38 books organised by setting and genre.

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Africa

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  •  The fishermen, Obioma, Chigozie 1990s. Nigeria.

Asia

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  • The secret chord, Brooks, Geraldine Iron Age (1000 BCE). Israel.
• MAGIC REALISM
  • The strange library, Haruki Murakami Contemporary. Tokyo, Japan.

Australia

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  • Shame and the captives, Keneally, Thomas 1943. Fictional town of Gawell, New South Wales (based on Cowra NSW).
• NON-FICTION
  • Girt (The unauthorised history of Australia), David Hunt
  • The Bush, Don Watson
  • Warrior: A legendary leader’s dramatic life And violent death on the colonial frontier, Libby Connors
  • Queensland: everything you wanted to know but we’re afraid to ask, Mark Bahnasch
  • This house of grief, Helen Garner

Europe

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  •  The nightingale, Hannah, Kristin. 1939. France.
  •  The anchoress, Cadwallader, Robyn. 13th Century. England.
  •  Wolf winter : a novel (Svartasen #1),  Ekback, Cecilia (Translated from Swedish) 1717. Swedish Lapland.
  • Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon 1948. Berlin, Germany.
  •  The buried giant, Ishiguro, Kazuo Ancient Britain.
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  •  A week in winter, Binchy, Maeve. Contemporary. Ireland.
  •  History of the rain, Williams, Niall Contemporary. Ireland.
  • The illuminations, Andrew O’Hagan Contemporary. Scotland and Ireland.
  •  Elizabeth is missing, Healey, Emma Post-war to the present day. England.
• MYSTERY/ CRIME FICTION
  •  I’m travelling alone (Munch & Kruger #1), Bjørk, Samuel (Translated from Swedish) Contemporary. Sweden.
  •  Into the labyrinth, Eklund, Sigge (Translated from Swedish) Contemporary. Sweden.
  •  What she left, T.R. Richmond Contemporary. London, England.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
  • The girl on the train, Hawkins, Paula 2012-2013. Ashbury, Witney, and London, England.
• NON-FICTION
  •  Iberia, James A. Michener

Multicontinents

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  • The narrow road to the deep north, Flanagan, Richard 20th Century. Australia and Burma.
  • The green road, Enright, Anne Second half of the 20th Century. Ireland; New York USA; Mali
•  NON-FICTION
  • Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War, John Beaumont
  • World War One: a history in 100 stories , Bruce Scates

North America

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  •  Early warning : a novel (The last hundred years: a family saga #3), Smiley, Jane. 60s 70s early 80s. Washington DC, California, San Francisco, Iowa, (USA).
  •  Mudwoman, Oates, Joyce Carol 1965 to early 2000s. Upstate New York, USA.
• MYSTERY/ CRIME FICTION
  •  Everything I never told you, Celeste Ng 1970s. Ohio, USA.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
  • You, (You #1) Caroline Kepne Contemporary. New York City.
  •  Room, Donoghue, Emma Contemporary. Canada.
  •  Pretty baby, Kubica, Mary Contemporary. Chicago, USA.
• APOCOLYPTIC FICTION
  • Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel Future. Canada and USA.

South America

• HISTORICAL FICTION
  • The sound of things falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez Retrospective to 1960s. Bogotá, Colombia.
• CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  • The discreet hero, Vargas Llosa, Mario Contemporary. Peru.

Unknown place/time

• J, Howard Jacobson Future. Fictional place.

• NON-FICTION
  • The life of I: The new culture of narcissism, Anne Manne.