Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Country

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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This week’s topic is Top Ten Books Set In Another Country. I’ve picked ten books from the past year or so that I enjoyed partly because of the location they were predominantly set in, partly because they were great books.

Click on the title for more information about the book and to read my review.

NEW ZEALAND: The Moral Compass by K. A. Servian

NIGERIA: Wake Me When I’m Gone by Odafe Atogun

POLAND: The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford

SPAIN: The Secret of Vesalius by Jordi Llobregat

NORWAY: The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting

RUSSIA: The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson

COLOMBIA: A Reluctant Warrior by Kelly Brooke Nicholls

GUATEMALA: Stranger by David Bergen

ITALY: Venetian Blood by Christine Evelyn Volker

CHINA: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

TTT- Books Set In Another Country

 

12 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Country”

  3. I wish I could say I’ve never read The Good Earth but I think my freshman year English teacher hated us. Hah. Rarely do I find a book boring, but that one certainly was (for me anyway). Excellent list, you hit quite a few countries, too.

    Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

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    1. I think reading a book in school is never the ideal circumstance to experience it. I wouldn’t say it was my favourite book of all time but I found it interesting and it made me want to read more about China. I have what sounds like a really interesting memoir about life in China, Song of Praise for a Flower, in my TBR pile.

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  4. The Moral Compass sounds especially interesting; I’ll have to check it out! I wish I hadn’t first read The Good Earth in high school, as I think I would’ve appreciated it much more if I had read it on my own as an adult. As it stands, I don’t think I’ll be rushing to re-read it, which is probably my loss!

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