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A Book Set in a Different Country: 2021 Reading Challenge

Anappara, Deepa

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

A 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home.


Ferrante, Elena

The Lying Life of Adults

Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.


French, Tana

The Searcher

Looking to start a new life in a small Irish village, former Chicago police officer Cal Hooper comes out of retirement to help find a missing kid and uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat.


Gregory, Philippa

Tidelands

During England’s seventeenth-century civil war, Alinor, a woman without a husband and skilled with herbs, helps a young man on the run and unwittingly brings disaster into the heart of her life.


Hilderbrand, Elin

Troubles in Paradise

As drama unfolds around her and her family after the death of her husband, who was leading a double life, Irene Steele gets some help from a mysterious source and a new beginning in the paradise of St. John after the truth is finally revealed.


Medie, Peace A.

His Only Wife

A young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept.


Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

Mexican Gothic

A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion.


See, Lisa

Island of Sea Women

While working as divers with the all-female diving collective on a small Korean island, Mi-ja and Young-sook find their friendship challenged by their differences and forces outside their control.


Smiley, Jane

Perestroika in Paris

A brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals–and a young boy–whose lives intersect in Paris.


Yoon, Paul

Run Me to Earth

Three children orphaned in 1960s Laos meet a dedicated doctor who enlists them as motorcycle couriers in his effort to rescue civilians and find medical supplies.

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