Around the World: Recommendations for Your Next Book [Infographic]
Stuck wondering what your next book should be? We’ve all been there! But instead of asking yourself what you should read next, try asking yourself: Where do I want to go?
Check out our infographic for a few recommendations for your next book, based on where each novel or play takes place. We chose a random assortment of novels and plays set around the world; this is definitely not a comprehensive or “best of” list. Just some ideas for your next reading adventure!
For those viewing on mobile, you can find the text contents of the infographic below along with links to purchase the book through Amazon.
Books Taking Place in Africa
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Present-day Nigeria)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Present-day Nigeria)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (North Africa)
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Former Belgian Congo)
- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipul (Unnamed interior country)
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (South Africa)
Books Taking Place in Asia
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene (Former South Vietnam)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (India, Pakistan, Bandladesh)
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (Russia)
Books Taking Place in Australia
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Rural Victoria)
- For the Term of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke (Tasmania)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (Victoria)
- The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (Sydney)
- Voss by Patrick White (Former New South Wales)
Books Taking Place in Europe
- Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski (Poland)
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (England, France)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (Fictional English town)
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Italy)
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (France)
- Dubliners by James Joyce (Ireland)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Swiss Alps)
Books Taking Place in North America
- The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
- The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Dominican Republic)
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (U.S.)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (U.S.)
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (U.S.)
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (U.S.)
Books Taking Place in South America
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Unnamed country, assumed Chile)
- I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay)
- Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (Chile)
- The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (Brazil)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabiel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
- Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig (Argentina)
What did we miss? Which books would you recommend?
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