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message 1: by Diane , Armchair Tour Guide (last edited Jan 15, 2018 03:08PM) (new)

Diane  | 13052 comments Just a reference list of books we have already read together (as well as upcoming books), since the list has become a bit long. The books are listed in alphabetical order (not counting "the", "a", or "an") and not in order that they were chosen or read. Featured settings are in parentheses:


19th Wife. The (US: Utah)
600 Hours of Edward (US: Montana)
Absalom, Absalom! (US: Mississippi)
African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic (Central African Republic)
All Creatures Great and Small (UK: Yorkshire: North Riding)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
All the Light We Cannot See (France: Brittany)
Amsterdam (UK: Cumbria)
Annabel (Canada: Newfoundland)
Annie John (Antigua & Barbuda)
Art of Fielding, The (US: Wisconsin)
Arthur & George (UK: Staffordshire)
At the Bottom: A Woman's Life in Central America (Costa Rica)
Bastard of Istanbul, The (Turkey)
Bastard Out of Carolina (US: South Carolina)
Bean Trees, The (US: Arizona)
Beartown (Sweden)
Bell Jar, The (US: Massachusetts)
Beloved (US: Ohio)
Black Arrow, The: A Tale of the Two Roses (UK: Suffolk)
Black Dahlia, The (US: California)
Black Swan Green (UK: Worcestershire)
Blue Fox, The (Award-winning translated literature: Iceland)
Body in the Library, The (UK: Hampshire)
Bone People, The (New Zealand)
Bone Readers, The (Grenada)
Breath of Fresh Air, A (India: Central India)
Caliph's House, The: A Year in Casablanca (Morocco)
Caribbean Mystery, A (St. Lucia)
Children of Green Knowe, The (UK: Huntingdonshire)
Chocolat (France: Midi-Pyrénées)
Cider House Rules, The (US: Maine)
Cider With Rosie (UK: Gloucestershire)
Cleopatra: A Life (Egypt)
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Zambia)
Cold Mountain (US: North Carolina)
Corpse Washer, The (Iraq)
Cranford (UK: Cheshire)
Crome Yellow (UK: Oxfordshire)
Cutting for Stone (Ethiopia)
Death in Bordeaux (France: Aquitaine)
Death In Vienna, A (Austria)
Death on the Riviera (France: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
Devil's Pool, The (France: Centre)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (France: Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
Doctor Zhivago (Russia)
Dom Casmurro (Brazil)
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo (Honduras)
East of the West: A Country in Stories (Bulgaria)
Emily of New Moon (Canada: PEI)
Enormous Room, The (France: Basse-Normandie)
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale (US: Texas)
Fall on Your Knees (Canada: Nova Scotia)
Far from the Madding Crowd (UK: Dorset)
Fault in Our Stars, The (US: Indiana)
Fear (France: Lorraine)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (US: Nevada)
Fight Club (US: Delaware)
Fire in the Blood (France: Pays de la Loire)
Forgotten Daughter, The (South India)
Garden of Evening Mists, The (Malaysia)
Georges (Mauritius)
Georgian Folk Tales (Republic of Georgia)
Ghana Must Go (Ghana)
Gilead (US: Iowa)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (Netherlands)
Grapes of Wrath, The (US: Oklahoma)
Guantánamo Diary (Mauritania)
Hallucinating Foucault (France: Auvergne)
Hand Full of Stars, A (Syria)
Happy Isles of Oceania, The: Paddling the Pacific (Tonga)
Hare With Amber Eyes, The: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Austria)
Haunting of Hill House, The (US: Vermont)
Heidi (Switzerland)
Henna House (Yemen)
High Tide (Latvia)
Historian, The (Romania)
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The (UK: Somerset)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (US: Washington)
Housekeeping (US: Idaho)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (US: Arkansas)
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The (US: Maryland)
In a Dark, Dark Wood (UK: Durham)
In Cold Blood (US: Kansas)
In the Shadow of the Banyan (Cambodia)
Independent People (Iceland)
Inés of My Soul (Chile)
Invisible Mountain, The (Uruguay)
Island Beneath the Sea (Haiti)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Sri Lanka)
Jamilia (Kyrgyzstan)
Jane Eyre (UK: Derbyshire)
Kalyana (Fiji)
Katherine (UK: Lincolnshire)
Kisses in the Nederends (Tonga)
Kitchen House, The (US: Virginia)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (UK: Nottinghamshire)
Land at the End of the World, The (Angola)
Land Without Jasmine, A (Yemen)
Lark & Termite (US: West Virginia)
Last Dragonslayer, The (UK: Herefordshire)
Last King of Scotland, The (Uganda)
Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, The (Cape Verde)
Les Misérables (France: Île-de-France)
Letters from Burma (Myanmar/Burma)
Life After Life (UK: Buckinghamshire)
Light Between Oceans, The (Australia)
Looking for Alaska (US: Alabama)
Loser Takes All (Monaco)
Lost Illusions (France: Poitou-Charentes)
Madame Bovary (France: Haute-Normandie)
Man Was Going Down the Road, A (Republic of Georgia)
Mansfield Park (UK: Northhamptonshire)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (US: Georgia)
Midnight's Children (India)
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (UK: Wales)
Moloka'i (US: Hawaii)
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (Mali)
Monster Calls, A (Ireland)
Moor's Account, The (US: Florida)
Mosquito Coast, The (Honduras)
My Lord John (UK: Bedfordshire)
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece (UK: Westmorland)
My Urohs (Micronesia)
Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris, The (France: Picardy)
Name of the Rose, The (Italy)
Nazi Officer's Wife, The (Germany)
Never Let Me Go (UK: Norfolk)
Neverwhere (UK: Middlesex)
North and South (UK: Lancashire)
Northanger Abbey (UK: Somerset)
Ocean at the End of the Lane, The (UK: Sussex)
Ogre, The (France: Alsace)
Old Man and the Sea, The (Cuba)
Orchid House, The (Thailand)
Orphan Train (US: Minnesota)
Out (Translated mystery: Japan)
Pago Pago Tango (American Samoa)
Painted Veil, The (Hong Kong)
People in the Trees, The (Micronesia)
Perks of Being a Wallflower, The (US: Pennsylvania)
Personal History of Rachel DuPree, The (US: South Dakota)
Pianist, The (Poland)
Pieces of Happiness (Fiji)
Pouliuli (Samoa)
Prayer for Owen Meany, A (US New Hampshire)
Pride and Prejudice (UK: Hertfordshire)
Professor's House, The (US: New Mexico)
Purge (Estonia)
Queen and I, The (UK: Leicestershire)
Radiance of the King, The (Guinea)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Iran)
Rebecca (UK: Cornwall)
Red and the Black, The (France: Franche-Comte)
Remains of the Day, The (UK: Wiltshire)
Resistance Man, The (France: Limousin)
Return of Martin Guerre, The (France: Midi-Pyrénées)
Room with a View, A (UK: Oxfordshire)
Round House, The (US: North Dakota)
Ruined City (UK: Northumberland)
Sea of Poppies (India: East India)
Secret History of the Mongol Queens, The (Mongolia)
Sense of an Ending, The (UK: Cambridgeshire)
Seven Sisters, The (Brazil)
Shakespeare's Wife (UK: Warwickshire)
She-Devil in the Mirror, The (El Salvador)
Shining, The (US: Colorado)
Silence of the Lambs, The (US: Washington, DC)
Silent Land, The (France: Languedoc-Roussillon)
Silver Linings Playbook, The (US: New Jersey)
Simple Heart, A (France: Haute Normandie)
Sirens of Baghdad, The (Iraq)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Denmark)
Snow Child, The (US: Alaska)
Sometimes a Great Notion (US: Oregon)
Sophie's World (Norway)
Space Between Us, The (India: West India)
Stoner (US: Nebraska)
Storm of Steel (France: Champagne-Ardenne)
Suite Française (France: Bourgogne)
Summer Book, The (Finland)
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, A (Rwanda)
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story (US: Rhode Island)
Teatime for the Firefly (Northeast India)
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (UK: Yorkshire: West Riding)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (US: Florida)
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War (UK: Rutland)
Things They Carried, The (Vietnam)
Three Men in a Boat (US: Surrey)
Tiger's Wife, The (Serbia)
Time Traveler's Wife, The (US: Illinois)
Tortoise and the Hare, The (UK: Berkshire)
Travels in Mauritania (Mauritania)
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (US: New York)
Turn of the Screw, The (UK: Essex)
Twelve Years a Slave (US: Louisiana)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Bahamas)
Ulysses (Ireland)
Uhuru Street: Short Stories (Tanzania)
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Czech Republic)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (US: Kentucky)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (US: Utah)
Unfinished Life, An (US: Wyoming)
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The (US: Devonshire)
Virgin Suicides, The (US: Michigan)
Waterland (US: Norfolk)
Wayward Apprentice, The (UK: Shropshire)
What the Body Remembers (North India)
Whatever (France: Rhône-Alpes)
When the Elephants Dance (Philippines)
White Egrets (St. Lucia)
White Mary, The (Papua New Guinea)
Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin (Benin)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Dominica)
Widow of the South, The (US: Tennessee)
Wind in the Willows, The US: Buckinghamshire)
Winter in Arabia, A (Yemen)
Winter's Bone (US: Missouri)
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The (US: Connecticut)
Wolf Hall (UK: Kent)
Woman In Black, The (UK: Yorkshire: North Riding)
Zookeeper's Wife, The: A War Story (Poland)


message 2: by Julia (new)

Julia (juliastrimer) Excellent, Diane! Thank you so much--the alphabetical format makes this really easy to use.


message 3: by Janet C-B (new)

Janet C-B (goodreadscomjanbookfan) I am a new member. There are several books on your list that I have read and enjoyed. Looking forward to joining in.


Powder River Rose (powderriverrose) | 93 comments Thank you Diane. It's nice to know what the group has read, I will look for audio versions.


message 5: by Allyson (new)

Allyson Thank you for posting Diane. Good to keep up with the books I missed.


message 6: by Missy J (new)

Missy J (missyj333) | 218 comments Thanks Diane! You are a great group moderator!


message 7: by Butterfly (new)

Butterfly Mentions | 9 comments Thank you so much. There are so many great reads on this book. I can't wait to read them. It's so nice to see what the group has read so far.


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