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Africa
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Nigeria
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Asia
China
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa SeePeony in Love - Lisa See
India
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran DesaiHaroun and the Sea of Stories - Salmon Rushdie
One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Bombay Time - Thrity Umrigar
Japan
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro Laos
The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
Australiasia
Australia
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter CareySlow Man - JM Coetzee
Theft: a Love Story - Peter Carey
New Zealand
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
Papua New Guinea
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
Carribbean
Europe
Cuba
Broken Paradise - Cecilia Samartin Europe
Belgium
Niccolo Rising - Dorothy Dunnett (Bruges, Flanders 1460)
Czech Republic
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera (Prague, Czechoslovakia 1971)
England
The Courts of Love - Jean PlaidyA Respectable Trade - Philippa Gregory
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Wise Children - Angela Carter
The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
One Corpse Too Many - Ellis Peters
Monks Hood - Ellis Peters
Persuasion - Jane Austen
St. Peter's Fair - Ellis Peters
The Leper of St. Giles - Ellis Peters
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Virgin in the Ice - Ellis Peters
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sanctuary Sparrow - Ellis Peters
Saturday - Ian McEwan
The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
The Devil's Novice - Ellis Peters
Dead Man's Ransome - Ellis Peters
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God - Louise Rennison
The Pilgrim of Hate - Ellis Peters
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Knocked Out By My Nunga Nungas - Louise Rennison
Dancing in My Nuddy Pants - Louise Rennison
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Emma - Jane Austen
An Excellent Mystery - Ellis Peters
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
Royal Escape - Georgette Heyer
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel - Louise Rennison
And Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers - Louise Rennison
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Raven in the Foregate - Ellis Peters
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
Plantagenet Prelude - Jean Plaidy
The Rose Rent - Ellis Peters
Agnes Gray - Anne Bronte
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox
King Lear - William Shakespear
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
The Hermit of Eyton Forest - Ellis Peters
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
The Confession of Brother Haluin - Ellis Peters
The Heretic's Apprentice - Ellis Peters
Innocent Traitor - Allison Weir
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Potter's Field - Ellis Peters
The Adventures of David Simple - Sarah Fielding
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Queen's Lady - Barbara Kyle
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
No Name - Wilkie Collins
The Holy Thief - Ellis Peters
Full Dark House - Christopher Fowler
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Brother Cadfael's Penance - Ellis Peters
Maurice - EM Forster
The White Queen - Philippa Gregory
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Miss Buncle's Book - DE Stevenson
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Casino Royale - Ian Flemming
Plantagenet Prelude - Jean Plaidy
Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Sir Percy Leads the Band - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Mistress of the Revolution - Catherine Delors
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
I Will Repay - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Rose Rent - Ellis Peters
Agnes Gray - Anne Bronte
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox
King Lear - William Shakespear
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
The Hermit of Eyton Forest - Ellis Peters
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
The Confession of Brother Haluin - Ellis Peters
The Heretic's Apprentice - Ellis Peters
Innocent Traitor - Allison Weir
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Potter's Field - Ellis Peters
The Adventures of David Simple - Sarah Fielding
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Queen's Lady - Barbara Kyle
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
No Name - Wilkie Collins
The Holy Thief - Ellis Peters
Full Dark House - Christopher Fowler
The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
Brother Cadfael's Penance - Ellis Peters
Maurice - EM Forster
The White Queen - Philippa Gregory
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Miss Buncle's Book - DE Stevenson
France
The Courts of Love - Jean PlaidyThe Red and the Black - Stendhal
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Casino Royale - Ian Flemming
Plantagenet Prelude - Jean Plaidy
Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Sir Percy Leads the Band - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Mistress of the Revolution - Catherine Delors
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
I Will Repay - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Germany
Spring Awakening - Steven Satar
The Queen's Lady - Barbara Kyle (Holy Roman Empire 1550s)
Candide - Voltaire (Holy Roman Empire 1755)
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe (Duchy of Wurttemberg, Holy Roman Empire 1604)
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Candide - Voltaire (Holy Roman Empire 1755)
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe (Duchy of Wurttemberg, Holy Roman Empire 1604)
Ireland
The Teahouse on Mulberry Street - Sharon OwensAngela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Italy
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Cleopatra's Daughter - Michelle Moran (ancient Rome)
Candide - Voltaire
Candide - Voltaire
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Candide - Voltaire
The Netherlands
The Coffee Trader - David LissCandide - Voltaire
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Poland
Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
Portugal
Candide - Voltaire
Russia
The Tsarina's Daughter - Carolly EriksonAnna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Romanov Bride - Robert Alexander
Scotland
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Spain
The Crusader - Michael Alexander EisnerThe Last Queen - CW Gortner
Wales
A Morbid Taste for Bones - Ellis Peters
The Summer of the Danes - Ellis Peters
Middle East
Iran
The Saffron Kitchen - Yasmin Crowther
Syria
The Crusader - Michael Alexander Eisner
Turkey
Candide - Voltaire (the Ottoman Empire 1755)
North America
United States
Dead Man Walking - Sister Helen Prejean (Louisiana)A Million Little Pieces - James Fray (Illinois)
Or Give Me Death - Ann Rinaldi (Virginia)
Wise Children - Angela Carter (California)
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury (Illinois)
LA Confidential - James Ellroy (California)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg (Alabama)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving (New York)
Cast Two Shadows - Ann Rinaldi (South Carolina)
The Last Silk Dress - Ann Rinaldi (Virginia)
Standing in the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg (Missouri)
Quite a Year for Plums - Bailey White (Georgia)
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen - Susan Gregg Gilmore (Georgia)
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates (California)
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (Massachusetts)
The Alienist - Caleb Carr (New York)
The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury
American Gods - Neil Gaiman (Minnesota)
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides (Michigan)
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein (Washington)
The Shape of Mercy - Susan Meissner (Massachusetts)
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl - Fannie Flagg (Missouri)
Miscarriage of Justice - Kip Gayden (Tennessee)
Pretty in Plaid - Jen Lancaster (Indiana)
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy (California)
Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch (South Carolina)
The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs (New York)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Massachusetts)
The Virgin of Small Plains - Nancy Pickard (Kansas)
The Whiskey Rebels - David Liss (Pennsylvania)
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreisser (Illinois)
Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos (Pennsylvania)
Broken Paradise - Cecilia Samartin (California)
Jim the Boy - Tony Early (North Carolina)
On Beauty - Zadie Smith (Massachusetts)
Looking for Alaska - John Green (Alabama)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume (New Jersey)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Oklahoma)
One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove - Susan Gregg Gilmore (Tennessee)
South America
The Virgin of Small Plains - Nancy Pickard (Kansas)
The Whiskey Rebels - David Liss (Pennsylvania)
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreisser (Illinois)
Belong to Me - Marisa de los Santos (Pennsylvania)
Broken Paradise - Cecilia Samartin (California)
Jim the Boy - Tony Early (North Carolina)
On Beauty - Zadie Smith (Massachusetts)
Looking for Alaska - John Green (Alabama)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume (New Jersey)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Oklahoma)
One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove - Susan Gregg Gilmore (Tennessee)
South America
Argentina
The Aleph - Jorge Louis BorgesCandide - Voltaire
Colombia
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paraguay
Candide - Voltaire
Suriname
Candide - Voltaire***For links to the specific reviews, check the REVIEWS link on the top of this page***
