In collaboration with our staff, Twitter and Facebook fans, we’ve put together a list of books that take you from antebellum Virginia to the inner walls Vatican City, from war-torn Somalia to the bright lights of Shanghai – and everywhere in between.
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
The Game by Ken Dryden
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
I Know Here by Laurel Croza and Matt James
Canada: A Visual Journey by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
UNITED STATES
The Swan House by Elizabeth Musser
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak
Rain Dogs by Sean Doolittle
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
Ansel Adams in the National Parks by Ansel Adams
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alverez
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming
The Decapitated Chicken by Horacio Quiroga
Ana’s Story by Jenna Bush
Latin America by Olivier Follmi
AFRICA
The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz
The Journey is the Destination by Dan Eldon and Kathy Eldon
Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng and Benjamin Ajak
The Africa House by Christina Lamb
The Bang Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
EUROPE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Vilnius: City of Strangers by Laimonas Briedis
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherford
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Paris Mon Amour by Jean-Claude Gautrand
Wild Wonders of Europe by Peter Cairns, Florian Mollers and Staffan Widstrand
RUSSIA
The True Memoirs of Little K by Adrienne Sharp
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
MIDDLE EAST
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Murder on a Kibbutz by Batya Gur
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Israel Through My Lens by David Rubinger
AUSTRALIA
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
Australia: The New Frontier by Gianni Guadalupi
ASIA
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Genji & Heiki by Helen McCullough
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Inside China by Jonathan Spence, Elizabeth Economy and Joseph Fewsmith
The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
INDIA
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Street Food of India by Sephi Bergerson
India: In Word & Image by Eric Meola
ANTARCTICA AND THE OCEAN
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean by Tori Murden McClure
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Among Penguins by Noah Strycker
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
Antarctica: The Global Warning by Sebastian Copeland
A step in the right direction thank you. Would it be possible to add to the search feature the ability to search BWB based on the author’s country of origin?
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