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Diane | 13052 comments Note: Some of these take place in more than one place.


Australia:
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Rites of Passage by William Golding The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Egypt:
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Canada:
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

England:
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Last Orders by Graham Swift The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3) by Pat Barker Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth Possession by A.S. Byatt The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch Saville by David Storey Holiday by Stanley Middleton The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel

India:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Life of Pi by Yann Martel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Staying On by Paul Scott The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ireland:
The Gathering by Anne Enright The Sea by John Banville Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Troubles by J.G. Farrell

Italy:
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje G. by John Berger

Jamaica:
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Melanesia:
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3) by Pat Barker

New Zealand:
The Bone People by Keri Hulme The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Nigeria:
The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Poland:
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

Scotland:
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

South Africa:
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

Switzerland:
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Uganda:
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul

US - California
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

US - Florida:
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

US - Texas:
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

US - Washington, DC
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Wales:
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis


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