Novel Destinations - Fiction Reading List - Adult Summer Reading 2011

Traveling to new places is the theme for 2011...so pull up a comfortable armchair and travel to foreign lands with these titles.

Africa

Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk   Call # - FIC VANNIEKERK

Life Times : stories, 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer  Call # -  FIC GORDIMER

Come Sunday by Isla Morley   Call # - FIC MORLEY

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan  Call # -  FIC AKPAN

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson  Call # - FIC DRAYSON

The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton  Call # - FIC HAMILTON

Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna  Call # -  FIC FORNA

African Rhapsody : short stories of the contemporary Af-rican experience edited by Nadezda Obradovic  Call # - FIC AFRICAN

CHINA

City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell Call # - FIC CALDWELL

Under Fishbone Clouds by Sam Meekings Call # - FIC MEEKINGS

Pearl of China by Anchee Min Call # - FIC MIN

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li Call # - FIC LI

The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein Call # - FIC EPSTEIN

JAPAN

The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe Call # - FIC OE

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell Call # - FIC MITCHELL

The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz Call # - FIC SCHWARTZ

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery Call # - FIC AVERY

Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner Call # - FIC DAVIS-GARDNER

KOREA

Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin Call # - FIC SHIN

The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim Call # - FIC KIM

War Trash by Ha Jin Call # - FIC JIN

Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol Call # - FIC YI

Once the Shore : stories by Paul Yoon Call # - FIC YOON

VIETNAM

The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb Call # - FIC GIBB

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong Call # - FIC DUONG

The Sorrow of War : a novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh Call # - FIC BAO

THAILAND

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski Call # - FIC BERLINSKI

The Third Brother by Nick McDonell Call # - FIC MCDONELL

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Call # - FIC LAHIRI

BURMA

Smile as They Bow by Nu Nu Yi Call # - FIC YI

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan Call # - FIC TAN

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Philippe Mason Call # - FIC MASON

MIDDLE EAST

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin Call # - FIC MUEENUDDIN

The Blue Manuscript by Sabiha Al Khemir Call # - FIC KHEMIR

The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi Call # - FIC SETHI

Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan Call # - FIC KHAN

Kartography by Kamila Shamsie Call # - FIC SHAMSIE

The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi Call # - FIC KHADIVI

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji Call # - FIC SERAJI

Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories About Teens in the Arab World by Elsa Marston Call # - YA FIC MARSTON

The View from Garden City by Carolyn Baugh Call # - FIC BAUGH

Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea Call # - FIC ALSANEA

NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA

The Colour by Rose Tremain Call # - FIC TREMAIN

The Bone People by Keri Hulme Call # - FIC HULME

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff Call # - FIC DUFF

Breath by Tim Winton Call # - FIC WINTON

The Custodians by Nicholas Jose Call # - FIC JOSE

Wanting by Richard Flanagan Call # - FIC FLANAGAN

Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame Call # - FIC FRAME

SOUTH AMERICA

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon Call # - FIC ALARCON

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Call # - FIC GARCIA MARQUEZ

At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen Call # - FIC MATTHIESSEN

Our Lives are the Rivers by Jaime Manrique Call # - FIC MANRIQUE

RUSSIA

The Russian Affair by Michael Wallner Call # - FIC WALLNER

The Line by Olga Grushin Call # - FIC GRUSHIN

The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall Call # - FIC FURNIVALL

Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay Call # - FIC KALOTAY

House of Meetings by Martin Amis Call # - FIC AMIS

MEXICO

Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes Call # - FIC FUENTES

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Call # - FIC KING-SOLVER

Amigoland by Oscar Casares Call # - FIC CASARES

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea Call # - FIC URREA

A Richer Dust by Amy Boaz Call # - FIC BOAZ

BANGLADESH

The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam Call # - FIC ANAM

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh Call # - FIC GHOSH

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam Call # - FIC ANAM

OTHER EXOTIC LOCATIONS

U.S., Mexico, Thailand - The Size of the World by Joan Silber Call # - FIC SILBER

Britain, Amazon River - The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King Call # - FIC KING

Cambodia - The King’s Last Song by Geoff Ryman Call # - FIC RYMAN

Indonesia - The Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw Call # - FIC AW

Greece - Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Call # - FIC KAZANTZAKIS

Sweden - Hash by Torgny Lindgren Call # - FIC LINDGREN

Norway - Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Call # - FIC PETTERSON

Brazil - City of God by Paulo Lins Call # - FIC LINS

India - An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy Call # - FIC ROY