDLE EAST Bahrain
The Pearl Thief by Noor Al Noaimi*
Cyprus
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Turkish author)
Iran
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar*
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami (born Iraq, raised Iran)
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni*
In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz*
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh (Lebanese author)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi*
The Stationery Shop of Tehran, The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Turkish Iranian author)
Iraq
The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi*
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson (AA)
Israel
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir by Meir Shalev*
Jordan
The Bride of Amman by فادي زغموت
The Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
Kurdistan
Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa*
When Mountains Weep by Gharbi M. Mustafa*
Kuwait
Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi*
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah*
Lebanon
?The Cry of the Dove: Fadia Faqir (Jordanian author)
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine*
Oman
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi*
Palestine
Against the Loveless World, The Blue Between Sky and Water Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa (Kuwaiti author)
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi*
Three Daughters by Consuelo Saah Baehr (Salvadoran author)
Where Jasmine Blooms by Holly S. Warah
Qatar
Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali (Indian Canadian)
Saudi Arabia
Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah*
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif*
Syria
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Turkey
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak*
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak*
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin*
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak*
White Feathers by Deborah Challinor (NZ author)
Without a Country by Ayşe Kulin*
United Arab Emirates:
The Final Strife, The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi*
Yemen:
A Land without Jasmine by Wajdi Al-Ahdal*
Of Mud and Honey by Roxana Trabulsi
NORTH AMERICANote I have generally only added books set in USA if the authors are Native American/ POC/ hispanic
Canada
A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery*
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery*
The Complete Emily Starr Trilogy: Emily of New Moon / Emily Climbs . Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery*
Fight Night by Miriam Toews*
House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford*
The Complete Anne of Green Gables 8-Book Box Set by L.M. Montgomery
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery*
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Greenland
Picture Maker, Dream Weaver by Penina Keen Spinka (Native American author)
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen*
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Unknown*
Mexico
Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia*
USA
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton* (Cuban American author)
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey*
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Native American)
House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings* (Hawaii)
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid*
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua* (Chinese American)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (Alaska)
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich* (Native American)
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht (Alaska)
OCEANIAAmerican Samoa
The Smell of the Moon by Lemanatele M. Kneubuhl*
Australia
After Story by Larissa Behrendt* (ATSI)
All the Rivers Run by Nancy Cato*
The Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell*
Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blaine*
Band of Gold by Deborah Challinor*
The Banksia House Breakout by James Roxburgh*
The Bark Cutters by Nicole Alexander*
Becoming Mrs Mulberry by Jackie French*
Behind the Sun by Deborah Challinor*
Birthright by Fiona Lowe*
The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper*
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner*
Christmas at Coorah Creek by Janet Gover*
Christmas at Remarkable Bay by Victoria Purman*
Daintree by Annie Seaton*Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe*
Daughter of Mine by Fiona Lowe*
Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez by Cindy Solonec*
The Disappearance of Ember Crow, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider by Ambelin Kwaymullina* (ATSI)
Dressed by Iris by Mary-Anne O'Connor*
The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison by Meredith Jaffe*
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen* (ATSI)
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell* (ATSI)
Elianne by Judy Nunn*
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail*
Girl of Shadows by Deborah Challinor*
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson*
The Goldminer's Sister by Alison Stuart*
The Happiest Little Town by Barbara Hannay*
He Would Never by Holly Wainwright*
Homecoming by Kate Morton*
Home Fires by Fiona Lowe*
A Home Like Ours by Fiona Lowe
A Family of Strangers by Fiona Lowe*
The Grazier's Son by Cathryn Hein*
I Know My Love by Catherine Gaskin
Jack and Harry by Tony McKenna
Is the Moon Upside Down?: A Quicke Guide to the Cosmos by Greg Quicke*
Just an Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe*
Keeper of the Light by Leanne Lovegrove*
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland*
Magpie's Bend by Maya Linnell*
The Mallee Girl by Jennifer Scoullar*
The Man From Snowy River by Elyne Mitchell*
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko*
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin*
My Place by Sally Morgan*
My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia's First Women by Marlee Silva*
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
Once More With Feeling by Ceridwen Dovey*
The Other Side of Beautiful by Kim Lock*
Outback Dreams by Rachael Johns*
Outback Ghost by Rachael Johns*
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird*
Pieces of Blue by Kerry McGinnis*
The Postmistress by Alison Stuart*
The Prodigal Sister by Darry Fraser*
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington*
Rachel: Brumby hunter, medicine woman, bushrangers' ally and troublemaker for good . . . the remarkable pioneering life of Rachel Kennedy by Jeff McGill*The Rat Catcher: A Love Story by Kim Kelly*
Red Dust Running by Anita Heiss* (ATSI)
The Redgum River Retreat by Sandie Docker*
Rising Dust by Fleur McDonald*
The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion*
The Running Club by Ali Lowe*
Runt by Craig Silvey*
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland*
The Silk Thief by Deborah Challinor*
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell
Sisters of Freedom by Mary-Anne O'Connor*
Snowy Mountains Cattleman by Alissa Callen*
Spring Clean for the Peach Queen by Sasha Wasley*
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper*
A Tattooed Heart by Deborah Challinor*
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson*
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott*
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman* (sci-fi AA)
This Has Been Absolutely Lovely by Jessica Dettmann*
Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green*
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden*
The Untold by Courtney Collins*
The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer by Ilsa Evans*
The Vet from Snowy River by Stella Quinn*
The Wattle Island Book Club by Sandie Docker*
The Wattle Seed Inn by Leonie Kelsall*
The White Girl by Tony Birch*
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White*
Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals & Revolutionaries by Pamela Robson
Wildflower Ridge by Maya Linnell*
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cook Islands
Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka: The Autobiography of a Sea Trader's Daughter by Florence Johnny Frisbie*
Easter Island
Fiji
A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao*
Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan*
French Polynesia (Tahiti)
Breadfruit by Célestine Hitiura Vaite*
Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite*
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson (AA)
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Caledonia
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
New Zealand
Amber, Kitty, Tamar, White Feathers by Deborah Challinor*
In the Land of the Long White Cloud by Sarah Lark (German author)
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson (AA)
Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump*
Niue
Norfolk Island
Heart of a Beast by Josephine De Moor 2014
Northern Maiana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Elizabeth's Star by Rhonda Forrest (Australian author)
Pitcairn
Samoa
Illumine Her by Sieni A.M.*
Scarlet Lies by Lani Wendt Young*
Solomon Islands
Timor-Leste
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women's Anthology by Mikaela Nyman*
Wallis and Futuna
Antarctica
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
The Nature of Ice by Robyn Mundy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder
AFRICAN AUTHORS born in Africa or resided thereAlgeria
Albert Camus: The Stranger
Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Kaouther Adimi: A Bookshop in Algiers
Angola
Dulce Maria Cardoso: The Return
Ondjaki: Transparent City
Benin
Angelique Kidjo: Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cape Verde
Dina Salústio: The Madwoman of Serrano
Cameroon
Imbolo Mbue: How Beautiful We Were
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Ali Zamir: A Girl Called Eel
Congo
Côte d’Ivoire
Marguerite Abouet: Aya: Life in Yop City, Aya: Love in Yop City
Véronique Tadjo: In the Company of Men
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tamar Myers: The Witch Doctor's Wife
Djibouti
Egypt
Naguib Mahfouz: Palace Walk
Nawal El Saadawi: Woman at Point Zero, Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Ola Mustapha: Other Names, Other Places
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Hannah Azieb Pool by My Fathers' Daughter*
Ethiopia
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste*
Gabon
Gambia
Dayo Forster: Reading the Ceiling
Ghana
Ayesha Harruna Attah: Harmattan Rain
Roseanne A. Brown: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
A.M. Stuart: Singapore Sapphire
Wangari Maathai: Unbowed
Leotho
Liberia
Wayétu Moore: She Would Be King*
Libya
Ibrahim al-Koni:The Bleeding of the Stone
Madagascar
Malawi
William Kamkwamba: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Mauitania
Mbarek Ould Beyrouk: The Desert and the Drum
Mauritius
Mayotte
Morocco:
Leïla Slimani: In the Country of Others
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Abi Daré: The Girl with the Louding Voice 2022
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Thing Around Your Neck, Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus
Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Trees
Lola Shoneyin: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Rwanda
Clemantine Wamariya: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Reunion
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tistan da Cunha
Betsy (Elizabeth) Balcombe: Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, During the First Three Years of His Captivity on the Island of St. Helena
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Aminatta Forna: The Memory of Love
Namina Forna: The Gilded Ones
Somalia
South Africa
Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
Bryce Courtenay: Tandia
Joanne Joseph: Children of Sugarcane
Penny Haw: The Invincible Miss Cust
Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
South Sudan
Majok Tulba: Beneath the Darkening Sky
Sudan
Leila Aboulela: The Translator
eSwatini (Swaziland)
Malla Nunn: When the Ground Is Hard
Tanzania
Katherine Scholes: The Rain Queen
Togo
Tunisia
Yamen Manai: The Ardent Swarm
Uganda
Tina Athaide: Orange for the Sunsets
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Kintu
Western Sahara
Sanmao: Stories of the Sahara (Chinese author, resided)
Zambia
Ellen Banda-Aaku: Patchwork
Gaile Parkin: Baking Cakes in Kigali, When Hoopoes Go to Heaven
Zanzibar:
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Admiring Silence
Zimbabwe
Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma: House of Stone
NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names
ASIAN AUTHORS (born or resided)Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed
Zarifa Adiba: Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl
Armenia
Narine Abgaryan: Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Azerbaijan
Banine: Days in the Caucasus
Kurban Said: Ali and Nino
Bangladesh
Mahmudul Haque: Black Ice
Monica Ali: Love Marriage
Humayun Azad: I Remember Abbu
Bhutan
Cambodia
China
Li Cunxin: Mao's Last Dancer
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
R.F. Kuang: BabelSanmao: Stories of the Sahara
Weina Dai Randel: The Last Rose of Shanghai
Hong Kong
Jean Kwok: Searching for Sylvie Lee
Melanie Cheng: Room for a Stranger
India
M.M. Kaye: The Far Pavilions
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Harini Nagendra: The Bangalore Detectives Club
Shobha Rao: Girls Burn Brighter
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance
Gerald Durrell: The Talking Parcel
Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
Renita D'Silva: The Girl in the Painting
S.K. Ali: Love From A to Z
Indonesia
Andrea Hirata: The Rainbow Troops
Japan
Asako Yuzuki: Butter
Hiro Arikawa: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Kazuo Ishiguro:The Remains of the Day
Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman
Sei Shōnagon: The Pillow Book
Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Kashmir
Farah Bashir: Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
Rakesh K. Kaul: The Last Queen of Kashmir
Kazakhstan
Rollan Seisenbayev: The Dead Wander in the Desert
Kyrgyzstan
Chingiz Aitmatov: The First Teacher
Laos
Kao Kalia Yang: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Macao
Malaysia
Dinah Jefferies: The Silk Merchant's Daughter, The Separation, The Missing Sister
Rani Manicka: The Rice Mother
Yangsze Choo: The Ghost Bride, The Night Tiger
Selina Siak Chin Yoke: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Hyeonseo Lee: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Pakistan
Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows, Home Fire
Philippines
Merlinda Bobis: Banana Heart Summer
Rin Chupeco: The Never Tilting World
Singapore
Balli Kaur Jaswal: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
Suchen Christine Lim: The River's Song
South Korea
Frances Cha: If I Had Your Face
June Hur: The Red Palace
Sun-mi Hwang: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
Sri Lanka
Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Su Dharmapala: Saree
Taiwan
Judy I. Lin: A Magic Steeped in Poison
Tajikistan
Gulsifat Shakhidi: The City Where Dreams Come True
Thailand
Veeraporn Nitiprapha: The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth
Turkmenistan
Ak Welsapar: The Tale of Aypi
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Nam Le: The Boat
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai: The Mountains Sing
CARIBBEAN AUTHORS (born or resided)Anguilla
Patricia J. Adams: Blue Beans
Antigua and Barbuda
Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John
Aruba
The Bahamas
Barbados
Callie Browning: The Girl with the Hazel Eyes
Glenville Obrian Lovell: Going Home in Chains
Bermuda
Mary Prince: The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
Bonaire
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Curacao
Dominica
The Wide Sargasso sea by Jean Rhys
Dominican Republic
Julia Alvarez: Before We Were Free
Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Maryse Condé: Segu
Simone Schwarz-Bart: The Bridge of Beyond
Haiti
Edwidge Danticat: Krik? Krak!
Jamaica:
Charmaine Wilkerson: Black Cake
Kei Miller: The Same Earth
Sara Collins: The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa: A Woman Of Endurance
Nicky Cruz: Run Baby Run
Saba
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Eustatius
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Maarten
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Ingrid Persaud: Love After Love
Lisa Allen-Agostini: The Bread the Devil Knead
Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch
Turks & Caicos Islands
US Virgin Islands
Tiphanie Yanique: How to Escape from a Leper Colony
Virgin Islands, British (BVI)
Eugenia O'Neal: Jessamine
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN AUTHORS (born or resided)Argentina
Claudia Piñeiro: Elena Knows
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: The Adventures of China Iron
Selva Almada: The Wind That Lays Waste
Yamile Saied Méndez: Furia
Belize
Bolivia
Tara Sullivan: Treasure of the World
Brazil
Christina Rickardsson: Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Frances de Pontes Peebles: The Air You Breathe
Chile
Isabel Allende: A Long Petal of the Sea
Colombia
Margarita García Robayo: Fish Soup
Jeannie Zokan: The Existence of Pity
Costa Rica
Jose Pablo Sandoval Montero: Learn Costa Rican Spanish
Ecuador
Lorena Hughes: The Spanish Daughter, The Sisters of Alameda Street
Zoraida Córdova: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
El Salvador
Consuelo Saah Baehr: Three Daughters
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
French Guiana
Galapagos Islands
Guatemala
Guyana
Gaiutra Bahadur: Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Sharon Maas: The Secret Life of Winnie Cox, The Sugar Planter's Daughter, The Girl from the Sugar Plantation
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Natalia Sylvester: Everyone Knows You Go Home
Suriname
Uruguay
Tessa Bridal: River of Painted Birds
Venezuela
Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles: Blue Label
EUROPEAN AUTHORS Albania
Andorra
Austria
Eva Ibbotson: A Company of Swans
Felix Salten: Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Gabi Kreslehner: Rain Girl
Belarus
Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Belgium
Stefan Hertmans: War and Turpentine
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Atka Reid: Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
Bulgaria
Ivan Vazov: Under the Yoke
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia (Czech Republic)
Denmark
Katrine Engberg: The Tenant
Lene Kaaberbøl: The Shamer's Daughter
Meik Wiking: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well, The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
Karen Blixen: Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
England:
Beth O'Leary: The Flatshare, The Switch
Amy Levy: The Romance of a Shop
Anne Toledo: A Return to Sanditon
Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn
Christy Lefteri: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Daphne du Maurier:Rebecca: A Room with a View
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Dorothy L. Sayers: Have His Carcase
Eleanor Shearer: River Sing Me Home
Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters
Eve Chase: Black Rabbit Hall
Frances Burney: Evelina
Hazel Prior: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Bobby Palmer: Isaac and the Egg
James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey
Jennifer Ryan: The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Kitchen Front
Jess Kidd: The Night Ship
Joanna Nell: The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village (now AA)
jo jo moyes: The Girl You Left Behind, The Ship of Brides,
Judy Leigh: The Highland Hens
Juliet Ashton: The Sunday Lunch Club
Julia Chapman: Date with Death
Kate Ryder: Summer in a Cornish Cove, Secrets of the Mist
Louis de Bernières: Corelli's Mandolin
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mary Gibson: The Bermondsey Bookshop
Mike Gayle: All The Lonely People
Nadia Cohen: The Real Beatrix Potter
Natasha Bowen: Skin of the Sea
Phaedra Patrick: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Pip Williams: The Dictionary of Lost Words
Matt Haig: The Midnight Library
Me Before You
Rachel Joyce: Miss Benson's Beetle
Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club
Rhys Bowen: Evans Above, Evan Help Us
Ruth Hogan: The Keeper of Lost Things
Sara Nisha Adams: The Reading List
Sarah Wise: The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Simon Barnes: Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
Stacey Halls: The Familiars
Travis Elborough: Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
Verity Bright: A Very English Murder
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway
Winifred Holtby: South Riding
Winifred Watson: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
Tove Jansson: The Summer Book, Sculptor's Daughter
France
Anaïs Nin: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Estelle Rose: The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women: Evidence-based techniques and actionable tools to improve executive function, relationships, self-esteem, and emotional regulation
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Germany
Carsten Henn: The Door-to-Door Bookstore
Ellin Carsta: The Draper's Daughter
Sarah Lark: In the Land of the Long White Cloud, Song of the Spirits
Cornelia Funke: The Inkheart Trilogy: Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, Reckless
Mechthild Gläser: The Book Jumper
Gibraltar
Greece
Peter Papathanasiou: The Invisible
Guernsey
Hungary
Magda Szabó: Abigél
Iceland
Yrsa Sigurdardottir: Last Rituals, The Undesired
Ireland
Brendan Graham: The Whitest Flower
Catherine Gaskin: The Lynmara Legacy, The Tilsit Inheritance, I Know My Love, Sara Dane, The Summer of the Spanish Woman, Blake's Reach, The Property of a Gentleman, A Falcon for a Queen, Fiona
Cecelia Ahern: P.S. I Love You
Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These
Dervla McTiernan: The Roommate, The Ruin, The Scholar, The Good Turn
Emma Donoghue: The Wonder
Isabella Connor: Beneath an Irish Sky
J.M. Synge: The Aran Islands
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Kate Thompson: That Gallagher Girl
Maeve Binchy: Nights of Rain and Stars
Niall Williams: History of the RainOscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sally Rooney: Normal People
Sheelagh Kelly: A Long Way From Heaven
Isle of Man
J.C. Williams: The Crafternoon Sewcial Club
Italy
Daniela Sacerdoti: Set Me Free, Take Me Home, Watch Over Me,
Nicky Pellegrino: The Gypsy Tearoom
Jersey
Caroline Lea: The Glass Woman
Kosovo
Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Vladimir Lorchenkov: The Good Life Elsewhere
Monaco
Montenegro
Olja Knezevic: Catherine the Great and the Small
Netherlands Holland
Corrie ten Boom: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Northern Ireland
Christina McKenna: The Misremembered Man, The Disenchanted Widow, The Godforsaken Daughter
Linda Hagan: The Perfume Killer
Lucinda Riley: The Seven Sisters, The Moon Sister
Maggie O'Farrell: The Marriage Portrait
Tim Hodkinson: Odin's Game, The Raven Banner
Norway
Jo Nesbø: The Bat
Jostein Gaarder: The Orange Girl
Lars Mytting: The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
Poland
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Portugal
Richard C. Morais: The Hundred-Foot Journey
Dulce Maria Cardoso: The Return
Romania
Gabrielle Gouch: Once, Only the Swallows Were Free
Russia
Guzel Yakhina: Zuleikha
San Marino
Scotland
Dean Nicholson: Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the GlobeGavin Maxwell: Ring of Bright Water
Hugh Miller: Ballykissangel: A Sense of Place
Jennifer Morag Henderson: Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots
Kerry Barrett: The Secrets of Thistle Cottage
M.C. Beaton: Death of a Gossip etc…
Mhairi McFarlane: You Had Me At Hello
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island, Kidnapped
Shari Low: One Last Day of Summer, One Day in Winter
Walter Scott: Rob Roy
Serbia
Téa Obreht: The Tiger's Wife
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Elena Armas: The Spanish Love Deception
Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
Sweden
Astrid Lindgren: Seacrow Island, Pippi Longstocking
Fredrik Backman: Anxious People, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, A Man Called Ove, Beartown,
Helene Tursten: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Jonas Jonasson: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Christina Courtenay: Echoes of the Runes, The Runes of Destiny
Switzerland
Johanna Spyri: Heidi
Ukraine
Maria Tumarkin: Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter
Wales
Allen Raine: A Welsh Witch
Jo Walton: Among Others
Manon Steffan Ros: The Blue Book of Nebo
Rosie Thomas: The Kashmir Shawl, Iris & Ruby
MIDDLE EASTERN AUTHORS (born or resided)Bahrain
Noor Al Noaimi: The Pearl Thief
Cyprus
Iran
Anahita Firouz: In the Walled Gardens
Azadeh Moaveni: Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (born USA)
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjan Kamali: The Stationery Shop of Tehran, The Lion Women of Tehran (Turkish Iranian)
Shokoofeh Azar: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Iraq
Osamah Sami: Good Muslim Boy
Shahad Al Rawi: The Baghdad Clock
Israel
Leigh Bardugo: Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom
Meir Shalev: My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
Jordan
فادي زغموتThe Bride of Amman
Fadia Faqir: The Cry of the Dove
Queen Noor: Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Kurdistan
Ava Homa: Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Gharbi M. Mustafa: When Mountains Weep
Kuwait
Aline Ohanesian:Orhan's Inheritance
Chelsea Abdullah: The Stardust Thief
Saud Alsanousi: Mama Hissa's Mice
Susan Abulhawa: The Blue Between Sky and Water
Lebanon
Hanan Al-Shaykh: One Thousand and One Nights
Rabih Alameddine: An Unnecessary Woman
Oman
Jokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies
Palestine
Ahed Tamimi: They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
Susan Abulhawa: Against the Loveless World, Mornings in Jenin
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Eman Quotah: Bride of the Sea
Manal Al-Sharif: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Syria
Turkey
Elif Shafak: The Architect's Apprentice, The Island of Missing Trees, There Are Rivers in the Sky, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Ayşe Kulin: Last Train to Istanbul, Without a Country
United Arab Emirates:
Saara El-Arifi: The Final Strife, The Battle Drum
Roxana Trabulsi: Of Mud and Honey
Holly S. Warah: Where Jasmine Blooms
Yemen:
Wajdi Al-Ahdal: A Land without Jasmine
NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS Note I have often only added USA authors if they are Native American/ POC/ Hispanic/ Asian/ Immigrant
Bermuda
Canada
Amal El-Mohtar: This is How You Lose the Time War
Emma Cole: Every Secret Thing
L.M. Montgomery: The Complete Anne of Green Gables 8-Book Box Set, The Complete Emily Starr Trilogy: Emily of New Moon / Emily Climbs . Emily's Quest, A Tangled Web, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl
Michelle Grierson: Becoming Leidah
Miriam Toews: Fight Night
Natalie Jenner: The Jane Austen Society
Rachel Cusk: Arlington Park (English Canadian)
Sheila Burnford: The Incredible Journey
Susanna Kearsley: Mariana, The Winter Sea, The Firebird, A Desperate Fortune, The Rose Garden, Bellewether, The Shadowy Horses, Named of the DragonThe Vanished Days
Tanya Tagaq: Split Tooth
Greenland
Niviaq Korneliussen: Crimson
Unknown: The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
Mexico
Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate
Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Gods of Jade and Shadow
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
USA
Alex Haley: Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Queen (African American author)Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Chinese American)
Amy Tan: The Hundred Secret Senses, (Chinese American), The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Valley of Amazement
Angeline Boulley: Firekeeper's Daughter (Native American)
Chanel Cleeton: When We Left Cuba, Next Year in Havana (Cuban American)
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies (Indian American)
Kaui Hart Hemmings: House of Thieves (Hawaiian)
Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age
Louise Erdrich: The Sentence (Native American)
May-lee Chai: The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America (Chinese American)
Nadia Hashimi: When the Moon is Low (Afghani American)
Penina Keen Spinka: Picture Maker, Dream Weaver (Native American)
Shawna Yang Ryan: Green Island (Taiwanese American)
AUTHORS FROM OCEANIA (born or resided)American Samoa
Lemanatele M. Kneubuhl: The Smell of the Moon
Australia
Ali Lowe: The Running Club
Alissa Callen: Snowy Mountains Cattleman
Alice Pung: Unpolished Gem
A.M. Stuart: Singapore Sapphire
Alison Stuart: The Postmistress, The Goldminer's Sister
Ambelin Kwaymullina: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, The Disappearance of Ember Crow, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (ATSI)
Amanda Hampson: The Tea Ladies
Amie Kaufman: These Broken Stars
Anita Heiss: Red Dust Running (ATSI)
Anna Funder: Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Annie Seaton: Daintree
Barbara Hannay: The Happiest Little Town
Benjamin Stevenson: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Bruce Pascoe: Dark Emu (ATSI)
Cathryn Hein: The Grazier's Son
Ceridwen Dovey: Once More With Feeling
Christian White: The Wife and the Widow
Christina Thompson: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves, Migrations
Cindy Solonec: Debesa: The Story of Frank and Katie Rodriguez (ATSI)
Courtney Collins: The Untold
Craig Silvey: Runt
Darry Fraser: The Prodigal Sister
Di Morrissey: The Winter Sea, Tears of the Moon, Kimberley Sun, The Silent Country, The Plantation
Doris Pilkington: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time (ATSI)
Eliza Henry-Jones: Salt and Skin
Elyne Mitchell: The Man From Snowy River
Evelyn Araluen: Dropbear (ATSI)
Fiona McIntosh: The Chocolate Tin
Fiona Lowe: Birthright, Home Fires, Just an Ordinary Family, Daughter of Mine, Saved By The Bride, A Home Like Ours, A Family of Strangers
Fleur McDonald: Rising Dust
Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Result
Greg Quicke: Is the Moon Upside Down?: A Quicke Guide to the Cosmos
Gina Wilkinson: When the Apricots Bloom
Helen Garner: The Children's Bach
Holly Wainwright: He Would Never, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Ilsa Evans: The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer
Jackie French: Becoming Mrs Mulberry
James Roxburgh: The Banksia House Breakout
Janet Gover:The Lawson Sisters, Flight to Coorah Creek, Christmas at Coorah Creek
Jeff McGill: Rachel
Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar: Missing Pieces
Jennifer Scoullar: The Mallee Girl
Jessica Dettmann; This Has Been Absolutely Lovely
Joanna Nell: The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village (English Australian)
John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began
Judy Nunn: Elianne
Julia Baird: Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Julie Brooks: The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay
Julietta Henderson: The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman
Karly Lane: Take Me Home
Karen Brooks: The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story
Kate Forsyth: The Wild Girl, Bitter Greens
Kate Morton: The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, Homecoming, The Distant Hours.The Lake House, The Shifting Fog
Kayte Nunn: The Botanist's Daughter
Kerry McGinnis: Pieces of Blue
Kim Kelly: The Rat Catcher: A Love Story
Kim Lock: The Other Side of Beautiful
Kim Scott: That Deadman Dance (ATSI)
Larissa Behrendt: After Story(ATSI)
Leah Purcell: The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (ATSI)
Leanne Lovegrove: Keeper of the Light
Lech Blaine: Australian Gospel: A Family Saga
Leonie Kelsall: The Wattle Seed Inn
Liane Moriarty: What Alice Forgot, Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty
Marlee Silva: My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia's First Women (ATSI)
Mary-Anne O'Connor: Dressed by Iris, Sisters of Freedom
Maya Linnell: Wildflower Ridge, Bottlebrush Creek, Magpie's Bend
Mary-Anne O'Connor: Sisters of Freedom
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career, My Career Goes Bung
Meg Bignell: The Angry Women's Choir
Melissa Lucashenko: Mullumbimby (ATSI)
Meredith Jaffe: The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison
Murray Bail: Eucalyptus
Nancy Cato: All the Rivers Run
Nicole Alexander: The Bark Cutters
Pamela Robson: Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals & Revolutionaries
Rachael Johns: Outback Ghost, Outback Dreams
Robyn Mundy: The Nature of Ice
Sally Morgan: My Place (ATSI)
Sandie Docker: The Wattle Island Book Club, The Redgum River Retreat
Sasha Wasley: Spring Clean for the Peach Queen
Shankari Chandran: Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens, Song of the Sun God
Sophie Green: Thursdays at Orange Blossom House
Stella Quinn: The Vet from Snowy River
Tania Blanchard: Echoes of War
Tea Cooper: The Cartographer's Secret, The Talented Mrs Greenway
Tim Cope: On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
Tony Birch: The White Girl (ATSI)
Tony McKenna: Jack and Harry
Victoria Purman: Christmas at Remarkable Bay
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Pauline Bunce:
Cook Islands
Florence Johnny Frisbie: Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka: The Autobiography of a Sea Trader's Daughter
Easter Island
Fiji
Nilima Rao: A Disappearance in Fiji
Rajni Mala Khelawan: Kalyana
French Polynesia
Célestine Hitiura Vaite: Breadfruit, Frangipani
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Barry Crump: Wild Pork and Watercress
Deborah Challinor: Amber, Kitty, Tamar, White Feathers, Band of Gold, Behind the Sun, The Silk Thief, Girl of Shadows, A Tattooed Heart, The Cloud Leopard's Daughter
Diane Connell: The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird
Heather Morris: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
India Holton: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
Juliet Marillier: Son of the Shadows, Daughter of the Forest
Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Maiana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn
Samoa
Lani Wendt Young: Scarlet Lies
Sieni A.M.: Illumine Her
Solomon Islands
Timor-Leste
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Mikaela Nyman: Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women's Anthology by Mikaela Nyman
Wallis and Futuna
Antarctica
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