International Fiction and Travel Writing

General Fiction

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (India) FIC
Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) FIC
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic) FIC
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (France) FIC
Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann (China) FIC
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa) FIC
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther (Iran) FIC
Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) FIC
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Mexico) FIC
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) FIC
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano (Italy) FIC
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee (Korea) FIC
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (Balkans) FIC
Purge by Sofi Oksanen (Estonia) FIC
Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson (Sweden)FIC
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (France) FIC
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India) FIC
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (England) FIC
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (Vietnam) FIC

Historical Fiction

The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas (Turkey) HIS
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Japan) HIS
Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (Australia) HIS
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (France) HIS
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (International - Middle East) HIS

Mystery and Suspense

Faithful Place by Tana French (Ireland) MYS
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (India) MYS
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Sweden) AS
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John LeCarre (East Germany) AS
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell (International) MYS
Labryinth by Kate Mosse (France) AS
Wake Up Dead  by Roger Smith (South Africa) AS
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Canada) MYS
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (England) MYS

Speculative Fiction

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Thailand) SF
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, HOR
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria) SF
Snake Agent by Liz Williams (Singapore) SF
Steps Through the Mist by Zoran Zivkovic (Balkans/Europe) SF

Graphic Novels

The Unknown Soldier by Joshua Dysart (Uganda) GN
The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert (Afghanistan) GN
Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes (Germany) GN
Tonoharu by Lars Martinson (Japan) GN
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Iran) GN

Non-Fiction

Nine Lives : in search of the sacred in modern India by William Dalrymple (India) 294.092 Dalrymple
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett (Amazonia) 305.8989 Everett
Hungry Planet: what the world eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio (International) 641.3 Menzel
Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West, by Helen Tse (China) 647.95092 Tse
Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips by National Geographic (International) 910.4 Journeys
Down the Nile: Alone in a fisherman’s skiff by Rosemary Mahoney (Egypt) 916.20455 Mahoney
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Amazonia) 918.11046 Grann
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (Australia) 919.40465 Bryson
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Italy, India, Indonesia) 921 Gilbert
The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer (China) 951.156 Meyer
Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli (Bhutan) 954.98 Napoli
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier (Russia) 957 Frazier